liberty - senate - 1970

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

We regard this provision as such a serious curtailment of the liberty of the subject that we believe that if there is to be such an offence it should be an indictable offence because, in our view, the safeguard of a jury trial is required in these circumstances. [More…]
I take the liberty of speaking for all honourable senators. [More…]
Does the Government maintain a conscious policy of balancing the traffic between the two operators or are public servants at liberty to make their own choice. [More…]
I am not at liberty to answer that question at this moment. [More…]
Any farmer who has already made arrangements with a private bank for loan purposes will be at liberty to continue with those arrangements and, if he so desires, to avail himself of the rural (finances available through the Commonwealth Development Bank. [More…]
Whatever the differences between countries, however the balance between authority and liberty is resolved in these different countries, the free peoples- those who seek to elevate the dignity of man, to laud him for what he is and for what he is able to achieve- will reflect, I believe, the measure of their own value of freedom by the consistency with which they defend freedom in their own countries and likewise challenge those who would deny freedom to other countries. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
Standing Order 407a provides that, in the debate on the Address-in Reply, or on the First Reading of a Bill which the Senate may not amend, or in moving the Second Reading of a Bill, a Senator shall be at liberty to speak for one hour and a half. [More…]
However, I accept the fact that the Opposition naturally is at liberty to bring this matter on again one day next week or at some time in the future. [More…]
I regard details of the proposals made to me by Mr Stone as confidential and do not feel at liberty to reveal these to the honourable senator. [More…]
1 regard details of the proposals made to me by Mr Stone as confidential and do not feel at liberty to reveal these to the honourable senator. [More…]
We therefore beg you to give immediate consideration to granting permanent residency to any Thai national now in Australia who cannot return to Thailand for fear of life or liberty, and to ensure the security and well-being of all Thais in this country, irrespective of their political beliefs. [More…]
We further request that the Australian Government grant refuge to Thai students and others who are forced to flee from Thailand in fear of their lives and liberty. [More…]
Senator McLaren, I do not want to limit your discussion, but I take the liberty of mentioning that the divisions before the Committee, and particularly the one to which you are addressing yourself, deal only with the Governor-General ‘s establishments. [More…]
We would be very concerned if it means that the Government is at liberty to increase that amount perhaps ten times over. [More…]
As the honourable senator would know, I am not at liberty to disclose what happens at Cabinet meetings. [More…]
I only hope that they will be as flexible and sensitive in the future when issues of this kind, particularly involving the liberty of the subject, are raised. [More…]
the most potent weapons for fighting Communism in Asia are good wages, adequate food, social security and personal liberty. [More…]
The Government and those who support it have been challenged constantly by members of the Opposition because, as they say, we have not had the courage to justify and support the Government’s attitude in maintaining that the security of South Vietnam is an appropriate cause for people who desire liberty and democracy throughout the world to espouse. [More…]
If I were at liberty do do so within the confines of this Bill I would explain it to the honourable senator. [More…]
He is opposed to people having the right to show their freedom or their liberty to justify peace. [More…]
The honourable senator is stretching the liberty that was given to him to speak to the point of order. [More…]
I am convinced that the average Australian believes in his own mind that the greatest insurance policy which any Australian government can give this country is by cooperating and working with the United Slates in the fight for freedom and liberty not only in this country but in other countries which need our assistance, lt staggers me to hear honourable senators opposite who are failing in what their Party has stood for over the years - the love of democracy and the belief that we should help the underdog and those people who need help - now talk as they have done tonight. [More…]
1 hope that this issue in Vietnam will continue until the Vietcong, the North Vietnamese and the Communists will be so crushed that the flower of liberty will blossom and grow much greater and much better than ever before in the South East Asian area. [More…]
I only hope that the leaders of this Government, instead of sitting back and taking a defensive attitude, will take more of the offensive in this political fight and show the Australian people that what is being done is the right thing for the preservation of liberty and democracy. [More…]
Sena:or WHEELDON- If Senator Young wishes to say that a majority of members of the United States Senate are traitors and subversives, he is entirely at liberty to do so but 1 do not think this statement would be taken seriously by the Australian people. [More…]
Why should South African teams be banned and teams from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics welcomed, when the Red Army has repressed liberty in the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Austria and a host of other countries? [More…]
Where is the freedom and liberty of the subject in union activities? [More…]
I lake the liberty of referring to one or two passages of the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
So if Senator Webster likes to continue to deny his own Prime Minister he is at liberty to do so. [More…]
