independence - senate - 1970

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

This, too, is a matter that would need to be referred to the Department of External Affairs, lt is true that independence is to be granted to Fiji and I gather that it is to take effect from October. [More…]
I will have the matter examined to see whether there is a case at this time, concurrently with this move to independence, to upgrade or advance our representation in that country. [More…]
In view of the proposal for Fiji to be granted independence in October and in view of Australia’s substantial trade and business interests in that country as well as our interests in Nandi Airport, will the Government give early consideration to raising the status of our representation in Fiji? [More…]
Acknowledging what Senator Georges has just said, all I wish to say is that the greatest contribution that senators and members of the House of Representatives could make to persuading the Government to the point of view he has put would be the exercise of complete responsibility in visits to New Guinea, having regard to the national objective that Australia has, namely, to induce the Territory to a proper stage for independence to be given at the time of its own choosing. [More…]
Where did the Minister obtain the view that the granting of Aboriginal land rights will hinder the progress of Aboriginal people towards selfdetermination and independence. [More…]
ls not this way of conducting business incompatible with Cambodian independence and incompatible with the proper relations which should exist between the Australian Government and the Government of Cambodia? [More…]
The Attorney-General may recall that on Thursday last I asked him a question regarding the independence of magistrates in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral lake immediate steps to separate magistrates from his Department and give them the same degree of independence as is enjoyed by judges? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories seen the statement made yesterday by Brigadier Eldridge, the retiring joint force commander in New Guinea, in which he called for the handing over of control of New Guinea’s armed forces before the granting of independence to the Territory? [More…]
That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of recentralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]
In our view the United States has done everything in its power to ensure a negotiated settlement and to maintain the independence of South Vietnam and not to abandon the people of that country. [More…]
Notwithstanding all that, the trade union movement will fight for its independence and will survive. [More…]
There has been a lot of conflict inside the Government coalition as to the date when independence shall begin, as to when self government shall begin and as to the powers that ministers shall have. [More…]
Now as Papua New Guinea stands on the threshold of independence this Bill is right and proper. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: In view of the serious drought prevailing in the highland area of New Guinea and coinciding with the delicate negotiations for independence, will the Minister indicate what measures are being taken by the Australian Government to assist the Government of Papua New Guinea in alleviating this most unfortunate situation? [More…]
What is a para-military force: Is it in effect a force which could be used or abused to impose military law in the future, and will such a force have a continuing role after independence has been granted to the Territory. [More…]
Was the announcement by the Minister an indication of growing unrest in the Territory and clear evidence that the Australian Government’s policy of forcing independence on an unwilling Territory, Government and people is fundamentally wrong and potentially dangerous. [More…]
1 presume that these Bills have no particular application to the position of the judges of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, but they no doubt must have some of the same concern that public servants have in regard to independence and to what their position will be after independence. [More…]
No compact would have been arrived at if the independence and sovereignty of the States were not recognised and preserved. [More…]
Strictly speaking, had the colonists’ side lost in the American War of Independence, George Washington could well have been executed for treason. [More…]
I assure the honourable senator once again that under this Government the Australian Broadcasting Commission is guaranteed political and programming independence. [More…]
We wish to point out that according to United Nations charter these States are entitled to independence and their peoples to self-determination and beg that such recognition be disallowed. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [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…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to self-determination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to 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…]
We wish to point out that according to United Nations charter these States are entitled to independence and their people to self-determination and beg that such recognition be disallowed. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Chaner of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
Will Australian Servicemen be with the armed forces of Papua New Guinea after it achieves independence on 1 December, 1 974: if so, [More…]
To me it is incredible that the Labor Party and its Prime Minister who, in the past, have sought to emphasise Australia’s independence should be seeking the exercise of a colonial power to effect in Australia what could be achieved by Australians themselves in Australia. [More…]
Of course, the honourable senator will know that it is the policy of the Government that the ABC in all of its programming arrangements shall be completely independent and that it is guaranteed policital and programming independence by this Government. [More…]
Out of that independence which the richness of an income of $15,000 a year gives to me, I maintain that my attitude in this matter is not actuated in the slightest degree by political votes, of which throughout my whole career I have been just as independent as I have been of Ministers and party leaders. [More…]
Since then I have been overseas on a mission to Europe from 14 to 27 December 1974 and from 30 December 1974 to 21 January 1975, for another Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 23 April to 11 May 1975 and overnight in Singapore on 9 August 1975.I have been invited to the Papua New Guinea Independence Celebrations from 14 to 17 September 1 975. [More…]
Although the Department believes effectiveness can only be determined in relation to the degree of independence, socially, medically and financially, which the patient achieves, it is looking at methods by which it can develop research into, and evaluation of, rehabilitation procedures. [More…]
That such a station would therefore represent a further deterioration of Australia’s independence and initiatives towards a non-aligned and peaceful foreign policy. [More…]
I draw to the Minister’s attention current Press speculation regarding the future independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s taking advertising and changes in the composition of the Commission. [More…]
Is any form of government organisation to be involved in ethnic broadcasting; if so, would it have statutory independence of any government department. [More…]
1 ) A few overseas posts, including the office in Lisbon, have reported a small number of inquiries from people who had left Angola during the emergency situation there and since independence. [More…]
The Republic of Nauru, a small island with some 7000 people in the Pacific Ocean, was originally a mandated territory which gained its independence in 1968. [More…]
Prior to that there was provision in its legal structure for appeals to our High Court and this, of course, lapsed on the Republic gaining its independence. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Will the amalgamation destroy or harm the independence of the Industries Assistance Commission? [More…]
Significantly, the Commonwealth has also placed special emphasis on ‘untied’ funds for the States and their authorities, particularly through the tax sharing arrangements with the States and local government, thus enhancing the independence and flexibility of the States and their authorities in financial matters. [More…]
I am speaking from memory, but I think it was negotiated by the Public Service Board prior to the granting of independence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is no intention to jeopardise the independence of the Commission. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate that the independence and integrity of this advisory body will not be jeopardised? [More…]
I thought I made it perfectly clear in my speech during the second reading debate that I agreed with all parts of the Oppostion’s proposition except- it was an important exceptionwhere it stated that the Senate deplored the Government threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines. [More…]
That the Senate condemns the Government for the erosion of the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the reduction, through cutbacks in funding, of the ability of the Commission to perform its statutory functions. [More…]
I inform the Senate that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) leaves Australia today to represent the Government at the Western Samoan independence celebrations. [More…]
I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) will be leaving Australia tomorrow to attend the Tuvalu independence day celebrations, to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and to have discussions in Europe. [More…]
I believe that there is a common recognition that a responsible balance must be established between the undoubted financial prerogative of the Executive Government and the clear and honest preservation of that independence of parliament, which is so vital to the Westminster system, whereby parliament manages and is seen to manage its own affairs. [More…]
His period in India also saw the prelude to independence, something for which he had great sympathy. [More…]
Do the ownership and control provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 prohibit persons or companies from owning or holding a controlling interest in more than one commercial broadcasting station in metropolitan areas only, and therefore do not apply in non-metropolitan towns and cities: if so ( a ) what are the reasons for this anomaly; ( b ) do the present ownership and control provisions discriminate against non-metropolitan towns and cities because, whilst the independence of capital city radio stations is statutorily guaranteed, radio stations operating within any other city may all be owned or controlled by one person or company with legal impunity; and (c) will the Minister consider amending these provisions to guarantee the same legislative safeguards to non-metropolitan towns and cities as those applying to metropolitan areas. [More…]
Let us assert our national independence and sovereignty and say to the world: This document identifies an Australian citizen and so long as he is an Australian citizen that ought to be indicated in the passport and be quite sufficient. [More…]
Mr Justice Kirby said that the legislation was setting out to destroy the independence of the Commission and that as far as he was concerned it was probably unconstitutional. [More…]
The attitude of the Opposition in relation to the general question which has been dealt with by the Minister in his statement is that we believe that Australia’s administration of Papua and New Guinea must be to work to bring about independence and an economically viable nationhood as early as possible. [More…]
We, in the Opposition, endorse the statements made by Mr Whitlam on behalf of the whole Parliamentary Labor Party investigatory group on the timing of selfgovernment and independence for Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
However, we support the undertaking made by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, Mr Whitlam, that future Labor governments would continue financial grants and technical and advisory assistance on a generous scale after independence if the independent government wishes, and that a Labor government would be prepared to put this assistance on a treaty basis. [More…]
The value of credit unions is undoubted, and I trust the recognition given to them will help them to gain in strength and independence. [More…]
Of course, there were growing pains associated with independence in those countries, but at least the situation was better than in countries where reform was delayed. [More…]
The ordinary worker could pay a reasonable sum out of his wages and be assured of reasonable financial independence as of right in his old age or when in trouble. [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…]
To ensure that we do not relinquish any more of our heritage and to safeguard our national independence, legislative restrictions should be imposed on the inflow of overseas investment before it is too late. [More…]
But I fully support the comments that have been made by the Governor-General in appreciating the task that is ahead of us in bringing sound independence to the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
Indeed, it is having great success in assisting this Territory to achieve the independence which it desires. [More…]
There is much of importance in the comments about New Guinea, but I am one ;who firmly believes that in leading New Guinea to its independence - and the move :will be accelerated in the future - we should hold fast to the view that New Guinea must have a sound economic base -before it becomes dissociated from the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
Those who, over the years, have attempted to gain political capital from the situation in New Guinea or have tried to find people in the community who would demand independence for the Territory have done a great disservice to the Territory. [More…]
To ensure lhat we do not relinquish any more of our heritage and to safeguard our national independence, legislative restrictions should be imposed on the inflow of overseas investment before it is too late. [More…]
In accordance with that declaration, and in response to your request, we are prepared to help the Republic of Vietnam to protect its people and to preserve its independence. [More…]
The United States, like the Republic of Vietnam, remains devoted to the cause of peace and our primary purpose is to help your people maintain their independence. [More…]
In any case we are confident that the Vietnamese people will preserve their independence and gain the peace and prosperity for which they have sought so hard and so long. [More…]
One speaker said that the stoning of the US Embassy by demonstrators on Independence Day, July 4, 1968, had been an effective form of protest. [More…]
The conference declares that, so far as Vietnam is concerned, the settlement of political problems, effected on the basis of respect for the principles of independence, unity, and territorial integrity, shall permit the Vietnamese people to enjoy the fundamental freedoms, guaranteed by democratic institutions, established as a result of free general elections by secret ballot . [More…]
It is good to see a spirit of independence, as it were, on behalf of the grower organisations in seeking to arrive at a solution conducive to the long term interests and certainly the immediate interests of the industry. [More…]
The parties declared that (paragraph 1)- they recognise and will respect and observe in every way the sovereignty, independence, neutrality, unity and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Laos.’ [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…]
New Guinea will attain their estate and eventually will have their independence. [More…]
The Government might pick out a few stooges and keep it going for a while, but the people of New Guinea will get independence. [More…]
We must see that they get independence as quickly as possible and we must provide them with the machinery to enable them to become independent, to take their place under the sun as equals in the community. [More…]
The longer we delay in giving independence the longer we will have to suffer for the sins that we have imposed on them. [More…]
But we have reached the stage now where we have not been so successful in this aim as we were during the last generation because the people of the Territory now are looking for independence. [More…]
The policy of this Government has been, and still is, that the people of the Territory can have self-government and independence when the majority of them decide that they are ready to accept independence. [More…]
It is doing all it can to assist these people in their development, and when the people themselves consider - not when we consider - that they are ready for independence, and when the majority of the people support a claim for independence, they can have that independence. [More…]
Mr Whitlam yesterday angered both radical and conservative New Guinean leaders with his plans for independence for the Territory by 1976. [More…]
But they consider 1976 far too soon for full independence. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said that they will have independence. [More…]
He said they will have independence by 1976. [More…]
Two senior Native members of the Papua-New Guinea House of Assembly strongly criticised the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr Whitlam, yesterday, for trying to ‘push’ the Territory towards independence against the wishes of its people. [More…]
Mr Whitlam’s 2 critics, the Ministerial Member of Health, Mr Lokoloko, and the Ministerial Member for Posts and Telegraphs, Mr Giregire, would not set a target date for self-government for independence. [More…]
Mr Oala Rarua clashed with Mr Whitlam after the Labor leader told about 100 villagers that a Labor Government would grant the Territory home rule immediately and independence within 4 years. [More…]
The attitude of the Opposition in relation to the general question which has been dealt with by the Minister in his statement is that we believe that Australia’s administration of Papua and New Guinea must be to work to bring about independence and an economically viable nationhood as early as possible. [More…]
We, in the Opposition, endorse the statements made by Mr Whitlam on behalf of the whole Parliamentary Labor Party investigatory group on the timing of self-government and independence for Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
However, we support the undertaking made by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, Mr Whitlam, that future Labor governments would continue financial grants and technical and advisory assistance on a generous scale after independence if the independent government wishes, and that a Labor government would be prepared to put this assistance on a treaty basis. [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…]
That is the policy of the Australian Government, which has said that it will grant self government and independence to the people of Papua and New Guinea in accordance with their wishes. [More…]
1 have said that Australia voted in favour of the United Nations resolution, lt was in much milder terms than previous resolutions on the subject- passed by the United Nations, lt did not call for target dates for self government or independence. [More…]
I repeat, because I think it bears repeating, that Australian policy has been that we will grant selfgovernment and independence to the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea when they freely express their will to have it. [More…]
From where do the demands for self government and independence come? [More…]
There are some demands for self government and independence. [More…]
The people of the ‘Highlands have made it crystal clear that they are opposed to self government and that they are opposed to independence because they are not ready for it. [More…]
Australia and the United Nations want to see the Territory and the Territory of New Guinea as one nation when independence comes. [More…]
If self government and independence come too soon there is a danger of fragmentation. [More…]
I decry such a thing, but if it does happen it will be because of the policies of the Australian Labor Party and not of the Government It will not be brought about because of the view of the majority of the people of New Guinea, who do not want independence at present. [More…]
But such a policy is being advocated by Mr Whitlam who, in a recent visit to the Territory, announced a date for self government and a date for independence regardless of whether the people want it or are ready for it. [More…]
There was a speaker in support of the proposal who instanced what had happened at the Independence Day celebrations in Melbourne in 1968-69 as proof of what violent demonstrations can achieve. [More…]
The Government has tried to destroy, to decimate and to commit genocide on a race of proud people whose only wish is that they should be given independence. [More…]
They want their independence. [More…]
They have every right to have their independence without the inteference of other people. [More…]
Farmers value their independence and do not want anyone, particularly the Government, telling them how to run their affairs. [More…]
But the Parliamentary Draftsman, although still under the Secretary of the Department in a formal sense, has come to occupy a position of some independence and, in practice, is now only nominally responsible to the Head of the Department in relation to professional work. [More…]
If the people of Papua and New Guinea wish Australia to maintain some sort of supervision over their well being I do not think that any service is done to Australia by inflaming the people of Papua and New Guinea to ask for independence before they either are ready to receive it or have the ability to administer their own affairs when they are granted independence. [More…]
I am sure that Senator Gair will agree with me when I say that most honourable senators who met the members of the House of Assembly when they visited Canberra recently are under the impression that their main preoccupation was trying to persuade members of the Commonwealth Parliament that they should not press independence upon Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
A great disservice is being done to the people of that Territory by pressing them to accept independence before they are ready for it. [More…]
It is all very well for the United Kingdom to say to the people of Fiji: ‘We are giving you your independence’, as the United Kingdom is in the process of doing, but when the United Kingdom walks out of Fiji someone has to pick up some of the tabs. [More…]
I believe that the officers and appointees to which I have been referring ought to have the security of parliamentary fixing of their salaries because it gives them an independence which they may well exercise and feel they have. [More…]
I would certainly agree with Senator Greenwood that this Office of Parliamentary Counsel, whatever the salary may be should have some independence from the Public Service Board. [More…]
lt seeks to solve the problem by the creation of the first 3 offices to the statutory Office of Parliamentary Counsel and by according to those offices a degree of status, independence and salary together with the stiff that will be under their control. [More…]
That may be for several purposes, but in the matter of salaries one of the reasons may bc to ensure the independence of the officers That view is not confined to the Senate and is not confined to my Party. [More…]
and (2) The Australian Government has accepted an invitation from the Indonesian Foreign Minister to attend a meeting of Asian and Pacific countries in Djakarta on 16th and 17th May in an effort to help mobilise international opinion to assure the independence and neutrality of Cambodia. [More…]
In my Press statement on Cambodia on 27th April I said that Australia found especially valid the Indonesian Foreign Minister’s approach, since it proposed that the agenda would be confined to three simple points: the independence and neutralisation of Cambodia; non-intervention; and reactivation of the International Control Commission for Cambodia. [More…]
The Committee considers that this objective would be advanced by the transfer of the administration of the health insurance scheme from the Commonwealth Department nf Health to a National Health Insurance Commission with as much independence as possible. [More…]
In view of the proposal for Fiji to be granted independence in October and in view of Australia’s substantial trade and business interests in that country as well as our interests in Nandi Airport, will the Government give early consideration to raising the status of our representation in Fiji? [More…]
It is true that independence is to be granted to Fiji and I gather that it is to take effect from October. [More…]
I will have the matter examined to see whether there is a case at this time, concurrently with this move to independence, to upgrade or advance our representation in that country. [More…]
To my mind, that is a much more satisfactory way of dealing with a situation such as this, lt gives a security of tenure and it preserves what I would have expected to be one of the objectives in setting up these committees; and that is the independence of the members of the committees and their ability to express, as they would see it, their judgment on a particular issue. [More…]
Not only is its structure, as drafted in the Bill, carefully aimed at complete independence from Government, but, in clause 9, the Bill specifically provides for such independence. [More…]
This independence brings with it the need for the Corporation to1 be completely selfgenerating. [More…]
It is intended, in keeping with the AIDC’s desired independence from Government, that the capital of the Corporation not immediately required for the purposes of the Corporation may be invested for the purposes of producing income. [More…]
This very independence and freedom however, calls for some safeguard. [More…]
My question is directed lo the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories: I ask: 1-las the Government any reason for believing that the policy it has consistently followed wilh respect lo the question of selfdetermination in Papua and New Guinea, namely that self-government and independence will be granted as and when the people of the Territory themselves ask for it, is in error? [More…]
Upon Fiji becoming a country within the Commonwealth of Nations following the grant of independence appropriate legislative action would betakento ensure that citizens of Fiji in Australia continue to have the status of British Subjects which they now have by virtue of their being citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. [More…]
As the honourable senator will be aware Australia, at the invitation of the Indonesian Foreign Minister, took part in the Conference of Foreign Ministers held in Djakarta on 16th and 17th May to discuss means of ensuring the independence, neutrality and territorial integrity of Cambodia. [More…]
On the other hand it would appear to me that there should be an appearance of independence which comes from security of tenure and not from the simple holding of office during the Minister’s pleasure. [More…]
The traditional independence has been taken away from these bodies under this clause. [More…]
These committees, especially the appeal body, are of such importance that something will have to be done to ensure the independence of the persons who exercise the functions of these important offices. [More…]
The persons who hold these offices should have some independence. [More…]
But is it not also adding weight to the argument which has been put forward to say that once these people have been selected by such eminent bodies there should be some security of tenure and some independence of office? [More…]
The statute books are full of provisions which give persons some kind of independence and some security, but there is also provision for termination in the event of what Senator Gair has suggested. [More…]
It is much more important than many of the other matters which are committed to bodies which have some independence and some security. [More…]
Therefore it is important that these bodies should have the independence which is appropriate to the discharge of their function. [More…]
He is on the appeals committee but 1 do not like the conjunction of the complete lack of independence of these bodies together wilh the provision that in the first instance he does not have to act on the recommendation. [More…]
Very shortly, I believe that the basic reason why this principle has appealed to me and why it should commend itself to this chamber is that officers performing functions such as those of officers who are appointed under these Acts not only should have the independence to carry out their functions but, irrespective of what the movements in their salaries may be, should be seen to be independent. [More…]
It has been my view that as Australia develops and there is an increasing independence of this country the problems it faces are increasing, and there has to be a chamber of Parliament in which the long term interests of the Australian people and their sentiments, hopes, aspirations and long term needs reside in the minds of its members. [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…]
Above all, Sir Wilfrid was a man with strongly held views on independence. [More…]
However, he did noL let his well known political convictions overrule his independence of mind. [More…]
It believes, however, that it would be unwise to bring the question of Cambodia before the United Nations at this stage because it might force certain members who have so far kept their options with regard to the Cambodian Government to take decisions that could be harmful to Cambodia’s independence. [More…]
The Minister went on to say that the actions which have been taken in South Vietnam will preserve the independence of small nations. [More…]
If both the Government’s arguments are valid - that intervention in South Vietnam was to guarantee small nations independence and to prevent aggression being undertaken against small nations, and that there has been aggression against Cambodia - it seems to me that something is completely contradictory in what the Government is saying. [More…]
Much as we might like to speak of the independence of the Senate, and it is an independent body in a constitutional sense, the actual work flow comes from the other place. [More…]
As a matter of fact the House of Representatives has determined a new time schedule and, whether we like it or not, we are now in the position where we must have cognisance of that and accommodate ourselves to it so far as is consistent with the independence of the Senate. [More…]
1 believe it is unfortunate in the extreme that when a member of the Australian Labor Party, the honourable member for Wills, visits that country and expresses a point of view which may assist the independence and integrity of Cambodia, he should be precluded from taking part in any expression of opinion on the subject in this country. [More…]
Insofar as that is a lawful campaign for the expression of public views it indicates the type of thinking which directs that campaign here and which precludes one of the Labor Party’s acknowledged members from participation in the campaign simply because he is favourable to the independence of Cambodia and, incidentally, supports our fighting troops in that areas of Asia. [More…]
But we would all agree that amongst Opposition members there is very tight allegiance and strict adherence to the Party view, to the extent that when Captain Benson, who was a member of the Labor Party in another place, was immediately excluded from the Party when he attempted to show some independence. [More…]
We hear the Opposition attempting to draw some comparison with other members of my Party and members of the Liberal Party who showed some independence. [More…]
Therefore they regard the Australian presence as an indication of our participation in their security and as a guarantee that there is an interest in the preservation of the integrity of those new nations who do not wish to be subverted so early in the history of their independence from the colonial powers. [More…]
The President went on to recall that in a speech of 27th June 1970, President Thieu had emphasised that his government will concentrate on efforts within South Vietnam; that his country will always respect the territory, borders, independence and neutrality of Cambodia and will not interfere in its internal politics; and that the South Vietnamese Government does not advocate stationing troops permanently in Cambodia or sendng the South Vietnamese Army to fight the war for the Cambodian Army. [More…]
The people concerned had a sense of independence, notwithstanding the depressing environment - I must use that term - and a sense of dignity in their twilight years. [More…]
In spite of the strictures passed upon its independence by members of the Australian Labor Party I regard that body of judicial and quasi-judicial persons - that is, of nonprofessional members, sitting, however, judicially - as totally impartial, totally neutral, and totally independent. [More…]
I have not at hand the specific provision which prescribes the tenure of the Commissioner of Commonwealth Police, but the independence of a police force does not depend upon simply the tenure of the commissioner. [More…]
I ask the Minister for an assurance that the Government will not bow to pressure or in any way weaken the traditional independence of the Tariff Board. [More…]
The 3 new provisions contained in the Bill will enable sheltered workshops to assume a more important role in catering for those people, who notwithstanding their physical and mental disadvantages, want to work to the best of their ability; some to augment their invalid pensions, others with the objective of achieving full economic independence by entering or reentering the normal workforce. [More…]
It also omits Nauru from the scope of the Fisheries Act following the granting of independence to that country. [More…]
I have read the Hansard report of the consideration of Division 431 by the appropriate estimates committee and I have found that although Senator McClelland examined the whole question of assistance to the arts, no examination was made of the literary scholarships which are awarded each year to writers to whom the grants will give sufficient independence to enable them to develop a work of merit which will result in credit and possibly profit to themselves as well as credit to Australia. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI am sure that it is accepted historically that the decision of this Government and the legislative decisions that were taken by the Parliament to provide an oil search subsidy have had the effect of enabling Australia to come quite close to independence in relation to oil supplies. [More…]
In the light of the overwhelming opinion of anthropologists and researchers that the provision of traditional land rights is necessary for economic and social independence for Aboriginal communities, why has the Minister chosen to ignor such expert opinion and denied land rights to the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]
There is an inherent suspicion of change, perhaps even an abhorrence of Government control, in the tradition of independence that has been built up in the 150 to 200 years of existence of the Australian wool industry. [More…]
The Commission will have a widespread variety of abilities, a refreshing degree of independence and a spread of specialist type personnel. [More…]
To my mind, and I think to the minds of a lot of Territorians, the conservative elements will be banded together in order to keep this division; in other words, to keep independence from Papua and New Guinea, in conformity with the policy of the Government, for as long as it can. [More…]
And we will take account of those views instead of imposing our views on them as to a date for self-government and independence. [More…]
Controversy arose about the independence of the Public Solicitor and immediately the Government announced that legislation would be introduced into the House of Assembly to set up this office as a statutory office under a tertiary ordinance. [More…]
That will mean that this office will have an independence that is completely clear so that any suspicion that undue limitations are placed upon the amplitude of the Public Solicitor’s authority will disappear. [More…]
We hope that our country Niugini will, on its independence, have a government which is just and enlightened. [More…]
The Government of this country has asserted and constantly reiterated that selfgovernment and independence shall occur as and when the people of the Territory determine. [More…]
The policy is designed to bring the people of Papua and New Guinea to a stage of self-determination, self-government and eventually independence but the decision is for them. [More…]
Mr Whitlam went to New Guinea and while on the plane he made up his mind that the people of New Guinea shall have independence in 1976 at the very latest and they certainly will have selfgovernment, if he could do it, in 1972. [More…]
Where did the Minister obtain the view that the granting of Aboriginal land rights will hinder the progress of Aboriginal people towards self-determination and independence. [More…]
I cannot recall the year but the statement was made that South Australia, because of its lack of natural resources, would be unable to emerge into a position of complete financial independence. [More…]
The need to affirm the policy of the Australian Government of not imposing upon the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea selfgovernment or independence contrary to the freely-expressed wishes of the people through their Parliamentary representatives. [More…]
If they were fact finding trips it is surprising that on the very first occasion in 1970 when he visited the Territory after a lapse of some5 or 6 years he should state before he had gone outside of Port Moresby that the policy of the Australian Labor Party was self government for the Territory in 1972 and independence by 1976. [More…]
An examination of the section of its platform relating to New Guinea - a platform which was drawn up at a conference held in August 1969 - will show that there is no suggestion of immediate self government and a 1976 target of independence for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
On that score there is some reason for the Australian Labor Party to indicate whether it proposes to abide by its own platform, whether it proposes to abide by the statement which Mr Whitlam has made or whether it is prepared to acknowledge that the House of Assembly in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea desires that the target dates for self government and independence should be set with its concurrence, which is a viewpoint which has been emphatically denied by Mr Whitlam on various occasions in the 2 years that he has visited the Territory. [More…]
The people of Australia and, until recently, members of both - all political parties - major political parties have believed that that obligation is best discharged with its twin facets by developing the social, political and economic abilities of the people of the Territory so that we can ultimately - when they have self government and independence - maintain friendly relations on the basis that one country has discharged honourably the trusteeship obligation which it had. [More…]
Under Article 76 of the United Nations Charter - not by a decision of the Assembly or of the Council - we have an obligation to promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its people and - I stress these words - the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement. [More…]
For many years the Australian Government has maintained that it will work towards the self government and the independence of the people of the Territory in partnership with the House of Assembly, which was established in 1964. [More…]
And we will take account of those views instead of imposing our views on them as to a date for self government and independence. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition did not speak of complete self-government or of complete independence. [More…]
He said, without prior consultation with anybody, that there could not be any self government or independence in relation to matters of external affairs or defence. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that on 3 occasions the House of Assembly has indicated specifically to the United Nations and to the Australian Government that questions of self-government and independence are for the members of the House of Assembly. [More…]
I believe that we in this Senate owe it not only to the people of Australia but also to the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea to affirm positively that we respect their developing democracy and that we will not impose upon them self-government or independence contrary to their wishes, it is up to the Australian Labor Party to indicate clearly and emphatically whether it believes in democracy in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea or whether, contrary to democracy, it will impose the wishes of its own authoritarian party. [More…]
The need to affirm the policy of the Australian Government of not imposing upon the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea selfgovernment or independence contrary to the freely-expressed wishes of the people through their Parliamentary representatives. [More…]
Australia’s administration of Papua and New Guinea must be to work to bring about independence and an economically viable nationhood as early as possible. [More…]
Over the years they have made various pronouncements about the necessity for freeing the colonial peoples and not allowing any excuses - whether it be the backwardness of the people, their lack of education or lack of performance - for colonial peoples not proceeding rapidly to self-government and independence. [More…]
containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; [More…]
Having considered the report of the Trusteeship Council covering the period from 20 June 1969 to 19 June 1970 and the relevant chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; [More…]
The United Nations said: 1 Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea to self-determination and independence in accordance with General Assembly resolution 154 (XV) and the trusteeship agreement of 13th December 1946; 2 Reaffirms further its previous resolutions regarding Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea; 3 Takes note of the arrangements made by the Trusteeship Council in accordance with paragraph 5 of Resolution 2590 (XXIV) and in consultation with the special Committee on the Situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration of the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and People, concerning the composition of its forthcoming periodic visiting mission to the Trust Territory of New Guinea in 1971. [More…]
That is Australia: to prescribe, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea of their right to selfdetermination and independence and to report to the Trusteeship Council and to the Special Committee on the action taken in that regard. [More…]
They are much too far behind to have independence. [More…]
fit for self-government and not fit for independence. [More…]
We will leave it to these poor people who are not fit for self-government, not fit for independence and not fit to look after themselves.’ [More…]
Senator Greenwood says that we should not impose self government or independence upon people. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘need*, insert ‘to affirm the policy of self government and independence for the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in accordance with” the decisions of the United Nations’. [More…]
Sir, the following words: in order to discuss the need to affirm the policy of self-government and independence for the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in accordance with the decisions of the United Nations. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent my moving the addition of the following words to the terms of the motion before the Chair - in order to discuss the need to affirm the policy of self-government and independence for the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in accordance with the decisions of the United Nations’. [More…]
Frankly, we do not see how anyone could oppose a motion which merely asserts that self government or independence should not be imposed upon the people of the Territory contrary to the freely expressed wishes of the people through their parliamentary representatives. [More…]
There has been some discussion on the question whether the people of New Guinea are ready for independence. [More…]
I think independence is inevitable and I think it will come soon. [More…]
However, I also want to make it clear that I do not believe that independence will come because New Guinea is united or ready for indepencene. [More…]
I do not believe it will come because the Government of this country believes in its heart that New Guinea is ready for independence. [More…]
In New Guinea today there is a large number of completely unsophisticated people who would not know the meaning of independence if you were to mention it to them. [More…]
At the moment the people of that section are inclined to go for independence Got so much because in their hearts many of them believe that they are entirely ready for it, but because they think that it must come and that outside world opinion will force it on them. [More…]
I believe that independence for New Guinea is inevitable and within a very short period. [More…]
Of course, it is easy to impose independence upon a country. [More…]
I have no hesitation in saying that I do not think that New Guinea is yet ready to become governmentally or economically viable, but I accept the situation that the people of New Guinea will be given their independence regardless of whether they are ready for it. [More…]
Independence will be imposed upon New Guinea, not because of the attitude of the people there and not because of the attitude of the Australian Government. [More…]
Some people were accused of having a nineteenth century attitude when they said that parts of Africa were not ready for independence. [More…]
They were made in Africa by people who were infinitely surer that Africa was ready for independence than are the people who talk about independence for New Guinea. [More…]
I would like the people who talk so glibly of independence for New Guinea to show me that when independence comes New Guinea will not break out into another Congo. [More…]
In the circumstances, and conceding as I said before that because of pressures from outside which we were not game to resist independence will come, I want now to refer to statements made by Mr Whitlam to show that in my view they have been injudicious and reckless and have not contributed to the welfare of the people of New Guinea. [More…]
He has assured the people of New Guinea of independence by a definite date. [More…]
He went even further and informed them that there would be no problems about money with independence because Australia would pick up the bill. [More…]
Is it wise to say to the people of a country approaching independence that an outside body will pick up the bill? [More…]
I would like to know how many nations today which have granted independence to countries formerly under their control have informed them, as Mr Whitlam has informed New Guinea, that once those countries become independent their bills will be paid for them. [More…]
Independence is not a matter of breaking out a flag on a mast and then declaring a party; independence is something that involves very serious problems. [More…]
When independence is given to a country, one of the first things required by that country is an administrative class or group. [More…]
There are some who, 1 am pleased to see, have been given positions of considerable importance, but there does not exist in New Guinea today anything like the number of trained administrators that would be necessary to enable independence to function. [More…]
Everybody is in favour of independence for Papua and New Guinea, but let us not fail to recognise the immense difficulties of running an independent country in a place where the problems of economic viability are very considerable, where there is not an administrative class and where education has not attained a standard at which the great bulk of the people can understand even what independence means, let alone function under it. [More…]
The attitude of my Party is that whether or not we think the people of Papua and New Guinea are ready for independence, they are going to get it. [More…]
We must face the facts and be realistic; they will gain independence in the very near future. [More…]
My Party accepts that independence will come, but my Party says that any attempt to have a centralised government controlling the whole of the area is bound to fail. [More…]
The attitude of my Party is that we must introduce a federal system of autonomous States that would provide for cases such as Bougainville that want independence. [More…]
Let us introduce a decentralised scheme of independence of autonomous States. [More…]
Bearing in mind that we accept that independence is coming in the near future, our view is that a system of the kind I have mentioned will have to be introduced. [More…]
The need to affirm the policy of the Australian Government of not imposing upon the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea self government or independence contrary to the freely expressed wishes of the people through their parliamentary representatives. [More…]
The need to affirm the policy of self government and independence for the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in accordance with the decisions of the United Nations. [More…]
Somebody must be spokesman on their behalf because they fear independence coming to that country. [More…]
He claimed that the House of Assembly on numerous occasions had said that it did not want independence yet. [More…]
to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and ite peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; [More…]
There are tens of thousands of people in Papua and New Guinea who are prepared to obtain independence and if the Government is going to stick to its current attitudes in perpetuity sooner or later blood will be spilt there. [More…]
The Government will force these people to seize their independence by the use of guns and bullets if necessary. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party attitude of setting down a programme for independence is the right one, the humane one and the Christian one. [More…]
Yet he said that gradually we can give them independence. [More…]
If the Government is not going to give the House of Assembly and the Territory the right to decide how money shall, be spent, whether it is raised internally by taxes or whether it comes from this country as part of our quota of foreign aid, how is it going to take these people along this slow, tortuous and gradual path towards independence that the honourable senator was so delighted to tell us was the right thing to do? [More…]
In other words, he says that these people are black: let us keep them down there for another 200 years and then maybe we will allow them a little more independence. [More…]
