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

• I am quite certain that they would have learned that the ultimate goals of our system - the pursuit of profit, individualism, glorification of the millionaire and the inquisitive person - do not suit their background and history. [More…]

• Australian democracy, which I believe is the Australian way, has reached great stature because of individualism. [More…]

• Bjelke-Petersen in terms of individualism and the rights of the individual in terms of new developments in government, he should say so so that everybody in this chamber and everybody listening know where he really stands. [More…]

• Senator Sheil showed us a little bit of rugged Queensland pre-Adam Smith individualism in his comments on the need for a securities Bill when he stated: [More…]

• In my opinion, the Government does not express the real Australian character which has always been one of rugged individualism and self-reliance but with proper concern for a fair go for everyone. [More…]

• The third and fourth aspects of the Speech are important- the question of the development of individualism and giving back to people the right to make their own decision and also the development of Federalism in a healthy state instead of what it has suffered recently. [More…]

• Until society is reformed so as to give real opportunity to such people, any reference to the beneficiaries of reform programs as ‘unwelcome dependants on the state’ is callously insulting, and talk of ‘individualism and initiative’ remains the self-indulgence of the elite. [More…]

• -There is, of course, as I hope Senator Georges will understand, a high degree of individualism amongst artists and a high degree of difference of opinion about the role of the arts and the role of artists in the community. [More…]

• I think you have your own quaint form of individualism which would be quite inappropriate really to the Soviet system, but I do think that the idea on trade practices which you have is a system that is controlled and ensures that there are no cut prices at all- a system which ensures that those people who want to buy things will pay the high price for poor quality which is so much a part of the Soviet system. [More…]

• I believe it is important to recognise in any discussion of the wool industry the degree to which it has traditionally stood on its own feet- the degree to which initiative and individualism have been typical of it. [More…]

• Those three years tended to promote in Australians a feeling that the state could provide, that the state had all the solutions, that the old standards of initiative and individualism were characteristics of the past; they were just myths. [More…]

• I find it sadly ironical that we are being governed, in a manner of speaking, by a government which adheres to a philosophy of individualism and a philosophy of free choice. [More…]

• (The silence, the individualism, the exchange of insults) . [More…]

• In that context I quote from F. A. Hayek in Individualism and Economic Order which was published in 1963. [More…]