I might take the liberty of reading a report of newspaper articles which appeared at the time and which made reference to our joint venture and our joint deputation. [More…]
As I understand it, any airline operator or charter operator is at liberty to make unlimited his normal liability policies if he so desires by the payment of an additional premium. [More…]
If he is offered a higher commercial value than the assessed commercial value he is completely at liberty to accept the higher offer. [More…]
The position with respect to those matters that I am at liberty to mention appears from the following list [More…]
If the honourable senator wants to tell Waikerie Co-operative Distillery Limited that it is exploiting the South Australian public he is at liberty to do that. [More…]
The whole thing is a lot of hyprocisy by people who have no time for human rights and liberty but who are attempting to serve the interests of people in North Vietnam who, in many cases, are of their own kind. [More…]
It is no use Senator Greenwood saying that the preventing of Mr Gregory from coming to Australia is not an infringement of the liberty of anybody in Australia because it is an infringement of the liberty of all Australians. [More…]
It is an infringement of the liberty of Australians to have contact with people from other countries who have been invited to come to this country. [More…]
That is the very thing against which people are fighting for their liberty and freedom in many countries today and the sort of activity that everybody condemns when it is applied to international airlines and somebody wants to hijack an aircraft and use it as a terrorist gesture against the rest of the community in order to gain his ends no matter what happens. [More…]
He should be at liberty to take an oath or make an affirmation, and there should be no question of grounds or otherwise - let alone the possibility of some inquiry into his grounds. [More…]
Surely this is a transgression by the Commonwealth Parliament of the liberty of citizens to perform commercial activities within the States without interference from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Even if an arrangement were made between the States and the Commonwealth it would be an interference with the liberty of the individual to conduct his business in the manner in which he thinks fit. [More…]
Despite the fact that the purpose of this Bill is to set up an Australian Wool Commission, if the Commission were allowed to collect ‘information of such kinds as the Minister approves’, it would amount to a complete interference with the liberty of the individual. [More…]
Perhaps the greatest safeguard of civil liberty of the people of the Territory is free speech and a free Press. [More…]
But, as I have said, it is obvious that at this late hour the Government has had second thoughts about the legislation and in some respects is tightening it up with respect to the rights and liberty of the subject. [More…]
Therefore, if the Government backbenchers who have expressed to the Government some concern about the untidiness of this part of the legislation and asked for amendments to be moved by the Government at this late stage are in fact concerned about the right of the individual citizen and the liberty of the subject, they should certainly be prepared to go all the way with the amendment that I have moved on behalf of the Opposition. [More…]
They can be best preserved and maintained and developed in an atmosphere of considerable academic liberty. [More…]
If the universities are not prepared to lay down appropriate rules and regulations in regard to some fundamental matters then it is only to be expected that students will take the utmost liberty which they sense they are entitled to within the broad restraints by which they regard themselves limited. [More…]
I take the liberty of reading some short extracts from 2 of the speeches delivered in support of Mr Anthony’s speech by the senior and junior vicepresidents of the Queensland Cane Growers Council at that meeting on Friday. [More…]
Are exporters under the present system at liberty to determine their own contractual arrangements; if so, do these arrangements vary from State to State. [More…]
I take the liberty of reading for the benefit of honourable senators a document that has been sent out by us. [More…]
So, 1 take the liberty of suggesting this small change in the form of words in the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I ask the Minister, who has been interested in questions of civil liberty, whether he will ascertain from the PostmasterGeneral and also perhaps from the Attorney-General whether the following report which appeared in the ‘Sunday Review’ is true: [More…]
From the above observations, wc solemnly declare that: We strongly oppose the action of sending troops to Laos by the government of Nguyen Van Thieu because it contrasts with the aspirations of the Vietnamese people and with the human ideals of peace, liberty and justice. [More…]
It certainly, so far as I would feel at liberty to comment and be helpful in making any comment, brings a point to bear upon the inadvisability of mixing sport with politics. [More…]
Did the Australian National Line, as a partner in the Pacific Australia Direct Line, consult the Government before this step was taken; if not, is the Australian National Line now at liberty similarly to withdraw from the Australia Northbound Shipping Conference if current discussions in that Conference do not produce acceptable results to the Australian National Line, and, if not, what were the special circumstances that warranted the withdrawal from the Australia/New Zealand and South Sea Islands Pacific Coast Conference. [More…]
I am at liberty now to talk of our salaries with .the greatest gusto because I leave here in a very short time. [More…]
It is a first duty of government to protect the citizen against violence, intimidation and crime, but law and order must be linked with moderation, liberty and justice. [More…]
But in the absence of positive safeguards of liberty, this does not prevent the Parliament from making these actions crimes in a subsequent provision in the Crimes Act or in another Act, such as the one for which we now have a Bill before us. [More…]