We ought to have the right, in accordance with the requirements of the United Nations, to lay down a timetable so that these people know where they are going and so that they can plan for their own independence. [More…]
By doing this we would be making a worthwhile contribution towards the immediate independence of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The need to affirm the policy of the Australian Government of not imposing upon the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea self government or independence contrary to the freely expressed wishes of the people through their parliamentary representatives. [More…]
Senator Greenwood pointed out that, as a result of a visit early this year to the Territory of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), who was accompanied by an entourage of his party supporters in the other place, the Leader of the Opposition reaffirmed that the people of Papua and New Guinea were to have independence finally and irretrievably by 1976 whether they liked it or not! [More…]
And I emphasise the word ‘progressive’ - development towards self government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of eachterritory and its peoples and– [More…]
The Commonwealth of Australia has been obedient to Articles1 and 76b of the United Nations Charter in pursuing its policies, yet theAustralian Labor Party has stated this afternoon through the mouthpiece of its Leader in this chamber, that nolens volens - whether the people of Papua or New Guinea likeit or not - independence is going to beforced on them by at least 1976.Ibelieve thatindependence will come to Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
I make the prophesy that if we give them independence with a Westminster form of government there will be within 5 years apresidential system of government. [More…]
pursuing the policy, in accordance with Article 76, that independence will be given to the people of the trust territories concerned when they freely express a wish to be independent. [More…]
When Ghana was granted independence it received from Crown agents 800m accruing to it from the sale of its cocoa crops during the war. [More…]
The honourable senator quoted from Article 76 of the United Nations Charter which provides that independence should be given to a trust territory only when it freely expresses a desire, of its own will, for independence. [More…]
What opportunity have the people of Papua and New Guinea had to express their will as to whether they would take independence today, in 5 years time, in 10 years time or at any other time? [More…]
Mr Whitlam said that, if he were the Prime Minister, he would grant self government in 1972 and independence in 1976. [More…]
1976 is too early for independence. [More…]
In 1964 when I was in Papua and New Guinea I was told by the people that if the Australian Government would not let them grow sugar at that time, on the day that they obtained their independence they would start to put every acre they possibly could under sugar. [More…]
That is one of the reasons they are not being granted their self-government and their independence - because of the vested interests of the bushwhackers in the corner. [More…]
You are going to have self-government in a certain time and you are going to have independence in another time. [More…]
He was trying to create in their minds fears and anxieties that could be nourished in order’ to make them Oppose their right to self determination, self government and independence. [More…]
The “need’ to affirm the policy of the Australian’ Government of not imposing upon the people of ‘ the Territory of Papua and New Guinea- self government or: independence … [More…]
There is no intention to impose self government and independence on the people of Papua and New Guinea, but there is a challenge by people throughout the world to people in Australia to grant the people of Papua and New Guinea self government and independence. [More…]
calls upon the administering Power to prescribe, in consultation with freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea of their right to self determination and independence . [More…]
Every other country in our region has fought for or has been granted independence over the past 25 or 30 years. [More…]
Britain - this is what we intend to do to Papua and New Guinea - granted independence to the Indians, the Pakistanis and the Kashmiris. [More…]
Britain granted independence to the people of Malaya but had to support them to ensure that the form of government she wanted to establish there was in fact established. [More…]
Independence was granted to Burma but, to our everlasting shame, we are helping to deprive the people of Vietnam of their independence. [More…]
We have been called upon to set a timetable for the self-government and independence of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The Government has been loath to make any public statement about a timetable for independence for Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
If such a vote were taken now it is likely that the House would vote along the lines of the target dates which- have been set down by Labor, namely, self-government in 1972 and independence, in 1976? [More…]
If it is not possible to achieve selfgovernment by 1972 and independence by 1976, that does not matter.. Self-govern- ‘ ment could be achieved in 1973, 1974 or 1975 and independence in 1976, 1977. [More…]
We heard Senator Sir Magnus Cormack say tonight that there are many in Papua and New Guinea who are engendering hatred of the white people and of those who would like to grant independence to the Territory simply to maintain the status quo. [More…]
Our reputation will again be blackened by an adverse report which will emphasise the fact that we have not yet specified a timetable for independence. [More…]
Senator Greenwood’s motion contains these words: - of not imposing upon the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea self government or independence contrary to the freely expressed wishes of the people through their parliamentary representatives. [More…]
Instead of affirming that we will not impose self government and independence upon the people of the Territory contrary to their freely expressed wishes through their parliamentary representatives, Senator Murphy sought to introduce an amendment. [More…]
It is now on the record as the expression of his opinion that independence and self government should be accorded to the peoples of Papua and New [More…]
Senator Cant has reminded us tonight that the Leader of the Opposition asserted that, if he were to become Leader of the Government of this country, Australia would ensure that there was self government in the Territory in 1972 and independence for the Territory in 1976. [More…]
I believe that the statements of the Leader of the Opposition on Papua and New Guinea, supported today in this chamber, are an arrogant interference which shows contempt for the capacity and ability of the people of the Territory in their own time to develop to a situation where they will decide when they will take self government and independence, lt is greatly lo be regretted that Mr. Whitlam’s intervention cannot be divorced from the feeling that he sought a diversion from his troubles with the Victorian Labor Party [More…]
It was made quite clear by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), when he visited the Territory in July last year, that the very plain policy of the Australian Government is to fall in with any requests that come from the Territory to give its people self-government or independence when those people freely express their wish to have either stage of development; neither before that time, at the insistence of a militant minority, nor later, in accordance with the accusation that there is interest in Australia’s deferring those opportunities for the people of the Territory. [More…]
To promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned. [More…]
We were appointed by the United Nations but we are trustees of the people of the Territory, for their advancement in a cultural and educational manner and their progressive development towards selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
The Senate was reminded by the impressive speech by Senator McManus of the prerequisites that most thinking people would require before independence was taken. [More…]
Indeed, the chairman of the Select Committee on Constitutional Development made a report to the Parliament of New Guinea a few months ago to the effect that in the opinion of the Committee the majority of the peoples of Papua and New Guinea did not wish them to accept independence. [More…]
At that time the House of Assembly affirmed that independence and self government would be taken by the Territory only upon a resolution of representatives in that Parliament. [More…]
But the Australian Government, keeping constantly in consultation with those people, will make the decision that they request as to independence and self government according to the freely expressed wishes of the people. [More…]
So, Mr Acting Deputy President, the issue is whether or not this Senate is of the opinion that the policy of’ the Australian Government is correct in not imposing upon the people of the Territory self government or independence contary to the freely expressed wishes of the people, and the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Murphy has invited us to give the Senate the opportunity of voting on the matter. [More…]
The suggestion that the people of Papua and New Guinea should have right of entry to Australia runs counter to the Government’s objective of preparing the Territory for independence. [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…]
This means that the University does not have the independence and autonomy that I believe it should have. [More…]
From my observations I think it would add to the independence of the University, its autonomy and its flexibility if this change were made. [More…]
We feel confident that no Australian government will seek to deny them their full and free independence in carrying out their proper functions as universities. [More…]
I think we would meet the requirements of the Act and the needs of the University, and we would enhance its independence, if we proceeded in the way in which I have suggested. [More…]
I do not think the independence of the University is secured properly when each statute has to be approved by the Government. [More…]
I may be wrong, but I think that it was probably because there was insufficient autonomy and insufficient independence. [More…]
I would request the Minister to take up the matters which have been referred to, particularly the operation of these statutes and rules, to see whether, even if the Bill is passed, some consideration could be given to a better method of endeavouring to achieve what I think everyone has accepted should be achieved, that is, the preservation of independence. [More…]
What will happen in 1973 or 1974 when New Guinea has its independence? [More…]
Finally, unlike Rhodesia, South Africa is an internationally recognised sovereign State which achieved independence by constitutional means. [More…]
They believe in China and want to go back to China, so much so that there is a Formosan Liberation Independence League which we should be supporting as we support the people in Vietnam. [More…]
Honourable senators’ on this side of the chamber WiN want to debate the ministerial- statement about independence, that finally will’ be granted to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Tariff Board was established as an independent advisory body and governments have scrupulously maintained its independence since its foundation. [More…]
The independence of the Tariff Board will be preserved. [More…]
Let me take as an instance in point the demonstration outside the American Embassy on American Independence Day. [More…]
I should be pleased if this matter could come within the attention of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts, which in turn might present it to the Treasury for consideration as to some way in which the difficulty can be overcome, consonant with the complete independence of operation of arbitral and judicial bodies, and as to some way in which the prime Appropriation Bill might more accurately represent anticipated charges upon the national revenue in the year under review. [More…]
This petty amendment in these great matters of public concern and public controversy will shift that onus onto a public servant so that he will come under these pressures, without being surrounded by the conventions which the Attorney-General has, without having the independence which the Attorney-General has and without having the right in Parliament to explain and to defend himself as the Attorney-General has. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite claim that they exercise independence and a freedom of mind. [More…]
Some honourable senators have flaunted their independence at times when we have been dealing with the Bull and Goat Act, the Chicken Act, or some measure which does not matter two hoots. [More…]
The independence of the Tariff Board will be preserved. [More…]
We would not join with anybody in interfering with the independence of either the Tariff Board or the Special Advisory Authority. [More…]
So much for the Government’s statements on providing independence to the Territory. [More…]
I should perhaps reemphasise that if we have 100 members representing open electorates on a fair boundary distribution it will do more towards assisting the people to political independence in the terms of being able to administer their own legislation and to look after their own affairs than this Bill even suggests. [More…]
If one were to set one’s face against the existence of the principle of the regional electorate and to abandon it or in some way qualify it unduly, this could only have the effect ultimately of impeding the movement towards complete independence. [More…]
I do not think that any protecting power would be justified in handing over independence to a country which did not have a certain component of educated people to take over the administration. [More…]
As it is the aim and aspiration of the people of the Territory to achieve independence and as it is the aim and ambition of Australia to grant independence on the proper terms as quickly as possible and in the best interests of the people of the Ter ritory, and this measure tends in that direction to achieve that purpose, I think it is a principle worth preserving. [More…]
Independent schools, by paying largely their own capital and recurrent costs, have established their independence and have earned the respect that is accorded them in all properly educated circles. [More…]
The administration would be modified - this was the important thing and it has now been brought about - and there would be some separation or independence. [More…]
What further progress has been made to date by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to achieve greater independence of operation by country commercial broadcasting stations, referred to in paragraphs 248 and 249 of the Board’s 22nd Annual Report? [More…]
The trend towards greater independence of operation by several country stations which are connected with capital city stations, referred to by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in its 22nd Annual Report (1969-70), has continued and additional local programming has been introduced at six of the twelve stations involved. [More…]
The independence of Laos and Cambodia were in precarious balance. [More…]
The independence of Laos and Cambodia were in precarious balance. [More…]
History will prove the trade union movement right in relation to apartheid, just as history has proved the trade union movement right in its stand in opposing the shipment of pig iron to Japan, in its support of independence for Indonesia and in its stand in opposition to the phoney war in Vietnam. [More…]
If Australia … is to survive, we must And a solution to the problems of how to retain our independence without assistance from the U.K. or the U.S.A. [More…]
I make the charge that many of the riots there have been initiated not by black people but by disgruntled white business people and planters who do not want independence ever to come to the Territory. [More…]
This situation has been brought about by a government which claims to be guiding Papua New Guinea towards .independence and democracy. [More…]
H concerned the settlement of political problems effected on the basis of respect for the principles of independence unity and territorial integrity- [More…]
Would the honourable senator disagree that Cambodia’s independence is being threatened today? [More…]
Would the honourable senator not suggest that if there were sufficient stomach behind the American forces and if there were a ready attitude in Australia to stand to the principle that we would fight for the independence of a small nation, we would be seeking to defend Cambodia? [More…]
We have come up here to secure the integrity and independence of South Vietnam and to ensure that this country shall be allowed to pursue its own affairs and to pursue the establishment and operation of its own democratic institutions’. [More…]
Our acceptance of the Convention must have regard to the contingency of independence in that Territory and, naturally, we wish to be entirely in agreement with the Government of the Territory. [More…]
In addressing my question to the Minister for Works, 1 have no doubt that he will be well aware that an adequacy of trained personnel will be of great importance to the future development and stability of Papua New Guinea, particularly after it has been granted independence. [More…]
We are very conscious of the need to be thinking of the advent of independence. [More…]
One expects that the Australian Broadcasting Commission will preserve its independence and will preserve as much objectivity as it can in the presentation of its programmes. [More…]
As the Territory advances towards independence there is a need for the structure of government to become more streamlined and more sophisticated so it may be able better to meet the increasing demands that are made on it.’ [More…]
That subversive attack threatens the independence of those nations and, insofar as it threatens their independence, it poses a threat to the security of Australia. [More…]
It is not only a question of Australian forward defence; it is also a question of our involvement in the security, independence and integrity of those nations. [More…]
There is merely Cuban-type enclave which poses this lethal threat to the security and independence of Australia. [More…]
We must prepare for ourselves within the limits of our economy a national policy to secure this nation against all those who potentially threaten our independence and integrity. [More…]
But still they desired to preserve their independence. [More…]
As such it will have a key role in preparing Papua New Guinea for selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
Another concerned and informed observer has reported to me that he shares Mr Cowell’s concern and supports his suggestion to establish a group of reputable outside consultants to consider the problem with the necessary objectivity and independence of judgment to guide the industry off its present course. [More…]
The Commission’s recommendations, made after consultation and negotiation with each university, come before the Government so that the universities’ independence of direct government decision can be preserved as much as possible. [More…]
That is consistent with the emergence of a profession within the Territory which seeks an independence and an autonomy as do the professions in the other States. [More…]
I have noted in respect of some courts - I have no doubt that it applies here in the Australian Capital Territory - that the independence of the judiciary is not as well respected as it might be. [More…]
The other aspect which Senator Murphy mentioned was the independence of judges. [More…]
The point which I wish to make with regard to the independence of judges is that the Government has always accepted that the judiciary is independent and that requests by the judiciary will, in general, always be respected. [More…]
One cannot unqualifiedly say, for reasons which I think would win ready acceptance, that any request by a judge for facilities should be accepted; but it is important to the independence of judges that they should feel and be secure in their tenure and enjoyment of office and in the availability of those facilities which enable them to discharge their duties properly. [More…]
I am rather amazed that with this background the Commission should say iri its annual report that it has sought )o preserve the independence of the ABC from outside pressures. [More…]
We look at these problems as a government and say to ourselves: ‘In the present Australian context of independence and with a tough world marketing scene, price and cost inflation are the problems with which the Government must grapple. [More…]
I think the honourable senator stated the position substantially accurately when he referred to the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and its ability to express such views as appeal to it but which may not appeal to the Parliament or to parliamentarians. [More…]
But the Minister, of course, is always in control of those proceedings and it should always be that way, because we ought to recognise that we have a Public Service which must be impartial and which must maintain its independence to advise whoever happens to be the Minister, of whatever Party it might be from time to lime. [More…]
One would say - and I say this from the viewpoint of the Attorney-General’s Department - that this is the desirable way in which legal aid .schemes should be developed because it preserves the independence of the legal profession and enables members of the profession the better to render the services which over the centuries they have been rendering, and at the same time it gives to every citizen the opportunity of legal advice and legal aid. [More…]
If people are given independence and postwar they will exercise independence and power. [More…]
: Parliament, has established a commission and has given to it a large sector of independence; so people are not entitled to complain now if that independence is used in ways of which they do not approve. [More…]
These excerpts might give an idea of the alternatives proposed as a solution to this very difficult and very delicate question of finding a reconciliation between the independence of operation of a public corporation and the right of Parliament to scrutinise its activities. [More…]
I think there is a degree of inconsistency between what he said and the motion because, as 1 understand the language of the motion, it states that independent corporations should nol be able to rely on their independence to exonerate themselves from answering to the Parliament. [More…]
Other statutory corporations established by the Parliament have an autonomy and an independence which is found in the language of the statutes appointing them. [More…]
The language differs from statute to statute, as does the autonomy and the independence of each corporation. [More…]
As Senator McManus so clearly indicated, in the case of the ABC there was an independence given with regard to programming. [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…]
The Council for Aboriginal Affairs has indicated that for this goal to be achieved increasing emphasis must be given to measures to promote the greater economic independence of Aboriginal Australians - as individuals, as groups and especially in the north and centre as communities, and to strengthen their capacity to manage their own affairs. [More…]
Therefore, I repel the suggestions that the action taken in Queensland will denigrate in some sense the State and limit its sovereignty, although it may limit in some sense its economic and financial independence by virtue of the fact that there will be some Commonwealth scrutiny of its financial and economic activities, but in no sense can I see that this will be other than for the benefit of Queensland. [More…]
This gives some indication, surely, of the problem, In relation to the matter with which Senator Byrne dealt at length arising from the comments which were made by Senator Milliner as to the loss of independence or sovereignty, let me assure Senator Byrne, for the reasons to which I have alluded in the course of my remarks, that, in fact, there is a substantial loss of sovereignty, independence and ability of a government to carry out its promises to the electorate as part of the functions which it adopts These are definite and distinct losses. [More…]
I make the point quite strongly that in this situation a State suffers a loss of independence and it suffers a loss of ability to exercise its own initiative and judgment. [More…]
The Government has updated its thinking on this subject and is now talking about independence for the Territory within the next 4 years. [More…]
Indonesia at the time of the gaining of independence by the Indonesians from the Netherlands Government shortly after the Second World War, apart from the events which took place in 1965 when the Government of Dr Sukarno was replaced by the present regime in Indonesia and apart from the constant tension which has existed between India and Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947, generally speaking the Indian Ocean region has been much quieter than have been Europe and other parts of Asia. [More…]
Indonesia has achieved its independence. [More…]
There have been very dramatic changes inside Indonesia since it attained its independence. [More…]
What is becoming increasingly evident is that the people of the various countries in the whole Indian Ocean area are struggling for their independence and obtaining their independence, and they are exercising their own policies without direction from foreign powers. [More…]
Equally, there is the position to which Senator Withers has referred, that the magistrates of this Territory value their independence and integrity, as has been shown on many occasions. [More…]
The non-aligned states seek to develop profitable links with external powers of all political persuasions, while preserving their independence and sovereignty. [More…]
The naval development in this ten year period has reflected a change in emphasis in RAN planning from a fleet which was designed to be an integral part of a larger Allied force to one which can operate with a high degree of independence in several different roles in its own area of operations. [More…]
If it had not been for those people who broke the law in the 13 colonies of North America in 1775 there would not have been the Declaration of Independence of 1776 and there would not have been any United States of America established out of the colonial situation in which- the people in that country found themselves at that time. [More…]
I closed that part of my comments by saying that in the increasing independence of Australia, its increasing size and the increasing wish of the United Kingdom to become part of the European community, we are thrown much more upon our own resources and the focus of Australian nationalism and Australia’s consolidated interest must increasingly reside in Australia. [More…]
The aim is, by needs and priorities, to destroy the flexibility and independence of the schools. [More…]
Our hope is that Papua New Guinea will advance in security and stability through the pre-independence period and through all the years which follow independence. [More…]
The existence of a Commonwealth Teaching Service will enable the Commonwealth to provide teachers in Papua New Guinea until such time as that Territory achieves its independence. [More…]
Indeed, we hope that after Papua New Guinea has achieved its independence this Commonwealth Teaching Service will be able, if the people of Papua New Guinea desire it, to assist in the establishment of their school system and their education department. [More…]
We believe that we have a responsibility to ensure that there are adequately trained people to administer the Territory which, within a few years at the longest, from whichever point of view one looks at it, Will be obtaining if not independence at least self government. [More…]
Whereas a high quality teacher might not be willing to go to the insecurity of the Territories after they gain independence, the existence of this Service and the fact that a teacher can be seconded gives the teacher the kind of security which will enable a high quality indeed to emerge inside Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In addition we have in the Bill recognition of our responsibilities, both present and anticipated to continue even after self-government and independence have been attained by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Commonwealth would not wish to undermine the independence of these authorities. [More…]
One thing 1 want to say about the Liberal Party of Australia is that although I have expressed myself in my own way over the years I have always been overwhelmingly re-endorsed by the people back home who want the Liberal Party to have an independence of mind. [More…]
That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of recentralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economics of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]
That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economics of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and. [More…]
That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is termed The Area Management Project, to the great detriment of most of the staffs affected and to the detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]
Thai the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s, policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is termed the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of most of the staffs affected and to :he detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office, is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation b> the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]
Senator Devitt suggested that Tasmania had lost some part of its independence through being a claimant State and having to satisfy the Commonwealth Grants Commission of the need for a special grant. [More…]
That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australia Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]
Obviously the steps of the people of Papua New Guinea towards independence will require development, and for development capital must be available. [More…]
Most countries which had colonial territories under their control made mistakes, but my feeling is that even allowing for those mistakes, Australia has nothing to be ashamed of in what it has done to develop that Territory and to bring it to the threshhold of independence. [More…]
If elected in the forthcoming elections as the government of Australia, the Australian Labor Party will take steps to ensure the orderly and secure transfer of Papua New Guinea to self-government and independence in its first term of office. [More…]
Indeed, it may be necessary that the negotiations on some matters should await independence in order that they be between equals and that there be fair dealing between the nations of Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He was unable to state the present policy of the Opposition in relation to independence for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Over the years in which Australia has had control of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, the time limit on when that country should become independent and on when there should be a peaceful move towards independence probably has been a significant question which has exercised the minds of Ministers in this country. [More…]
Because I knew that Senator Murphy was most anxious to be associated with Mr Somare on the day of the opening of the House, 1 asked the honourable senator to state his Party’s policy on independence for the Territory. [More…]
My understanding is that the Pangu Party had said that it wished to see independence in the Territory in a very short time. [More…]
My understanding, from being in Port Moresby the day after the House of Assembly opened, was that Mr Somare - I have not his words with me - made a comment along the lines that he did not want the Australian Government to press independence on the Territory before the Territory was prepared for it. [More…]
Today I was interested in what Senator Murphy was trying to say because for 6 months, or perhaps for less than 6 months, Senator Murphy and the Opposition have been attempting to force the Australian Administration into granting independence to the Territory on the demand of the Pangu Party or whoever may have been its leader. [More…]
The leading intelligent individuals in the Papua New Guinea Parliament - Mr Michael Somare is one - have stated that they do not want the Australian Administration to press Papua New Guinea into independence before it is ready. [More…]
It does not wish to force independence on the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Several Ministers for External Territories have confirmed that when the people of the Territory request independence it will be handed to them. [More…]
That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is termed The Area Management Project, to the great detriment of most of the staffs affected and to the detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]
There is the need to preserve the statutory independence df the industrial tribunals. [More…]
The Australian Government recognises the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and it does not support the independence of the State of Croatia. [More…]
For as long as I can recall the trade union movement of this country has fought for its independence against the arbitrary actions of the Governments. [More…]
I say to honourable senators opposite that history will prove that the trade union movement’s stand on that matter was right, just as history has proved that the trade union movement’s stand in opposing the shipment of pig iron to Japan was right; just as history has proved that the trade union movement’s stand on independence for Indonesia was right; just as history has proved that the trade union movement’s stand on the phoney war in Vietnam has been right. [More…]
I also wish to inform the Senate that the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) is leaving Australia today to represent the Australian Government at the Tenth Anniversary Independence Celebrations in Western Samoa. [More…]
Do they mean, in effect, that all independence- [More…]
Do these words mean that these commissioners are to be deprived of any independence and that in the new spirit of the Act, with the full court laying down guidelines in a wider and still wider field of activities, these commissioners are to become merely the tools of the presidential members and in effect are to be given their riding instructions in every matter allocated to them? [More…]
Social, economic and political changes have required the people to adopt new behavioural patterns and these have inevitably brought some tensions as the people emerge from a largely dependent situation to one of independence. [More…]
It is interesting to note that at a stage when we are talking about stabilising our forest resources Papua New Guinea is on the threshold of independence. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the statement made yesterday by Brigadier Eldridge, the retiring Joint Force Commander in Papua New Guinea, in which he called for the handing over of control of the armed forces before the granting of independence to the Territory; if so, can the Minister inform the Senate whether the Government has determined any timetable for the handing over of control of the Territory’s armed forces to the Papua New Guinea authorities. [More…]
The Government is progressively denning a long term programme of balanced force development which will ensure that in the changing circumstances of the future Australia will be able to act with the necessary measure of independence - both in peacetime and in war. [More…]
The Bill is a simple one, but it represents another step forward in Papua New Guinea’s movement to self government and independence, on terms determined by the people of Papua New Guinea themselves. [More…]
We view it as a further step towards self government and the eventual independence of the Territory of Papua New Guinea and its people. [More…]
We believe that it is of paramount importance that Australia do everything possible to ensure that on achieving independence Papua New Guinea is a friendly neighbour. [More…]
I suppose this is symbolic of the transfer to ultimate independence of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The areas of independence will emerge. [More…]
There must also be an assertion of their own independence and Australia must see to it that there is an encouragement of independence of thought and creative thinking and, of course, an independence of responsibility. [More…]
Papua New Guinea may look to the Asian area as it emerges into independence but also it will look to Australia. [More…]
The conclusion which may be drawn from that ‘AM’ broadcast and from Senator Douglas McClelland’s remarks is that the Labor Party should make up its mind whether it will follow the same broad line as the Government has followed of giving independence to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, whether it will follow the indicated Whitlam line that there will be some political control and direction of the ABC or whether it will follow the current line adopted by some of the ABC staff that they should be able to run the ABC without any control whatsoever. [More…]
I thank the honourable senator for giving me an opportunity to draw the attention of the Senate to the independence of Senator Young in exercising his right to vote that way. [More…]
Whilst I have applauded before, and I applaud again, the ideal of independence and the encouragement of thrift it is also very necessary that the economy be kept moving in the confident background of knowledge that we have the ability to spend money responsibly and still have savings on which to fall back if necessary or with which to buy those things that we have long term aspirations to obtain. [More…]
It heralds a further important development towards independence. [More…]
While I have expressed and still express some doubts whether Papua New Guinea is ready for independence, nevertheless we must face the fact that events make it inevitable. [More…]
Also we should be very conscious to avoid the terrible lessons of Africa where independence has not brought happiness. [More…]
It is easy and cheap to be critical but it is different when one has the responsibility - as these ministers have had - to try to guide the people in the Territory towards independence. [More…]
They are the men to whom much credit will be due when Papua New Guinea finally gains its independence. [More…]
If the changeover to independence is smooth and the going remains smooth it will be because of the influence of these people who will deserve credit from the Australian people. [More…]
We should recognise this and see what we can do to ensure that they remain in the Territory to provide the expertise which will be so sorely needed to develop the Territory when it obtains independence. [More…]
I believe that it would be foolish of us to assume that independence will solve all problems in the Territory. [More…]
I am making a few observations about the situation that Australia has to face at this historic moment of the transference to these people of their independence and self government so that they can resume, after a rude interruption, their own way of life. [More…]
I am certain that that attitude is the attitude of these people who are about to obtain their independence. [More…]
They are making an important contribution to this country because, without these men firstly, going in to assist the development and the education of this country and, secondly, taking a stake in it to develop it and get commercial viability in certain areas, this country would not be in the situation that it is in today - moving towards complete selfgovernment and eventual independence. [More…]
I want to underline the fact that you would like to subvert the Australian Government’s performance which has been marked by a permanent expression of hope that when the Territory asked for self-government and assumed the responsibilities of independence, Australia would have foreseen it, made the provisions that facilitated it and immediately acceded to it on a responsible resolution of the peoples themselves to accept that responsibility. [More…]
As Papua New Guinea moved towards independence the Australian Government, for the assistance and protection of the investment interests and benefit of the indigenes, created an investment corporation in New Guinea. [More…]
The Government has encouraged the move of Papua New Guinea to self government and eventual independence. [More…]
A powerful body of mass media employees are setting their sights on a struggle, an intervention, aimed at weakening the bureaucratic grip on the ABC and carving out a degree of independence hitherto unknown. [More…]
I take it from your introductory statement that you are a strong protaganist of the independence of the ABC? [More…]
You would agree perhaps with Sir James Darling who was a distinguished predecessor of yours when he said that the ABC has only the right to independence if it is impartial? [More…]
All true Australians are very proud that this Government, through its Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Nigel Bowen, was one of the first to recognise the independence of Bangladesh. [More…]
by leave - Honourable senators will recall that, during a statement to the Senate on 29th August outlining recent Government decisions on civil aviation policy, I said that, in the light of early self government and independence, I proposed to visit Papua New Guinea to discuss a programme for the transfer of civil aviation responsibility to the local authorities. [More…]
Any objective assessment will reveal an historical background of a long struggle for Croatian independence including a mutual hostility between Serbs and Croats. [More…]
The Government cannot positively reject assertions that individuals or groups of individuals may be engaging in terrorist activities directed in some way to achieving Croatian independence. [More…]
We have to keep the spirit of independence alive, you know. [More…]
He had a vestige of independence. [More…]
At least he had more independence than the country had when it was ruled by Serbia. [More…]
Much of his former independence has abated. [More…]
Today he discovered other people - .Croatian terrorists or Croatian independence people - because there is a fair chance that the Ustasha will not be proven to be in existence or to have taken part in this. [More…]
They have said that a demonstration for independence is a healthy thing. [More…]
It brought together in that group Croatia which had had a long history of 1,200 years of seeking independence. [More…]
It had a tremendous spirit of independence. [More…]
Right from the beginning Croatia felt aggrieved, not only because it had lost its independence but also because it believed that, from its own capital of Zagreb, it was being robbed of its financial resources and its treasure and that the money and treasure were being brought to Belgrade, the centre which was regarded as the Serbian centre. [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…]
At the same time there were 2 other groups of independence fighters. [More…]
If people who are standing for their principles and fighting against collectivists are handed over to bloody murder, if the tide of the Labor Party is in favour of the mass execution of hundreds of thousands of people whose only crime is that they believed in the independenceof their country, I will go on whistling against the wind. [More…]
Incidentally, in the same speech as I have quoted, Dr Cairns said that everybody was entitled to fight for the right of independence, but not the Croatians because if they succeeded in gaining their independence they would set up a fascist state. [More…]
Then he said: there’s nothing legitimate about the Croatians who want independence, in fact identifying themselves with a fascist government - to put into that space where independence would come would be no justification for a fascist government in Croatia. [More…]
If we are going to say: ‘You can only be independent if your goal is the same as mine’, that is not independence, that is dragooning by the left, and that is what we are entirely opposed to. [More…]
Outside are other Croats who want to see Croatian independence. [More…]
I feel that I must retain some independence in making decisions on a matter such as this. [More…]
They believe that they have the right of self-determination and of independence. [More…]
the Royal Yugoslav dictatorship in .1929 and it operated from bases in Italy and Hungary and committed a number of atrocities in the name of Croatian independence. [More…]
As to the second aspect of the question, what I said a little while ago - I think that is what he is referring to - is that I believe, from what 1 have been told, that a fear is held by those who are non-political or on the Left, so to speak, regarding extremists on the Right, and that a fear is held by those who may be inclined to favour Croatian independence of what action may come from the Left. [More…]
That movement embraces all those people who believe in freedom and independence for Croatia’. [More…]
As Qantas Airways Ltd will now operate this service after independence, what impact will this additional capacity have on Australia’s internal services and will it in fact mean an over-capacity for both of the internal operators? [More…]
Did the Department of Civil Aviation enter into discussions at the same level with Ansett and TAA as it did with Qantas on proposals to operate the Papua New Guinea service after independence? [More…]
The Continental Congress which sat during and after the American War of Independence developed the idea of a repatriation pension for ex-sevicemen and funds were then properly appropriated. [More…]
I refer to matters like defence, economic policy, foreign relations, security issues, and what I call the trends of independence and the trends of national character, national opportunity and national aims and aspirations, and properly we should be talking, I think, along the lines that this is how we should approach this measure. [More…]
I do not mean that in any sense that they lack a spirit of independence or have an inability to make up their minds. [More…]
In view of the growing belief among senior staff members of the programme ‘This Day Tonight’ that the show will be axed after it goes into Christmas recess on 15th December, can the Minister approach the PostmasterGeneral to give a firm assurance that this popular and successful programme will not be killed off because its staff have tried to preserve their independence? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the ABC is, by Act of Parliament, an independent body, depending for its independence upon the right and responsibility of the Commissioners to carry out their full executive functions and full control over staff without any outside or political influence or threat? [More…]
increase their economic independence; [More…]
A method of financing and direction would need to be adopted which would ensure independence of its research in this critical area. [More…]
This view is taken with a recognition of the complete independence of the Senate Committee in determining its own course of action. [More…]
In those circumstances, the Post Office has a certain amount of independence of operation. [More…]
When T say that I speak not of interfering with the traditional independence of the courts but in a sense that questions can properly be asked in this Parliament about matters that arise in the Court in the same way as questions are asked in State parliaments about matters associated with delays costs or procedures, because such matters properly come within the function of the Parliament. [More…]
There has been some suggestion that Queensland, by applying to the Commonwealth Grants Commission, has lost some measure of budgetary independence. [More…]
Has the Minister been informed that Mr Hawke told the Council that a Labor government was pledged to give the Australian Broadcasting Commission an independence charter, that this would not succeed if certain senior management people were allowed to stay in their present positions and that a Labor government would have to deal with them? [More…]
Will the Minister make a statement setting out the Government’s strong adherence to the principle of genuine independence for the ABC? [More…]
That is part of what must necessarily follow from the independence being conferred upon it. [More…]
I think that the Tariff Board has had a proud record of protecting its independence over the years against what has been at times extreme pressure. [More…]
In speeches many years ago, I referred to the courageous attitude of Mr Rattigan, who protected the independence of the Board against what he considered were references which were dictating to the Board the type of report that it should produce. [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…]
They have said: Well, when Papua New Guinea emerges into independence we want to have good relations with that country’. [More…]
It may be very unwise and very imprudent for a developing nation to wish immediately to embody within its independence a group which will be different, a group which will not be homogeneous and which may well provide the seeds of dissent by being there reluctantly and being part of a new and developing nation although it is totally ethnically different and with a totally different background. [More…]
Our responsibility has been to consider whether the national interest and independence are jeopardised by the continuance of the agreements. [More…]
If the boundary is moved then Papua New Guinea, having independence, would have no hesitation in drilling for oil in the Torres Strait. [More…]
No honourable senator opposite would guarantee the safety of any sector of that community in the early days of its independence. [More…]
We believe that what is being done by the Australian Democratic Labor Party in presenting this motion tonight is leading to a situation which will only cause strain and tension between this country and Papua New Guinea which is shortly to obtain its independence. [More…]
With the impending independence of Papua New Guinea the primary goal of all of us must be peaceful and friendly relations between our 2 countries. [More…]
I believe it would be tragic if this Senate were to adopt a motion such as the one which is before it tonight so that before Papua New Guinea obtained its independence it would be faced with a declaration from the Australian people that we were adamant that we would not transfer these islands to Papua New Guinea even though they are only a few miles from the mainland of Papua New Guinea, even though they are part of the continental shelf surrounding Papua New Guinea, and recognised by international law as being the waters of Papua New Guinea. [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…]
We believe in trade union independence in this way. [More…]
The Government adopts the altitude that the political and programming independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission must and will be guaranteed. [More…]
I can recall the stand of the Australian Labor Party when it supported Indonesia in its call for independence. [More…]
When Mr Whitiam, his wife and his daughter met the President of Indonesia the people outside were holding flags showing that they remembered that an Australian Labor Government, through the efforts of a fine jurist, Sir Richard Kirby, helped to forge independence for that country. [More…]