Probably it was the death of civil liberty that they spoke about to the world. [More…]
It is a first duty of government to protect the citizen against violence, intimidation and crime, but law and order must be linked with moderation, liberty and justice. [More…]
I know that these are questions to be raised at the Committee stage, but I mention them now as an indication of the matters which will be raised at that stage and to show that it is the desire of the Government to lake away the liberty of individuals and to justify its action for election purposes by creating a fear. [More…]
I do not agree with these people who go mad in buildings and affect the liberty of persons. [More…]
The resolution recalled that Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and that Article 5 provides that no-one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. [More…]
In my position as a representative Minister, I do not feel at liberty at the moment to specify them. [More…]
They are being floated with the frequency of liberty ships during the last war, and are having about the same rate of survival. [More…]
I will take the liberty of reading it as it is only short. [More…]
It will indicate that liberty may not degenerate into licence, that violence may not masquerade under the cloak of dissent and that the rights of the ordinary law abiding citizen will be protected in his person and property. [More…]
One has only to observe the society in which we live to see that liberty abounds in this country as it abounds in few other countries in the world. [More…]
What we must be concerned to ensure is that liberty does not degenerate into licence and that the needs of public order, the preservation of the rights of others and the fair and efficient administration of justice shall, from time to time, permit actions to be taken which change laws that have their sole justication in their antiquity. [More…]
This is a Bill which, as I said, does not permit liberty to degenerate into licence. [More…]
Senator Murphy said that this is something novel to the law, that this is something which is being introduced for the first time by this Government, that this is something which should be resisted as an undue intrusion upon the liberty of the subject and something which has such novelty value that it should be regarded as a most reprehensible intrusion into civil liberty. [More…]
Speaking for myself - I ask the Minister to consider this - when looking through the area of civil liberty one of the few provisions in the Commonwealth law which has appealed to me over the years has been section 8a of the [More…]
I do not regard as trifling any matter which concerns the liberty of the people, the right to peaceable assembly and the right to freedom of speech. [More…]
We are concerned with the liberty of the subject. [More…]
I shall take the liberty of referring to one or two of those passages. [More…]
Perhaps I can be allowed the liberty extended to Senator Kane just to state that the distributors in Victoria have to purchase liquefied petroleum gas from the refineries at $35 a ton whilst the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd and the Esso company sell it to Japan at $14.50 a ton. [More…]
Will the Minister request the Minister for Foreign Affairs to facilitate arrangements for Mr Whitlam, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party delegation to Communist China, to meet his counterpart when he is in that country with a view to ascertaining whether his counterpart enjoys the same measure of freedom, liberty, privileges and concessions as Mr Whitlam enjoys as Leader of the Opposition in this Parliament? [More…]
When an employee is on standby and he is not at liberty to leave the accommodation he is covered by the extension of this Act, unless he is living in separate living accommodation. [More…]
The Government has received no report to suggest that Mr James is at liberty, in China or elsewhere. [More…]
The DEPUTY PRESIDENT- You are at perfect liberty to do so. [More…]
These interests include liberty of the person, freedom of movement, immunity from being found guilty of discreditable conduct or from being expelled from an organisation of which one is a member or from being deprived of a legal status, immunity from being subjected to financial impositions and from having one’s property destroyed, taken away or substantially interfered with, and immunity from being deprived of one’s livelihood. [More…]
Recalling that article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person, [More…]
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person. [More…]
lt has given me a better appreciation of the country in which I live; the country that has given me freedom and liberty; the country that has given me the opportunity of doing something, feeble as though it may be and unrecognised as it will be for people I represent. [More…]
I am at liberty to put the matter in 10 minutes but I have the right to extend my time for half an hour. [More…]
I do not think I am at liberty to discuss what took place at that meeting, but the same kind of argument that we heard from Senator Wilkinson and Senator Byrne tonight was advanced at that meeting as the reason for wanting to deprive honourable senators of certain of their rights. [More…]
This is all that is left to be said by those who want to restrict the liberty of the individual. [More…]
I say that no person in a democracy has the right to seek more freedom or liberty for himself than he is willing to grant to his neighbour. [More…]
But America responded and it was because of that response that we continue to enjoy the freedom and liberty which we have and for which so many noble men and women made the supreme sacrifice in many theatres of war during World War I and World War II and in Korea and Vietnam. [More…]
But what happened to them in this great democracy, in this time of trade unionism, freedom and liberty? [More…]