It is on the basis of friendship, independence and an abiding concern for Australian sovereignty that the outstanding matters in relation to United States defence installations in Australia will be discussed with the United States Government. [More…]
Then he went to New Guinea, where he said to the people of New Guinea: You will get independence on our terms and our time-table’. [More…]
As the honourable senator well knows, the Commonwealth Grants Commission is an independent body, and its independence must be maintained. [More…]
On occasions, largely as a result of the admirable independence he has shown, Senator Wood has been described as a maverick and even a rebel. [More…]
I have always admired him for his independence. [More…]
The more we involve judges in political controversy the more we are contributing to the lessening appreciation of the independence which has to be maintained in relation to the judiciary. [More…]
I was about to illustrate the use made in December 1971 of Mr Justice Kerr, as he then was, as a figure to be accepted by all Australia as being of complete independence and judicial quality. [More…]
To me that rate, of increase even for such a high office and an office of great independence is altogether incommensurate with the circumstances to which I referred when protesting against the application of percentage increases to the high and low salary levels. [More…]
Therefore we will have a tribunal which operates as an adviser to Parliament, a tribunal which will operate in restraint of the Parliament in case there is any element of self interest, and a tribunal which is established on the basis of permanent independence. [More…]
The Government cannot positively reject assertions that individuals or groups of individuals may be engaging in terrorist activities directed in some way to achieving Croatian independence. [More…]
We must encourage the spirit of independence’. [More…]
The Government cannot positively reject assertions that individuals or groups of individuals may be engaging in terrorist activities directed in some way to achieving Croatian independence. [More…]
The HRB as an organisation is no longer a functioning entity in Australia, nevertheless, it may be assumed that some former members, and others of violent and revolutionary persuasion, would still be prepared to condone violence in pursuit of independence. [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…]
Following discussions with the Papua New Guinea Government and the Minister for External Territories, it has been agreed that, pending independence, Papua New Guinea will join with Australia in joint exporter membership of the Agreement. [More…]
Following independence, the Papua New Guinea Government will need to consider the question of separate membership in the Agreement. [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…]
It will be carried only because the free vote which the Liberal Party allows and the independence of mind of some Liberal senators will ensure that it is carried. [More…]
As one who used to play the gentlemanly and noble game of Rugby League, I state that while this Government has a political and programming independence policy for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, I will nonetheless bring my colleague’s representations to the notice of the Commission to see whether his request can receive favourable and sympathetic consideration. [More…]
On the one hand, if it suits Australia’s book, it suits the Commonwealth of Nations and the general Western democracies to hold the peace and possibly to subvert some Croatians who want independence. [More…]
I believe that we should strive for their economic independence and to reduce existing social and other handicaps which face them in respect of health, housing, education and vocational training. [More…]
If Papua New Guinea should achieve independence while any part of the loan is outstanding, Australia will use its best endeavours to ensure the continuing security of the loan and the smooth devolution of responsibility with respect thereto. [More…]
One could construe from that that Australia tended to be saying: ‘At independence we will review the situation with regard to the guarantee’. [More…]
Any honourable senator on either side of the Senate would agree that Australia’s record in helping these people towards independence and a state of economic responsibility has been very good. [More…]
We have encouraged moves by Papua New Guinea towards self government and independence. [More…]
We feel however, that there is a little lack of clarity in some of the terms of what the currencies are to be, and what are the guarantee decisions which lie beyond a state of independence. [More…]
That statement predicates the contemplated situation that when Papua New Guinea assumes political independence a new relationship will develop between Australia and that country in which that country will e considered to be on its own and free from the solicitude, regard and attention that are now being devoted to it by Australia. [More…]
While Papua New Guinea may well achieve political independence very quickly, it will by -no means have achieved economic independence or even complete economic viability. [More…]
Therefore, the Government of this country should still contemplate the fact that, if Papua New Guinea in its present position of what we may call dependence receives guarantees from Australia for the Asian Development Bank to support its loan indebtedness, no vastly different position should be allowed to obtain merely with its emergence into independence. [More…]
If they do not, a situation will be precipitated in which the nation will have political independence and, if it is economicaly starved or finds itself economically inadequate, the real danger will arise there, as it has arisen in other countries - political independence founders and finally sinks on the shoals of economic insufficiency. [More…]
Therefore, I think that the Government should at the earliest stage give some indication of its attitude from the point of view of financial and economic support to these Territories when they emerge into political independence. [More…]
Otherwise, as I say, we will precipitate a situation in which a tremendous danger might be posed to the very political independence which that country has sought for so long. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a country of considerable ethnic diversity, and any serious obstacles to communication will be a hindrance to the development of independence. [More…]
It is true to say that we have a special responsibility as independence approaches in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think that after Papua New Guinea attains independence Australia will assume with it an aid relationship which is similar to those which Australia has at present with other countries. [More…]
I do not know the exact detail of all those provisions, but 1 understand that financial matters after independence are the subject of discussion and advice within the Department. [More…]
After they came here her husband continued as a supporter of the Croatian Peasant Party and at all times they have been in favour of Croatian independence. [More…]
This would emphasise our independence. [More…]
The interesting point about that quotation is that as Leader of the Opposition the Prime Minister was very keen on asserting Australia’s independence. [More…]
This is probably because of our knowledge of the representation in the Northern Territory and from the progressive independence which is being gained by the Legislative Council. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side are objecting, but it is the wish of the Country Party and, I believe, of the Opposition in this place that greater independence be granted to the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Government adopts a policy of complete political programming independence for the Australian Broadcasting’ Commission. [More…]
Independence of Australia that the United Kingdom Parliament should in any way be able to legislate in regard to Australia or any part of it. [More…]
But the intention would be quite clear - let there be no doubt about that - that we would think it quite inconsistent with the independence of Australia that the United Kingdom Parliament would continue to have legislative authority over Australia or any part of it. [More…]
It was used during the American War of Independence, a branch of history which I am sure Senator Webster has not taken the trouble to study. [More…]
It was during the American War of Independence that the word ‘terrorism’ was used, according to my recollection of my readings, about none other than George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were accused of inciting terrorism in New York against the supporters of the British Crown. [More…]
That is not a matter relating to the merits of Michael Collins with which I would want to disagree with Senator McManus, but if Senator McManus can use the word ‘terrorist’ with regard to Michael Collins to indicate some praiseworthiness on his part, I would be interested to know what precisely it is that is objected to in the so-called terrorism of the organisations of the Vietnamese people struggling for the independence and unity of their country. [More…]
They are struggling in precisely the same way as Michael Collins and the Irish revolutionaries have been struggling for the independence and unity of their country for many centuries, and the same way as the people of the United States of America fought for their independence and unity not only at the time of the War of Independence but also at the time of the American Civil War. [More…]
I am very honoured to be associated with these delegates because they are people who fought for the independence of their country in the most distressing and appalling situation that one can imagine. [More…]
If they had got their justifiable reward - independence for their countries - we would not have had these subsequent events. [More…]
I say that this is happening by deception because under the guise, the socalled stance, of greater independence we are moving out of the alliances and friendships that we have had with the democratic countries. [More…]
If we are to maintain our independence, and if we are to maintain our economic advancement, we need a sound international monetary system which essentially provides for a multilateral rather than a regional or bilateral approach to world financial arrangements. [More…]
The Congress would fully respect internal independence of every organisation that would join it. [More…]
Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson used a couple of unfortunate expressions such as ‘regrettable squabble’ and ‘forcing them into independence before they are ready’. [More…]
The conception of political equality, from the Declaration of Independence to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, to the fifteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth amendments, can mean only one thing - one person one vote. [More…]
Commonwealth electoral officers of the various States, the surveyorsgeneral and departmental heads of that status and independence over the decades have brought about a corruption, a gerrymander or a fraud. [More…]
Section 22 gives an independence to distribution commissioners of which we should be proud. [More…]
Firstly, where there is a shared responsibility under the Act, the Commissioner is given greater protection and greater independence from external pressure. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a nation which is emerging towards not only political independence but also, to a large measure, economic and social independence. [More…]
When 1 speak of Papua New Guinea having political, financial and economic independence I do so in a theoretical sense. [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…]
There does appear to be a greater self-reliance on and acceptance of independence and a great facility, through governmental and social activities, for people to strike out on their own and to become completely independent of their parents, whether it be in the jobs they take or in the educational institutions in which they derive their learning. [More…]
At the latest session., of the General Assembly of the UnitedNations Australia supported resolution 2918 which reaffirms the right of the Portuguese territories to self determination and independence. [More…]
iia it not an infringement of the Broadcasting” and Television Act for the Government tei: seek to intervene its political policies on programming upon a function for which the Act gives the Control Board complete, independence? [More…]
My question refers to publicity given to the fact that the Australian delegation voted for a resolution calling for action to give independence to the Cocos Islands and that the Prime Minister, who is also Minister for Foreign Affairs, subsequently stated that Australia had no present intention to give independence to the Cocos Islands. [More…]
Firstly, they will remove the power of the Minister for External Territories under section 30 to appoint officers and engage persons on contract for the Public Service, thus enabling Papua New Guinea to legislate to develop its own national public service - an essential authority for a country approaching full selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government has indicated that it wants to retain the services of many of these officers and that it sees a continuing need for staff from Australia for some years beyond independence. [More…]
Since the time of its independence, there has been a great display of goodwill. [More…]
They are a genuine demonstration of bur concern for very likable people living, in a lovely country whose independence we assisted to achieve in our own time and in our own way. [More…]
ls the Authority to be given the independence to decide for itself whether a pipeline shall be built on its assessment of what the needs for a particular area are and what is the likelihood of supplies in a particular area? [More…]
Is the Authority to have independence of judgment to decide where it shall construct pipelines or is it to be simply the means by which a plan, which has already been worked out and about which we know relatively little, is to be implemented? [More…]
Our civil aid and defence policies will have a particular bearing on Australia’s future relationship with Papua New Guinea, whose independence will be achieved, I confidently expect, in the closest consultation with the Government and House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea by 1975. [More…]
In the period before independence the Government will do everything possible to meet Australia’s obligations under the Trusteeship Agreement and to ensure the smooth and amicable transfers of power to the Government of a united Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We are also anxious that outstanding questions relating to Papua New Guinea’s borders should be settled at an early date so that, when independence is attained, Papua New Guinea’s relations with its near neighbours will not be plagued by the kind of territorial disputes which in other parts of the world have done so much to hinder the development of fruitful and mutually beneficial 1 clarions between close neighbours. [More…]
I regret that despite my Government’s best endeavours early progress towards agreement on the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea seems unlikely and final agreement may have to await Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
They are so controlled by Caucus decisions that they have absolutely no independence of thought whatever in this chamber. [More…]
That is what the Labor Government is advocating - with as much independence as possible. [More…]
National Airlines Commission, aerial work and charter operations, and operations in Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
If there is need to resolve any difference between the States and the Commonwealth as to the delimitation of any power which one claims and the other denies, the High Court, in its independence, integrity and world status on the experience of the last 73 years, was established for that very purpose. [More…]
Firstly, there will be responsibility under the Act giving the Commission greater protection and greater independence from external pressures. [More…]
When we consider that we are proposing to allocate tremendous resources to the growth centres which have been selected, I am sure honourable senators will appreciate that the Commission needs to have a great deal of independence because of the pressures which will be exerted not only nationally but by State and local government bodies. [More…]
His statement that the policy of the Liberal and Country Parties was backward represents an ideological stance which is quite intransigent because the evolution of the housing policies and the Commonwealth and State housing agreements over many years ultimately led to a change in the approach of the Commonwealth in 1971, which meant a growing development of the housing policies in the States, ft gave rise to greater independence and autonomy in the States in the type of housing policies they pursued and greater satisfaction of the needs of people who were looking for various types of housing. [More…]
Honourable senators, more particularly those who have been connected with local government, will direct their remarks to the financial plight of local government authorities and the necessity for some measure of financial independence for them and to the best method by which that independence and financial viability can be established and maintained. [More…]
While we shall to that extent raise the status of the local government authority and give it new financial strength and greater independence of action we must recognise also that in that process there will be necessarily by the sheer operation of the legislation a certain circumscription and truncation of the power and authority of the States. [More…]
Unless the States are to be placed permanently in the position of mendicants, whose sovereign independence is a mere sham, it is imperative in their interests and in the interests of the people of Australia as a whole, that some way should be found under the Constitution to get rid of this want of balance, so as to make the independence of State legislative and executive authorities a real thing. [More…]
The inferences, as put forward by the Labor Party, are that this measure will herald a future in which local government will be strengthened at the grass roots and will have greater decentralisation, more real independence, more substantial funds made available, direct to it as a whole and a better equity in the 3-tiered system of government. [More…]
I pause there to indicate that this is the socalled freedom and independence of local government in the future. [More…]
- I draw my argument together by saying that certainly tocal government needs to have its status raised, to have more money available to it to carry out its work, to be strengthened in decentralisation and to be strengthened in its independence. [More…]
This legislation will restrict the independence of local government and make access to the Grants Commission depend upon a ministerial decision from which there is no appeal. [More…]
Senator Negus would know; he is so widely experienced and so inconsistent in his independence. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the first 2 objectives, that is, the transferring of responsibility for the Public Service and the Auditor-General to the Papua New Guinea Administration and for making arrangements whereby the Australian personnel in the new Papua New Guinea Public Service may have their future provided for when independence arrives, are matters which were determined upon and resolved by the previous Government before the present Government took office. [More…]
The nation is conscious of the fact that self government in and the independence of Papua New Guinea are being proceeded with expeditiously. [More…]
In drawing attention to these matters I am not disputing the independence of the Public Service Board or its experience, but simply relate these matters to the Bill which is the subject of consideration, particularly as the Public Service Bill (No. [More…]
Probably slight amendments to the law are needed to give effect to that and to ensure that there is real independence of the Parliament. [More…]
The independence of the Senate would be largely destroyed if this Bill were passed tying the terms of Territory senators to the life of the House of Representatives and, in my view, it would create second class senators. [More…]
The Federal part of the Parliament is the Senate - the organ of the States, the visible representative of the continuity, independence, and reserved autonomy of the States, linking them together as integral parts of the Federal union. [More…]
I see it as the thin edge of the wedge in the destruction of the independence of the Senate.. [More…]
This would destroy completely the Senate’s present independence. [More…]
The Senate was established to protect the State* and no compact would have been arrived at if the independence and sovereignty of the States were not to be recognised and preserved. [More…]
But unlike our Founding Fathers, who were concerned to establish the Senate as the Federal part of the Parliament - ‘the organ of the States, the visible representative of the continuity, independence, and reserved autonomy of the States, linking them together as integral parts of the Federal Union’ - the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) leaves no doubt that, as one honourable member of another place expressed recently, he ‘is hell-bent on completely abolishing the States themselves’. [More…]
This scheme must be seen as the real threat that it is to the independence of the Senate. [More…]
As well, we would be endorsing the present Government’s plan to emasculate the Senate and destroy its status, independence and continuity. [More…]
The Government has already said that it will continue to honour existing financial guarantees to Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
But does it also intend to assist the financial needs of Papua New Guinea after independence by providing guarantees for new Papua New Guinea government borrowings on the Australian or overseas markets? [More…]
Not only is it a reflection upon the independence of the heads of the Commonwealth countries with whom he is associating but it is a slur upon- the Prime Minister and the Government of Great Britain, because there is absolutely no evidence to indicate that the control or domination to which he has referred is in existence. [More…]
The question must be asked again: Where is all this aggressive show of independence leading us? [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…]
In Papua New Guinea there is now a clear movement towards final independence and we are closely involved with the Government there in discussions about the development of their defence force. [More…]
Five years ago, although the government was communist, that government was attacked on the ground that it sought some small degree of independence from the demands of the Soviet Union. [More…]
When they attempted to use that small degree of independence they were invaded by the Red Army. [More…]
Our policy is to promote a new awareness of the need for Australian intervention and independence. [More…]
I think the virtual independence and immunity of public corporations is so important that we should predicate it at every opportunity, and this is one. [More…]
The Government has every confidence in the ability and independence of that gentleman. [More…]
On 10 July 1973 this country achieved independence and became known as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. [More…]
Whether they have governments which are Left, Right or centre, they are always very sensitive about their national independence. [More…]
Australia supports the British Government’s Five Principles for a settlement of the Rhodesian problem, especially the Fifth Principle, namely that the British Government would need to be satisfied that any basis proposed for independence was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole. [More…]
Australia considers that the Portuguese territories in Africa are de facto colonies whose aspirations for independence on the basis of majority rule by the indigenous people should be recognised. [More…]
In view of the fact that Papua New Guinea soon will receive independence, has the Australian Government made any attempts to make that country better known abroad? [More…]
Will the Australian Government be taking any steps to help Papua New Guinea publicise its coming independence? [More…]
That would be news to a lot of people- and will continue to advocate, measures which would, under international supervision, assure a ban on nuclear arms and their manufacture as well as the destruction of existing stockpiles, France is pursuing her policy of defence; given the present state of world armaments, the development of a nuclear armament is essential for French security and independence. [More…]
The French believe that in order to ensure their own independence it is necessary for them to be able to protect themselves to some degree in the nuclear field. [More…]
Think of their slowness and the way in which they resisted independence among the Tonkinese. [More…]
I was with some of these people at a Sunday church service and when I returned to their homes I found that they were talking about how long before it would be before France would give them independence. [More…]
It had 2 considerable periods of independence. [More…]
In view of the greatly increased involvement of the Government in all matters pertaining to the media and the dangers inherent in any possible over-participation, and in view of the call by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for changes to the Broadcasting and Television Act in order to strengthen its independence, does the Government intend taking such action as would ensure the greater independence sought by the Commission? [More…]
As to the independence of the Commission, shortly after I assumed this office I had discussions with the then Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sir Robert Madgwick. [More…]
I told him that it was Government policy to guarantee the political and programming independence of the Commission. [More…]
One area which might interest the honourable senator so far as the independence of the Commission is concerned is section 16 (3) of the existing Broadcasting and Television Act which enables the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to determine the transmission hours not only of commercial broadcasting and television stations but of all broadcasting and television stations, and that naturally includes the ABC stations. [More…]
This rather impedes the Commission in its complete independence. [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 would be most unusual for one sovereign government to guarantee the external borrowings of another sovereign government but this matter will be considered when the detailed arrangements for independence are drawn up after Papua New Guinea becomes self-governing later this year. [More…]
As stated by the honourable senator, the Australian Government will continue in the post independence period to honour the guarantees we will have provided for borrowings entered into by the Papua New Guinea Government before that time. [More…]
The comparable amount at independence will almost certainly be greater than this. [More…]
Neither the formal achievement of selfgovernment nor independence will be marked by an abrupt step or a dramatic change. [More…]
This broadening of its authority reflects current practice agreed by the previous government and this government that when independence comes there will be no area of government in which Papua New Guinea will be unfamiliar or lack experience. [More…]
By agreement with Papua New Guinea, defence and foreign relations will remain reserved to Australia until independence. [More…]
The creation of this portfolio and the appointment to it of a Papua New Guinea Minister will ensure that Papua New Guinea will have first hand involvement and experience in these key reserved areas, well before independence. [More…]
Clause 31 of the Bill makes clear that this guarantee will continue for the life of those loans which are raised before independence. [More…]
These Bills, the adoption of the Constitution, subsequent amendment of the Papua New Guinea Act next year, and the final step of independence, are all integral stages in the continuous development of Papua New Guinea from dependency to nationhood. [More…]
On the timing of independence, the Council noted Australia’s view that there are 2 elements involved in the determination of the question of independence: The view of Australia, and the views of the people of Papua New Guinea as expressed through their elected representatives in the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Council noted that Australia expects independence to come by 1975, and that it should be achieved in the closest consultation with the Government and the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 asked Australia to fix a timetable for independence in consultation with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
New Guinea should experience a period of selfgovernment before a date for independence is set. [More…]
It was to remedy this situation, and to permit moderately frail people to continue to live with some measure of independence, that the previous Government introduced this personal care subsidy in 1969. [More…]
The greatest fear of the aged is that of being incapable of just doing things for themselves, and the loss of their cherished independence rapidly erodes the dignity of their life style; a dignity which should be fostered by the community and not destroyed. [More…]
Clearly, then, any move that is going to enable the handicapped to achieve some measure of economic independence is going to be in the interests not only of the handicapped people themselves but also of the whole community. [More…]
The transfer of such responsibilities in this important area is essential for a country shortly to achieve self-government and moving towards independence. [More…]
It would be discourteous of the Opposition just to agree to this legislation without any comment because new conditions will result from the independence and self government of Papua New Guinea which we all have watched with interest and have been involved in. [More…]
I think that we would all agree with the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) when he said in his second reading speech that the transfer of such responsibilities is important for a country which is shortly to achieve self government and which will shortly have a state of independence. [More…]
In effect, this new country, which is being given self government and which is to be granted independence later, will have its own banking system- a reserve bank and a commercial bank, both backed up by Australian expertise and, in some cases, finance, understanding and knowhow. [More…]
It is therefore passing through a stage, really, of potential independence. [More…]
I think that there are those of us who believe that the state of independence may be coming on more quickly than the people of New Guinea necessarily desire or is necessarily wise. [More…]
But no Australian would want other than that Papua New Guinea should progress to independence as fast as is desirable and sensible. [More…]
One looks to the country’s independence as something which they want and which is both wise and sensible from our point of view. [More…]
Because of independence there is a consquential change in the title of the Administrator of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
when independence comes there will be no area of government in which Papua New Guinea will be unfamiliar or lack experience. [More…]
I have great doubt that one can achieve the experience and total familiarity with all the things one needs to do as a new government in a state of independence in such a short span of time. [More…]
If the people of that country are unfamiliar with their new state of independence, or if it proves that they have not got all the experience they can draw upon our help because we have been with them for a long time. [More…]
Defence and foreign relations remain reserved to Australia until independence. [More…]
There may be necessary areas to reserve pending completion of legislative arrangements, but we would be working towards giving them a state of full authority and control at the point of independence. [More…]
This will pass off with independence. [More…]
It will take up the areas of increased responsibility which will pass over with independence. [More…]
Clause 3 1 of the Bill makes it clear that this guarantee will continue for the life of the those loans which are raised before independence. [More…]
The final step of independence is the integral stage in the continuous development of Papua New Guinea from dependency to nationhood. [More…]
The Council noted that Australia expected independence to come by 197 S and that it should be achieved by the closest possible consultation. [More…]
Therefore, it gives every promise that independence should be accompanied by tremendous successes. [More…]
But I think that it is a matter for tremendous pride that in that time, with those setbacks, we created a nation of our own, one of the wealthiest nations of its size in the world and in the process helped to establish the nation of Papua New Guinea to which independence is now coming with the aid and support that we have been able to give it. [More…]
The great change which will occur and about which I wish to say something later in my remarks will occur, of course, on the date of independence. [More…]
I am hoping that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) who is in charge of the Bills might be able to indicate definitely what will be the ambit of the control of internal security because naturally this is one of the major questions that arises in the transference of selfgovernment, even prior to independence. [More…]
First and foremost, concern was expressed to us over and over again about independence. [More…]
Parliament level or at the level of the new emerging leaders of the Public Service in Port Moresby- at the prospects of independence. [More…]
I am not saying that it is not our obligation to endeavour to hasten along the processes of independence, but I think it is my duty to express in the national Parliament, having had this opportunity to visit Papua New Guinea, the concern that so many people there feel about this matter. [More…]
I believe that we as a delegation, speaking on behalf of this Parliament and on a non-party basis, were able to give adequate reassurance to these people and to others at a higher level to whom we spoke, that financial support would certainly continue for the new nation, not only after selfgovernment but also after independence, and that this would be financial support at a level which it has enjoyed in the past. [More…]
They are very concerned that after selfgovernment, and certainly after independence, Australia may wipe its hands of their nation and that no Australians, or very few, will remain. [More…]
The only other question that I wanted to comment upon is what we might call the road to independence. [More…]
Guinea but also in Australia, among those who take an interest in Papua New Guinea as to what is the Australian Government’s policy in relation to independence. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said before the elections that it was the policy of his Party that there should be independence within the life of the present Parliament, so 1975 was a date that was in many people’s minds. [More…]
After the Government came into power the Minister for External Territories started to talk about independence in 1974. [More…]
People who were concerned about the possibility of independence as early as 1975 have been not only further alarmed but also thoroughly confused by statements of that kind. [More…]
We as a Party have taken the view that independence should not be thrust upon Papua New Guinea, that there should be a request to us by a representative body of Papua New Guinea which says: ‘We are now ready for independence. [More…]
We want independence. [More…]
The big problem will be to resolve the concern and doubts that so many Papuans and New Guineans have about independence. [More…]
Not only is there concern about independence but also a number of local movements, even secessionist movements, are starting to arise in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They should not be made by the leaders of the Public Service or the intellectuals in Port Moresby who are wanting to race ahead in obtaining independence. [More…]
They should not be made even by the leading members of the Government who may be more anxious than many others to get early independence. [More…]
I believe it will want to treat this matter of independence with care and caution. [More…]
Certainly the last thing they want is an Australian Government ramming independence down their necks. [More…]
Another problem from which I think we cannot run away is that of local independence movements or local decentralisation - [More…]
I know that the Press loves to blow these things up and to make out that Miss Josephine Abaijah and her Papuan independence movement want to have a separate state and so on. [More…]
We cannot just throw independence at Papua New Guinea before these matters are resolved in some way or other because if we do we will only be leaving the country with a Government which will then be racked by internal civil war. [More…]
So in this period between self government and independence we have to ensure that there is some reconciliation of these differences. [More…]
I believe that there will have to be many more of this sort of development before Papua New Guinea is fully fit for independence. [More…]
Because after 1 December we as a national parliament will still have responsibility for Papua New Guinea’s foreign affairs and defence and, I think, for a general oversight of the affairs of that nation, we ourselves will have to shoulder some considerable responsibility in determining this vital question of independence. [More…]
I would like to add my dissident voice to the rush towards independence in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When I first took an interest in Papua New Guinea I was of the opinion that it needed its independence, but the more I studied the country and the more I went up there the more I realised that it was not yet time for independence. [More…]
It is all very well to say that we have to give independence to Papua New Guinea as fast as possible, but when one looks around the country one can see that the people are not ready for it and many do not want it. [More…]
The people who really want independence, of course, are the university trained people, the elitist group. [More…]
They want us to rush into giving independence to Papua New Guinea because they will be the heads of government in the country. [More…]
We are trying to say to them: ‘Now you are ready for self government’, but one has only to visit the country to see that there are so many separatist movements that it is obvious that after independence is attained the country will be ruled by the army. [More…]
Bougainvillians despising the Tolais and the Papuans hating the Highlanders and all New Guineans in toto, there is no doubt in my mind that there will be a blood bath following independence. [More…]
The other problem is that once Papua New Guinea attains independence it will be a greater financial burden around our necks than it has been in the past because if we do not give assistance to that country the Japanese will. [More…]
Giving Papua New Guinea independence does not seem to me to be the answer, but it seems the ‘in’ thing nowadays is that every nation must have its independence whether or not it is ready, and it seems that we have to assist Papua New Guinea towards independence. [More…]
I think we have failed the people of Papua New Guinea in education and in medicine, and I think we are going to fail them altogether when we hand over independence to them. [More…]
Although I acknowledge the Minister’s possible difficulties in this area, we would like to know whether there will be any form of oath or affirmation of allegiance which it is contemplated will be adopted by Papua New Guinea when it secures independence. [More…]
We appreciate that if the Territory of Papua New Guinea, approaching independence, wishes to change the form of the oath, we will accord with its wishes. [More…]
The interest which we have at the present time, before independence has arrived, is whether there is intended to be any form of allegiance whatsoever. [More…]
There has been no suggestion from this Parliament that after Papua New Guinea ‘s independence we will have the slightest control of or influence on this new independency. [More…]
Incursion and extraction’ are military terms being used to describe an exercise to take place in Papua New Guinea next February in which the elite of the Australian Army, the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), will put the final touches on a contingency plan drawn up in case of trouble in the post independence era. [More…]
Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognised boundaries free from threats or acts of force; [More…]
For guaranteeing the territorial inviolability and political independence of every State in the area, through measures including the establishment of demilitarised zones; [More…]
Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every state in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognised boundaries free from threats or acts of force; [More…]
For guaranteeing the territorial inviolability and political independence of every State in the area, through measures including the establishment of demilitarised zones; [More…]
The Karmel Committee also emphasised the need for greater independence within the government school system. [More…]
It is necessary that, far from centralising education, in the interests of diversity and in the interests of innovation we should be able to have a greater degree of independence within those education systems which exist. [More…]
Obviously one of the difficulties which is presenting itself to honourable senators is the fact that if a joint sitting of both Houses were held in some way the Senate may submerge its dignity lose its independence and, in the vote that is subsequently taken, be overwhelmed by the House of Representatives. [More…]
In regard to the suggestion in the latter part of his question, I must point out to the honourable senator that it is the policy of this Government to guarantee the political and programming independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
At Ryde, Sydney, along with many other schools which are still suffering, there is a school called the Australian International Independence School. [More…]
Whilst I am no admirer of the Melbourne ‘Age’, at least the editor of that newspaper had the integrity to say that he would not go because it might compromise his independence. [More…]
Under this Government in 10 or 1 1 months we have lost every shred of independence in our foreign policy. [More…]
To grant the mainland Territories representation in the Senate is seen by the Australian Country Party as the thin edge of the wedge in the destruction of the independence of the Senate and perhaps of the Senate itself in the long run. [More…]
I am sure that they do not want any meddling with the independence of the Senate or any threat to its continued existence. [More…]
1 put in a dissenting report in which I put forward views in which the independence of the Senate was maintained. [More…]
I will move that amendment because I think that this Schools Commission- we supported the Commission and voted for the second reading of the Bill, as my Party has supported every progressive move that has been brought forward in respect of education in this Senate and in this Parliament- ought to have a reasonable degree of independence and for the life of me I cannot understand how the claim can be made that a commission, every member of which is appointed by the Government, will be an independent commission. [More…]
If the people who are to be on this Commission are all to be appointed by the Government and to be reappointed by the Government there cannot be any independence about this Commission because, as everybody knows, governments tend to appoint people who will play ball. [More…]
Is that not an attack on their independence? [More…]
The view has been taken that, in view of the steps being taken by Papua New Guinea towards independence, it will properly be a matter for that country to make a decision on accession to the Covenant. [More…]
Again the view has been taken that, in view of the steps being taken by Papua New Guinea towards independence, it will probably be a matter for that country to make a decision on accession to the Convention. [More…]
-Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen large scale television manufacturers’ advertisements claiming that their industry was in danger of losing its independence to foreign influence? [More…]
The Unilateral Declaration of Independence has been in existence in Rhodesia about 8 years now and the Government is still referred to by the Attorney-General and members of his Government as an illegal regime. [More…]
From what I see of the interest in this legislation, I think that it was entirely appropriate to expect each of the 7 parliaments of the country to adopt an identical piece of legislation bespeaking, of course, not the slightest independence or initiative of thinking on the part of any one of the parliaments. [More…]
Cairns declares independence for the AIDC. [More…]
Dr Cairns issued a declaration of financial independence and stated: [More…]
He added that a future State government will always be in doubt as to the extent to which this encroaching Commonwealth power, particularly in Federal-State financial relations, will permit a State Treasurer to have any degree of independence. [More…]
However, it has always been my understanding that the independence of the Tariff Board is based upon the security of tenure of its members. [More…]
If the situation is reached where only the nucleus of a committee or a board of reference has security of tenure, and there are two persons sitting on each side of him- one may be in a particular section of the industry under reference and the other in a different interest, sectional withal in the same industry- the Government may be creating the shifting sands of subversion of the independence of this Commission. [More…]
I express the opinion that the Chairman of the Commission is an office of such absolute independence that he should be absolutely precluded from holding any interest in any business whatever in Australia. [More…]
If there is any commission in this country, next to the Auditor-General, which should be assured of complete independence of pecuniary commercial interest it is this Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
There is no field in which it is more imperative to have absolute independence of pecuniary interest than in a Commission providing pecuniary assistance to industry. [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…]
The Australian Broadcasting Commission under this Government has been told that it has complete political and programming independence. [More…]
This Government has insisted that it carry out its political and programming independence. [More…]
Is independence in that sense a virtue only if the Commission achieves objectivity and balance in its reporting and programming? [More…]
This is not an undermining of the independence of the judiciary because, in strictness, he was not a judicial officer, he was a non-judicial officer. [More…]
So we are not dealing with the independence of the judiciary. [More…]
I say this because of the red herring of the independence of the judiciary which has been dragged in. [More…]
Far from what he alleges to be an attack seeking to undermine the judiciary, the purpose of what I have said and what Senator Wright has said has been to establish, and to have maintained, the independence of the judiciary. [More…]
Second, recognition that the ability to work and to be self-supporting is absolutely crucial to adult independence, to happiness, and to self-respect, and to gaining the respect of others. [More…]
Handicapped education must always aim at this independence and at this capacity for self support. [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…]
It is a most important Bill because it could affect, firstly, the independence of the Senate and, secondly, its existence as a House of review. [More…]
Only a fortnight ago, when this house was debating the Senate (Representation of Territories) Bill, I drew attention to the fact that the provisions of that Bill represented the thin edge of the wedge in the destruction of the independence of the Senate, and perhaps of the Senate itself. [More…]
The great strength and the great value of the Senate is its independence, and the Constitution, as it now stands, gives it that independence. [More…]
Between 1949 and 1959 we had only the slightest indications of independence of thought in this chamber. [More…]
-As one who has always stood for the independence of this chamber, I think that I should say a few words in connection with this Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill. [More…]
But the very nature of a commission is to give to some statutory body an independence of ministerial control. [More…]
Without interfering with the independence of the television companies, is there any way he could suggest to them that there are other trade union leaders? [More…]
If we are to have something in the nature of spoils for the victor and jobs for the boys approach then this is the antithesis of the Bar’s independence. [More…]
If that attitude develops then one strikes right at the outset at one of those characteristics of independence which all barristers ought to assume and ought to have in the conduct of their clients’ business. [More…]
I feel that this request, which has demonstrably and clearly occurred in Melbourne, is striking at that independence. [More…]
The Government will meet the full cost of the treatment of patients without charge in those charitable and religious hospitals which wish to accept such patients, and will do so without any infringement of the autonomy and independence of these hospitals. [More…]
The Committee considers that this objective would be advanced by the transfer of the administration of the health insurance scheme from the Commonwealth Department of Health to a National Health Insurance Commission with as much independence as possible. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure the continuation of political and programming independence for the Commission? [More…]
Under the present Government the Australian Broadcasting Commission has had, and I can assure the honourable senator it will continue to have, political and programming independence. [More…]
Part IV of the Bill provides independence for the Authority in the employment of its staff and in the determination of conditions of service, in accordance with the usual practice of the Government in relation to Authorities which are primarily engaged in business. [More…]
To what extent will he have some independence in what he can offer by way of training and emoluments during training to persons who would be prepared to undertake the courses which he is offering? [More…]
In essense, the Australian Post Office has recognised the coming independence of Papua New Guinea, and the rates and conditions are consistent with those applied for other nearby countries. [More…]