In South East Asia, Australia has been identified with the policy that if we can support the economies and maintain and improve the social stability of the areas to which I have referred and of those countries further north, such as Thailand, Cambodia and South Vietnam, that in itself will call a halt to the processes of infiltration and subversion and, in more general terms, will provide containment - not aggressive containment but defensive containment - of those who otherwise would burst through and rob nations of their liberty. [More…]
The Government, having been furnished with the results of my efforts in this connection, has concluded, and I think few, if any, will deny, that there are practices current in the community which by reason of their restrictive nature are harmful to the public interest - that interest being in the maintenance of free enterprise under which citizens are at liberty to participate in the production and distribution of the nation’s wealth, thus ensuring competitive conditions which tend to initiative, resourcefulness, productive efficiency, high output and fair and reasonable prices to the consumer. [More…]
This is indicated by the figures which I now take the liberty of presenting to the Senate. [More…]
1 am not at liberty to disclose his name - I am at liberty to disclose the name of Mr Hanley Woodbridge - but it is in the ‘correspondence that the Minister has. [More…]
If the Minister for Air wishes to supplement my answer I should think that by your leave, Mr President, he would be at liberty so to do. [More…]
I rise to say that it ill behoves the Australian Labor Party to pose as it does tonight and as it has day after day in the past as the keepers and trustees of human liberty when in fact the record shows that in both the State and Federal spheres they were the most tyrannous governments in Australia’s history in this regard. [More…]
Are these the defenders of liberty? [More…]
The clauses in this Part deal, of course, only with the question of admission of evidence and do not go to questions of substantive law, but because the Senate is always specially concerned with any legislation that has some bearing upon the liberty of the subject I shall also deal with the various changes in the law on these matters in some detail. [More…]
In general, British justice has gone to great pains to allow a person on trial for his liberty to present his case as best he can and not to impair an accused’s right to discredit or attack others unless the attack is of little or no relevance. [More…]
The Labor Party will co-operate in the development of South-East Asia and the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas to strengthen the fabric of peace and freedom and to uphold the principles of democracy, individual liberty ::nd the rule of law and to promote economic well-being and development [More…]
But in the intervening period I have taken the liberty and the opportunity to do some sample tests in the State of Victoria to ascertain precisely what is happening in the Department of Social Services in respect of the processing of the claims of those persons who lodged applications for unemployment benefit during the course of the industrial dispute. [More…]
liberty or the good name of any person appearing before or party to a proceeding before a committee, it must have the evidence before it so that it can make that deliberative decision. [More…]
This is a restriction of the liberty of the individual. [More…]
1 take the liberty of drawing attention to the last clause, No. [More…]
Likewise it was agreed that States were at liberty to extend temporary relief by way of debt rescheduling to farmers having difficulty in meeting their instalments due to unexpected circumstances beyond their control. [More…]
I take the liberty of drawing attention to chapter 6 of that report which refers to the training of what we call special teachers who handle special classes of children who demand a particular form of training. [More…]
However, I do make this point: It is clear that people who engage in demonstrations in the streets do so in defiance of the law and use the cloak of crowds in order to provoke violent situations which cause damage to property and are a potential risk to the life and liberty of other people. [More…]
All kinds of people say that if action is taken in regard to drugs and other social problems personal liberty is being interfered with. [More…]
It is the rattle of the cash register that they are interested in, not matters of personal liberty or the right of the individual to do his particular thing. [More…]
The police are the protectors of life, liberty and property. [More…]
It is just a question of the civil liberty of any man when a practical joke goes wrong and he is apprehended. [More…]
The situation is that a young man comes to Canberra and voluntarily surrenders his liberty for a principle. [More…]
He is perfectly at liberty to stand up and do so. [More…]
In deciding on a programme of action which will contribute effectively to alleviation of the problem without, at the same time, unduly trespassing on people’s personal liberty of choice the Government has decided that its proper role is that of taking steps available to it to ensure that all people are fully and properly informed of the dangers to their health of cigarette smoking. [More…]
Other requests were made for certain assistance which had to be given for the purpose of delaying the amalgamation of the unions by the Government to help what I take the liberty of saying were 2 stooges so that they might make application under section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act on complaint that the rules of the organisations were not complied with. [More…]
I would take the liberty of observing that this exhibition had a very successful prsCanberra trial at Parliament House in Adelaide. [More…]
We on this side of the Senate are willing to give practical civil liberty. [More…]
They need advice on planning estates, arranging finance, the use of trust funds, entering into contracts, asserting citizen rights under the Constitution, defending themselves or their families in the courts of the land, fighting for their freedom and liberty, and generally in asserting citizenship. [More…]