The continued generous financing of our system of religious and charitable hospitals, with no threat to their independence. [More…]
I think the present Government would acknowledge that it has received magnificent service from a Public Service which has been nurtured in the standards of independence and objectivity and designed to serve any government, whatever be its political complexion. [More…]
I do not believe that there can be the slightest dispute that so long as spokesmen for certain Arab nations continue to say that their goal is the destruction of the state of Israel and the driving of the people of Israel into the sea we can expect that the Government of Israel, whichever government may be in power, or the people of Israel cannot do anything but take very strong and vigorous measures to preserve their independence. [More…]
The proposal contained in the Bill would destroy the independence of the Senate and thus weaken the Federal structure. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘That’, insert ‘in the opinion of this Senate, it would be a travesty of constitutional and parliamentary practice if this Bill, which so vitally affects the powers and independence of this Senate, were to be rushed through the parliamentary processes and submitted to the people without the most careful examination. [More…]
The proposal contained in the Bill would destroy the independence of the Senate and thus weaken the Federal structure. [More…]
The proposal contained in the Bill would destroy the independence of the Senile and thus weaken the federal structure. [More…]
The amendment commences by stating that it would be a travesty of constitutional and parliamentary practice if this Bill, which so vitally affects the powers and independence of this Senate, were to be rushed through the proper parliamentary processes and submitted to the people without the most careful examination. [More…]
Now they come out with more extravagance and say that the proposals contained in the Bill will destroy the independence of the Senate and thus weaken the federal structure. [More…]
I cannot possibly see how bringing the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives together- an economic proposition on the one hand and a sensible and convenient proposition on the other- could be termed destroying the independence of the Senate and weakening the federal structure. [More…]
The amendment shows how barren members of the Opposition must be of constructive thought to suggest that this Bill could destroy the independence of the Senate. [More…]
He is one who, in the establishment of committees, in which he played a major part, has always held out for the power of the Senate, for its independence and for its right to function as a House of review and as a House to assess and study legislation and administrative actions. [More…]
At a time when profound changes are taking place in the patterns of international relations, it is particularly important that the role of small and medium powers should be understood and appreciated, and that they should seize the opportunities for greater independence … [More…]
In this context, China’s support for the principles of respect for the national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states can make a significant contribution to strengthening peace. [More…]
Without this amendment, during the period between self-government and independence, Papua New Guinea boats would continue to be subject to Australian jurisdiction while in Australian proclaimed waters. [More…]
The independence of the Senate in the last few years has given real meaning to the parliamentary system and I say that in this role the Senate now continues. [More…]
The Labor Party members of a committee cannot be swayed by logic or by the facts, so what can be expected from people who have no independence of thought, who can only mouth the collective decision like a group of robots and who have a conscience only when Caucus permits it? [More…]
I say that the status of the Senate and its committees was lifted by Liberal and Country Party senators and others on the Opposition side now who, with their independence of thought, were able to seek out information and listen objectively to those presenting evidence. [More…]
Therefore, any attempt to destroy the Senate’s independence as a chamber, or any attempt that may appear to do that, should and must be closely examined for the good of the parliament and the Australian people. [More…]
We see it as an attempt to downgrade the Senate and to weaken its independence. [More…]
The Senate ‘s great strength and value lies in its independence. [More…]
That difference was established so that there would be a continuity of membership in the Senate as well as from the length of the term, a strength in engendering an independence of outlook on the part of senators not necessarily echoing their own Party members or the other House in matters that came before the Senate. [More…]
I hope that thought will be given to whether there should be a Senate, whether there should be a Senate of independence, now that independence should be maintained and whether the Senate is to be looked upon simply as an echo of the other place. [More…]
Not only because there were spirits of independence in the government parties who were prepared not to echo the Government at every stage but also because there grew up on election by the people minority parties and independent senators. [More…]
I suggest it is dangerous because it will mean that the independence of the Senate and therefore its ability to play its proper role in a 2- chamber system will be impaired. [More…]
To tie the Senate to the House of Representatives in the manner proposed by this Bill tends to make it a replica and would therefore tend to weaken its independence. [More…]
Of course the question would then arise- which in the case of the Government at the present time might have its problems- as to what independence there would be among senators to indicate that the Senate would perform the watchdog role which, I remind Labor Party senators, they urged for the Senate when they were in Opposition. [More…]
I say that it would be difficult for the Labor Party senators to fulfil that role in government because the Caucus system and the iron discipline which the party system imposes on the Labor Party would tend to prevent that independence from developing. [More…]
That is why I say that there is a problem about maintaining the independence of the Senate, the watchdog role of the Senate, the essentially independent review role of the Senate if the Labor Party has the numbers in this place. [More…]
The third reason why it would be dangerous to accept this proposal is that the removal of the independence of the Senate and the reduction of its effectiveness would have the tendency to make the Senate redundant. [More…]
That is getting into the realms of speculation, but all I am saying is that once the Senate’s independence has been reduced the tendency would be to make the Senate appear redundant. [More…]
They are constantly concerned about the lack of money to do the things that they want to do, but, my word, if they were told that what they must do is governed and directed from Canberra, they would prefer their autonomy, their independence and the ability to make their complaints about the lack of money rather than to take the money and have to do what a bureaucrat, who has never been to Camberwell, thinks is right for that area. [More…]
It should be prepared to fight to maintain its independence. [More…]
Maybe we would not be sounding the death knell of bodies which administer local areas but we would be sounding the death knell of local bodies which have autonomy, independence and the ability to make their decisions for their own people and for their own areas and that, believe me, is what people in this country are crying out to have. [More…]
I would imagine that if Papua New Guinea is to exercise a power over fisheries it will do so either because of a delegation of power under the existing Fisheries Act or by virtue of the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Act which was passed by this Parliament last year as part of the steps by which we granted self government as a preliminary to the granting of independence. [More…]
However, discussions between officials of both governments are now taking place to reach an agreement on the question of the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
Government’s support of the right to independence of the people of Namibia, will the Government protest at the South African Government’s arrest and detention of these people without charge? [More…]
I take the directly opposite view that the independence of the judiciary would be greatly strengthened if there were only a qualified right of appointment by the government which is responsible for the administration of legislation under review or if the court owed its existence to authority quite outside that government. [More…]
In the past this country gave encouragement and incentive to oil companies in so many ways to explore and so gave assistance in the saving of overseas expenditure and in the obtaining of some independence with regard to our energy needs. [More…]
We have taken a stand of independence. [More…]
I would be wanting in my duty if I did not refer to the fact that judges who accept executive office or the position of being publicly designated for executive office cease thereafter to enjoy that degree of independence which is absolutely inalienable from judicial office. [More…]
It seems to me to be quite impossible for a judge who has been designated as a Governor of a State or the Governor-General, thereafter to have that independence of the executive and of the government that is essential to the discharge of judicial office. [More…]
In reality if one wants independence in these spheres, the judges are more protected by the constitutional provisions than is a Governor-General. [More…]
As for the Governor-General, one would think that it is better to have provisions relating to a pension which would provide this measure of independence. [More…]
It follows that the Senate has retained its independence because it is a chamber where no single party has a majority. [More…]
That independence has served this chamber well over the last few years. [More…]
If at any time the people believed that there were incipient signs of such development, and if the accusation was made, fortunately we had in this community a spirit of independence and willingness to criticise which ensured that what was incipient did not become permanent. [More…]
Until there is an independence and willingness to apply objectivity and to make an independent judgment designed to give expression to what a free Press has always stood for, we will have these stories which are nothing more than handouts to lazy journalists who are not prepared to do their own work and to write their own stories. [More…]
Don Chipp, Senator Greenwood and Mr McManus were celebrating 4 July, the anniversary of that great day when America, after defeating the British as a colonial power, obtained its independence. [More…]
I would think that the great bulk of those films result from investment by the Australian Film Development Corporation, which is responsible to me ministerially but which has independence under the statute and which makes investments in films considered by that Corporation to be commercially viable. [More…]
The excision of areas for community residential purposes will be negotiated where Aboriginal groups on cattle stations want to establish themselves with some independence. [More…]
I suggest that it would be far better for the honourable senator, if this is to be the level of his independence, to formalise the matter, take out an application and join the Liberal Party of Australia, the National Alliance, the Liberal-Country League or the National Liberal Party or whatever may be the case. [More…]
My goodness, they were very articulate when they urged Papua New Guinea on to a state of nationhood and independence- very much so. [More…]
The Senate was established to protect the States and no compact would have been arrived at if the independence and sovereignty of the States were not recognised and preserved. [More…]
Unlike our founding fathers who were concerned to establish the Senate as the Federal part of the Parliament- ‘the organ of the States, the visible representative of the continuity, independence, and reserved autonomy of the States, linking them together as integral parts of the Federal Union’- the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam leaves no doubt that, as one honourable member of another place expressed recently, he ‘is hell-bent on completely abolishing the States themselves’. [More…]
This scheme must be seen as the real threat that it is to the independence of the Senate. [More…]
As well, we would be endorsing the present Government’s plan to emasculate the Senate and destroy its status, independence and continuity. [More…]
They have a fierce independence regarding their health care. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, under this Government the ABC is guaranteed political and programming independence and the Commission has advised me that whilst it would be most willing to transmit a direct telecast of the game to the areas to which the honourable senator has referred, apparently it was a decision of the Australian Rugby League that the 3 tests were not to be directly telecast but that films of the game could be shown after the game had finished. [More…]
They have a fierce independence in regard to their health care. [More…]
They have a fierce independence regarding their health care. [More…]
General practitioners were so fearful of losing their independence that they would not be directly employed by the NHS at all, but would become only independent contractors under executive councils, with a membership equally divided between the medical professions and laymen. [More…]
The Senate would lose all its character under the Constitution, all its independence, its principle of equal representation of the States and its role as a House of review, apart altogether from its other duties and responsibilities. [More…]
Indeed, those blithe spirits of Queensland who have shown a proper degree of independence of spirit and a proper understanding of Statehood and decentralisation would, in old-fashioned Queensland language, have breached the protocol and told Mr Whitlam and his Government exactly what they thought of this measure. [More…]
As honourable senators know from previous debate in this chamber, we have guaranteed the indebtedness of Papua New Guinea at the point of its obtaining independence and for some stage unascertained but implicit beyond that point of time. [More…]
I at once put my point of view, as I did in my written submission, saying that a judge adds nothing to the judicial independence of a tribunal unless he acts as a judge, and the first thing that he is bound to do is to operate in public. [More…]
There is a strong view, with which the Australian Government of course agrees, that in accordance with the Security Council resolution the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Cyprus be maintained and that the situation revert certainly to what it was before hostilities commenced, if not to a better position. [More…]
Will Australian servicemen be with the armed forces of Papua New Guinea after that nation achieves independence on 1 December next? [More…]
When Papua New Guinea declares its independence it will be more or less a formal declaration. [More…]
This requirement will ensure that the basic statutory independence of the Commission is not eroded by secret directions. [More…]
Indeed, it seems extraordinary that a matter of such domestic concern to Australia may be taken away to be decided by a set of judges who are not appointed by us, not responsible to us and acting in a way which is quite inconsistent with the independence of Australia and its present standing in the world. [More…]
-My question, which I address to the Minister for the Media, relates to his answer to Senator Greenwood in which he resorted to his constant alibi of the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Does the Minister now say that the independence of the ABC as a statutory corporation absolves him as the responsible Minister from any responsibility for balance and fairness in ABC programming? [More…]
Or would he not agree that independence is justifiable only if it produces objectivity of judgment and balanced programming? [More…]
Alternatively does the Minister justify on the ground of independence any action, however partisan it might be, by a statutory corporation? [More…]
The Government is voting in New York at the UN for independence for Cocos Island but when it is questioned about it back here it says that no one in his right mind would believe in independence. [More…]
There is no way by which the private hospital system can maintain its independence and the service it has been able to give. [More…]
In the field of energy resources we are naturally looking to our own needs first, particularly to ensure full independence in liquid hydro-carbons, and their equivalents. [More…]
Australia will be held to ransom in the international oil market and to that extent its economic independence will be forfeited in consequence. [More…]
It is unlikely that the Soviet Government will grant independence to these territories. [More…]
Provision is being made under existing legislation for the continuation of the payment of these repatriation benefits after Papua New Guinea obtains independence. [More…]
By the time the vital votes on this Bill are taken it will be apparent, in view of the expressed attitude of the Liberal-Country Party Opposition to the Bill, whether party political ideology purportedly masked under the guise of self-professed independence will prevail or whether the interests of all Australians as consumers will be safeguarded by a joinder of certain forces with the Government to destroy the reactionary and conservative opposition to the Bill. [More…]
Can the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation inform the Senate about arrangements for the provision of repatriation benefits for Australian ex-servicemen and their dependants who will continue to reside in Papua New Guinea after independence? [More…]
Upon the attainment of independence by Papua New Guinea there will be no difference in the situation of people who fall into those categories. [More…]
If nothing were to be done about this matter, upon the attainment of independence by Papua New Guinea a number of people who are at present living there would lose that benefit because Papua New Guinea would cease to be a Territory. [More…]
However, the Government recently considered the matter and decided that any person who received these latter benefits and who was living in Papua New Guinea at the date of independence would be deemed to continue to be a resident of Australia or of one of its Territories and would continue to receive the benefits. [More…]
However, if somebody was not a resident of Papua New Guinea at the date of independence and subsequently went to live there, he would fall into the same category as persons who have moved out of Australia and its Territories to a foreign country and would not be in receipt of the latter type of benefit. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral, in his latest intervention in the debate, made it clear that he was concerned with statutory corporations’ growing independence of the [More…]
Powers which can be exercised by the Executive, powers exercised by the great corporations, whether they be of capital or of labour, diminish the standing of the individual, and we ought to be concerned to preserve as far as possible his integrity and independence. [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…]
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…]
Security Council resolution 353 called on all states to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Cyprus and called for an immediate end to foreign military intervention in Cyprus. [More…]
According to the Chapter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [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…]
We wish to point out that according to United Nation charter these States are entitled to independence and their peoples to self-determination and beg that such recognition be disallowed. [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…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that nothing will be done to impinge on the integrity and independence of this highly respected overseas broadcasting service? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that journalists employed by Radio Australia fear that the independence and impartiality of the overseas news service could be jeopardised by administrative changes? [More…]
At that time suggestions had been made that Radio Australia should be given complete independence and autonomy and not be subject to the control of the Australian Broadcasting Commission under whose jurisdiction it had been for some time. [More…]
It believes that this is a matter to be worked out by Portugal in the future in conformity with the United Nations resolution on self-determination and independence. [More…]
On 26 August Portugal assigned total independence to Guinea Bissau. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
We wish to point out that according to United Nations chaner these States are entitled to independence and their people to self-determination and beg that such recognition be disallowed. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to self-determination. [More…]
In their place we are seeing, not a new independence, not a new activity, but a subservience and a defencelessness for which the Minister, as the Minister in charge of Australia’s foreign affairs, must carry the responsibility. [More…]
The Baltic states have the same status as other Soviet republics such as Georgia and Moldavia which have at different times in the past also enjoyed full independence. [More…]
We are talking of 3 republics which, apart from a brief period from 1920 to 1940, have in the case of Latvia and Estonia, never had independence, or in the case of Lithuania has been independent only for a brief period and then shared with another power. [More…]
I believe, by contrast, that the Australian people wholeheartedly support the new independence which this Government has shown, and has pursued with success and with distinction. [More…]
Australia, long before the United States and the United Kingdom, was one of the first countries to recognise the independence of Bangladesh. [More…]
There is no virtue in an independent foreign policy for independence sake. [More…]
-But before honourable senators opposite become too comforted by that concession I point out that certain elements in the Liberal and Country Parties have always exploited, in a quite unconscionable way, the longings for independence of the Baltic peoples. [More…]
In a rational moment today Senator Greenwood conceded that the only hope for independence of the Estonians, the Lithuanians and the Latvians was in the aftermath of a cataclysm. [More…]
They happened to be so situated that they were overrun by foreign conquerors and only short periods of their national lives have been spent in conditions of independence. [More…]
I remind the Senate that most of our neighbours now record that the Australian Government, and Senator Willesee and Mr Whitlam, have ensured that Australia has a new independence. [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…]
It is unlikely that the Soviet Government will grant independence to these territories. [More…]
According to the Chaner of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
Accepting that when the Territory of Papua New Guinea becomes independent it should have all the powers of a sovereign nation with regard to its off-shore areas, it is appropriate that there be no doubt that Papua New Guinea on independence will have that power. [More…]
As I have indicated these 2 Bills are part of the ongoing process, with which the Opposition concurs, for the transference of power to Papua New Guinea so that when it assumes independence it will be a full independence in which the co-operation of the Australian Government at all times has been evident. [More…]
We recognise that these 2 Bills are part of a general tidying up process in the stages towards independence. [More…]
The atmosphere was one in which Senator Hall was demonstrating his true independence as distinct from the independence that goes under a masquerade. [More…]
There is no question that in the area of independence Senator Hall has exercised his position quite judiciously, whereas Senator Townley has consistently supported the view of the main Opposition Party in this chamber. [More…]
It will make a mockery of their savings and erect an almost impenetrable barrier between them and their hard earned comfort and independence. [More…]
We have always prided ourselves in this country, regardless of our actual economic standards as we have progressed, on an independence of spirit within the national and economic framework. [More…]
How will it apply to those who have tried to provide for themselves, to provide for their independence in their old age, and those who are contributing through the buying of shares to the buying back of the Australian farm? [More…]
There is one resource that this Government is being extremely wasteful of with all its talk about resources strategies and that is the human resource of this country- the individual resources of enterprise, drive, initiative and a wish for independence. [More…]
I know that the honourable senator will excuse me when I point out once again that the Australian Broadcasting Commission is an independent statutory body to which this Government has guaranteed political and programming independence. [More…]
These are much better avenues by which to maintain the independence of the Wool Corporation than if the money were directed straight from the Government. [More…]
I believe that this is what the industry wants, as I said earlier, to maintain its independence. [More…]
In the past the Australian Wheat Board and other primary industry corporations have been able to borrow through the normal market place with some degree of independence. [More…]
I am a little puzzled as to why the amendment is being moved, in the light of Senator Maunsell ‘s earlier statement and his insistence, when speaking during the second reading stage of the cognate debate, that the Australian Wool Corporation should have the utmost independence. [More…]
It seems to me that if it is to have the utmost independence we are putting a discipline in its way. [More…]
But I take the major point made by the Minister in relation to the independence of the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
We wish to point out that according to United Nations charter these States are entitled to independence and their people to self-determination and beg that such recognition be disallowed. [More…]
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. [More…]
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. [More…]
In addition, I advise the honorable senator that, so far as the Government is concerned, the Australian Broadcasting Commission is guaranteed political and programming independence. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations, these peoples under communism are entitled to the same freedoms as enjoyed by Australians, including independence and self-determination. [More…]
According to the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations, these peoples under communism are entitled to the same freedoms as enjoyed by Australians, including independence and self-determination. [More…]
The Australian Government does say unequivocally that it fully supports the continued independence of Cyprus and that the solution of its problems must be reached without outside force. [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…]
They have dropped out of the system as soon as they possibly could because naturally they want to assert their own political independence. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of contractual guarantees by the Australian Government for overseas borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government in foreign currencies not exceeding the equivalent of $A20m prior to achievement of independence in 1974-75. [More…]
It is proposed that arrangements for the borrowings for which this Bill provides contractual guarantees will be concluded prior to the achievement of independence by Papua New [More…]
This is a guarantee arrangement to cover Papua New Guinea as it passes towards independence. [More…]
Retention of eligibility for repatriation benefits which are available only to residents in Australia and its Territories will be proposed in respect of Australian veterans and their dependants who are resident in Papua New Guinea prior to that country gaining independence, and who continue to reside there. [More…]
Australians Resident in Papua New Guinea after Independence [More…]
The Government proposes to allow persons resident in Papua New Guinea prior to that country gaining its independence, and who continue to reside there after independence, to be then considered still resident in Australia or its Territories for repatriation purposes. [More…]
It seeks to promote- and I think this is justified- the independence which a wife will have so that she will not forever be in a position of dependence, of self-commiseration, and will be able wherever possible to take her place in the world after divorce. [More…]
I may sound as though I am talking at a level which is not in keeping with a very modern attitude towards the independence of people, even within the marriage set-up, but fundamental to our society through the ages has been the principle that the husband is responsible for the wellbeing of his wife and his children. [More…]
It may interest honourable senators who have not studied the Bill- if there are any- to know that the independence of Papua New Guinea is acknowledged and the effect on ex-servicemen resident in that emerging country is covered by this Bill. [More…]
The fact that we are now encouraging more people to enter sheltered workshop employment and that we will eliminate the disincentive effect that supplementary assistance has had on earnings is of advantage to those people who can seek a degree of independence in a sheltered workshop situation without feeling that they jeopardise other support which may be basic to their needs. [More…]
The facts are increasing multi-racial sport and some multiracial diplomatic staffs, official moves to gradually get away from colour discrimination, and preparations for the complete independence of the Bantu homelands. [More…]
We have moved towards granting independence in New Guinea. [More…]
A separate agency has an advantage in that it will undoubtedly enable the appointed director-general to have greater independence of action, and the professional staff which will be attached to him to have wider career and personal opportunity. [More…]
Equality or independence, or call it what you will, is being achieved slowly. [More…]
Secondly, it could go for independence. [More…]
In Kenya on independence some 15 or 16 years ago there were 180,000 Asians. [More…]
If one looks at Tanzania one finds that on independence there was an Asian community of 100,000 people. [More…]
There are an estimated 500 Asians in Uganda now when on independence there were some 80,000 Asians. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
According to the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations, these peoples under communism are entitled to the same freedoms as enjoyed by Australians, including independence and self-determination. [More…]
-The Tribunal, of course, will act according to law and act with the proper independence, impartiality and integrity which one expects. [More…]
No one, except now 2 members of the Opposition, is prepared to cast doubt upon the integrity, impartiality and independence of those who occupy judicial office in Australia [More…]
Weaken respect for marriage, regard it as easily and opportunistically dissolvable, remove the lawful backing for the mutuality of obligations and promote the independence or separateness of the parties to the marriage and their children and I believe that we are threatening the institution of the family and its stabilising influence in our society. [More…]
I think that by stressing the necessity for a divorced wife to go out and earn her own living without being able to look to any support from her spouse who has deserted her we are emphasising a degree of independence and separateness which is not in the interests of the marriage contract. [More…]
Furthermore, it adds a connection between the judiciary and the executive which I think is always fraught with problems because the power of the executive over the judiciary strikes at the independence of the judiciary. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Baltic States are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
This would enable them to live in their own homes and to have the independence they want for as long as possible. [More…]
In particular, the purpose here is to assist Papua New Guinea with its development and to assist and encourage Australian private investment in Papua New Guinea after that country gets its independence. [More…]
As the honourable senator would know, it is the Government’s policy to guarantee political and programming independence to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Indeed, the Government has always been expressing very strongly the view that there is complete independence in programming and in content by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Unless the independence of Tasmania’s so-called independent senator asserts itself this afternoon in a manner which has not been very noticeable in recent months, it seems that this Bill is probably doomed. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether it is right that the independence of the judiciary should be dissipated in this way and whether there is any way in which he can take action to ensure that the Premier of Queensland causes an immediate announcement to be made that a District Court judgeship will not be used as a political reward? [More…]
This is in line with Australia’s policy of ensuring that Papua New Guinea exercises final responsibility in all matters of government before assuming full independence. [More…]
The exercise of responsibility by the Government of Papua New Guinea in the areas of defence and foreign relations until formal independence must be subject to Australia’s treaty obligations and responsibilities in international law and to the United Nations under the Charter and the Trusteeship Agreement. [More…]
As I have said, Australian policy is to enable Papua New Guinea to exercise authority in all matters of government before the formal step to independence, and these amendments are designed to give effect to this. [More…]
The extent to which it will rely on State environment authorities will depend on the confidence it has in those authorities, on its judgment of their independence and on the significance of the proposals from the national viewpoint. [More…]
We realise that this must place in question the commencing date of the Government’s national health scheme, but we can understand the attitude of the health funds because to have accepted the agency requirements of the Government would have been to place at risk the independence of the health funds and the way in which they have functioned as bodies for voluntary contributions and benefits which have been developed from time to time. [More…]
Australia has consistently supported the British Government’s Five Principles as the basis for a constitutional settlement in Rhodesia, especially the fifth principle that any basis proposed for independence must be acceptable to the black majority of Rhodesia. [More…]
We are delighted to see that this small measure of independence will be left to a pensioner patient in a nursing home for private expenditure. [More…]
According to the Charter of the United Nations, the BalticStates are entitled to independence and their people to selfdetermination. [More…]
But it should be said that these Bills are being treated with a contumely both by the House of Representatives and by the Senate which belies the importance which they have to the future of Papua New Guinea and does little to acknowledge the contribution which Australia has made towards the development of independence in that Territory. [More…]
They said that when in due course independence comes to New Guinea then in some way, undefined, unspecified and with no indication as to what the future holds, the defence of that area will be Australia’s responsibility. [More…]
We are being given absolutely no information by this Government, and yet it must be apparent that at some time in the early or middle part of 1 975 it is to be expected that complete independence for Papua New Guinea will be asserted by that country and accepted by Australia. [More…]
The Parliament of Australia needs better, deserves better than what has been done, and I believe that in the final discharge of our obligations to the people of Papua New Guinea under the trusteeship agreement we ourselves should do something about ensuring that their independence will be a real and guaranteed independence. [More…]
The second matter to which I refer relates to the boundaries of Papua New Guinea when it secures its complete independence. [More…]
The Constitution is ignored and the rights of the people of Queensland, the rights of the people of Papua New Guinea and the rights of the Torres Strait Islanders are just not taken account of in the assertions that our present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) makes about what should be the independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I indicate that the Opposition supports these Bills because they must be supported, and we do it willingly, but I indicate also that there are gaps in what should be Australia’s attitude to independence, and the laughter of the Government senators I think is a fair commentary on their general attitude. [More…]
I am not sure whether in the space of some 20 years to 25 years the rule of law has been grounded in Papua New Guinea in a way in which it will survive independence. [More…]
It is only proper that, when independence comes, we should evolve a system under which the judges whom Australia has appointed to the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea should be protected in their pension rights and in their futures if they decide to leave Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We know that he has been a man of integrity, steadfastness and independence. [More…]
The honourable senator of course will appreciate that the Government has the policy of political and programming independence for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, but I certainly believe that matters of the nature to which Senator Mulvihill has referred have to be watched very closely by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
It will be recalled that the Papua New Guinea Government has announced that one of the responsibilities of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force after independence will be ‘to be able to assist the police in the maintenance of public order and security as a last resort if the police cannot reasonably be expected to cope. ‘ [More…]
It certainly will not have the independence and authoritative status under, as I have said, a very forceful and independent chairman which we were led to believe would be the case when the Government originally announced the policy it would follow in reconstructing Darwin. [More…]
The simple situation is that if this Bill is left as it is the Commission, knowing that the Minister always will be able to stand over it, will have no independence of thought. [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…]
In any event, whatever has been done by this Government in regard to other statutory authorities, it is our view that this Commission should have the same sort of independence as the National Airlines Commission, the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission and a number of other commissions which have been established by this Parliament. [More…]
Surely strong opposition should be offered because if we are to attract as General Manager a person of considerable ability and standing in his profession to carry out the enormous task which he will have to do he must be assured of some independence of position, especially since the Commission has developed into a political committee. [More…]
In those circumstances, I think that we should do all we possibly can to preserve the Senate as it is at present, and that the Senate should retain its independence in not going to election always with the House of Representatives. [More…]
Was it to rob the Senate of its independence and the parliamentary system of its meaning? [More…]
This would emphasise our independence. [More…]
What the Prime Minister is doing is following the course which is contrary to the independence which we in the Opposition Parties regard Australia as possessing and which we feel it should uphold. [More…]
It indicates a desire to cling to the coat tails of a country from which we claim to have achieved independence many years ago. [More…]
I mention that because it ought to put an end to the constant allegatons which the Labor Party makes that the Opposition parties want to preserve this appeal and really are not concerned to maintain Australia ‘s independence. [More…]
In relation to the project which the Minister discussed this morning, I question whether the independence of the ABC will be upheld in its co-operation with Film Australia, which will be making films subject to the approval and direction of the Minister. [More…]
Independence is a word which deserves a more respectable application. [More…]
A war of independence became a war of massive foreign intervention. [More…]
In fact, the whole thrust of the Government’s policies on housing has been to provide rental housing- not to increase the rate of home ownership but to make people more dependent on paying out money to government agencies, without in any way giving them the hope or prospect of real independence in this very basic security that I believe most Australians want. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a reported decision of the Government of Papua New Guinea to postpone the scheduled 1976 election for one year, which in effect would postpone Independence Day? [More…]
The motion will not affect the date of independence which will be decided by the House of Assembly in accordance with a resolution of the House of 9 July 1 974 which provided: [More…]
That Papua New Guinea do move to independent nation status as soon as practicable after a constitution has been enacted by this House and that any proposed date for independence is to be endorsed by this House. [More…]
Until independence, an extension of the period beyond four years would require the approval of the Australian Government and an amendment of the Australian Act. [More…]
After independence, the Papua New Guinea Act will not apply and elections will be held in accordance with the provisions of the Papua New Guinea Constitution, the terms of which are currently being debated by the House of Assembly. [More…]
As the honourable senator will know, the Government has religiously adopted the practice of guaranteeing political and programming independence to the ABC. [More…]
The Geneva Conference called upon France ‘to respect the sovereignty, independence, the unity and territorial integrity of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam ‘. [More…]
In fact, honourable senators opposite ought to be hanging their heads in shame because in that country of Vietnam the people have fought for their national independence over a considerable number of years. [More…]
The people fought for their national independence as they were entitled to do, just as the American people were entitled to do in 1770 when they waged their War of Independence, and as people all over the world are fighting for the principles of self-determination and independence. [More…]
The people of Vietnam fought for their independence even in those difficult days. [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…]
They are the people of whom General MacArthur said in Tokio, when commenting on British and French use of Japanese troops to try to defeat the Vietnamese independence movement: ‘If there is anything that makes my blood boil it is to see our allies in Indo-China and Java deploying Japanese troops to reconquer the link people we promised to liberate ‘. [More…]
The history of Vietnam has been told so many times: That Vietnam was once an independent country, a country very proud of its independence; that in the 1840s it became a French colony; that the resistance to the French colonialists did not cease through all the time it was a colony; and that when the Vichy French collapsed and did not fight, when the Japanese invaded Indo-China in 1942, our allies in resistance to the Japanese, the comrades in arms of Australian soldiers, were the Vietnamese National Liberation Front, the Vietminh under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, who carried on the fight as our allies against the Japanese while the French colonial governors collaborated with the Japanese. [More…]
It is interesting to hear members of the Liberal and Country Parties talk about national independence in the same way as it was rather sickening to hear certain American politicians talk about national independence when they fought to retain the French empire in Vietnam. [More…]
It is only within the last 3 decades that these people who now talk about independence, who now talk about Soviet colonialism, were actually fighting to retain the French empire in Vietnam. [More…]
Air Vice-Marshal Ky, who was once greeted in Australia with great acclaim as a saviour, a man who stated in what high admiration he held Adolf Hitler and who showed his patriotism by fighting for the French against Algerian independence in 1956, a man who fought as a pilot strafing and bombing the Algerian people virtually as a mercenary fighting for the French, comes from Hanoi. [More…]
North Vietnam is an independent country which has fought for its independence against all foreign invaders, and despite the fact that it follows what can be described as a communist ideology- and it is a communist ideology- North Vietnam is part of neither a Soviet camp nor a Chinese camp. [More…]
We need to do more now to preserve national independence for the other countries of SouthEast Asia. [More…]
Is the Australian Government convinced that as a result of our good relations with Indonesia the people of Portuguese Timor will be able to gain their independence from Portugal and that the Australian and Indonesian Governments will assist the Timorese people in their moves for self-determination? [More…]
This also applies with regard to the original Salomon decision in 1879 where the independence of the company or corporation from its corporators was insisted upon. [More…]
The Surveyor-General of a State, who is the appointee of a State government is seen, I think, by the community at large and by political parties to be a person with complete independence. [More…]
Altogether the provisions of the Bill should ensure the proper control and accountability of one of the nation’s important cultural institutions, while at the same time providing the vital elements of independence and flexibility which the institution requires to achieve the greatest measure of effectiveness. [More…]
This provision will make a further contribution towards ensuring the Bureau’s objectivity and independence while at the same time making the Statistician and the Council publicly accountable. [More…]
Perceptive minds, however, foresaw that the superior power of Commonwealth could in due course erode, if not destroy, the independence of the States. [More…]
Chairmen of promotions appeal boards will be appointed by the Minister, thus ensuring their independence. [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…]
Therefore, I am pleased to add the voting strength of the Liberal Movement to the independence of Senator Bunton in this vote. [More…]
In this they will enjoy a degree of independence. [More…]
Furthermore, under the terms of the present Act, savings held with any bank in Papua New Guinea would cease to be acceptable for purposes of the Home Savings Grant Scheme on and after the date of independence. [More…]
If that bright Independent had maintained his independence and had been prepared to stay in this place that night and vote with the Government we would have got the Bill through, but he was on his way back to Albury when this vital legislation on the notice paper was waiting to be ratified to give the people in Darwin, the people who were suffering, the assistance that they so urgently required. [More…]
The success of the Canadian human rights commissions such as the one in Ontario is due partly to the emphasis placed on independence and an impartial approach. [More…]
I was pleased to note that that is not the unanimous opinion of the board of the OTC, one member of which had the independence and fortitude to disagree publicly with his chairman’s statement. [More…]
I cannot see how independence applies now that this amendment has been accepted. [More…]
Then, of course, the independence of the Commission to choose the most economical means of spending many millions of dollars a year would be immediately undermined. [More…]
I think it is a great pity that, in this early bright new age when we had an independent commission before this amendment was accepted, we are allowing the independence of the Commission to go by the board and instituting political control of the Commission’s functions. [More…]
At this stage I believe Senator Durack is right in his amendment and we should support those who have earned their independence by their better efficiency and their dedication to their work. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Media: Can he inform the Senate whether the Australian Broadcasting Commission is to continue to co-operate with the National Broadcasting Commission of Papua New Guinea after that country achieves independence? [More…]
-The Australian Broadcasting Commission has informed me that it will be continuing to supply Papua New Guinea after its independence radio programs free of charge until the date of the nation’s formal declaration of independence. [More…]
Australia is concerned that every effort should be made to achieve a peaceful settlement in Southern Rhodesia providing for independence based on majority rule at the earliest possible time. [More…]
The advantages of home transfusion are prompt treatment of bleeding; reduced hospital attendance and admission; reduced need for joint aspiration; improved school attendances; reduced cost to family; and greater self confidence and independence of the boy with haemophilia. [More…]
The history of the framing of the sections of the Constitution under which this legislation is presented shows that the main concern of those who were engaged in the discussions was the degree of independence of the Commission. [More…]
It is an interesting reflection that more than 75 years ago the thinking amongst the leading political figures should have been not whether there should be an Inter-State Commission but what its powers should be and the extent of the independence that it should enjoy from the government and any arm of government. [More…]
I emphasise again that it is Government policy that the Government guarantee to the ABC political and programming independence. [More…]
We expect that in the future this Development Centre will have the independence that a statutory authority should enjoy. [More…]
The provisions of clause 14 of the Bill are intended to give the members of the Tribunal a proper independence from the executive Government. [More…]
The Bill provides that the commercial activities of the AGIC would be conducted along ordinary business lines with independence given to the Board to determine in which way it will carry out this business. [More…]
The policies that we look to in a Bill relating to the Grants Commission are policies which would give local government a much better deal and a much greater assurance of survival and of independence of action. [More…]
Today independence of action is being destroyed. [More…]
It will be remembered that in 1970 the previous Government thought fit to incorporate Parliamentary Counsel as a statutory corporation for the purpose of giving it an independence and therefore, it was thought, increased efficiency. [More…]
Senator Wood and Senator Scott, who spoke for the opposition on the Bill earlier this year, claimed that they opposed it because simultaneous elections would damage the independence of the Senate and alter its role. [More…]
The independence of the Senate was not founded on elections being held for the 2 Houses at different times. [More…]
In short, the rights and independence of the Senate will in no way be abrogated by this Bill. [More…]
It provides for a fair degree of independence on the part of that tribunal. [More…]
That was because they had established for themselves a place in histroy based upon the complete independence that they were accorded after 1688, practising their jurisdiction before the public and therefore open to public criticism, adopting a strict adherence to the rules of law and minimising discretion to the limit, adopting an impartiality and, most of all, governed by a traditional doctrine which made them a cohesive mechanism for the administration of the law. [More…]
These appointments give the independence that enables a man to disregard all pressure and to say that his lifetime is devoted to his office. [More…]
How can the Public Service unions expect that if there be a change of government the same trust and reliance can be placed in the so-called neutrality and independence of the Public Service if this sort of attitude is to be adopted? [More…]
One of the more important exceptions is a form of double tax relief to apply after independence. [More…]
It is proposed to retain this system in Australia after independence but, as the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) announced recently, the salary or wages of Australians working in Papua New Guinea will be exempted from Australian tax where Papua New Guinea taxes the income. [More…]
We propose however to continue it in Papua New Guinea’s case after independence. [More…]
The Bill generally requires the changes I have described to be synchronised with Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
The Bill also contains some other measures related to Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
Also, whether the Government likes the programs or not, as a Government we have said categorically that we guarantee programming independence to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
As well as encouraging the growth of public and access programming, we have insisted on the political and programming independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission stations and the other stations. [More…]
The fourth point which I think arises in consideration of this Bill is that dependence upon government is a potential threat to the independence and integrity of any company which is dependent upon government. [More…]
There is a menace in that particular provision, which I do not say is likely to be applied in this case, but any company which submits to the requirement that the Government, because it is paying out a sum of money to help it over difficult times, can require from that company any information which the Government wants is putting itself in a position where it cannot maintain its independence. [More…]
I am simply saying that a company which receives the money exposes itself to the obligation to provide that information and thereby loses something of its independence. [More…]
He has the churlish impertinence to think that he can get a group of judges who will man this court and be as obedient to him in administering justice as the Cavanaghs, the Camerons and the Cairnses, but judges have an independence more durable than that. [More…]
This organisation must maintain its independence and above all it must maintain its own faith in its academic and scientific integrity. [More…]
It seeks to amend the tax law so that after independence Papua New Guinea will be treated as a separate country for Australian tax purposes. [More…]
Exception to this case is in the form of double tax relief to apply after independence. [More…]
The changes are to be synchronised with the independence of Papua New Guinea, whenever that comes about. [More…]
He cannot claim in his letter, which is dated 1 5 July, some special sort of independence and at the same time be a party to a Government ambush. [More…]
When we were in Opposition we made certain demands of a similar nature and I believe that we were as guilty then of trying to undermine the integrity or the independence of the Public Service by so doing, but we live and learn. [More…]
The death of President Mujib who brought his country to independence in 1971 is a matter of very deep regret. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs which refers to the stated intention of the dissident group on Bougainville to declare independence from Papua New Guinea on 1 September. [More…]
I will not read the whole of that statement, but the Prime Minister made the following points: It remains Australia’s firm policy that Papua New Guinea come to independence as one country in accordance with the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Papua New Guinea’s elected representatives. [More…]
A unilateral declaration of independence, if given effect, would be an illegal act which could not itself alter in terms of the law of Papua New Guinea, the authority of the Government of Papua New Guinea over the whole of the territory of Papua New Guinea, or detract from Australia’s international rights and duties under the trusteeship agreement. [More…]
The Prime Minister had given Mr Somare renewed assurances of Australian support and had every confidence that the move to independence on 16 September of a united Papua New Guinea would proceed smoothly. [More…]
He had suggested there was an alternative course, namely, the use of a referendum which would have emphasised Australia’s independence. [More…]
We believe that is the appropriate course because it does emphasise Australia’s independence. [More…]
We desire to see the appeal to the Privy Council removed entirely, and we trust that in due course the Australian people will be given the opportunity to do it in a way which is consistent with this nation’s independence and with the verdict of the Australian people, but to do it in a way which invites a British Parliament to legislate for Australia is, we believe, not only inconsistent with Australia’s independence but also a most remarkable instance of the inconsistency of the Prime Minister who, having adopted one view when in Opposition, chooses in power, to adopt a course which reflects our dependence. [More…]
We have no national obligations or interest in getting rein.volved in colonial or post colonial affairs in Portuguese Timor at the very time when Papua New Guinea’s imminent independence is leading to the ending of our colonial role there. [More…]
Our policy is tangible evidence of our long-term objective to return a greater degree of choice and independence to individuals and to families. [More…]
Of course, this means that there will be a disincentive on the part of people to avail themselves of a measure of independence; in other words, to look after themselves. [More…]
I am sure many students wish to have some independence while continuing their studies. [More…]
For those people to have access to a tertiary loans system which would provide for them independence and remove the hardship and interruption to their studies would be of assistance if they wished to pursue to degree status the courses on which they had embarked. [More…]
We should not reject alliances or downgrade friends but should be prepared to assert our requirements where necessary by developing independence and self reliance in defence policy. [More…]
It should never be forgotten that in making our own former colony independent, we as Australians enhance our own independence. [More…]
The legislation includes four Bills which are associated in various ways with Papua New Guinea’s move to independence. [More…]
The Bill provides for the islands to be brought within the territorial scope of Papua New Guinea, so that at independence that country will exercise full sovereignty over the islands. [More…]
Neither those with good personal reasons for hating Nazism nor those who, for whatever reason, support the U.S.S.R., can plausibly claim that particular atrocities justify the suppression of the Baltic or any other nations’ independence. [More…]
I consider that Baits should stick to the main theme of Baltic rights to independence and not act in such a way as to be publicly identified with, for example, all foreign policies of the U.S.A. or domestic ones of the Union of South Africa simply because those governments are anti-Soviet. [More…]
I advised him that it was the Government’s desire, because of the legislative timetable, to pass the Papua New Guinea Bill 1975, the Papua New Guinea Independence Bill 1975, the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill 1975, the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill 1975, and the Social Services Bill (No. [More…]
But they assume on independence responsibilities in law which they have had for a number of years in fact. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Independence Bill is, of course, the major Bill because it formally constitutes the act by Australia under which we acknowledge we no longer possess sovereignty and it is the measure by which the new nation finds itself on its own with a constitution of its own creation. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Independence Bill is a Bill which marks the end of Australia’s responsibility. [More…]
I consider it appropriate to refer to the preamble to the Bill, which is described as a Bill for an Act relating to the attainment of independence by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is significant to note, as the preamble indicates, that Australia is formally giving to a part of its own Territory not simply self government but independence. [More…]
Whatever may be the doubts, I think that the course which is clearly to be taken is the course of assuming that the power of the Commonwealth to grant independence to its territories must be taken to be implied. [More…]
to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards selfgovernment or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; [More…]
There was a constant assertion by the Liberal and Country Party governments which had the responsibility for 23 years of, I think, the 30-year period of the trusteeship obligation that independence would occur as and when the people of the Territory decided that they wanted their independence. [More…]
I think the Toliman resolution in 1964 was the first resolution which affirmed that it would be the members of the House of Assembly who would decide questions of self-government and independence. [More…]
A second resolution was passed in 1969 by the House of Assembly which asserted that the time of selfgovernment and independence was for the people of Papua New Guinea to decide. [More…]
I think the final resolution, in the middle of 1974, was that steps should be taken which would lead inexorably to the independence which will take place on 16 September. [More…]
I would have thought, in what was generally a completely bipartisan approach by the parties which have alternated in government in Australia towards the question of independence for Papua New Guinea, there was only one area in which there might have been any fluctuation or difference. [More…]
There were various seminars and conferences which were arranged in Papua New Guinea in the late 1960s at which the people of Australia, including the present Governor-General, interested themselves intensely in the form which the ultimate independence of Papua New Guinea would take. [More…]
That is the procedure under which Papua New Guinea will acquire its independence. [More…]
We only hope that the work which they have set in motion will, on the independence of this Territory, be work which brings forth the fruit which they hoped that it would. [More…]
I believe that even after 16 September when independence is granted to Papua New Guinea, Australia will still have a part to play- maybe in an advisory role- to assist Papua New Guinea to be able to continue and prosper as a new nation. [More…]
It should never be forgotten that in making our own former colony independent, we as Australians enhance our own independence. [More…]
I am one who would hate to see the situation in which Papua New Guinea became financially or otherwise dependent on some other nation that may threaten that particular independence. [More…]
It should never be forgotten that in making our own former colony independent, we as Australians enhance our own independence. [More…]
sources prior to independence until such time as the loans in question have matured and been repaid. [More…]
I have travelled through various parts of what was then known as the Territory over a period of years and I think I can truthfully say that the people themselves wanted, in fact needed, independence and they wanted to set their own date. [More…]
Labor Government has precipitated the declaration of independence. [More…]
They decided when independence was going to take place. [More…]
There has been a forced draught process of trying to bring Papua New Guinea to a state of independence as a result of pressures from the United Nations. [More…]
In the characteristic way in which the United Nations goes about these matters it has said that the inability of a people to govern themselves is no reason why their independence should be withheld. [More…]
Under this forced draught system of pressure from the United Nations the people of Papua New Guinea have the best independence that money can buy for them. [More…]
I make this forecast, regretfully and with no pleasure: In the next 10 years Papua New Guinea will present greater problems to Australia than it has presented under the forced draught system by which we have brought it to independence. [More…]
In other words, the new nation of Papua New Guinea which we are ushering into independence in the next fortnight is what I describe as a centrifugal nation. [More…]
Any public servant of high order and any politician of some knowledge would realise, for example, that in the end on every occasion when attempts have been made to see that the expatriate officers who have been working in a country which has attained independence have been guaranteed their pension from that country to which they have contributed for most of their lives, have not been paid. [More…]
I think the Government has been perfectly correct in making the Ministry of Papua New Guinea realise that it has an obligation to accept some of the responsibilities of independence; that is, they will have to learn to stand on their own feet and not become a mendicant society. [More…]
The Bill will provide for a statutory guarantee by Australia in respect of repayment, on and after the date on which Papua New Guinea attains independence. [More…]
The people of New Britain are always demanding that they should have their independence. [More…]
It is because of my very brief contact with the Territory, a period of some 2 years in the mid-1960s, that I wish to make at least some expression of goodwill to Papua New Guinea as it moves into independence. [More…]
The dedication and intelligence of a great number of the people I saw living in New Guinea, people who had been there for many years and many of whom have stayed there through to independence, far exceeded my expectations. [More…]
One hopes and trusts that self-government and independence in Papua New Guinea will be successful. [More…]
He made it quite clear that Papua New Guinea can count on continuing to receive substantial amounts of aid from Australia over the next 3 years to underpin its new improvement program and to assist Papua New Guinea in the early years after independence. [More…]
It was a marvellous opportunity to increase our independence in the field of energy and to lift the standard of living and hence the standard of welfare of all Australians. [More…]
The 2 new commissions into which the former Post Office was broken up, the Australian Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Postal Commission, are in a novel and exceptional position vis-a-vis other statutory authorities in this country in that they enjoy a greater measure of independence, in fact almost total independence, as against the relationship of the ordinary statutory authority to the relevant Minister. [More…]
This future status may involve independence but it may also involve some form of association with Australia. [More…]
Australia is, however, under no obligation to treat independence as the main alternative status- especially in the case of a territory which is not a viable separate entity- and may press strongly for integration or association. [More…]
The unilateral declaration of independence by the Smith regime in Southern Rhodesia on 1 1 November 1965 mct with the immediate and unanimous condemnation of the world community. [More…]
I approach it entirely with a voice of independence. [More…]
As I said earlier, the comments made by people in the community who have a greater degree of independence in these matters than I have would suggest that what the Government has proposed is not all that unreasonable. [More…]
I have acted with that independence ever since I have been here. [More…]
Will the Minister confirm the independence and integrity of the Statistician and assure the Senate that the unfounded statements by Opposition spokesmen on this matter are false? [More…]
Of course, the honourable senator will be aware that this Government, while it has been in office, religiously has adopted a practice of asserting the programming and political independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
-Again I emphasise the Government’s policy of political and programming independence for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Not only is it a basic principle that the independence and integrity of the profession be maintainedand the Bill specifically acknowledges this- but the profession must necessarily undertake the bulk of the work on behalf of assisted persons. [More…]
The professional independence of the lawyers of the Office is specifically guaranteed. [More…]
People of all sorts of political persuasions- ex-members of the Liberal Party, ex-members of the Country Party, and of course members of the Labor Party, but also many people of independent thought- have in the first instance complimented me on my independence in relation to this matter. [More…]
In conclusion, may I say that I am proud to be associated with the independence movement as enunciated by Fretilin in the struggle for the selfdetermination of the people of East Timor. [More…]
All that I can say is that the Government has adopted the practice religiously that the Australian Broadcasting Commission, financed by the Government, should have complete political and programming independence. [More…]
-I understand Senator Wright’s longstanding assertion of his independence but I have yet to see any evidence of it. [More…]
Our worry is that with the destruction of the Cities Commission we will see a loss of a certain degree of independence which that Commission was able to exert; we will see the traditional bureaucratic structures more firmly in charge of the kinds of jobs which the Cities Commission formerly did. [More…]
-The United States Bicentennial Fellowship Scheme is part of a series of activities planned by the Australian Government for 1976 in recognition of the bicentennial year of American independence. [More…]
Under the Government’s federalism policy not only will local governments be better off financially but also the independence which they ought to have will be restored to them without Canberra looking over their shoulders like big brother. [More…]
In Malaya’s pre-independence period, he held high administrative posts while seeking Malaya’s national independence. [More…]
On Malayan independence in 1957, Tun Razak became deputy Prime Minister, and Minister for Defence and National Security. [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…]
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…]
With the march towards independence and the consequential opportunities of involvement of the great powers, there has been an extension of interest and participation especially by Russia, the P.R.C., the United States and Japan. [More…]
We have heard Senator Cotton expounding his idea, when we have been talking about trade union independence, that the Australian Labor Party is not with it when it comes to considering economic theories. [More…]
He upholds the power and independence of the Senate. [More…]
The disadvantaged must be helped in ways which leave them the maximum independence. [More…]
I believe that that country is working towards the ultimate goal of providing its black people with complete autonomy, complete independence. [More…]
Just as history proved the Labor Party right in its opposition to the exporting of pig iron to Japan when the Liberal leader was referred to as Pig Iron Bob, in its support of independence in Indonesia, and in its stand against the phoney war in Vietnam, history will prove the Labor Party right on this occasion. [More…]
I suppose the honourable senator means Mr Odgers- upholds the power and independence of the Senate. [More…]
Of course the Clerk must uphold the power and independence of the Senate because the Constitution upholds the power and independence of the Senate. [More…]
Could I just say that I am sure the Broadcasting Control Board will assert its independence from government in proclaiming any slogans that may be suggested in this chamber. [More…]
A Judge should uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary; [More…]
The disadvantaged must be helped in ways which leave them the maximum independence. [More…]
Until very recently, women in our society, through a variety of formal barriers, traditional prejudice, and sheer neglect by policy makers, were denied equal access with men to education, health care, job training, employment, wage justice- in all, to the possibility of real independence. [More…]
I find it ironical and very disappointing that this long overdue measure- the first step towards giving supporting mothers a modicum of independence and dignity- has been questioned by some adherents of the Liberal philosophy on the grounds that it may be creating an unhealthy dependency in these women. [More…]
Recognising that all people need marketable skills in order to achieve economic independence and that many people through lack of opportunity, retrenchment or technological change lack such skills, the Labor Government set up the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
More than half the applicants under this program have been women thus demonstrating to honourable senators on the other side of the chamber who need to have this pointed out to them that women, when given the opportunity, are in fact anxious to acquire skills that lead to independence. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators opposite that the rights with which they are so concerned, such as the rights of individuals to pursue independence, to make their own choices and to notch up their own little measures of achievement, are rights which can be exercised only by people who have had the opportunity to acquire skills, knowledge and confidence. [More…]
It has been argued, firstly, that the States have little expertise and, secondly, that they have little interest in these matters, but if the State and local governments were given more independence in raising and spending their own revenue the voters in each of those 2 important areas of government would soon make sure that they were being well served. [More…]
The disadvantaged must be helped in ways which will leave them the maximum independence. [More…]
But I believe that whilst we all have colleagues from the other place in our own separate party rooms, we must at all times in this place maintain our independence as members of a House of the Parliament within the Parliament. [More…]
I think it is true to say also that, certainly when we were in government before, the Senate committees functioned without fear or favour to or from the Government and that the Senate committee chairmen exercised great independence in carrying out their duties. [More…]
I believe that honourable senators have a greater capacity for exerting that necessary independence from the Executive than do our colleagues in the other place occasionally. [More…]
I think what I say is true and that we have a greater capacity for exercising independence in this place. [More…]
It is also felt, having regard to the traditional acceptance of the role of the judiciary in Australia as being an independent one, that the fact that the Director-General is a judge symbolises in some way the independence of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation from the government of the day. [More…]
We hope, in relation to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation legislation, that the concept of the independence of its Director-General will be maintained by this Government. [More…]
Firstly, it is due to the institution of the Senate itself and its record and tradition of independence from government. [More…]
If the Senate is to develop its role and, indeed, maintain the role of Parliament in the community it has to retain that independence of government which, I believe, has been a notable feature of the Senate. [More…]
From my own experienceI served in the lower House of my own State Parliament for a term- I am able to make the contrast between the independence of government of the 2 Houses. [More…]
I think that independence of government is the basic reason for the Senate’s success in developing the committee system. [More…]
I believe that we must retain the independence of our committee system. [More…]
The final retort from Senator Durack was his reference to the independence of the Senate. [More…]
One could say: What independence?’. [More…]
I hope that sufficient senators on the other side will show their independence by crossing the floor to vote with us to carry the amendment. [More…]
If we allow the Industrial Court, a by-product of the Boilermakers’ case of 1956, to become a polyglot, ratbag resort for justices according to political convenience, we are exposing it to the utmost risk as to the integrity and independence of the judiciary in the industrial field where the independence and integrity of the judiciary is demanded in a special fashion. [More…]
The pressures in this field are terrific and, as Senator Harradine has said, respect for independence and exclusive dedication to the solution of industrial issues are what is required in the Industrial Court. [More…]
In addition to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation we have the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the Joint Intelligence Organisation and more recently we have become aware of the Intelligence Branch of the Commonwealth Police as a result of the steps that it took in closing down the radio link that existed in Darwin between Australia and the independence movement in East Timor. [More…]
If women are to remain in the home they need to be given realistic endowment so that they have money of their own and can feel the same independence as that of their working counterparts. [More…]
Last week- on Wednesday, 25 February- this great proponent of the new independence for States said that he is going to the Commonwealth for $150m for his transport system at the rate of $30m a year. [More…]
How is that for a man who has just welcomed his new-found independence, to be gained formally in June? [More…]
In that context, I can assure her that active consideration of the means by which pensioners are able to live in dignity and also assert some independence is of significant interest to the Government. [More…]
As well this had led to a situation whereby it is possible for the executive government to be in a position where it can compromise the independence and integrity of individual senators and members. [More…]
The Government believes that the independence of individual members of the Parliament is vital to democracy. [More…]
The dignity and capacity for self-help of those in need is preserved by a government helping them in ways that least impinge on their independence. [More…]
A constitutional lawyer ought to grant that the issues involved in this crisis have nothing at all to do with independence or colonialism, or hereditary monarchy, but everything to do with the rational coherence of the parliamentary system, which requires an effective head of state with the responsibility of acting in the way that Sir John Kerr has acted, in the most unusual sort of circumstances here involved. [More…]
What progress has been made towards the establishment of a coarse wool breed sheep in Australia which would give greater independence to the local carpet manufacturing industry? [More…]
In the course of exercising those responsibilities he must give concern and attention to ensuring the nation’s independence, and to protecting it from subversion, inside and outside. [More…]
We have to respect the independence and the integrity of the public servant in the administration of his duties. [More…]
I hope this is so; I think we all hope it is so- but also the independence which they ought to have - [More…]
That was an interesting answer because the Minister was talking about the independence that local government ought to have. [More…]
Under the Government’s federalism policy not only will local governments be better off financially but also the independence which they ought to have will be restored to them . [More…]
Yes, I have seen comment in the Press regarding the future independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and discussion on advertising. [More…]
It is the policy of the Federal Government to maintain the true independence and objectivity of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
In saying that I make these points: Independence in itself is not a goal. [More…]
I stress this emphatically: Those who talk of independence often seek license and that is fundamentally wrong. [More…]
The intervention of Senator Button reminds me that those who argue about the independence of the ABC in fact practise continual intervention. [More…]
Of course, what the Opposition wants is independence to intervene itself to make the ABC its political captive, but it wants every time - [More…]
Further, what are the Government’s intentions regarding the continuing independence of the Film and Television School? [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…]
But I would not agree with the proposal at the time because, amongst other things, I thought that the adoption of such a proposition would very much compromise the independence of the ABC. [More…]
I can say quite sincerely and in good conscience that when I was the Minister for the Media in the Australian Government I not only fought for but also at all times insisted upon the strengthening of the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
I challenge any honourable senator opposite or any member of the Australian community to show where at any time I, as the Minister for the Media in that Government, did not insist upon and indeed demand the strengthening of the independence of the ABC, whether that be in relation to the political, sporting or programming aspects of the Commission’s service. [More…]
Returning to my original theme, I point out that I fought very strongly in my own Party and in the Cabinet of which I was a member for additional finance for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and for the strengthening of the independence of that body. [More…]
Not once when I was Minister for the Media did I interfere or attempt to interfere in any way with any of those programs put on by the ABC that were critical of me personally because I knew that if as Minister I did interfere I would be involving myself and the Labor Government of which I was proudly a member in the very thing that I had fought against, that is, interference with the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The cronyism and cynicism in some of these appointments has made a mockery of the notion of independence and must be embarrassing to the bodies concerned. [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…]
Independence from political control is something journalists have rightly fought for. [More…]
Independence in itself is not a goal. [More…]
Those who talk of independence often seek license and that is fundamentally wrong. [More…]
Most of what has been said by the honourable senator is consistent with the Government’s attitude towards the independence of the individual in whatever circumstances he or she may find himself or herself. [More…]
The worldwide British revolution really got under way in 1947 when the socialist British Government gave independence to the socialist Indian Government. [More…]
For example, the idea of independence from autocratic and aristocratic rule has been changed to a demand for independence from colonial masters. [More…]
I refer to the threat to the independence, standards and quality of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Another threat to the independence of the ABC, however, is one perhaps much closer to home. [More…]
This kind of attack causes very justified fear and concern in the community that indeed the independence of the ABC is being threatened. [More…]
I would suggest that the independence of a statutory authority in our legal structure is bound up with the terms of appointment of a chairman. [More…]
It is in the appointment of a chairman- a person of high status in the community, of appropriate qualifications and so on- for a set term of office that guarantees in the eyes of the community that the statutory authority concerned has independence, is able to act with integrity and is not able to be used as a political puppet. [More…]
The failure to appoint a chairman puts the independence of the ABC in jeopardy. [More…]
There was some benefit to Indonesia in monetary terms- though one could say that there was not a great deal of benefit- and eventually we saw independence come to Indonesia. [More…]
However, in the fight for independence we saw the rise of President Sukarno whose regime tragically as time went by brought economic and political instability and a great rundown in what had been the structural developments of that country- the roads, the railways, the ports and other infrastructures. [More…]
The Labor Party keeps insisting that the goal of a statutory corporation should be its independence. [More…]
Independence is good and is discharged only if the body exercising it is fair, objective and balanced. [More…]
If it is not and if it is unfair and biased, independence is wrong. [More…]
The Labor Party supports this subsidy because of the necessity to maintain a nitrogenous substance industry for the continued growth of the sugar and other horticultural industries, and, more importantly, in order to gain independence from the fluctuation of supplies from major nitrogenous substance exporting countries such as Japan and the United States of America. [More…]
We became the guests of the Portuguese authorities who had begun the process of decolonisation, preparing the people for the act of self-determination and for independence. [More…]
It will be remembered that in July the UDT, which previously was in unity with the Fretilin forces for the purpose of the transference of political power for the act of selfdetermination and independence, broke with the Fretilin movement following a visit by leaders of that movement to Australia and Indonesia. [More…]
He indicated to us that he was sympathetic to the independence movement, that he had no time for Indonesia and that we should use every endeavour possible when we returned to Australia to alert the Australian people to the possibilities of an invasion by Indonesia. [More…]
Then this person, lo and behold, catches a plane to the United Nations for the purpose of presenting a point of view opposite to that of the legitimate government, the Fretilin government, which proclaimed its independence in October of last year. [More…]
I ask the Minister: If this is correct, would she review any such appointment, having regard firstly to the independence of the tribunals? [More…]
-On 23 March (Hansard, page 660) Senator Button asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning the vacancy of the position of Chairman of the Film and Television School and the Government’s intentions regarding the continuing independence of the School. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Administrative Services been drawn to a report appearing in this morning’s Canberra Times newspaper under the dateline ‘Cocos Islands’ which states that the Minister, amongst other things, told Malay workers on the Clunies Ross estate that troublemakers could be in bother if they continued their actions and that he did not believe islanders would understand concepts of independence or citizenship? [More…]
Further, does the Minister seriously suggest that none of the Cocos-Malay community has any understanding of the concepts of independence or of citizenship? [More…]
But I think that to imagine that all of them, or a great majority of them, understand all the sophistication of international politics and independence and all that that brings forth is to whistle in the dark. [More…]
The aim of this policy is to assist people to overcome hardship and insecurity in ways which ensure that they retain the maximum scope for independence and achievement. [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…]
That such a station would therefore represent a further deterioration of Australia’s independence and initiatives towards a non-aligned and peaceful foreign policy. [More…]
Whilst that independence exists we must realise that comments like that may from time to time be made. [More…]
If so, will he give an assurance that any government organisation to be involved in ethnic broadcasting will be given independence in its operation from any government department? [More…]
He was then reported as having told the Cocos Islands workers that trouble makers would be in bother if they continued their actions and that he did not believe that many islanders would understand the concepts of independence or citizenship. [More…]
I believe the Government ought to declare itself quite clearly and say whether it intends to destroy the independence of the Schools Commission by imposing its priorities on the Commission. [More…]
Just 2 years ago, on 25 April 1974, the Portuguese people overthrew the fascist regime in their country and set in train an independence movement in East Timor. [More…]
In October 1974, only 6 months after the people of Timor had been given the opportunity to be involved in the process of decolonisation, the Indonesian Security Council decided to set about the process of undermining and subverting the nationalist and independence movement. [More…]
Yet the evidence coming out now clearly is that 2 generals in particular in Indonesia, General Murtopo and Lieutenant-General Murdani set about, in the process of subversion, to undermine the independence movement. [More…]
I think that reference ought to be made to the fact that in April and May of last year the leaders of the UDT movement, who hitherto had supported the independence movement, came to Australia, visited Canberra, spoke to officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence and to others, then went to Jakarta, subsequently broke the coalition and, a few short months after that in July of that year took steps to wage a coup in Dili. [More…]
In point of fact, I participated in a somewhat minor role, after my discharge following the last war, in the famous Margaret Street demonstration which had as its aim the independence of Indonesia from the Dutch who were then the colonial power. [More…]
lt is not to be wondered at that when Portugal ultimately removed the fascist regime- I use the word ‘fascist’ not as a term of abuse, but as a word which the Portuguese authorities used to describe themselves- and independence was given to Timor there was a state of general confusion. [More…]
Their claims were made not on the basis of race or culture but on juridical grounds about the integrity of the Netherland East Indies which had acquired its independence. [More…]
I believe that in those circumstances the Indonesians can justify no claim whatsoever, apart from some claim that if a little country near one’s border gets its independence one is entitled to take it over. [More…]
If one is to question the independence of this Government in foreign policy, one might point out that on that occasion Australia was not on the same side as the United States of America and New Zealand. [More…]
Local government found this irksome and it flies in the face of what we believe should be involved in local government, namely, a spirit of independence and self-reliance, and not the spirit of a servant carrying out the orders of the central government. [More…]
After all, if we really believe that local government has value because it is local- that there ought to be an element of local independence- it is essential that the local governing body should have a degree of financial independence and that it receive money which is not subject to direction as to how it should be spent and which will not be cut off if, through the efforts of the local government itself, it raises its standards to a level at which, on a needs basis, it will cease to qualify for assistance. [More…]
But if we are genuine in our wish to retain a degree of local independence and discretion, we have to step back from simply doing everything on a needs basis. [More…]
Once that is done, it becomes inevitable that there is a supervision of standards, of revenue-raising and of every aspect of activity in such a way as to remove, in the long run, all local independence. [More…]
Communist policy is for complete support of Indonesia ‘s claim to West Irian and complete independence for the peoples exploited and oppressed by Australian capitalism. [More…]
Firstly, in West New Guinea prior to the takeover there were parties of independence, just as there were parties in East Timor. [More…]
What right have the Left-controlled groups, such as the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament to preach to the Australian people about independence in East Timor when they or their predecessors did nothing- absolutely nothing- at the time of the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea and the destruction of the independence of the people of that country? [More…]
I regard the Rehabilitation Service as one of the most positive means of enabling people to reach independence and to have security while they are doing so. [More…]
As a result of the greater independence given to schools in this new scheme, a considerable reduction of Regular Army support will be possible. [More…]
He will also visit migration centres in the United Kingdom and Europe and represent the Government at independence celebrations in the Seychelles. [More…]
This, however, is a consequence of the speed with which events have moved in Papua New Guinea’s attainment of independence. [More…]
The Australian Staffing Assistance Group was devised as a mechanism to provide the Papua New Guinea Government with the professional, technical and high level administrative expertise which it needed, particularly in the period between selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
Through reform of the finance and functions of local government our local government policy seeks to increase the independence and expand the role of local government in health, social welfare and community affairs. [More…]
Somehow this is supposed to retain their independence. [More…]
Professor Henderson recommended that supportive family services of all types should be made available on a local basis to allow more independence and to give an increased range of choices to such families in terms of allocating times between earning and staying at home. [More…]
I believe that this Government has the idea in the back of its mind that it must create an independence among Australians and make them stand on their own 2 feet. [More…]
This measure is going to give some sense of independence to mothers. [More…]
Surely this is going to give some sense of independence to the mother. [More…]
To some degree, the mother now will have that feeling of independence which her working counterpart has always had. [More…]
This feeling of independence is most important, no less to the mother in the home. [More…]
Insofar as the statement suggests that many of these matters can be resolved by making the boards smaller in size and by making their responsibilities to the Council more explicit and at the same time preserving their independence in matters of artistic judgment, this seems to us to be totally unobjectionable. [More…]
There is no question of the provisions of this Bill providing independence for women, as some speakers on the Government side have claimed. [More…]
I am not criticising this measure but I am criticising the claim that this improvement in the child endowment payment, by itself, constitutes some sort of independence for women. [More…]
If we are to talk about giving independence and real choice to women, there is much more a responsible government needs to do. [More…]
Perhaps the most important thing done by the Labor Government in relation to giving women real choice and independence was the formulation of a national child care program. [More…]
I do not see why a student aged 18 years cannot claim independence and the full allowance straight away. [More…]
As far as the services that have been mentioned are concerned, I believe them to be very important indeed in giving independence to many older people who wish to remain in their own homes. [More…]
It is the cardinal principle of judicial independence in the Federal sphere that a judge should have a life tenure but that his emoluments should not be dependent in the slightest degree upon agreement with the Executive. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence ofthe Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or witholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
The United Nations has no formal obligations to implement the grant of independence to non-self-governing territories. [More…]
But the General Assembly has exerted constant pressure on administering powers to implement articles 73 and 74 of the United Nations Charter not only to achieve selfgovernment but also to achieve independence. [More…]
This pressure infers that the United Nations’ conception of democratic government with self-government or independence is, ipso facto, better than the existing system. [More…]
The processes of government in this country meant that any independence given to the Commission was at best curtailed by the influences of the Public Service- influences such as that of the Public Service Board on staffing, perhaps of the Treasury on finance and of other established departments in the welfare field in general. [More…]
We recognise that bodies connected with research and development need substantial independence from government controls and supervision to operate effectively with respect to their policies and personnel and maintain independent initiatives. [More…]
I hope that in the future the Government will see fit to reconstruct a body similar to the Social Welfare Commission, a body having objectivity, independence, adequate resources and a national monitoring, evaluating and co-ordinating role. [More…]
It was mentioned with regard to the regret that people have about the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission that one of its primary advantages was its independence. [More…]
The Commission itself reported that it was its lack of independence that created many difficulties and that it was the lack of functions that it found most difficult to overcome. [More…]
It is stated that the independence of the Commission was largely illusory. [More…]
The independence which the Commission was given under statute included the right to institute inquiries and undertake related research; and to provide reports to the responsible Minister. [More…]
Consequently, it was perceived by some to have a substantial degree of independence and as a result co-operation between the Commission and those interested in policy analysis and review developed. [More…]
I think that those statements that have been made with regard to its independence and the value of that need to be taken into consideration in the context in which the Commission finally reported on its own activities. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
The strength of the Ombudsman’s work lies in the independence and impartiality of his investigation. [More…]
The Ombudsman and the deputies are given protection from removal from office akin to that accorded to judges, so that there is little likelihood of an ombudsman’s independence of operation being influenced by the executive Government. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Hence there is a need for the Government again to give incentives to an industry which can make such a contribution in looking for natural resources in Australia and in turn create so much revenue for this country and a position of independence in this important resource. [More…]
Where is the logic in this from a government that talks so much about independence, about acquiring skills and about not being dependent on the State? [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
He made a new China of independence, self respect, and international status. [More…]
We need to recognise the development that is required in services taken into the homes of people to enable them to retain their independence for as long as possible. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
How does he reconcile the answer just given to Senator Walsh, that Liberal senators enjoy independence of action in this place, with his letter of 1 7 July which I just quoted? [More…]
The failure of the Government to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of Australia’s National Broadcasting Service. [More…]
People are confident or have been confident in the past, in its independence, its integrity and its repute. [More…]
a position of special independence of judgment and action for the national broadcasting instrumentality . [More…]
He should be fighting for independence for the professional broadcasters and program planners, not trying to stifle it. [More…]
I am grateful for the enthusiastic support which Senator Walters gives to propositions which Sir Hugh Greene and former chairmen of the ABC have always put in relation to the independence and integrity of a national broadcasting service. [More…]
It is for these sorts of reasons that public concern about the integrity, high repute and independence of the national broadcasting service in Australia has been so great and has been the subject of so much discussion in the Press and elsewhere during the last few weeks. [More…]
It is for these reasons that the Opposition has moved the motion of concern for the independence, integrity and high repute of [More…]