There were 16 cases in which the presidential member made a decision on the dispute and there were 10 cases proceeding or adjourned sine die with liberty to re-apply. [More…]
However, as it has been raised, the only other comment I make is that a number of people would find it strange to hear so much talk about liberty and what an infringement on liberty it is to place inhibitions on the advertising of one drug - nicotine - which is known to be dangerous and at the same time hear the contention that there should be a total prohibition, including the imposition of penal sanctions, on the possession of marihuana - not because marituana has been proved to be dangerous but because it has not been proved not to be dangerous. [More…]
Federal conference of the DLP which I shall take the liberty of reading to the Senate, since they are informative as to our thinking on this subject. [More…]
Will the Minister make available details of the recent trials of intellectuals, writers and others, particularly in the Baltic countries, in the Ukraine, and especially in Czechoslovakia where it is being freely said today that liberty has been destroyed completely? [More…]
I felt entitled to take the liberty of saying a few things about development banks in general, as well as this bank in particular. [More…]
If he wants to attack me personally away from this place he is quite at liberty to do so. [More…]
I think it was Madame Roland who lamented during the French Revolution: ‘O Liberty, what crimes are done in thy name!’ [More…]
I had been saying that it was during the French Revolution that Madame Roland said: ‘O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!’ [More…]
I take the liberty of quoting them, as they are in the report. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs afford the Senate any information on the claim given publicity today that a naturalised Australian citizen who was not born in Yugoslavia on a visit to Yugoslavia has been deprived of his liberty on the plea that he owes military service to that country? [More…]
I take the liberty of referring the Senate to one of the papers from that conference. [More…]
Am I at liberty to interpret the words ‘national interest’ that the Attorney-General used in his earlier answer to me to mean that the Government is seeking to damp the actions of agents provocateurs from the right of the Croatian community? [More…]
For instance, is it impossible for the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) to tell us what prisoners are in the gaols of this country at the present time on really serious or heinous offences, such as the crimes of murder or rape, who would be, in effect, entitled to their liberty if the present situation persisted in which doubt is cast on all decisions of the courts made, say, within the last 20 years? [More…]
We want to see this problem solved, but we want to see it solved within a framework of respect for the high principles of civic justice and civil liberty for which we on this side of the chamber stand and to which honourable senators on the other side of the chamber constantly pay lip service. [More…]
No person ought to be deprived of his reputation or his liberty except in accordance with the processes of law by which charges are levelled in the courts and the courts determine guilt or innocence. [More…]
To anyone who has a concept of liberty, prosecution is often quite repugnant, but there does come a time when one has to decide between licence or liberty. [More…]
It may be a liberty which the honourable senator feels he is entitled to have that he can subscribe to either view. [More…]
Senator Murphy is at liberty to bring these matters in whenever he so desires, but to expect support from this side of the chamber for what is obviously a phoney election stunt is far too much for anybody to swallow. [More…]
I understand that because we have a daily Hansard report of proceedings of the Committee I am at liberty to quote from the public evidence received by the Committee in the course of its inquiry. [More…]
I feel that I must bring before the Senate a very serious matter which indicates that an Australian citizen has been deprived of his liberty and passport in a European country without in my view any proper process. [More…]
Today I received a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) in which he said that on 12th September I asked whether any information could be given about a naturalised Australian citizen who was not born in Yugoslavia but who had been deprived of his liberty in Yugoslavia on the basis that he was required to do military service for that country. [More…]
An Australian citizen who was not born in Yugoslavia has been deprived of his passport and liberty in Yugoslavia on the ground that he owes military service to that country. [More…]
H Senator Negus wishes to withdraw the amendment that he has moved and not to proceed with the other amendments that he has foreshadowed he certainly is at liberty to do so. [More…]
So I feel perfectly at liberty to discuss this matter in the widest sense, based upon information which has come to me and other members of the Committee in the course of its inquiries into this matter. [More…]
To help you reach it I would take, the liberty of inviting you to look at the record, and I would like the opportunity to make a very brief submission to you so that you may take all factors into account before reaching your decision. [More…]
Appeals now involve mostly the personal liberty of people rather than the personal life of individuals. [More…]
I point out that every industry is at liberty to make a submission to the Government which will receive proper consideration. [More…]
As I think I said yesterday in a reply to a question on revaluation, and which I think was made clear also by the Prime Minister in his statement in December last, industries which feel they have suffered disadvantages as a result of the Government’s decision to revalue the dollar in December last are at liberty to make submissions to the Government which will give them proper consideration. [More…]