The simple test is this: Did the Australian Labor Party put one point to suggest that there had been any tampering with the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]
In other words, he is crystallising this matter by saying that the whole threat to the independence, the integrity and the high repute of the Australian national broadcasting service rests on the appointment of the new Chairman. [More…]
The reputation, the independence, the integrity and the high repute of the Commission must be reflected by all the commissioners acting independently. [More…]
Senator Button stood on his feet for 30 minutes and gave absolutely no evidence of how the independence of the ABC, its integrity or its high repute are threatened. [More…]
Where is the Government interfering with the independence, the integrity and the high repute of the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]
Let me make it abundantly clear that in the whole of the two or more decades of Liberal government in the 1950s and the 1960s never at any time could it have been said that there was any interference with the independence of the ABC or that any directions were given to the ABC. [More…]
The simple fact is that if we want integrity, independence and programs and management of high repute in the Australian Broadcasting Commission we have to look back to the times of Liberal governments because that is when they were demonstrated. [More…]
There is no fact produced to show that the Government is interfering with the independence of the Commission. [More…]
The motion claims: failure of the Government to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of Australia’s national broadcasting service. [More…]
It is claimed that we are failing to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of the national broadcasting service. [More…]
Given the terms in which this motion is couched, that is, the condemnation of the Government for its ‘failure to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute ‘ of the ABC, I think it is fair to remind Senator Martin, who has just resumed her seat, of some of the complaints which were cited by Senator Button, who led for the Labor Party in this debate. [More…]
The clear argument is that in some way they want the Government to intervene, to exert some kind of pressure, but we believe in the independence of the ABC and we do not see any reason why we should move in to insist that the commissioners do or do not take any course of action. [More…]
Although I do not approve of some of the things that it does, and I do not approve of some of the things that have been made clear in this debate, I believe in the independence of the ABC. [More…]
There is no truth in the rumour that we on this side of the Parliament wish to do anything to injure the ABC or to injure its independence or integrity. [More…]
If they want us to intervene, it is they who are suggesting that the independence and the integrity of the ABC be breached. [More…]
The failure of the Government to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of Australia’s national broadcasting service. [More…]
The Government’s failure to ensure the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission is more than just a matter of omission. [More…]
The coalition has its censor but the public has an ABC Chairman who has eroded the independence, credibility and usefulness of the ABC. [More…]
What people generally mean by the independence of the ABC is some sort of objectivity which is not dependent on having political neuters as journalists or makers of programs but which is dependent on having a broad spectrum of views presented. [More…]
The failure of the Government to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of Australia’s national broadcasting service. [More…]
I say in clear terms that the Government’s attitude on the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission is quite clear. [More…]
I have never believed that the ABC’s independence of government in the conduct of its services has been in real doubt. [More…]
We maintain that the independence and integrity of the ABC is sound. [More…]
The alleged failure- of the Government to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of Australia’s National Broadcasting Service. [More…]
Parties on this side of the Chamber in their platforms about which Senator Baume has spoken, in their statements in this House, in a statement made yesterday by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) have indicated that they stand for the independence and integrity of the ABC and that they will not try to interfere with its running. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct of indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
The Government’s assertion that it will retain the independence of the Department of Repatriation is a bipartisan policy which, I understand, both parties have agreed to accept. [More…]
We certainly did not propose and do not now propose to alter the independence of the Repatriation Department because we believe that veterans have special needs. [More…]
In the fields of employment and enterprises- other areas subjected to the closest scrutiny- additional funds will be made available to help alleviate the serious employment problems amongst Aboriginals and to support and stimulate realistic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enterprises which can lead to economic independence and self-reliance. [More…]
As the Prime Minister pointed out to the House on 25 August the family allowance scheme involves funds which go directly to Aboriginal families and gives them an independence and capacity to spend those funds as they believe best in their own interests. [More…]
I think that particularly over the past 30 years during which India has had its independence it has been one of the great bastions of the democratic system. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Ever since the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Rhodesia Australia has regarded the Rhodesian Government as an illegal regime and therefore of no international standing. [More…]
I hope to see in the future a steady growth, particularly in the investment area, for it is extremely important for us to play a role in seeing that the under-developed countries reach their own economic independence. [More…]
The body will be distinctly bipartisan and the Government wishes to ensure that its independence is preserved. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Will the Government recognise the independence of the proposed state of Transkei? [More…]
Without wishing ill to the people of the Transkei, the Australian Government does not find the arguments put forward in favour of the existence of an independent Transkei convincing and has serious misgivings about the process by which it is to acquire the status of independence. [More…]
Furthermore, the recent rejection by homeland leaders of the Bantustans policy strengthens our view that the granting of independence to homelands is not the answer to the political aspirations of black people in South Africa. [More…]
This Bill makes provision for a number of social security programs which give effect to the Government’s desire to assist people to overcome hardship and insecurity in ways which ensure that they retain the maximum scope for independence and achievement. [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…]
Mr Bjelke-Petersen, it appears, is determined to deny local government any independence whatever, and even a lame duck Advisory Council is seen as a threat if local government has equal representation. [More…]
The reasonable autonomy, reasonable financial independence and reasonable access of local government to the Federal resources of this nation still need to be guaranteed. [More…]
The body will be distinctly bipartisan and the Government wishes to ensure that its independence is preserved. [More…]
He seems determined to deny local government any independence whatsoever. [More…]
Nothing in the Police Act suggests that such a routine decision requires the Premier’s approval, and the fact that such approval was sought demonstrates the extent to which the Police Commissioner’s independence on matters of routine police administration has been abridged. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
I refer to an answer given by the Minister to a question yesterday about the Government’s attitude to the recognition of the state of the Transkei when independence is granted by the Republic of South Africa on 26 October. [More…]
Has the attention of the Leader of the Government been drawn to an answer given by the Chief to a question on 4 October this year, as reported in a magazine interview, asking whether independence was being foisted upon him by the South African Government, in which the Chief said: [More…]
Not at all- if you read the Transkei Legislative Assembly reports as far back as 1930 you will find motion after motion requesting the South African Government to grant the Transkei self-government as a precursor to full independence. [More…]
They are often the stepping stone for women towards economic independence or a more peaceful arrangement with their husbands whom they have had to leave. [More…]
Its timing was connected with Poland’s successful move for greater independence from the U.S.S.R. and with the disappointment caused by the speech of Mr Erno Gero on his return from Yugoslavia on 23 October, when it was hoped that he would adopt a sympathetic attitude towards the popular demands voiced on 22 October by the Hungarian students; [More…]
The question really arises out of the fact that there is a continuance on our part of a 2-year qualifying period for independence of students. [More…]
The Williams Committee said with regard to the second issue, the age of independence: the Committee saw no sound reason for reducing the period of self support from 2 years to one year. [More…]
This Government believes that benefits should be provided to overcome this insecurity but in such a way that while a person’s independence is retained incentives for self-help should be maintained to the full. [More…]
It now sees that independence threatened by the importation of what are admittedly cheaper- but cheaper in every sense- television productions. [More…]
It is a body which, as I said, enjoyed some independence in the past and has done some good work towards the improvement of standards in this country. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the Commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces, Brigadier-General Ted Diro, was informed by Indonesian authorities in Jakarta that they considered both the Bougainville Secessionist Movement and the Papua Independence Movement to be communist influenced? [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Has the Minister for Industry and Commerce noted the vitriolic and seemingly orchestrated attacks by narrow vested interests on the Industries Assistance Commission and the use of the unemployment weapon as an instrument to undermine the independence of the Commission and even to attempt to prevent the Commission from providing the Government with independent advice? [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that Nauru, formerly a Trust Territory administered by Australia for many years, gained its independence in 1968. [More…]
This Parliament, in the enactment of the Nauru Independence Act 1967, made provision for the final moves of the Nauruan people to the adoption of their own constitution. [More…]
In the course of negotiations that preceded the independence of Nauru, the [More…]
I thought that Distribution Commissioners were people who had to be guaranteed the greatest independence. [More…]
To me it is quite inconsistent with complete independence for officers who are rewarded by their official salaries and official expenses to receive honoraria. [More…]
it is a matter for judgment as to the extent to which you should attempt to limit in a very direct sense what the services should do or whether you should leave it up to their independence to use their money in what way they see as the most effective way. [More…]
The status has been retained for a transitional period of 3 years following independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
At the same time, the independence and integrity of the Australian Broadcasting Commission will be maintained. [More…]
The Memorandum, which was signed in December 1973, was intended to cover trade relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea in the period between self-government and independence. [More…]
It was extended in April 1975 to cover the period between independence and the conclusion of a more permanent trade and commercial relations agreement between the 2 countries. [More…]
If it were not a serious matter it would in fact be rather humorous to witness, as we do, Mr Wran in my State of New South Wales virtually posing as the defender and promoter of federalism and complaining bitterly that his State, as a government and as local government within its area, has lost a measure of independence. [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to strengthen the independence of governments, whether they be at State or local government level. [More…]
In this episode it is well to reflect that a Commissioner of Police must have a certain amount of autonomy or independence. [More…]
I suppose that a commissioner can have too much independence. [More…]
On the other hand, if he has no independence the police force itself becomes just an arm of government and we may then have what is often called a police state. [More…]
I believe that all Ray Whitrod ‘s autonomy and independence were taken away. [More…]
Will he have any independence or will he be directed by the political leaders in that State? [More…]
If the Indonesian Government feels that is has the authority to move into Timor and make the expression of self-determination itself I think it has to be said that Indonesia cannot claim to represent the Timorese people when, in fact, all the leaders of the Timorese independence movement are still alive and happy in Timor. [More…]
No member of the provisional government, the liberation forces or the independence movement has, in fact, been captured. [More…]
It is about time this Government reaffirmed Australia’s position in the United Nations and established a modicum of relationship between the independence movement of Timor and this country. [More…]
More than anything else, therefore, the closure of the Telecom link seeks to deny to the world as well as to Australia any information about the independence movement in East Timor. [More…]
The contents of the reports also show that the Government’s rapid acquiescence in Indonesian policy denies the existence of a strong and viable independence movement. [More…]
I think it ought to be remembered that at the time of the treaty in 1947 or 1948 between the representatives of the then Indonesian Independence Movement and the Government of The Netherlands, as a result of the efforts of the United Nations Good Officers Commission, of which the Australian representative was the Chairman, it was agreed- the Indonesians at that time claimed that this should be so- that the republic of Indonesia, in its territory, should be co-extensive with what until then had been The Netherlands East Indies. [More…]
What was in Portuguese Timor and not in West Irian was a substantial indigenous movement which was in favour of the independence of Portuguese Timor. [More…]
The independence of the Commission is, as a result, severely damaged. [More…]
Recognising that the ABC is a public body funded by the taxpayer, does the Minister consider that this action by the Staff Association as compromising the independence and integrity of the ABC? [More…]
Eschew all means direct or indirect of diminishing the Independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicity, funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
The automobile has come to stand for mobility, convenience, privacy and independence, as well as a symbol of economic achievement. [More…]
Re-affirm the independence of the ABC as the National Broadcasting Service belonging to the people and not to the Government of the day, whatever political party. [More…]
Re-affirm the independence of the ABC as the National Broadcasting Service belonging to the people and not to the Government of the day, whatever political party. [More…]
After all, Nauru, was a trust territory administered by Australia for many years until 1968 when it gained its independence and this Parliament was involved by the Nauru Independence Act 1967 which made provision for the Nauruan people to adopt their own constitution. [More…]
Nauru achieved its independence in 1968. [More…]
As honourable senators probably are very well aware, there was a series of developments following that and Nauru moved steadily towards independence, which took place in 1968. [More…]
We believe it is proper to preserve the independence of the Tribunal. [More…]
It has the same independence of mind and spirit as does the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I am extremely surprised that only my colleague Senator Keeffe who is on the Labor Party side of the Senate has seen fit to enter the debate whereas all the Liberal Party senators, who preach their own independence, who proclaim their own independence, and assert that this chamber is the States’ rights House, cannot be flushed out of their burrows to participate in the debate. [More…]
I noted some of them; I think independence and impartiality were two. [More…]
The strength of the Ombudsman’s work lies in the independence and impartiality of his investigation. [More…]
The Ombudsman and the Deputies are given protection from removal from office akin to that accorded to judges, so that there is little likelihood of an Ombudsman’s independence of operation being influenced by the Executive Government. [More…]
It is hard to see why there should be a distinction between this appointment and the appointment of, say, High Court judges who must display exactly the same inpartiality and independence. [More…]
This Bill protects the long service leave rights of persons who were in public employment in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, who worked for the Independent State of Papua New Guinea after independence and who then entered, or in the future enter, Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill amends Section 47E of the Public Service Act to protect the sick leave rights of persons who were in public employment in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, remain there after independence and then enter Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
That they cannot begin to have their freedom and independence until all discriminatory laws are abolished and land rights are granted. [More…]
Finally, does the Minister agree that the independence and professionalism of Australia’s foreign service depend on the rights of foreign affairs officers under the Act being fully respected? [More…]
The extension will permit deductions for exploration expenditure incurred up to 30 June 1978 in pursuance of exploration rights held at the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
It encourages the thrift and independence of young people. [More…]
I defend the right of people to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Australian journalists in East Timor, to pay our homage and our tribute to the work and assistance that the East Timorese people gave to the Australian forces, and also as a mark of our disapproval of a power which Australia assisted in getting independence. [More…]
We assisted the Indonesian people to get their independence from the Dutch, to free themselves from the domination and colonial policy of the Dutch. [More…]
We assisted them towards their independence. [More…]
The trustees exercise a great deal of independence. [More…]
In fact, the attitude of any members of this Parliament which supports the independence movement in Timor ought to have the endorsement of every member of this chamber. [More…]
It will be appreciated by honourable senators that none of the new provisions relating to the ABC can in any way be considered as a threat to the independence of the Commission. [More…]
The first draft of the amendment which I have moved contained specific reference to the position of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the fact that this legislation compromised the integrity and independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
We had repeated assurances from the Prime Minister and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications that there was no intention to interfere in any way with the integrity and independence of the ABC. [More…]
I want to refer to some of the actions taken in the course of this year in relation to the integrity and independence of the ABC. [More…]
We are told frequently that the Minister and the Government respect the integrity and independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and are not concerned to interfere with Australian Broadcasting Commission programs in any way. [More…]
But above this is an organisation which, if one reads the Green report, is held to be a fairly good organisation but one which, if it needs improving, needs improving in relation to establishing its own independence of activity and creating in regard to current affairs a much more full-blooded and forthright attitude. [More…]
I hope that the independence of the ABC will be preserved. [More…]
Honourable senators on this side of the chamber are determined that the independence of the ABC will be preserved. [More…]
In the platform of my own Party there is an absolute commitment to maintain the independence of the ABC. [More…]
I challenge any honourable senator opposite to indicate in one way or the other when we attempted in any fashion, manner, shape or form during the whole time that we were in office to interfere with the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Members of the chamber will be aware of the outcry from the general public and from members of the Press, even the most conservative elements of the Press, who were highly critical of the attempt to destroy the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the original legislation. [More…]
I do not believe that somebody in what has become such a controversial position since Sir Henry became Chairman of the ABC and during a period when we have a government which has conducted an unceasing onslaught on the independence of the ABC, can address a meeting of people connected with the ABC and then have it claimed on his behalf afterwards that he was merely making personal statements. [More…]
He expressed the view that Radio Australia had no right to objectivity, had no claims to independence and should be nothing but a further arm of the Government’s foreign policy. [More…]
If we have legislation which undermines the independence of the ABC, if we have financial strictures which limit the ability of the ABC to make programs such as those, we will not continue to have them. [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…]
In 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government in the past the Australian Broadcasting Commission grew in strength, in quality and in independence, and was free of political interference. [More…]
As I have said before, the goal of the Australian Broadcasting Commission is often argued as being the goal of independence. [More…]
Towards the accomplishment of that goal, independence is provided so that objectivity shall be achieved. [More…]
They prove, again, the independence of the man on the land. [More…]
This Bill typifies the desire of the apple and pear growers for independence, and I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]
If so, (a) how did the Australian delegation vote on the recent decision by the Committee to censure the United States of America for maintaining military installations in Guam and to reaffirm the right of the preople of Guam to self-determination and independence, and (b) what were the reasons for the Australian delegation adopting the line it did. [More…]
In 1931 he joined the Indian National Congress which was then engaged in the quest for independence, and was arrested twice for political activities before Indian independence. [More…]
He was involved in the very long struggle for independence in India, and the general development of that country. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or witholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Do changes to the National Trust of Queensland Act include the provision for the Governor-in-Council to suspend, nullify, vary or rescind any decision or resolution of the Trust; if so, does this in any way diminish the independence of the Trust. [More…]
The financial aspect may severely limit Australia’s capacity to work effectively towards any degree of independence from other countries. [More…]
Both major political groupings in this country have realised the need for greater independence and self-reliance in defence planning. [More…]
More importantly, however, it will help to secure the independence of the Federal Judiciary, notwithstanding the existence of a procedure for fixing retiring ages. [More…]
This will remain the formal ultimate guarantee for the independence of the Federal Judiciary. [More…]
It will provide for Federal Judges to retire at an appropriate age without in any way interfering with the independence of the Judiciary. [More…]
It would cut out the constitutional independence of the Senate and open the way for progressive reduction of its powers. [More…]
We know that there have been allegations about up to 100 000 people being killed and of rape, destruction, torture and, above all, the total suppression of the right of the people to self determination and independence. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the independence and professionalism of Australia’s Foreign Service depends upon the rights of Foreign Affairs officers under the Act being fully respected. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that they closely follow the arrangements in force during the interim period since Papua New Guinea independence, as set out in documents tabled by my predecessor in the previous Government on 9 October 1975. [More…]
This Senate may look with pleasure and with no little pride upon the fact that in this new era of Papua New Guinea’s independence and national sovereignty, it has joined with Australia to re-affirm a clear and mutual interest in close co-operation and consultation in defence matters. [More…]
Firstly, honourable senators will be aware that the former Australian consul in Dili, Mr Dunn- a person who represented this country there for some years, who has a love for the people and the country, and who is now employed in this Parliament- recently travelled to Portugal and that he has been able to show in a confidential report which I have been privileged to see and which has been made available to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, that persons who are listed as having been massacred by Fretilin forces in Timor are in fact officials of the UDT movement and the Apodeti movement, the 2 other independence movements in East Timor which, with the Fretilin movement, form the three main political groupings in that country. [More…]
As I see it, the whole purpose of this Bill is to lower the status and to weaken the independence of this chamber. [More…]
The next thing foreseen by those who gave so much thought to this Constitution which some people would dismantle almost with the levity with which they would smoke a pipe, was that we had to have a powerful Senate- a Senate which Quick and Garran writing at the time said was unquestionably the most important and one of the most conspicuous of all of the Federal features of the Constitution- because if the House of Representatives were elected with numbers proportionate to the people, the great metropolitan States of Victoria and New South Wales would have a commanding domination of the Parliament unless the Senate showed an independence in its spirit to protect the States. [More…]
It was considered that the proposals would have undermined the Federal structure and destroyed the independence of the Senate. [More…]
would cut out the constitutional independence of the Senate and open the way for progressive reduction of its powers. [More…]
We see it as an attempt to downgrade the Senate and to weaken its independence. [More…]
If those honourable senators who oppose this Bill and were here in 1975-1 realise that not all of them were here in 1975 - really wanted to display some independence, dignity or integrity, they had the opportunity then. [More…]
It is suggested that we are afraid of being taken to election by the Prime Minister and facing the verdict of the voters because that will lessen our degree of independence, will make us toe the line, and will ensure that the government of the time has an easier passage than many governments in the past have had. [More…]
Having established this fact- for indeed it is fact- I turn to the independence of the Senate and the necessity for this. [More…]
To date the Senate has had all the independence that it has needed to be an effective House of the Parliament. [More…]
I am firmly committed to the independence of the Senate and the unhampered voice of the smaller States. [More…]
The statutory 6-year term is one of the strengths from which a senator derives his independence. [More…]
Without Senate independence the casualty would be democracy. [More…]
A 6-year term gives a senator a measure of independence which a relationship between his term of office and a House of Representatives election would deny him. [More…]
The statutory six-year term is one of the strengths from which a Senator derives his independence. [More…]
Without Senate independence the casualty would be democracy. [More…]
This Bill is a proposal to destroy the independence of the Senate. [More…]
There is a growing importance of the role of somebody in Australia, with a certainty coming from that independence and a strength from that independence, independently to be able to fulfil the role of scrutiny of the Executive Government, of both arms of the Executive. [More…]
It is important also to the interests of the small States that the Senate should remain in its strength and its independence. [More…]
I believe that the things about which people are concerned include whether the Senate should be neutered in some way, whether it should be abolished or whether it should be strengthened in its independence. [More…]
The power of the Senate relies upon the integrity of honourable senators, their independence, the quality of their work and the sorts of reforms which the Senate has been entertaining. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that local government has greatly appreciated the independence of the Bureau of Roads? [More…]
Can the Minister say what progress has been made towards independence for the New Hebrides? [More…]
They see no objection to this Party or any other political groups examining ideas for a more appropriate electoral system, and the 2 governments would welcome a delegation from the Representative Assembly at a meeting of Ministers in the near future to discuss the modalities of procedures towards self-government which could lead to independence. [More…]
I simply repeat, let us get back to the real issue, the one that concerned people previously and the one that still concerns us- the question of the transference to the executive of the day of the power to dissolve this chamber, without confrontation, without deadlock and without good reason, and what that would do to the strength and independence of this chamber. [More…]
What we are objecting to is that the Prime Minister in another place will take away the independence of the Senate. [More…]
However, I would like to say that the debate that has taken place in this Chamber seems to me to epitomise the independence of the Senate and the true spirit of this place. [More…]
The commitment of my Government to these goals stems from the conviction that the progress of Australia as a nation depends on creating the conditions which foster the strength, independence and creativity of its people. [More…]
In government they have been prepared to attack the independence of institutions with which they disagree. [More…]
They have attacked the independence of bodies such as the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
Local government also asks the Commonwealth Government to maintain an adequate road categorisation system, endeavour to achieve a uniform system of categories, resume 5 year forward planning and appropriations, and ensure that the proposed amalgamation of the Bureau of Roads with the Bureau of Transport Economics does not impair the important policy advisory role of the Bureau of Roads or its high level of independence and professionalism. [More…]
It had an independence which I think was most important. [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…]
The commitment of my Government to these goals stems from the conviction that the progress of Australia as a nation depends on creating the conditions which foster the strength, independence and creativity of its people. [More…]
I ask: Can the failure to do anything for the young unemployed foster the strength, independence and creativity of the youth of this country referred to in the Speech from the Throne yesterday. [More…]
-If Senator Wriedt desires to ask me about this every day I will be delighted because one of the great achievements of this Government is that it is making for the first time at the State and local government levels a correct and true sovereignty and a greater independence for the States. [More…]
During it, the Third World countries, absorbed in gaining or consolidating their independence, tended to be objects of international politics rather than actors. [More…]
We believe that this should be accomplished in such a way as will ensure that while people’s independence is retained their working incentives, where applicable, are also maintained to the full. [More…]
I have said that ideally the assistance should be given in such a way as to ensure that independence and responsibility are retained. [More…]
Some people claim the referendum will threaten the independence of the Senate’. [More…]
The only ‘independence’ that might be threatened is the independence of some senators from their electors. [More…]
Such a dangerous law would vitally affect the parliamentary system; it would cut out the Constitutional independence of the Senate and open the way for progressive reduction of its powers. [More…]
The statutory six-year term is one of the strengths from which a Senator derives his independence. [More…]
Without Senate independence the casualty would be democracy. [More…]
As one who has taken a stand on this issue in the hope that people will vote No I sincerely hope that the people will preserve the independence and character of the Senate and that they will not be carried away by the second voice being used by members of the present Government as distinct from that which they used in 1974. [More…]
She has seen the old British Empire become known as the British Commonwealth of Nations and has seen many of the old colonies gain independence. [More…]
Many countries which have gained independence have still maintained a Westminster parliamentary system. [More…]
The commitment of my Government to these goals stems from the conviction that the progress of Australia as a nation depends on creating the conditions which foster the strength, independence and creativity of its people. [More…]
During the formative days of a growing self awareness of independence in East Timor, I remember clearly the struggles that we waged to get some recognition of the right of the people to determine their own affair. [More…]
The resolution established, among other things, the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence; strongly deplored the persistent refusal of the Indonesian Government to comply with the provisions of the relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions; rejected the claim that East Timor had been integrated into Indonesia; called upon the Indonesian Government to withdraw all its forces from the territory; and requested the Special Committee to dispatch a visiting mission to East Timor as soon as possible. [More…]
We applaud them for their independence and for their desire to be associated with an humanitarian cause. [More…]
He also referred in a letter he wrote in late 1975 to a sturdy sense of independence among the East Timorese. [More…]
Excommando Captain Alan Thompson from Sydney echoed this sentiment when he said: ‘We see independence as something the people want themselves. [More…]
The Congress Party has ruled India since independence and for the first time a new party, Janata, will take over. [More…]
It has achieved independence through its own sweat and blood. [More…]
We are rightly concerned about the independence of Timor but I would like to believe that whenever Australian troops go overseas, even with the best intentions, they will be under the United Nations flag and not acting according to the whim of any Prime Minister. [More…]
Under the South Australian Electoral Act passed by the South Australian Parliament the commissioners have complete independence. [More…]
-Yesterday Senator Cavanagh asked me a question concerning an ordinance providing for the independence of magistrates in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I understand from the AttorneyGeneral that an ordinance dealing with the magistracy in the Territory and providing for independence or emphasising the fact that magistrates have independence from the Public Service has been in the course of preparation and printing and it is hoped that it will come into force tomorrow. [More…]
The independence of advice from the Council will be preserved and strengthened by the appointment of a Citizen Chairman. [More…]
We stand for the Independence of East Timor, for the betterment of the people of East Timor, peace and friendly relations with all nations. [More…]
We appeal to the Australian Government to guarantee our full Independence so that we can work in peace to make our people educated, healthy and prosperous. [More…]
Can the Minister explain to the Senate the rationale in economic terms of withdrawing funds from programs designed to develop social and economic independence for handicapped persons when the result will be an increased call on government funds for invalid pensions for these persons? [More…]
They would retain the independence that it was claimed was so important to them. [More…]
For years, fruit growers in Tasmania have been told that if they wished to maintain their independence and if they wished to avoid what was called socialism they should vote for the conservative parties and that these parties would ensure that the government would look after them. [More…]
We have been told that we can retain our independence only by voting for them. [More…]
But, in fact, we now have no independence and for the first time we will have to look at some of the proposals that are put forward by the Australian Labor Party’. [More…]
They cannot be told that the system of multiple labels we have had in Tasmania for years was a sign of independence and improved our marketing abilities and that any attempt to organise or to interfere at government level was socialism. [More…]
Eschew all members, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
I understand that the operation of the Asian Development Bank began at the time of the independence of South Vietnam. [More…]
I am regretful that if the Government is going to prohibit Australians from entering foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activity against the governments of those countries, or prohibit Australians from engaging in activities which are hostile to those governments, this situation should be capable of application to governments such as the Smith regime in Rhodesia which has been in office now since the unilateral declaration of independence 7 years or 9 years ago. [More…]
Unfortunately the then shadow Minister informed that person that it was not possible because he was involved with the coming of independence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I call it a movement rather than anything else because from my discussions with the people who were then leaders I can term it only as a movement- a movement of people concerned about their small country and the people in it and who wanted to work towards independence. [More…]
But the Fretilin movement wanted to work towards independence. [More…]
Fretilin members were not talking about independence the next day, the next week or the next year. [More…]
They were talking about independence in some 10 or 15 years time. [More…]
They wanted to work towards independence. [More…]
They would even have been prepared to accept assistance from Indonesia to achieve independence and to be able to determine their own future at their own rate and not at the rate that someone wanted to force upon them. [More…]
On 28 November 1975, Fretilin declared independence in Timor and set up its provisional government. [More…]
We are not asking that the caretaker Australian Government recognises our independence but we feel we are right in asking them to help in stopping the Indonesian invasion into our territory. [More…]
The Timorese people have a sturdy sense of independence, and hostilities between the two ends of the Island have persisted ever since the days of Magellan and of the Dutch East India Company, “here are great dissimilarities in race, religion, language and culture [More…]
Recognizing the inalienable right of all peoples to selfdetermination and independence in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in its resolution 1 5 1 4 ( X V ) of 14 December 1960, [More…]
Having examined the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the question of Timor, [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…]
Mindful that all States should, in conformity with Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter, refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or national independence of any State, or from taking any action inconsistent with the purposes and principles of the Chaner, [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…]
Calls upon the Government ofIndonesia to desist from further violation of the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor and to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory in order to enable the people of the Territory freely to exercise their right to self-determination and independence; [More…]
Requests the Government of Portugal to continue its co-operation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and requests the Committee to send a fact-finding mission to the Territory as soon as possible, in consultation with the political parties in Portuguese Timor and the Government of Portugal. [More…]
Recognizing the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in General Assembly resolution l514(XV)of14December 1960. [More…]
Noting that General Assembly resolution 3485 (XXX) of 12 December 1975, inter alia, requested the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to send a fact-finding mission to East Timor, [More…]
The BTE has no less and no more independence in this regard than the Bureau of Roads. [More…]
The independence of the BTE’s advice and its Director’s free access to the Minister are established facts. [More…]
More importantly neither the integrity nor independence of its operation has ever been challenged. [More…]
As I have already said no one has ever questioned the integrity or the independence of the BTE. [More…]
No one would ever suggest that we approve of the course of action which every country took as it established its independence and was admitted to the United Nations organisation. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, in relation to South Africa, has failed to understand that the United Nations, by an overwhelming majority and in many cases by votes in excess of ninety with a small number of countries abstaining and with one or two countries in opposition- often countries like Spain- called upon the rest of the United Nations organisation to assist in decolonisation and in the movement for independence in Africa. [More…]
It was only when Australia began to assert some claims to independence that it became necessary to give the sort of protection without which manufacturing industry would not have arisen in Australia. [More…]
It is far better to assist so that there can be some independence within the country. [More…]
The independence which its statutory role give to the Bureau of Roads appears also to have been unwelcome to the proponents of a wider ranging transport research bureau. [More…]
The very obligation of universities is for some independence. [More…]
Attributes like independence from departmental and political influence are important. [More…]
The present BTE is not established by legislation but is attached to the Department of Transport As I have already said no one has ever questioned the integrity or the independence of the BTE. [More…]
I express the doubt that the same degree of independence is possible because the Bureau of Roads has never been rigidly controlled by legislation. [More…]
While there is a good deal to be said for the creation of a body which is able to take an overview of the broad question of transport, it is important that such a body retain its independence, its ability to give independent advice, and to make independent assessments of transport problems and convey them to the public. [More…]
The reason for their opposition was the fear that once the functions of the Bureau of Roads have been incorporated into the Department of Transport, under the supervision of and subject to the direction of the Minister, the independence which is required for road funding and for transport matters generally will cease to exist. [More…]
The debate has ebbed and flowed upon whether this body will be as effective as it might have been if given statutory authority and independence. [More…]
I do not believe that it is appropriate that CSIRO or I should be involved with the independence of universities to decide the research work in solar energy they wish to undertake. [More…]
Whilst the Government has great expectations that legislation for a redistribution will be through the Parliament before we rise for the Christmas recess, I remind honourable senators that the distribution commissioners are people of a great deal of independence and they will prepare a redistribution in their time and not in the Government’s time. [More…]
Greater affluence in the community on the one hand has brought greater independence on the other. [More…]
Whereas a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 December 1973, stated that it strongly deplored the military intervention of the armed forces of Indonesia in Portuguese Timor’ and ‘calls upon the Government of Indonesia to desist from further violation of the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor and to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory in order to enable the people of the Territory freely to exercise their right to self-determination and independence ‘; and [More…]
The Committee believes this to be of fundamental importance in maintaining the independence of the judiciary. [More…]
It reacted to the plight of displaced persons in Europe immediately after World War II and to the consequences of various events in Eastern Europe, of which the most notable were the Soviet repression of movements towards national independence in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968. [More…]
In the social welfare area, for instance, the cornerstone of our approach has been to give priority of assistance to those most in need, and make sure that aid is provided to people in ways that increase their independence- in ways which allow them to choose how they will use the aid to most benefit themselves. [More…]
There is a need for Australia to find more oil, not only because ofthe cost saving factor but also because, as I said earlier this evening, it is important for us to have some independence from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries which in the past has held the world to ransom. [More…]
So there is a need for us to strive for and hopefully achieve independence in this very important energy commodity. [More…]
However, in view of the Commission’s position as the first appellate body above boards, such oversight could be seen to weaken the independence of the boards as initial determining bodies. [More…]
The object of these provisions is to obtain better co-ordination among boards, to ensure the attainment of a high standard by boards in the discharge of their duties, as suggested by Mr Justice Toose, but without reducing the independence of each board in the exercise of its determining power under the Act in respect of individual cases. [More…]
If the Senate is able to exercise its independence, as we have heard on so many occasions that it is- we have seen a great deal of evidence of that in respect of funeral benefits, pension rights, apple and pear stabilisation schemes, and even in respect of the recent referendums- in respect of mundane and parochial questions, if I may call them that, with which some of us feel we may want to be associated in the performance of our public duties, surely in the interests of humanity and in the interests of understanding our responsibilities as citizens to the people of Timor we can exercise that same independence. [More…]
I take the view that it is cardinal to the principle of the independence of the judges that their emoluments are stated in statute passed through the Parliament and that they are paid not one cent more nor one cent less than their statutory entitlement. [More…]
I make no insinuation but one must be particularly careful in this regard because the law would never be where it is in its independence and security and respect unless judges refused anything that was not their lawful entitlement, either on assumption of office, performance of office or quitting or office. [More…]
I inform the Senate that the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Senator the Honourable Robert Cotton, will be absent from the Senate during the remainder of these sittings in order to represent the Government at Western Samoa’s independence celebrations from 1 to 3 June. [More…]
Whereas there is mounting evidence that some 60 000, perhaps as many as 100 000 East Timorese may have been killed since the invasion of East Timor by Indonesian forces; and whereas a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 1 2 December1975 stated that it ‘strongly deplores the military intervention of the armed forces of Indonesia in Portuguese Timor’ and ‘calls upon the Government of Indonesia to desist from further violation of the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor and to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory in order to enable the people of the Territory freely to exercise their right of self-determination and independence’; and whereas Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Andrew Peacock, in a statement to the House of Representatives on 4 March 1976 described Australia’s policy on East Timor as clear’ and calling for the ‘withdrawal of Indonesian troops ‘, a cessation of hostilities’, ‘the implementation of an act of self-determination and a resumption of humanitarian aid through the International Committee of the Red Cross’, your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should: [More…]
I remind the honourable senator and the Senate that, very properly, academic institutions are statutory bodies with independence of operation. [More…]
The Government’s legislation to remove the independence of the Bureau of Roads was further evidence of its design to downgrade the priorities of road planning and road funding in the national accounts. [More…]