The basic rationale of the speciality rule is to safeguard the liberty of the person and protect his human rights, especially where a person is only accused of an offence. [More…]
So while we support the measure that is before the Senate, I rake the liberty of observing that a wideranging and widespread distribution of a large amount of money - and when dealing with social welfare both this government and previous Governments were dealing with large amounts of money - does not necessarily solve all social welfare problems. [More…]
Secondly, the Acts provide that the Attorney-General should not issue a warrant for the return of a fugitive if he has substantial grounds for believing that, if the fugitive is surrendered to the requesting country, ‘he may be prejudiced at his trial, or punished, detained or restricted in his personal liberty by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions’. [More…]
Yet tonight its supporters pose here as the champions of civil liberty. [More…]
Senator Townley is at liberty to do that, as is any other member. [More…]
When you treat people in that way, deprive them of their liberty, try to destroy their culture and deny them any adequate form of representation, obviously violent elements in that community will come to the front, as has happened here. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite say: ‘We, the Government of the day, the defenders of civil liberty, will prejudge it. [More…]
But it is good enough to.- table documents on some Croat or some Yugoslav whose dignity, rights, freedom and liberty are at least equal to those of Mr Burchett or any honourable senator here o.r elsewhere. [More…]
It has always been the practice of Australian higher courts to grant priority to the bearing and determination of appeals in capital cases on ground of humanity, and because the liberty of the subject is at stake. [More…]
if the fugitive ls surrendered to that state, he may be prejudiced at his trial, or punished, detained or restricted In his personal liberty, by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions. [More…]
Great liberty was given to Senator McLaren when he referred to what had been said by various South Australian senators about the South Australian election. [More…]
He came out fighting and finished up as the great champion of liberty and the mover of the Bill of Rights and the Bill of Liberties. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh, a captive of his own blind obsessional pursuit of communism, says that they are fighting for liberty. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that such power as is referred to in the Press report of this case seems to have in it elements which infringe the liberty of the individual? [More…]
Do his answers indicate that he is willing at any time to assert the guilt of an individual citizen without first satisfying himself that he is not committing a serious libel and unwarranted attack on human liberty, his alibi apparently being that it is his advisers and not he who are uttering the libel? [More…]
He would have been< quite at liberty not to do so. [More…]
They have looked for the very things that we want to give them - the protection of the law and immunity from trespass by people who unlawfully try to interfere with their freedom, their liberty, their privacy and their person. [More…]
the unwarranted deprivation of liberty, privacy or good reputation; and, if so, what review or amendment of the law or administrative or judicial procedures is necessary or desirable; [More…]
He said that the facts about terrorism and breaches of civil liberty must be brought out. [More…]
Those 2 million people are entitled to full freedom and liberty. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Honourable the President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled will give support to the abortion Bill before the House of Representatives upholding the liberty and rights of individuals. [More…]
Last night I mentioned the fact that a considerable number of statutory’ declarations - they are still flowing in - alleged that there have been breaches of civil liberty. [More…]
Secondly, and worse still, - this might not matter to those members of the Government who have sworn a singular disregard for human liberty - all those informants who have given that information at risk to their personal security are put in human jeopardy because of it. [More…]
They urged that any alleged breach of civil liberty should be pursued thoroughly and dealt with. [More…]
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the Press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security whether his attention has been drawn to a reported statement by the Chairman of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights - it appears in today’s ‘Australian’ - in which he said that almost half the patients in Australian mental institutions were being detained against their will because of laws which intruded on personal liberty. [More…]
the unwarranted seizure of documents or property; (iii)t he unwarranted deprivation of liberty, privacy or good reputation. [More…]
the unwarranted deprivation of liberty, privacy or good reputation; and, if so, what review or amendment of the law or administrative or judicial procedures is necessary or desirable; [More…]
However, I must reiterate that any State is at liberty if it so desires to break the agreement. [More…]
Does the Government propose to lodge any protest at this gross violation of political liberty and the inhumane treatment of these people by a fellow member of the Commonwealth? [More…]
I acted in good faith in advising Mr Enderby that it was my belief that the Council had in fact decided that he was at liberty to proceed with the production of the quota of 300 tons when he saw fit. [More…]
I said in regard to this man Marincic that there is a paramount obligation in the type of society in which we live always to err - if erring it is - in favour of individual liberty and individual rights and not in favour of the public interest of some totalitarian country. [More…]
I have not any faith in the so called civil liberty values of this Government. [More…]
I belong to a Party and my membership of it derives from my belief originally that that Party, above all other parties in this country, is dedicated to the concept of political liberty and the preservation of the civil liberties of all Australians. [More…]
It is very easy for any honourable senator, no matter to which Party he belongs, on occasions to talk about the thirst for liberty and the thirst for justice. [More…]
How can it live with its mouthing about human liberty? [More…]
Indeed, I think Senator Murphy in Paris, where he is arguing for human liberty and the protection of human rights, must be listening somewhat anxiously at this moment to this kind of fallout. [More…]
Does anybody here say that this represents human liberty and human freedom? [More…]
Is this human liberty? [More…]
I repeat that this is the Government which paid lip service to freedom, the liberty of the individual, the right of the individual to natural justice. [More…]
So perhaps it is necessary to restate the position and the liberty that the Government had in making available this money. [More…]
I am trying to point out to the honourable senator that the liberty to do that was provided for already in the Bill. [More…]
Bill which is before the Senate vary the rights of the Corporation and give it liberty to expand its activities in many areas. [More…]
The growers are at liberty to do so, but I am not aware of any having been made. [More…]
I have also taken the liberty of having discussions with both the Prime Minister and the Treasurer about the question. [More…]
It is a matter of civil rights, perhaps one of the foremost of civil rights, that a person is to be secure in his life and liberty, and that he should not be living in a society Where others can injure him and take away his life. [More…]
We ourselves, I think, have had an example of this denial of liberty and human rights. [More…]
There is more in the file than has been revealed in the statements of Mr President and Mr Speaker but I do not consider myself at liberty to indicate the nature of the file. [More…]
Here is a case where the liberty of a person who is almost always not a citizen of this country- though sometimes that may be so- would be at stake. [More…]
The critical thing to my mind is not so much the fears of what might be done by some other country but that where that is the position, that liberty should not depend upon the viewpoint of any individual, if that can be avoided. [More…]
Too often in our lawand even in areas away from the liberty of the subject- we have fallen into the error of substituting the individual discretion of officers, however highly placed, for the objective provisions of the law, so that we have had again and again in various enactments over the years the provision that the rights of a person should depend upon the discretion of some official rather than upon what has been directly provided by Parliament. [More…]
Where the liberty of a person is at stake, on reflection it seemed to us to be wiser to leave out the clause. [More…]
In Czechoslovakia today there is less liberty than there is in any other civilised country. [More…]
The Czechoslovak Government is so illiberal that recently it built a high wooden fence around the grave of a youth who sacrificed his life in the course of liberty 3 years ago, and the graves of others, so that the people of Czechoslovakia could not lay wreaths on those graves, and it told the people that they were prohibited from going there. [More…]
There is less liberty there than there is anywhere else. [More…]
By a country that coined the phrase ‘Liberty, equality and fraternity’, this action was a prostitution of those values. [More…]
You and I can look with relish upon the fact that other people will get free opportunities for university education, but we should consider the integrity of excluding category A and reducing category B in the nongovernment schools to save $3m to $4m and then giving $ 1 79m to universities and colleges of advanced education which the most wealthy in the country are at liberty to attend. [More…]
I think it is pretty obvious that lesser figures than Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn would not have been left at liberty for so long. [More…]
It culminates primarily from the action of 2 men- 2 quite remarkable Russians- in recent weeks, one a great author and the other a world famous scientist who decided by their actions and words to put their lives and the lives of their families at risk in telling to the world their firm belief that in the country of their birth things were happening in the suppression of human liberty that they could not tolerate. [More…]
He called upon the United States Congress to support the Jackson amendment which sought to place safeguards, in terms of liberty, in any negotiation between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those are the words of a great man- a voice of liberty speaking. [More…]
I believe- I agree with Senator Carrick on this - that we do not do any service to the cause of detente or to the cause of liberty throughout the world by remaining silent about the repression which I believe is occurring in relation to dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I take the liberty of referring very briefly to the report and draw the attention of honourable senators to one or two of the significant phrases in the preface to the report. [More…]
Was he set at liberty in the country of his deportation. [More…]
I am now at liberty to say, speaking as an individual, that it was a decision with which I fundamentally disagreed. [More…]
The collection of Aborigines onto reserves and their total exclusion from towns, except in properly regulated employment, entailed legislation to end their unfettered liberty to roam about and mix with whites. [More…]
But immediately the circumstances were communicated to me by Senator Willesee I took the liberty of quickly canvassing the opinions of members of the Committee present in the Senate chamber. [More…]