Obviously it will be looking for a man of high calibre and high integrity as is indicated by the salary to be paid and the independence that he will have of the Minister and of the Government, which is also a feature of his office. [More…]
The object of this Bureau and the object of having a man of considerable independence and quality as its director is precisely to achieve those objectives and pursue methods of observing industrial peace as set out in that passage I quoted from the Minister’s speech. [More…]
The Bureau will be presided over by a director who will be appointed for a period not exceeding 7 years and he will have independence from the Minister. [More…]
Mr Carascalao and Mr Goncalzez referred to the atrocities committed by the Fretilin (an acronym for Frente Revolucionaria de Timor Leste Independente, the East Timorese party which sought independence). [More…]
They are the ASDT (Timorese Social Democratic Association), which subsequently changes its name to FRETILIN (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor), a group favoring independence; UDT (Timorese Democratic Union), favoring continued associations with Portugal; and APODETI (Timorese Popular Democratic Association), favoring East Timor’s incorporation into Indonesia. [More…]
‘The independence of every country is the right of every nation, with no exception for the people in Timor,’ says Malik. [More…]
UDT and FRETILIN enter into a pro-independence coalition. [More…]
East Timor’s independence from Portugal is declared by Xavier do Amaral, President of Fretilin. [More…]
The General Assembly rejects the claim that East Timor has been integrated into Indonesia, and reaffirms the inalienable rightofthe people of East Timor to self-determination and independence, and the legitimacy of their struggle to achieve that right. ‘ [More…]
The Bill establishes a commission but gives no guarantee in relation to its independence. [More…]
We believe that the Commission’s lack of independence in regard to this will continue to contribute to the politicisation of legal aid. [More…]
They claimed during the recent referendums campaign that the independence of the Senate in its role as a House of review and other roles was being eroded by the referendum proposals put forward by the Government. [More…]
We have heard so much from honourable senators on the Government side about the role of the Senate and the independence of the Senate from the governing House. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have the opportunity to prove their independence. [More…]
In fact the proposed role of the Commission is far too narrow, and the Commission lacks any significant measure of independence. [More…]
They have lost a statesmen of great eminence who had long personified his people’s quest for identity and independence. [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…]
If so, is the program proving successful as a means of encouraging self-help and independence? [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Under the new financial arrangements which place emphasis on enhancing the independence and responsibility of State and local governments, this Government has increased the flow on untied assistance. [More…]
All the nonsense talked by some pseudo-lawyers and some other sorts of interesting people on Norfolk Island as to its independence and special relationship just will not hold water. [More…]
Since he abandoned his position of principled independence in the Senate he has hardly made a speech here. [More…]
Eschew all means, direct or indirect, of diminishing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Develop methods for publicly funding the Commission which will prevent the granting or withholding of funds being used as a method of diminishing its independence. [More…]
Whereas a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 December 197S, stated that it strongly deplores the military intervention of the armed forces of Indonesia in Portuguese Timor’ and ‘calls upon the Government of Indonesia to desist from further violation of the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor and to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory in order to enable the people of the Territory freely to exercise their right to self-determination and independence’; and [More…]
Any changes that may be made- if any-are ones that will not prejudice in any sense the independence and strength of the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
Rather, my impression from the local authorities I visit in Western Australia is that they are delighted to receive the greater financial independence that the present system offers them and that they wish it to continue. [More…]
But I query whether it is justified for the Schools Commission, the Opposition, the Australian Council of State Schools, the Australian Teachers Federation or anyone else to say that the Schools Commission has lost its independence because the Government spelled out some financial guidelines completely in line with a policy which the Government announced years ago in relation to the financing of schools. [More…]
The fact that the Schools Commission could bring down the report that it did shows that it has not lost its independence. [More…]
It raises the issue of whether the Schools Commission’s independence has been in any way lessened because of the guidelines given to it by the Government. [More…]
It should be given- as it was given by the Labor Government -as much independence as possible to collect data and to make recommendations to the Government. [More…]
It could provide independence, with the security of having relatives close by, while that person lives. [More…]
The United Nations and successive Australian governments have been opposed to apartheid since its inception in 1948 and to the white minority government in Rhodesia since the unilateral declaration of independence by Mr Ian Smith in 1 965. [More…]
Rhodesia, with its white minority government and following its unilateral declaration of independence, has been declared by the United Nations Security Council a threat to international peace. [More…]
England gave independence to Bechuanaland now Basutoland, Lesotho where the Sotho live, and Swaziland where the Swazi live. [More…]
However, the English gave these peoples independence long before they were economically viable units. [More…]
When Britain moved out of the region it granted independence to Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, leaving them destitute and to fend for themselves. [More…]
Any one of these nations can have independence tomorrow if it wants it. [More…]
There has been no contact with Rhodesia since the unilateral declaration of independence. [More…]
The South African Government does not force any political system on the black homelands when they request independence. [More…]
The federation was dissolved in 1963, and Zambia and Malawi were given full independence, but not Rhodesia. [More…]
No wonder Mr Ian Smith, as soon as he became Prime Minister on an independence platform, went to London to clear up the matter. [More…]
Matabele and the whites by the more populous Mashona- a situation that could not bring peace, order or good government to Rhodesia- Mr Smith had to declare independence unilaterally from the United Kingdom, whose responsibility for its control was slight in law and slighter politically. [More…]
In Britain’s view, Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence did not make Rhodesia an independent state which she had clearly proven herself to be both before and after the unilateral declaration of independence but had reverted the country to the status of colony for which the United Kingdom was the responsible administering power. [More…]
I am probably thinking of the ways in which the combination of the British Prime Minister Atlee and Lord Mountbatten opened the way for independence in India and Pakistan. [More…]
I think also of the West Indian independence and of some of the dominion conferences between 1920 and 1945. [More…]
There are no attempts to assist these women towards economic independence. [More…]
First of all, a rather significant campaign has been run by people with political interests along the lines that the Government’s setting down of guidelines for the Schools Commission in some way interferes with the independence of the Schools Commission. [More…]
A working party paper was prepared by the Secretariat of the United Nations General Assembly for the special committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples in respect of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]
The reason, of course, is the right of every person to independence. [More…]
The reason, of course, is the right of every person to independence … we need to determine a basic philosophy concerning the nuclear family or a society of individuals . [More…]
calls for free and unimpeded communications with the national independence forces of East Timor [More…]
recognise the Government of East Timor if independence is shown to be the choice of the East Timorese people after a genuine act of self-determination. [More…]
The area will be, I believe, one of turmoil for decades to come as indigenous people strive for independence. [More…]
It has been our wont in the past unfortunately to write down the chances for independence of some of the smaller communities in our neighbourhood largely because I think we have seen them as not being economically viable. [More…]
Economic viability seems to be the number one criterion that we have laid down for independence. [More…]
Such movements immediately bring in question the assumption of nationalism- of cultural homogeneity of nationalism’s claim to represent the entire populace in its demand for independence’, of the supremacy of the centralised state and the non-viability of states based on small populations of villagers or peasants. [More…]
Ever since East Timor has come into focus it has been said that it was a country that was not economically viable and therefore it could never aspire to independence. [More…]
Sure, it has some wealth and possibly more that is untapped but again to me it fits the bill as expressed by the author whom I have just quoted that independence movements are strong and viable and will, given a reasonable chance at all, attain for its people independence. [More…]
I never want to see the trade union movement surrender its independence to any government. [More…]
This provision, which is in clause 5 of the Bill, obviously is aimed at providing this independence that we believe it needs. [More…]
I think that is terribly important if this new statutory officer is to have the complete independence of direction which the Government intends him to have under this Bill. [More…]
Beyond that, and to speak about less tangible but perhaps fundamentally more important aspects, small business fosters a spirit of independence and initiative, so important in our liberal, democratic society. [More…]
I ask: Can the Minister say what are the threats to the independence of the Schools Commission and whether the Government’s federalism policy will operate to throw the responsibility for government schools back to the States? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister received a letter from the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, written at the request of the council of the university, expressing concern over the threat to the Australian National University’s independence posed by the Commonwealth Employees Act? [More…]
We see of course that the Assembly will need independence, and we would want it to have independence. [More…]
In fact, one of the basic reasons that it is a statutory corporation is to give it the independence to carry out what is called adequate and comprehensive programming under the Broadcasting and Television Act. [More…]
The extraordinary thing about all this- and this should be of interest to Government senators- is that, whatever one says about the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the fact is that thousands of people in Melbourne think that Mr Lane was removed because of an atmosphere which has been engendered in the Australian Broadcasting Commission by this Government. [More…]
The fact is that by this act it has been perceived by many people that not only has an attempt been made to take politics off the front pages of the newspapers but also has an attempt been made to stifle the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in a variety of ways. [More…]
But I believe that the sort of atmosphere in which that type of decision can be taken has been engendered over quite a period of time by the actions of various Ministers of this Government and more specifically by the repeated threats to the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission which have been evidenced in the continued cuts in its appropriations made by this Parliament since the present Government came to office. [More…]
These are Ministers in the Government which repeatedly mouths cliches about the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
It is in this sort of atmosphere, engendered by what is sometimes overt and in many cases covert interference with the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, that this situation has come about in which members of the management staff of the Commission feel that they might be attracting favourable attention of their political mentors by taking the sort of action which has now been taken in Melbourne. [More…]
The point I make is that Senator Lajovic as a politician would be well served if he stood up occasionally and expressed some genuine concern about the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the broadcasting debates which take place in this chamber. [More…]
That independence ought not to be interfered with unless there is some evident impropriety, and clearly there is no impropriety in this case. [More…]
In my opinion that is monkeying with judicial remuneration which is entirely wrong ‘in relation to the independence of the judiciary. [More…]
A number of countries have, under the impact of the oil crisis, adopted objectives of energy self-reliance’, ‘energy independence’, or greater sufficiency’ in energy. [More…]
Over the years the service has been able to assist many thousands of severely handicapped people to reach or to regain independence and, in a high percentage of cases, their capacity to undertake gainful employment. [More…]
Priority will also be given to those cases where the breadwinner’s employment status is being affected because of the demands of caring for a disabled spouse living at home and who could be afforded more independence through appropriate rehabilitation measures. [More…]
Priority will also be given to those cases where the breadwinner’s employment status is being affected because of the demands of caring for a disabled spouse living at home and who could be afforded more independence through appropriate rehabilitation measures. [More…]
We have begun to liberate Australia’s unmatched potential for equality, opportunity and personal independence. [More…]
The main lesson to be learnt from the experience of ethnic broadcasting to date is the need for financial autonomy and program independence. [More…]
It is for this reason that we, both in this chamber and outside it, have stressed constantly the importance of preserving the independence and the objectivity of national broadcasting and of restraining the commercial sector when it acts in a way which is contrary to the public interest and to the interest of democracy. [More…]
Many attacks were made on the independence of the ABC during the period of Sir Henry Bland’s chairmanship and, I think, in a more subtle way even since his chairmanship ceased. [More…]
But again the appointment of somebody with a clearly partisan background in terms of the industry, Mr Bruce Gyngell, caused a great deal of scepticism throughout the community as to the objectivity and the independence of the Tribunal. [More…]
It will lack all the qualities of political independence that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has and will be subject to direct political control. [More…]
In this way the ABC, which has managed to retain a degree of independence would have its independence quite seriously eroded. [More…]
I can think of none other than devious motives on the part of the Government for introducing this modification of the independence of the ABC. [More…]
He certainly does not look shocked, but does look quizzical when I suggest that there are devious motives on the part of the Government for including clause 15, which erodes the independence of the ABC. [More…]
There is to be no independence for the new Special Broadcasting Service. [More…]
That relates to the setting up of the Special Broadcasting Service and the criticism which is made by the Staff Association, a criticism which I think is exaggerated, is that the provision could be used as a means to limit the programming independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and, therefore, should be opposed. [More…]
I have mentioned already what has been said about political independence and refer now to what the Minister, Mr Eric Robinson, said on 4 November last year when speaking to the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
At the same time, the independence and integrity of the Australian Broadcasting Commission will be maintained. [More…]
The independence and integrity of the Australian Broadcasting Commission are matters on which on many occasions I have made public utterances. [More…]
I stand firmly for that independence. [More…]
I believe it is important but I do not think that the clause to which I have referred does anything really to touch that independence. [More…]
But under this provision, a government could prescribe principlesthat is a word of considerable looseness- which I think could be such as to restrict greatly the independence of the ethnic services which are being provided in this Bill. [More…]
I only say that for some 23 years in the administration of the media in this country governments of Liberal faith maintained throughout the media, particularly through the Australian Broadcasting Commission, an independence of activity by the media and an absence of bias by the Government. [More…]
The appointee does not need to have any degree of independence about him provided that after he is appointed he divests himself of financial interests. [More…]
Service would be a new State-run service without any of the so-called independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, indeed totally subject to ministerial control. [More…]
It provides a direct and overt opportunity for political interference in the licensing process, it undermines the independence of the Broadcasting Tribunal and it is an unpopular proposal with all sections of the broadcasting industry- commercial, public and national. [More…]
the Senate condemns the Government’s interference with the independence of the Schools Commission, specifically by its directing funds to wealthy private schools against the Commission’s recommendations. [More…]
If there is anything that is anathema to the independence of this chamber, to the separate existence of this chamber and to this chamber being able to fulfil its constitutional role relating to the scrutiny of the Executive and ensuring the accountability of the Executive, if there is anything which could destroy that it is a system of joint committees where the Senate is the poor relation of the greater number in the House of Representatives, where we are taken on suffrage in some way to do the bidding of the House which represents the executive government. [More…]
Recognizing the inalienable right of all peoples to selfdetermination and independence in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in its resolution 1 5 14 (XV) of 14 December 1960, [More…]
Having examined the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the Territory, 1 / [More…]
Mindful that all States should, in conformity with Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter, refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or national independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, [More…]
Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence and the legitimacy of their struggle to achieve that right; [More…]
Rejects the claim that East Timor has been integrated into Indonesia, inasmuch as the people of the Territory have not been able to exercise freely their right to selfdetermination and independence; [More…]
Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and [More…]
Peoples to keep the situation in the Territory under active consideration, to follow the implementation of the present resolution, to dispatch to the Territory as soon as possible a visiting mission with a view to the full and speedy implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), and to report back to the Assembly at its thirty-third session; [More…]
Draws the attention of the Security Council, in conformity with Article 1 1, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, to the critical situation in the Territory of East Timor and recommends that it should take all effective steps for the implementation of its resolutions 384 (1975) and 389 (1976) with a view to securing the full exercise by the people of East Timor of their right to self-determination and independence; [More…]
-The resolution in essence reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence. [More…]
I have no knowledge of what the conditions are in respect of other police commissioners although I have a feeling that in my own State of Western Australia the only way in which a police commissioner can be dismissed is by resolution of both Houses of Parliament, lt has been generally held that persons holding this office should enjoy a great deal of independence from arbitrary acts of the executive government. [More…]
I express briefly- I shall do it at great length at another time- my distress at the intrusion into the independence of the national broadcasting system in Australia, that is, the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government was first elected in December 1975 it has engaged in a continual assault on the independence of the ABC. [More…]
One of the Government’s most recent actions was a move to curtail the independence of the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
It all depends upon how one seeks independence. [More…]
I emphasise that the changes will not compromise the independence of the IAC, nor its role in advising the Government on the nature and levels of assistance which should be afforded particular industries. [More…]
in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines, and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
Perhaps he will tell us whether he is going to support those farm organisations which his party claims to represent and demand that the independence and intergity of the IAC be maintained. [More…]
Will the National Country Party speak up for all those farm organisations which have demanded that the independence and integrity of the IAC be maintained? [More…]
I see no problem at all in preserving both the independence of the Commission and its ability to report to the Government, The Bill requires the IAC, in making its recommendations, to take account of government policy, and requires the Temporary Assistance Authority to report on the degree of assistance required for a particular industry to maintain its level of employment. [More…]
I am extremely suspicious when there is a possible threat to the independence of the Commission, but I have been unable here to sustain any such suspicion. [More…]
in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines, and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
Very regrettably, this Bill is virtually destroying the independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, an independent statutory advisory body to the Government. [More…]
I had also made the point that whilst the Opposition did not oppose this amending legislation it believed that it set out to considerably weaken the independence of advice provided by the Commission to government. [More…]
in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines, and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
It is for those reasons- and answering an earlier interjection by Senator Tehan- that I say this legislation is considerably weakening, if not destroying, the independence of the IAC. [More…]
If that is not weakening the independence or probably destroying the independence of the IAC, frankly I do not know what else it is doing. [More…]
The powers that clause 8 seeks to allow any present or future government Minister are so broadly denned as to have the effect of emasculating the powers and independence of the Commission and to politicise the whole operation of the Commission. [More…]
This legislation is weakening its framework, independence and structure. [More…]
in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines, and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role; intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
He claimed that the whole role of the IAC was to be changed by this legislation and said he was concerned about the independence of the Commission. [More…]
Paragraph (b) of the amendment states: in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines, and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
Surely that must impinge upon the independence of the Commission. [More…]
The language that is usedshall comply with such directions’- obviously must impinge upon the independence of the Commission. [More…]
I do not always agree with its recommendations but I commend its independence. [More…]
But its independence and its right to recommend to governments the simple facts of economic life as it sees them should never be threatened. [More…]
in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission, by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines, and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
But to overcome this problem we should not attack the independence of the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
In the second part of its amendment the Opposition has moved that the Senate deplores the action of the Government: in threatening the basic independence of the Industries Assistance Commission by its emphasis upon narrow and variable guidelines and by its consistent failure to appreciate the advisory role intended for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
The other prong of attack on the Government is that the legislation threatens the independence of the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
Indeed Senator Douglas McClelland used quite extravagant language when he alleged that the legislation will destroy the independence of the Commission. [More…]
It does not oppose the Bill, but at the same time it says that the Bill threatens the independence of the Commission. [More…]
If there were a serious belief on the part of the Opposition that this legislation threatened the independence of the Commission, it would be opposing the legislation; but of course it has made it clear that it is not. [More…]
I refer to the visit to this place today of a parliamentary delegation from Papua New Guinea and to Australia’s gift of a national library to Papua New Guinea on its attainment of independence. [More…]
-At the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975 the then Australian Government announced that Australia’s independence gift to that country would be a national library building and associated books, files and equipment at a cost of up to $A2m. [More…]
It is in the light of those sorts of conditions and in the light of all the theory that exists in Australia about our responsibilities to Aborigines that we believe that the Senate should, as a place of review and as a place where independence of thought is expressed from time to time, accept responsibility and put on record a request to the national Government to assume its rightful responsibilities. [More…]
It could perhaps be said that Australian women are seeking independence in many ways. [More…]
The recognition of their independence, both economic and social, has been a matter of discussion in this country for some time. [More…]
The lesser opportunities given to women in other countries to assert their independence and to express their personalities may be attractive to Australian men. [More…]
I suppose if I were asked initially what attitude I take, I think I would follow Senator Cavanagh by simply referring to De Gaulle at the time of Algerian independence. [More…]
However, that resolution re-affirmed the right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence. [More…]
Whatever doubt the Australian Government may have had about its international obligations would have been removed by the resolution of the General Assembly in November last year rejecting the claim that East Timor had been integrated into Indonesia inasmuch as the people of that territory had not been able to exercise freely their right to selfdetermination and independence. [More…]
It was a Labor Foreign Minister, the late Dr H. Evatt, who as President of the United Nations General Assembly so advanced the cause of Indonesian independence in the 1940s. [More…]
As we respect Indonesia’s independence now and as we did in the 1940s- when in government the Labor Party fought not only for Indonesia’s independence but also for its integrity- we as a nation are obliged now to do as much for East Timor. [More…]
How can we say to the people of the Cook Islands and the New Hebrides-they were mentioned by somebody earlier- the Solomon Islands and the people of New Caledonia- some of whom have obtained their independence and some of whom are working towards obtaining independence- that if any aggressive neighbour such as Indonesia attacks them ruthlessly, bloodthirstily as in the case of East Timor, then idealism and morality, as Senator Sim said, do not count. [More…]
recognised the importance of the newlyindependent island states and welcomed the movement towards independence of several countries in that area. [More…]
How does that relate to the independence of the people of East Timor? [More…]
Yugoslavia acceded to independence in the context of the post- World War I settlement, to which Australia was a party. [More…]
They spoke to me of their wish to have their councils control expenditure on community services in the Islands which are at present provided by the Queensland Department, as one step towards independence in the management of their own affairs. [More…]
He has enhanced his freedom and independence accordingly. [More…]
It is an extraordinary omission from the report and I am grateful to see that the Senate, through the Senators on the Committee- perhaps Senator Baume is doing the right thing for the wrong reason- is asserting its independence of the view taken by the House of Representatives on this matter. [More…]
Hopefully, they will lead eventually to a greater degree of independence for the States in future years. [More…]
It appears that the Government is not the slightest bit interested in giving independence to these people. [More…]
There are no statutory grounds at all on which to guarantee the Council’s independence. [More…]
Honourable members will know that Australia and Papua New Guinea have been engaged in these negotiations over a period of years, beginning before Papua New Guinea moved to independence in 1975. [More…]
After the Second World War that Territory was administered in union with the Territory of New Guinea and, as the Third Schedule to the Papua New Guinea Act 1 949, as amended up to the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence, makes clear, islands within the Torres Strait that were not part of the State of Queensland continued to be within the bounds of Papua New Guinea immediately prior to Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
Major objectives of that policy are to give the States and local government greater independence and flexibility to determine their expenditure priorities together with a concomitant increase in their financial capacity and flexibility. [More…]
Before proceeding to speak about the treaty elements, I wish to recall that Australia and Papua New Guinea have been engaged in these negotiations over a period of years, beginning before Papua New Guinea moved to independence. [More…]
The Council will report to the Prime Minister- an administrative arrangement reflecting both the status and independence of ASTEC. [More…]
Secondly, the Council is invested with sufficiently wide powers to enable it to execute its functions.Thirdly, provisions are made for the independence of the Council to enable it to undertake its functions effectively. [More…]
The third important purpose of this legislation is the provision of necessary independence for the Council in its actions, so that its advice can be provided to government freely and without unwarranted influence. [More…]
Another important area where independence is ensured is in the staffing of ASTEC. [More…]
Another provision designed to secure the independence of the Council is clause 25 of the Bill, which exempts the Council and those working for it from legal action in relation to any act done in good faith and in accordance with ASTEC ‘s powers and functions. [More…]
I would regard that as a hideous case of exploitation of one’s position as a representative of the people and I would regard it as a denigration and an unexampled surrender of the independence of a judge who should stand by the salary fixed by parliament for his brothers as a salary that parliament will never alter except upward, as in recent times inflation has necessitated. [More…]
It begins only as a trickle but gradually grows into a little eroding river, with public servants retiring prematurely, taking a lump sum payment or a periodical payment and then being re-appointed to their same position or to another position in the Commonwealth service, thereby increasing their emoluments, undermining the independence of the Public Service and creating a terrific injustice to their fellow workers who should be expected to be able to take up those posts on the genuine retirement of those people and thus graduate by experience to serve the public. [More…]
Copper is the cornerstone of Zambia’s economy and since independence it has provided more than 90 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and about half of government revenue. [More…]
It has been said again and again that the independence of the electoral commissioners is fundamental to the working of democracy because of the trust that people place in them. [More…]
When some evidence that was fit to be examined by a judicial tribunal whether there was any impropriety in the course of the Commissioners’ decision to give a name to an electorate in Queensland, this Government appointed a judge whose independence and integrity has not been impuned by anyone; nor could it be. [More…]
The failure of the Government to maintain the independence, objectivity and high standard of national broadcasting. [More…]
They include such attacks as the 1 5 per cent cut in funds in the first Lynch Budget, the imposition of staff ceilings and the staff wastage policy, what I might refer to as the Sir Henry Bland fiasco, the changes to the legislation affecting the ABC which have weakened its independence, the introduction through legislation of a Special Broadcasting Service in terms which in the future will allow the Special Broadcasting Service to encroach upon the national broadcasting functions of the ABC, and the removal for blatantly political reasons of the ethnic radio station 3ZZ by the simple expedient of refusing to supply funds. [More…]
These two changes would bring a measure of real independence to the ABC. [More…]
lt is totally unrealistic at this stage of government policy and principles about funding public bodies to expect any statutory body that has to depend on an annual budgetary allocation to act with true independence from the government of the day. [More…]
The failure of the Government to maintain the independence, objectivity and high standard of national broadcasting. [More…]
The first element of the matter of public importance is that the Government is accused of failure to maintain independence. [More…]
The first challenge then is to answer the question: How is its independence corrupted? [More…]
I deal first with independence in terms of independence of decision making, and independence in control of staff, in control of programming and the whole range of matters. [More…]
I, for one, simply say that I do not believe that a man of the quality and integrity of, shall we say, Laurie Short, would allow himself to be used or even allow himself to be in the presence of bias or any kind of corruption relating to the independence, objectivity or integrity of the Commission. [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Commission, like this Parliament, is the servant of the people and it is given independence not as an end in itself but in order to achieve objectivity, to achieve under section 51 of the Act comprehensive and adequate programming. [More…]
It is not given independence for licence; it is not given independence to do its own thing and to present its own beliefs and subjective values. [More…]
It is given independence so that it can achieve balance and objectivity. [More…]
Where is the lack of independence? [More…]
I refer now to independence and objectivity. [More…]
The Government has, in fact, brought considerable independence and objectivity into the situation. [More…]
The simple fact of the matter is that today Senator Ryan came here to allege that there is a lack of independence, objectivity, and high standards due to the Government’s failure. [More…]
-The Senate is debating the failure of the Government to maintain the independence, objectivity and high standard of the national broadcasting service. [More…]
What do we mean in this motion by the words ‘the independence’ of the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]
The classic example of what is really meant by independence in a broadcasting service relates to the British Broadcasting Commission at the time of the Suez war in 1956. [More…]
That is an example of the sort of thing we mean by independence. [More…]
May I quote from another distinguished Director-General of the British Broadcasting Commission on what it means by independence and the sort of thing to which we should aspire in relation to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
If we could get a statement in similar terms from the Minister, asserting the independence and the objectivity of the ABC then, of course, this matter of public importance would never have been raised. [More…]
I think it is true to say that in the period when Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister of this country in a strange way a very genuine independence was enjoyed by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Amongst other things, that public inquiry should be responsible for an assertion, supported by the Minister, that this Government regards the independence of the ABC as an important matter and is prepared to guarantee it by the sorts of appointments which it makes. [More…]
The failure of the Government to maintain the independence, objectivity and high standard of national broadcasting. [More…]
But neither he nor Senator Ryan gave any convincing evidence relating to independence, objectivity and a high standard of national broadcasting. [More…]
Senator Ryan, who opened for the Opposition today and who is the spokesman on these matters, in no way brought any argument to bear on the matters of independence, objectivity and high standard of national broadcasting. [More…]
What does Senator Ryan mean by the word independence’? [More…]
Did she indicate to the Senate any way in which the Government has failed to maintain the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]
The Government has maintained a consistent approach in ensuring the absolute independence of” the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The Opposition has placed some emphasis on the independence of the ABC and on its attitude towards affairs generally. [More…]
Senator Carrick challenged the Opposition to produce one example of a member of the Government of his political persuasion or from his side of politics attempting to interfere with the independence of this independent statutory authority. [More…]
I suggest to Senator Carrick that that is as good an example as even he could want of interference in the independence of this independent statutory authority by a member of his side of politics. [More…]
If Senator Carrick finds it mysterious that there are people on our side of politics who have their suspicions about his vaunted respect for the independence of this statutory body. [More…]
The failure of the Government to ensure the independence, integrity and high repute of Australia’s national Broadcasting Services ‘. [More…]
What I do take issue with is that unfortunately we recognised the independence of the ABC and possibly did not stipulate where those cutbacks should be. [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…]
We on this side of the chamber, being afforded independence by our party, have the right to stand up here and say: ‘The Government is wrong. [More…]
I want to refer now to the Department of Administrative Services again and to remind the Committee of what I was saying earlier and why Senator Georges was so upset I was just demonstrating that on this side of the House we are not rubber stamps and we are capable of exercising independence which is a point of jealousy as far as the Opposition is concerned. [More…]
For example, what Professor Mathews argues is that the States, by reducing their taxation themselves, have opted not to take independence, that they want the State rights but not the federalism, and that the fact that they have reduced their taxation has lowered the amount of money available to them. [More…]
It is a paradox of Australian federalism that the States are vocally insisting on States’ rights in every respect except one, the right to financial independence. [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…]
He points out that they have reduced taxes themselves and have been unwilling to take independence, but they have continued to hide behind the alibi of asserting that it is the Commonwealth ‘s responsibility. [More…]
All that Professor Mathews is saying is summed up in his comment that it is a paradox of Australian federalism that the States are vocal in insisting on States rights in every respect except one- the right to financial independence. [More…]
This is simply an affront to anybody who is asked to go out into the market place to earn his living and, by the system which I wish to maintain, to accumulate his own independence and to provide a little capital. [More…]
This matter is of most particular importance for the independence of judiciary. [More…]
It is necessary only to cite those two occassions to show to what extent the improper abuse of this could be put in arranging resignations of judges, and in arranging for the weakening of the independence of the Senate. [More…]
We have reached the stage where the compression to five Ministers in this chamber ought, I think, to excite this chamber to take into serious consideration the principle whereby the business of the Senate would be advantaged if all the Ministers who are responsible for Executive government were in the House of Representatives and the managers, who would be of equal status to the Ministers and would have the responsibility of managing the business of the Senate, were in a confidential relationship with the Ministry, but occupied that degree of independence which the Constitution requires all senators to occupy. [More…]
People who hear Senator Wriedt must understand that he speaks from the Labor Party point of view, with an implacable dislike of the independence of State governments. [More…]
I believe that on his retirement from the Senate many people, particularly in Queensland, will remember the contribution that he has made to this Parliament and the independence that he has shown. [More…]
I believe that one of the wonderful things about the Liberal Party is that one can show one’s independence. [More…]
I believe that if we have research assistants they should be employed in a situation of independence similar to that in which the officers of the Parliamentary Library are employed. [More…]
In conclusion may 1 simply say that 1 note that on 9 March President Carter told President Tito, in Washington, that the United States ‘continued support of the independence, territorial integrity and unity of Yugoslavia’ and also that he indicated that the United States would ‘take firm measures to prevent and prosecute criminal terrorist activities’. [More…]
It was one of the first in the South Pacific to achieve its independence, which it did in 1 968. [More…]
On 30 January of this year it celebrated the tenth anniversary of its independence. [More…]
Some of them are more developed than others; some are or used to be on the highways of the Pacific and in a position of what I would call a more immediate relationship; others have what I would describe as a colonial relationship; and others again are more recently emerging and enjoying a status of independence. [More…]
In these days, Papua New Guinea, with which we have a special connection and interest, has embraced its own Independence and as a gift for its Independence, the Parliament of New Zealand has given to the Parliament of Papua New Guinea a parliamentary library. [More…]
Australia’s gift to Papua New Guinea for its Independence, as we have, heard in the Senate before, is a national library. [More…]
The metropolitan powers began to move out as more and more countries- as I said, some only mini states- achieved independence. [More…]
We often wonder why we establish their right to independence. [More…]
The Senate has debated this matter on many occasions and has accepted that even the people of East Timor have the right to independence, self-management and nationhood. [More…]
We recognise the rights of small countries to independence and their right to establish their own type of society. [More…]
The legislation gives the CES little independence, which in our view would not be a major shortcoming if the Government had arrange of manpower programs, the implementation of which would keep the CES occupied. [More…]
It will not give him the independence which would be created by a statutory authority but will keep him under the control of the Minister, which is precisely where he should be. [More…]
The Secretary-General’s report will be heavily influenced by the finding of his Special Representative, Mr Ahtisaari of Finland, who is currently in Namibia to assess the political situation on the ground and the prospects for an orderly transition to independence. [More…]
In the proposals of the ‘five’, the central task of the UN force would be to ensure that conditions are established to allow an impartial electoral process leading to free and fair elections and independence. [More…]
These talks were aimed at achieving an early and peaceful transition from colonial status to majority rule and independence, through free elections under UN supervision. [More…]
In Namibia, through an initiative inspired and carried through by the Western powers, and sub: stantially assisted by the Presidents of the socalled front line states- Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Botswana- the situation has reached the stage where there is now a real opportunity to reach a satisfactory and internationally acceptable transition to independence and majority rule. [More…]
That such a station would therefore represent a further deterioration of Australia’s independence and initiatives towards a non-aligned and peaceful foreign policy. [More…]
In view of the Liberal Party senators’ craven acceptance of the dictates of the member for Wannon, when the latter by fiat gave them their new leader and deputy, can the Leader of the Government in the Senate assure the Senate that it will hear no more cant or humbug from Liberal senators about States’ rights or their sturdy independence? [More…]
In the War of Independence for the United States of America, some fundamental principles of democracy were enumerated. [More…]
This action will tend to destroy the initiative and independence of these people and force some of them back into dependence and some back into institutions. [More…]
There are very serious further threats to the independence of the Commission in the Budget. [More…]
The Treasurer made the point that if the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission refused to act as the creature of government in these matters and maintained its independence in determining what the wages of Australians should be, the Government as an employer would respond to this persistence of independence by abolishing even more jobs. [More…]
One thing which we on this side of the House have, and which always seems to get under the skin of the Opposition, is that we have independence, which is quite important. [More…]
Government of the day, irrespective of which party it happens to be, has made an error of judgment, there are those of us who are prepared to demonstrate that independence. [More…]
Home care services which can be subsidised under the legislation include home visiting, laundry and shopping services, home handyman and related home maintenance schemes, housekeeper and other services which complement health or welfare programs designed to enhance the independence of aged and infirm people living at home. [More…]
At present home help provides that margin of support which allows these people to remain in their homes in independence and dignity. [More…]
Senator Davidson said that aged people are independent and that they want their independence; that they want to stay in their own homes. [More…]
What elderly people basically need is their independence- not to be a burden on society, not to be a burden in an institution, but to remain on their own homes and to care for themselves as much as possible with a little outside help. [More…]
I understand, from the last sentence, that it could cost much more to those people who will die much sooner because they have lost their independence. [More…]
It needs to be concerned with the independence of people and the opportunity for them to keep their independence by living at home. [More…]
The platform and policy of my party stresses the greatest possible independence of the citizen and the provision of assistance in a dignified, unobtrusive and sympathetic manner rather than through impersonal bureaucratic agencies. [More…]
Bearing that in mind, I believe that the Bill should be supported but the legislation must be watched to ensure that it does not lead to any reduction in the number of persons who are able to be protected and able to be kept in their own homes and able to enjoy the independence which they have had in the past. [More…]
As long at our program encourages independence, as long at it encourages rehabilitation in society and not exclusion from society, we probably will go in the right direction. [More…]
Firstly, he set to work to develop the Leigh Creek brown coal fields in South Australia in order to give our State independence in regard to electricity. [More…]
That independence does not allow it to disregard the ordinary processes of law; it has a high responsibility to observe those processes. [More…]
Dr Michael Heppell, the chairman of the Panel, has said that it was the independence of the Panel which upset the Department and the Minister. [More…]
This independence enabled the Panel to criticise the Department and the Minister as well, and Dr Heppell has suggested that this is one of the reasons why it is being disbanded. [More…]
So if in our society a person is denied the right to earn a living that person is denied all sorts of other freedoms, liberties and opportunities which are consequent upon economic independence. [More…]
-Taking out the fruity melodrama of the latter part of Senator Primmer ‘s question, the advice I have is that the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby has confirmed that two senior members of the OPM- the Organisasi Papua Merdeka- the Irianese dissident group which is seeking independence for Irian Jaya from Indonesia, were arrested by Papua New Guinea authorities in Vanimo in the region of the Papua New Guinea-Indonesia border on 29 September. [More…]
In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. [More…]
They enable a family to have the right sort of economic independence so that women who choose to make a career of being a full time wife and mother are in a position to do so and are not pushed out into the work force. [More…]
It would be reasonable, however, to regard all those colonial territories, including many of the new states of the South Pacific, which came to independence in the course of the last decade as forming part of the Third World group of countries. [More…]
He ought to be talking about what he did not have the courage to do and that was let the Budget, 1975, go to a vote so that his colleagues could show their independence. [More…]
However much we may dislike some of the internal practices of the Government in Phnom Penh, we attach importance to the independence and territorial integrity of Kampuchea as a state. [More…]
If this place is supposed to be an independent House then today is the classic time for members of the chamber to show their independence and to vote according to the known wishes of their constituents, not according to a party direction. [More…]
As a member of the Council of Namibia, has Australia been kept informed of the progress of negotiations between the South African Government and the five members of the Security Council regarding the transition to independence in Namibia? [More…]
The Government has publicly supported the proposals of the five and the Secretary-General’s recommendations for their implementation in line with our desire to see an early negotiated and internationally acceptable move to independence for Namibia. [More…]
This involves a question of finding another method of arriving at the right form of organisation to enable a sense of direction to develop, a sense of social and political direction, in relation to Australian science policy yet at the same time retaining the very important factor of independence for the Organisation, a level of independence it has enjoyed in the past and which I think it is necessary for it to enjoy in the future. [More…]
One relates to whether the relationship between the employment of staff by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation under proposed new section 32 (2) and the normal requirements of the Public Service Board is such as to preserve the degree of independence of scientific people working in the Organisation from the general constraints of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
I claim that this disruptive action has been provoked by the savage cutbacks which have been imposed by this Government- cutbacks in funding and staffing which have a clear political intent, that of limiting the independence of the ABC, of hamstringing its ability to provide the independent comment and news that are essential to Australian democracy. [More…]
The Minister for Post and Telecommunications has not been an effective Minister in defending the independence and high standards of the ABC. [More…]
The Minister claimed that he would not appoint a staff elected commissioner because such a decision somehow would interfere with the independence of the ABC. [More…]
Because of their hostility to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, it has been severely hit in its funding arrangements; its standards necessarily have had to be lowered; it is losing its influence; it is losing its strength; and indeed it is losing its independence. [More…]
The end of the First World War brought freedom and independence to Slovenia. [More…]
As a matter of fact, 29 October was the day when Slovenian leaders proclaimed the independence of Slovenia. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea National Library was Australia’s independence gift and was officially presented by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, and opened by the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare. [More…]
Later that year, the same Government, in response to an invitation from the then Australian Government to nominate the form which Australia’s independence gift might take, suggested a national library. [More…]
I am indeed very well pleased with it and I am sure it will be a great asset to the community of Papua New Guinea and form a worthy independence gift. [More…]
It’s a privilege to be here today to hand over Australia’s independence gift to your nation- the new National Library of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea’s selection of a library for an independence gift was a most significant choice. [More…]
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in now officially handing over Australia’s independence gift- the National Library of Papua New Guinea- to stand as a permanent reminder of the deep and enduring fellowship between our two countries. [More…]
In conclusion I think it is important to point out that whilst an independence gift consisting of a National Library with all the contents to which 1 have referred may be a very valuable gift to a nation, we have got to look very carefully and indeed very sympathetically at the ongoing work from this point. [More…]
As a further indication of our continuing involvement in this independence project, arrangements are being made for staff from the National Library of Australia to visit Papua New G uinea for the purpose of engaging in staff training. [More…]
Both of these bodies have a degree of independence. [More…]
Certainly they should have independence in the matters of artistic policy, performance, programs and so forth but they are not truly independent of the Parliament. [More…]
Incidental changes, contained in the Schedule to the Bill, are merely those designed to bring the Act up to date in the light of changed circumstances since the original Act was passed, such as the independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I can see possible objections to threatening the independence of the ABC in that matter. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the free and democratic republic of Latvia following the First World War? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Latvia is a small, proud nation of two million people with their own language, a centuries old culture of their own and a history of independence in excess of 800 years? [More…]
On this 60th anniversary of the independence of Latvia, will the Government register a further protest with the occupying country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
-I am aware that tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of Latvian independence. [More…]
Australia ‘s Aboriginal and Islander peoples have not been compensated for the loss of their traditional land, social and cultural independence and self-respect. [More…]
In the War of Independence for the United States of America some fundamental principles of democracy were enunciated. [More…]
It is quite conceivable that employment by the Crown or in the Public Service could affect the independence of a member of parliament. [More…]
It is also relevant that we have increased the relative importance of general purpose (‘untied’) funds thus providing the States with more independence and flexibility in the conduct of their own affairs. [More…]
Little or no attempt has been made to achieve uniformity in the justification for their initial creation, in the degree of operating independence granted to them or in the strictness and form of their accountability requirements. [More…]
As we see it, therefore, the major problem which we face in an inquiry is to strike a proper balance between, on the one hand, the appropriate operating independence of authorities and, on the other hand, their satisfactory responsibility and accountability to the Parliament and the people. [More…]
This results in variations in the degrees of operating independence and accountability standards. [More…]
Secondly, what degree of operating independence should be granted to authorities once established, especially in relation to their financial activities, their staffing arrangements and their dealings in property and other assets? [More…]
There we see the very destruction of the Commission’s independence. [More…]
Concerted United Nations’ efforts towards achieving self-determination and independence for Namibia began in 1972. [More…]
Following this advice discussions were initiated between the Five’ and South Africa on how to achieve early and peaceful independence for Namibia through an internationally acceptable settlement. [More…]
The plan, and proposals by the United Nations Secretary-General for its implementation, were later accepted by the United Nations Security Council as a basis for an internationally acceptable settlement that would give Namibia independence. [More…]
Elections are scheduled to be held some seven months after UNTAG ‘s deployment, and independence following about five months later. [More…]
I have heard some magnificent speeches in this Senate which claims its independence from the Executive. [More…]
Certainly it gives us a feeling of independence. [More…]
In Namibia, the transition to independence on a peaceful basis depends very much on the supervision of that country’s elections for its first government by a generally acceptable international force. [More…]
What progress is being made towards a constitution and independence for the New Hebrides? [More…]
The elected government will then decide on the date for independence which will occur by 1980. [More…]
We look forward to the full and early independence of the New Hebrides. [More…]
When they reached independence they immediately fractured and started to resettle themselves. [More…]
Katanga’s fight for independence has been not only ignored but also frustrated by United Nations activity. [More…]
We suddenly find that in the case of Rhodesia, which I notice the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and everybody else, apart from Senator Sheil, on the Government side in both houses, refers to loyally as Zimbabwe, efforts have been made by not only the illegal Prime Minister, Mr Smith, not only by the representative of the chieftains, Chief Chirau, but also by two long-standing advocates- very brave advocates I would suggest- and leaders of African independence, certainly people who could not be described as Uncle Toms, Bishop Muzorewa and the Reverend Mr Sithole, to come to some sort of peaceable agreement. [More…]
However, I think it is extremely important that the Auditor-General guard against becoming involved in political judgments as it is imperative that he maintain his independence and objectivity at all times. [More…]
They have fought for a long time to obtain their own independence. [More…]
They are not entirely united in religion or views because there are Christians, Arabs and Moslems among them and their politics are different, but for 17 years they have been maintaining an heroic struggle for independence and dignity under the most trying circumstances. [More…]
What have some of the competent commentators said about Vietnam’s problems; its independence as a communist state, its not wishing to be drawn in on one orbit or another but its being enabled to pursue its own independent position, its own independent development? [More…]
We propose that the independence and sovereignty of Kampuchea be guaranteed by international agreement and that the Kampuchean people be left to resolve their internal problems free of interference from Vietnam, China or any other outside forces. [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…]
As has continually been our attitude to fights for independence or struggles for independence by minor nations, we took the side of the exploiters and the ruling class and did not understand the innate feeling and desire for national independence of the people concerned. [More…]
The Vietnamese chose the only way they could see possible to develop their nation’s independence and to develop as one people, not a split people. [More…]
The Chinese persisted in the attempt to frustrate Vietnam’s independence and national sovereignty. [More…]
My Government therefore considers it urgent that the Security Council should reaffirm the right of Democratic Kampuchea to independence, sovereignty and the integrity of its territory and the right of the Kampuchean people to determine their future themselves, free from outside influences or interference. [More…]
The Government’s publicly stated position is that there should be program independence for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Senator Button made the point that independence is not achieved until a person is 25 years of age whereas in fact independence can be established, for the purposes of the allowance on a number bases: Firstly, if a person is over 25 years of age; secondly, if a person is married or has been in a de facto relationship for two years or for only one year if there is a child; thirdly, if a person is a ward of a State or an orphan; or, fourthly, if a person has been in the work force for two years. [More…]
A young man brought his case to me when he could not establish independence in order to receive the full time allowance. [More…]
While the conflict in Eritrea is an internal Ethiopian problem involving differing and conflicting independence groups, the Australian Government would like to see a negotiated settlement which we believe can be brought about if goodwill is shown by both sides. [More…]
There was interference by a Prime Minister in the true independence of a Speaker. [More…]
Because of this there is a great need for Australia to find oil, for security by achieving independence, to ensure supplies and to assist with our balance of payments problems. [More…]
The local government legislation provides no security for outstations where Aboriginal clan and family groups have moved away from the government controlled settlements to establish a better economic base and greater independence. [More…]
An air conditioning unit could be provided to an asthma sufferer receiving an invalid pension only if it were to complement a current and acceptable rehabilitation program in terms of adequately restoring independence and, where practicable, a return to suitable employment. [More…]
Australia’s Aboriginal and Islander peoples have not been compensated for the loss of their traditional land, social and cultural independence and self-respect. [More…]
The Commonwealth gave them too much independence and too much freedom to approve schemes which were inherently dubious. [More…]
It places Australia in exactly the same category in which China placed itself when it withdrew substantial aid from Vietnam at a time when Vietnam was endeavouring to reconstruct its economy and achieve a position of independence. [More…]
This provision will ensure that, notwithstanding its statutory independence to arrive at its own findings in particular cases, the Tribunal’s operations will be placed within the framework of Government policy. [More…]
Nationally, it threatens the independence, integrity and sovereignty of the motherland, and internationally it is bound to aggravate, beyond the point of no return, instability in an area of extreme strategic importance to the economy and politics of the whole world. [More…]
27 Australian Broadcasting Commission- Independence. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope obviously felt that there ought to be a very wide measure of independence by the Director-General in relation to his professional opinion, if I can put it in that broad sense. [More…]
The importance of the Government Printer’s need for independence of action was brought home to the Committee when the Government Printer suggested that the Government’s legislative program was threatened in recent times by his inability to appoint staff. [More…]
In 1968 he led the State to financial independence and freedom from the tag of being a mendicant State. [More…]
Such an arrangement will confer an appropriate degree of independence and flexibility so that the Authority can cope with changing requirements during the next decade. [More…]
I note that today is the thirty-first anniversary of Israel’s independence. [More…]
I acknowledge that a number of countries have their embassies in the much larger city of Tel Aviv but, given the increasing independence and security of Israel, I ask the Minister whether the Government will consider moving the Australian Embassy to the capital city, Jerusalem. [More…]
I think honourable senators will acknowledge the celebration today of the thirty-first anniversary of Israel ‘s independence, and indeed honourable senators will acknowledge the virility and the strength of purpose which has built the Israelis as a people. [More…]
I would certainly acknowledge that there is a strong prima facie reason for making warrants authorising the exercise of these investigative powers judicial rather than ministerial, the argument being that that would ensure that an element of independence comes into the decisionmaking process. [More…]
all government action should respect the independence, dignity and worth of every individual. [More…]
In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]
The independence of the ABC is also seriously in jeopardy. [More…]
A matter which has cropped up amongst honourable senators and at committee meetings is the commissions’ independence and their exclusion from ministerial control. [More…]
In order to increase the budgetary independence, responsibility and flexibility of the States, it is proposed that as soon as possible each State government will have discretion to impose a surcharge or allow a rebate on the total personal income tax of that State. [More…]
Australia’s Aboriginal and Islander peoples have not been compensated for the loss of their traditional land, social and cultural independence and self-respect. [More…]
Does- this recommendation follow any work carried out in the Minister’s department as to the capacity for financial independence of unemployed persons who are under 25 years of age? [More…]
I am not aware of any work that has been carried out in my department on the financial independence of those under 25 years of age. [More…]
We see the special broadcasting service as being far too vulnerable to ministerial whim and as encroaching upon the independence of the ABC. [More…]
by greatly increasing the power of the Minister to direct and restrict the Tribunal, it destroys its independence and renders the Tribunal subject to considerable political influence and control in its day to day operations’. [More…]
The first view expresses the wish that there should be the utmost level of independence for the people of Norfolk Island. [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…]
I note that today is the thirty-first anniversary of Israel ‘s independence. [More…]
I acknowledge that a number of countries have their embassies in the much larger city of Tel Aviv but given the increasing independence and security of Israel, I ask the Minister whether the Government will consider moving the Australian Embassy to the capital city, Jerusalem. [More…]
I wonder whether the Government would consider this matter and, if it approves of the proposal, whether it would make that known to the directors and shareholders of the Bank of Adelaide which might then enable that bank to retain a degree of independence instead of just joining one of the big conglomerates. [More…]
The diversion of income to Aboriginals in that way is a substantial attempt to ensure that they are not third class citizens but are put in a position of economic independence and, indeed, a position of some economic power. [More…]
I for one take that as a sign that the sorts of arrangements that we now encourage through legislation are arrangements which will enable the Aboriginal people to establish a form of financial independence which they have not had since white settlement in Australia. [More…]
We should recognise that what was appropriate in a certain point in our history is no longer apt and should be abandoned without any sense of betrayal but in order to signify our national independence within the community of nations. [More…]
I am advised that the Government certainly is aware of the desire expressed by the Banaban people to achieve independence on Ocean Island, separate from the Gilbert Islands of which they constitute a part. [More…]
The task of this Government has been to rebuild the strength and independence of this nation, to reassert the fundamental principle that governments can establish the circumstances, the opportunities for people to achieve and create and that ultimately it is only an independent, self-reliant society that can develop Australia. [More…]
Atomic Energy Commission may lack independence and integrity of command and fail to enforce optimum safeguards. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned about the ramifications that this Bill could have in its present form for the independence of the Australian Public Service. [More…]
I was told that a similar authority was abused by the Nixon administration to undermine the independence and political neutrality of the public service in the United States of America. [More…]
Many times in the past the independence of the Public Service has been an important bulwark against the hasty or politically motivated actions of an Executive. [More…]
In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]
The Bill is a deliberate undermining of the independence of the Australian Public Service. [More…]
I am concerned at the suggestions which have been made in this debate that in some way this Bill is an attempt to undermine the independence of the Public Service. [More…]
In addition to an internal investigative unit, the Commission considered it vital to establish two other bodies to ensure independence and impartiality in the investigation of complaints. [More…]
This the Australian Law Reform Commission duly did, recommending in its ninth report of June 1978 a slightly modified version of its original proposals, but nonetheless one which retained very clearly and centrally the concept of a detailed complaint review procedure which did embody to an important extent the notion of independence from the police investigations themselves. [More…]
The machinery proposed involves the use of three distinct instruments to infuse elements of independence into the complaint determination process. [More…]
It is proposed that this unit be separate and distinct from the main body of the police operations and, for that reason, it will have a greater degree of efficiency and accumulated experience and independence in dealing with complaints. [More…]
Commonwealth statesmen would do well to reflect that a republican form of Government, in which the executive assumes independence of the trusteeship of the Crown, leads straight along the path to Tea Pot Dome, Watergate or Mulder - [More…]
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia has now satisfied the entire six principles, laid down by successive British governments over the years, as qualifying her for independence. [More…]
While I am on that subject I remind honourable senators that when Mozambique and Angola came to independence, they had imposed upon them governments that were not subject to elections at all. [More…]
In the wider sense, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, South West Africa-Namibia and South Africa have had experience in bringing underdeveloped peoples to economic, social and political independence. [More…]
the independence of the Schools Commission to recommend the allocation of funds to schools on the basis of need, unhindered by Government directive; and [More…]
I instance the varying statements by the South West African People ‘s Organisation- SWAPO - about Australia ‘s participation; the opening of a South African based National Assembly in Namibia during May; South Africa’s announced plans for Namibian independence; certain activities by the United Nations General Assembly in May, including the appointment of another ambassador to deal with the matter; the Lusaka decisions relating to Zimbabwe; and the replacement of the liberal Administrator of Namibia, Mr Justice Martin Steyn, by the chairman of the archreactionary Broederbond of South Africa, Professor Girret Viljoen. [More…]
Australia’s Aboriginal and Islander peoples have not been compensated for the loss of their traditional land, social and cultural independence and self-respect. [More…]
the independence of the Schools Commission to recommend the allocation of funds to schools on the basis of need, unhindered by Government directive: and [More…]
The Government is aware of a number of calls for an international conference on Kampuchea, including the appeal by Prince Sihanouk for a United Nations presence to supervise free elections and a return to independence. [More…]
He knew and understood the yearning of people for independence. [More…]
He shouldered the task of bringing India to independence. [More…]
I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj, but as the first to lead the way to a new independence. [More…]
Mrs Thatcher also accepted the responsibility of the British Government to bring the country to legal independence on a basis which the Commonwealth and the international community as a whole will find acceptable. [More…]
The communique made nine points: The Heads of Government: confirmed that they were wholly committed to genuine black majority rule for the people of Zimbabwe; recognised, in this context, that the internal settlement constitution is defective in certain important aspects; fully accepted that it is the Constitutional responsibility of the British Government to grant legal independence to Zimbabwe on the basis of majority rule; recognised that the search for a lasting settlement must involve all parties to the conflict; were deeply conscious of the urgent need to achieve such a settlement and bring peace to the people of Zimbabwe and their neighbours; accepted that independence on the basis of majority rule requires the adoption of a democratic constitution including appropriate safeguards for minorities; acknowledged that the government formed under such an independence constitution must be chosen through free and fair elections, properly supervised under British Government authority, and with Commonwealth observers; welcomed the British Government’s indication that an appropriate procedure for advancing towards these objectives would be for them to call a Constitutional conference to which all parties would be invited; and consequently, accepted that it must be a major objective to bring about a cessation of hostilities, and an end to sanctions as part of the process of implementation of a lasting settlement. [More…]
But the fact is that they did go there and they did establish a colony which subsequently acquired some sort of independence. [More…]
Ever since they did that efforts have been made by the black majority of that country to obtain independence. [More…]
This desire of the African people for independence was resisted- for the most part, foolishly- by the white settlers within that country, culminating in what happened in 1965 when the Government of Mr Smith, the Rhodesia Front Government of what was then [More…]
Southern Rhodesia, made its so-called unilateral declaration of independence and subsequently established the Republic of Rhodesia. [More…]
In fact Mr Smith and those people who constituted his Government acted unlawfully in their unilateral declaration of independence. [More…]
First of all, there was the illegal unilateral declaration of independence by Smith. [More…]
the independence of the Schools Commission to recommend the allocation of funds to schools on the basis of need, unhindered by Government directives; and [More…]
It exposed its own inquiry into the share transactions as a farce and permitted a licence, originally granted and recently renewed on the grounds of its independence from other media holdings, to be acquired by one of the largest multi-media proprietors in Australia, probably one of the largest in the world. [More…]
Whilst some of its decisions might be regarded as open to criticism by members of the Opposition and some members of the Government, the fact is that it is established in its independence to carry out those and other functions to which I shall refer shortly. [More…]
But the Tribunal, in its independence, has made its decision- as it is entitled to do- and I suggest that the argument is now thrown back to the politicians. [More…]
However Mr Moremon undertook to pursue the points raised in the ALP’s submission and during the course of the public inquiry the applicant was questioned at length on matters relating to the independence of Oberon from other Australian media interests and to the resident status of Mr and Mrs Gordon. [More…]
It was contended, to put the point shortly and generally, that News Ltd’s record in the ownership and control of various forms of the media should lead to the conclusion that the independence and objectivity of Channel TEN ‘s news and public information services would be adversely affected if the transaction were to be approved. [More…]
The Tribunal would emphasise, however, and it notes the fact with approval, that firm and unequivocal assurances as to the independence and impartiality of Channel TEN’s news and public affairs services were given at the Inquiry by senior News Ltd personnel and, indeed, by Mr Murdoch himself. [More…]
The Tribunal, at this stage, would have no basis for any assertion that the disapproval of this transaction would preserve the “independence” of Channel TEN or guarantee adherence to any general principle on the aggregation or concentration of media ownership. [More…]
the independence of the Schools Commission to recommend the allocation of funds to schools on the basis of need, unhindered by Government directive; and [More…]
The report of 1977 which Senator Melzer referred to appears to contain many valuable suggestions for the future independence of people who suffer from a physical or mentally retarded state. [More…]
In the opinion of Senator Gietzelt, it is a monster that seduces people into being what he calls credit addicts- a very poor and very paternalistic but not surprising socialist approach to the Australian person, as though the Australian is not a person of sufficient independence and maturity to be able to handle his own credit without socialistic, doctrinaire lectures from Senator Gietzelt and the Labor Party. [More…]
The picture of the Australian family is one of sturdy independence, of people who have been able to handle hire purchase and all the various forms of credit over the years, and to handle them with solvency and with no need for lectures from doctrinaire socialists. [More…]
He says that the Government is concerned to see that the voluntary conservation movement should be seen to retain its impartiality and independence. [More…]
So far as the argument which was raised by Senator Mason this morning in regard to the dollar for dollar basis and the statements made in this Senate that voluntary conservation groups should be seen to retain their impartiality and independence are concerned, I too say that it is not a matter where we should be expecting groups to spend much of their time in raising money and not doing the work that has to be done. [More…]
Does the Government unequivocally support the absolute integrity and independence of Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Has the Government taken any special steps, either financially or militarily, to provide extra support for the independence of Papua New Guinea, particularly in view of the degree of political instability in Indonesia? [More…]
I think it is to our credit and to the credit of the Government of Papua New Guinea that, for some considerable time, we have shared an harmonious relationship, unlike many other countries which have been given independence and after a short time that independence has been lost. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland did very little to assist in facing the very difficult problem of establishing some sort of boundary and in recognising the responsibilities which flowed to both nations after independence was granted. [More…]
This treaty establishes a zone which enables the Torres Strait island people to maintain their own independence and at the same time not be isolated from the peoples of Papua New Guinea with whom they have a very close relationship. [More…]
He classifies the approach in France as one of maintaining independence. [More…]
Most technology policy has been dictated by France’s political commitment to industrial and technological independence. [More…]
One of the aims of the Government’s federalism policy is that State governments and local authorities should have maximum independence and flexibility in determining their priorities and carrying out their functions. [More…]
I believe that this sort of section, together with the enhanced penalties both within this Bill and within the Bill with which the Senate dealt earlier in the year, will give to the quarantine service some of the aspects of independence and status which are needed to bring home not only to the Australian public but to the magistrates of this country the very great importance of the quarantine service. [More…]
Sir Richard Kirby and Mr Justice Staples are opposed to the legislation because they believe it undermines the integrity and independence of the commission by introducing some procedures and prohibiting others. [More…]
Three comments seem pertinent: the independence of a statutory body always is relative; an independence that enshrines bias or protects idiosyncratic behaviour is not obviously desirable; and it is arguable that the commission has, in the past, been too willing to pay a high premium on behalf of the Government and the community for industrial peace. [More…]
The Bill is not only destructive of conciliation and arbitration machinery established over many years allowing to commissioners a certain independence and impartiality and giving them an effective ability to deal with a dispute; it is also destructive in a much deeper sense of the constitutionally enshrined arrangements for dealing with industrial disputes in this country. [More…]
Finally, we have the Government pressing on with this legislation in the face of the request by Sir John Moore for full consultation on these particular clauses concerning consultation which are perceived by the commissioners as threatening their integrity, their independence and their effectiveness in settling disputes. [More…]
It will be the conciliation and arbitration system, lt is its independence and its integrity which is threatened by this Bill. [More…]
Nothing is more calculated to strike at the independence and authority of any member of the Commission than that he be under threat of becoming disentitled to act if he does not please. [More…]
This legislation is setting out to destroy the independence of the Commission. [More…]
It is threatening the independence of the Commission, and the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, as the great divider of this nation, has now tried by this legislation to divide the Commission itself. [More…]
Nothing is more calculated to strike at the independence and authority of any member of the Commission than that he be under threat of becoming disentitled to act if he does not please. [More…]
It was not my purpose to act against my colleague’s stature, rather to uphold his and mine and the independence of the Commission. [More…]
This amendment strikes at the concept of judicial independence. [More…]
They are aimed at the destruction of the independence of that system, the erosion of its credibility, the undermining of its selfrespect, and the creation of opportunities for insidious government manipulation of that system for its own purposes. [More…]
Whilst complete commercial independence may not be possible- it may not even be desirable- I believe that some move towards this end would certainly add to the efficiency of both organisations. [More…]
The Committee concluded that the Australian Government Publishing Service had made a significant contribution to Commonwealth publishing and recommended that the AGPS should be retained but with greater independence from the Department of Administrative Services. [More…]
The Committee also concluded that, in turn, the Government Printer should be given more independence from the AGPS and that he should be under the administrative control of the Secretary of the Department of Administrative Services, not the AGPS. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is disappointing that some of the major recommendations relating to the AGPS and the independence of the Government Printer have not been accepted or have been modified. [More…]
It would seem that in the agreed text, if that is what it is, Mr Street deals with Sir John’s concern about the consultative process impeding the Commission’s independence and efficiency by saying: [More…]
Nothing is more calculated to strike at the independence and authority of any member of the Commission than that he be under threat of becoming disentitled to act if he does not please. [More…]
It is ill drafted, ill thought out, draconian in its implications for unions, and thoroughly nasty in its implications for the independence of the whole conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
-The Constitution provides for the independence of the judiciary and its function is to decide the legal matters. [More…]
I do not believe it ought to descend to the level of all other quasi-autonomous government organisations- Quangos- or statutory corporations and assume that it has a role and independence for itself which overrides the people’s will. [More…]
Natural justice has also been considered and we believe that it is a quite accepted principle in administrative law that to seek advice on policy matters does not infringe the independence of the tribunal. [More…]
Nor does the process of the consultation as outlined detract from the independence of the commissioner and thereby infringe natural justice. [More…]
A letter dated 4 July- American Independence Day, incidentally- signed by Mr Porter is in an entirely different vein. [More…]
Councils are legally able to carry out many of the functions provided by the Public Service administration and establish a greater degree of independence and selfmanagement by raising their own revenues, receiving other public moneys and accepting responsibility for provision of services. [More…]
We must remember that at that time Mr Fraser and Mr Anthony were asking questions in the House of Representatives which were asserting that the independence movement in East Timor was Communist influenced. [More…]
Mr Darby, who is now accused of being a right wing extremist, which he may well be, also defended that position on the basis of his own personal investigations on the island, as, indeed, did Senator Bonner, Mr Fry and I when we went to Timor after the Fretilin forces had in fact gained the upper hand in the internal struggle for independence. [More…]
Yet, we have Dr Mochtar, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, if he is correctly quoted- one can only assume that he is- saying that the reason for the problems of starvation and difficulties in Timor was the Fretilin independence movement forcing people away from their villages up into the mountains. [More…]
They were only marching with their flags and banners for independence. [More…]
Their motivation was national independence- something which we and people all over the world have fought for. [More…]
There are now more than 150 member countries, so almost 90 countries have won their independence in post-war years. [More…]
Even if one could have found a magic formula for providing some degree of independence in those wasted days of the past, there would have been the need for help to come forward from outside. [More…]
This is the general tone right through the report which points out that local government throughout Australia has benefited from the financial and economic plans of the present Government and is enjoying a period of independence and flexibility under the Government’s federalism policy. [More…]
One of the aims and objects of the Government’s federalism policy, as I said earlier, is that State governments and local authorities should have the maximum independence and the maximum flexibility in determining their programs and their priorities and in carrying out the various functions which are assigned to them. [More…]
I suggest that that is very important if the autonomy, independence and flexibility of local government is to be preserved. [More…]
At the same time that belief also supports the policies as well as the philosophy that both State governments and local authorities should have maximum independence and flexibility. [More…]
So at a time when something could have been done on an international level to deal with the future independence of the Timorese people those who are delivering gratuitous lectures today and who are doing positive damage by so doing were then, in fact, allowing this situation to occur. [More…]
His independence will disappear and there is no guarantee, despite various Government protestations to the contrary, that he will be able to go on exercising the kind of investigative and noise-making role that he has engaged in since his office was established in 1975. [More…]
Pending the achievement of the objectives of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 concerning the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the provisions of the present Protocol shall in no way limit the right of petition granted to these peoples by the Charter of the United Nations and other international conventions and instruments under the United Nations and its specialised agencies. [More…]
I continually answer questions stressing the independence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
It might even go some way to reviving the old concept of implied prohibitions, the notion that the Commonwealth cannot act so as to interfere unwarrantably with the functioning of the States or to threaten their independence. [More…]
The United States of America had a war of independence which was based on the slogan ‘No taxation without representation’. [More…]
But after that there was war and bloodshed for another 150 years, and that was not settled to any great extent until the American Declaration of Independence. [More…]
If I could come back now to the American Declaration of Independence, the undying words were written: [More…]
There was the United States Declaration of Independence, and then its Constitution, and then the ten amendments which was actually the United States Bill of Rights. [More…]
The first was the Declaration of the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in 1 960. [More…]
The occasion for the transfer has been taken to accord to the High Court a measure of independence from departmental control that reflects the special position accorded the Court by the Constitution. [More…]
A wholly unsatisfactory position has been created if the Government is genuinely serious about preserving the independence and the effectiveness, more importantly, of the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
I think those amendments are really based upon the fact that it is felt that the combination of the present subclauses (l)(c) and (l)(d) creates ambiguity and reflects upon the independence of the Commission to carry out inquiries on its own intiative My proposal to add those words to sub-clause (l)(c) and to delete altogether sub-clause ( 1 ) (d), which does not seem to add anything to the broad powers in sub-clause ( 1 )(c), will overcome some of the concerns which have been expressed and which I think have given rise to Senator Missen ‘s amendment and I rather suspect to Senator Evans’s amendment. [More…]
The Committee aims to establish standard and uniform accountability requirements for authorities and consistent criteria governing their creation and operating independence. [More…]
I reiterate that unless the Parliament ensures the accountability of authorities they are in effect responsible to no-one; neither to the Executive Government from which they have often been given a degree of independence nor, of course, to the taxpayers, who are their real owners. [More…]
One is entitled to draw the conclusion, although I hesitate to do so, that the Bill has three principal purposes: To give the Government more control over land councils in the Northern Territory, both organisationally and financially; to make the actions of the councils accountable to the Government; and to take away more of the independence of the councils, especially the Northern Land Council. [More…]
The legislation seeks to remove some of the independence of the Northern Land Council and to vest even more power in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
Clause 8 shows how the Government has retreated on the important issue of the independence of the Northern Land Council. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt looks upon it as instituting more control by government, more control by the Minister; as taking independence away from Aboriginal people; as a retreat; and so on. [More…]
The Attorney-General put in his second reading speech, and it has been put in debate in the other place, that the overwhelming justification and legitimisation for the new arrangement is the traditional notion of the independence of the judiciary and, accordingly, the propriety of the judiciary having independent control over finance- it being one of the three major arms of government. [More…]
It has long been the subject of complaint- it is currently the subject of quite vociferous complaint by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and I know that you, Mr President, have joined with him in making noise about this matter- that the Parliament does not enjoy any degree of budgetary independence from the Government and that this is quite in conflict with Parliament’s standing as an equal arm of government along with the Executive and the judiciary. [More…]
There is absolutely nothing in this legislation which can be construed as guaranteeing any ultimate financial independence for the Court. [More…]
Every court and tribunal, at whatever level, should surely be able to be independent and to make an argument for independence. [More…]
That has to be read in conjunction with the provision that the High Court is to be given administrative independence. [More…]
The object of the High Court’s having administrative independence- it is the same privilege as is accorded to independent statutory authorities- is that it does not have to obtain ministerial or departmental approval for the contracts or expenditures it enters into. [More…]
Earlier today we had before us a Bill which virtually gave complete independence of operation to the High Court of Australia, to the judicial arm of government. [More…]
It concerns me greatly that the positions occupied by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives should be treated in such a cavalier way, immediately after a Bill has been presented which gives practically complete independence to the judicial arm of government. [More…]
Those things that I ‘ve said are on the basis that they relate to the adherence to principles of independence of the Courts and indeed the criticism that I most strongly make is that it cuts across the time honoured principle, that not only must justice be done, but that it must also appear to be done. [More…]
They promised their electorates that they would come into the Parliament and perform their functions with a measure of independence. [More…]
On that very day, this Parliament agreed to the passage of the High Court legislation which virtually gave the High Court complete independence as to its financial operations. [More…]
The national Parliament is to meet on 28 November to elect a Chief Minister and to form a new government which will decide the date for independence. [More…]
It looks forward to the completion of the New Hebrides’ progress towards independence and to an expansion of relations between the two countries. [More…]
However, we would expect the British and French governments, as the administrating authorities and, in the future, as the former metropolitan powers, to meet the major aid requirements of the New Hebrides, just as we have provided the major aid needs of Papua New Guinea since its independence. [More…]
We understand that the British have indicated that subventions of this magnitude, reducing at 6 per cent per annum, will continue in the postindependence period. [More…]
ASEAN pledges its firm support and solidarity with the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand and the Thai people in meeting the threat to their security and in the preservation of their independence, national sovereignty and territorial integrity; [More…]
This is a new development which ultimately will lead to independence from Government funding. [More…]
Our amendments are designed to strengthen the independence of the Institute and give it more direction and substance than we believe the legislation before us does. [More…]
One would be fearful that an institute set up with such rigid government control and lack of independence might fall into the same trap. [More…]
I think it is important if we are going to establish an institute like this that we give it independence and strength and that we divorce it as much as possible from departmental control or departmental direction. [More…]
I am prompted also by the fact that there has been a move for Timor independence. [More…]
A new movement seeking independence for the former Portuguese colony of East Timor, now incorporated into Indonesia, launched a Press campaign in the Portuguese capital at the weekend . [More…]
Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1 5 1 4 ( XV); [More…]
But the fact remains that Indonesia exploited the situation and endeavoured to undermine the desire the Timorese had for political independence. [More…]
It has been given a degree of independence which is very substantial. [More…]
That independence is given to enable the Board to fulfil a public function. [More…]
However, that independence is given on a basis that the Board will be accountable through the Parliament to the people. [More…]
There is no basis at all upon which authorities can be created, can have independence, but not be accountable to the Parliament which has created them. [More…]
-I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs to an article in the Melbourne Age this morning which states that the United Nations General Assembly voted yesterday to reaffirm the right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence. [More…]
Has the Government taken any special steps, financially or militarily, to provide extra support for the independence of Papua New Guinea, particularly in view of the degree of political instability in Indonesia? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a reported decision of the Papua New Guinea Government to postpone a scheduled 1976 election for one year, which in effect would postpone Independence Day? [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the government will take all steps to acquaint the people with the dangers of nuclear warfare and to work internationally for nuclear disarmament and that it will refuse to diminish Australia’s independence and standing through the construction of an Omega station in Australia. [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…]