Far better that we should turn our attention to our own situation, and examine the state of liberty in our own country. [More…]
There are too many in our community who fall into these categories for us to be complacent about the state of liberty in Australia. [More…]
Part II of the Bill then proceeds to deal with a number of important rights, including the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to hold opinions without interference, the right to freedom of expression, the right to peaceful assembly, the right to freedom of association, the right, without unreasonable restrictions, to take part in the conduct of public affairs, vote at elections held by universal and equal suffrage and to hold public office, the right to liberty of movement, and the right to privacy. [More…]
The Bill provides that a person is not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and all persons deprived of their liberty are to be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person. [More…]
As the Privy Council said in its judgment, the Commonwealth has no general power over the liberty of the subject. [More…]
It is interesting to be expressing strongly held views on the liberty of the subject to a Senate of 60 members when only 7 senators are present. [More…]
On other occasions I have expressed the view that in 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government the cause of liberty in this country was not in any way sullied. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
Minister realise the real dangers to life and liberty of Australian citizens arising out of such coercion? [More…]
I felt that I could quite well be given the liberty and the licence that the honourable senator was given, quid pro quo. [More…]
I say by way of interpolation that I wonder whether I could have the civil liberty of referring to the plural of ‘referendum’ as ‘referenda’. [More…]
The Authority will take to itself a fantastic degree of liberty and power. [More…]
The banks are at liberty to re-lend that money at interest rates of up to 10 per cent. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, and whereas our existing Australian flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the Government-General and State Governors, and the independent courts of justice, and whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, so therefore must all these things be accorded the highest national concern and priority. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
When one talks about the Constitution one must consider it as a framework of government not only for the protection of liberty but also for the efficient management of our society. [More…]
It is sometimes put that those are contrary concepts; that if one has an efficient government it follows that it must therefore be a government which is not concerned with the liberty of the individual. [More…]
We cannot succeed in ensuring both efficiency in government and the well-being and liberty of the people of Australia if, in 1974, we are not concerning ourselves with issues of the 1 980s as well with the structure of government which was laid down in 1901. [More…]
Perverted logic also enables conservatives to pose as champions of civil liberty and individual freedom while simultaneously voting for conscription, sometimes with enthusiasm and apparently without embarrassment. [More…]
-Senator Poyser is at liberty to leave the chamber any time he likes. [More…]
Because of what has been written in the newspapers and because of the statements which have been made by the Prime Minister, with which I was dealing, and because of the liberty that you gave to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Withers) and to Senator Wright in discussing the matter, I think I should be allowed to explain why the remarks that have been made make it mandatory for me at least to have sometime- perhaps the weekend- to consider the motion moved by the Minister for the Media. [More…]
It is only where the statute does not authorise discrimination that we do not allow regulations unduly to trespass on the individual rights of citizens and it is in those circumstances that we would be at liberty to take action. [More…]
We should seek to erect a constitutional edifice which shall be a guarantee of liberty and union for all time to come to the whole people of this continent and the adjacent islands. [More…]
They do not feel that they have lost any great liberty in having the amount deducted from their pay. [More…]
It is proposed now that the debate on this Bill be adjourned in order to entertain a motion couched m certain terms- I want to refer the Senate to the terms of what is proposed to be put before it- under the guise of protecting the liberty of persons. [More…]
But we do not believe that either the maintenance of Australia’s diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which are important, or even more importantly the preservation of this person’s life and liberty are served in any way by this disgraceful motion which has been moved this evening. [More…]
I am absolutely amazed that Senator Hall should say that we should sacrifice the liberty and maybe the life of an individual to maintain good relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
He regarded the objectives as: the maintenance of free enterprise under which citizens are at liberty to participate in the production and distribution of the nation’s wealth plus ensuring competitive conditions which tend to initiate resourcefulness, productive efficiency, high output and fair and reasonable prices to the consumer. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
At any stage did any of the 2 1 sitting Liberal or Country Party senators prior to December 1972 protest at this abrogation of individual liberty, or move to suspend the Act? [More…]
If not, can the Attorney-General explain why Liberal and Country Party senators who showed no interest in protecting the liberty of young Australians have suddenly developed a passionate interest in the very dubious allegation that the liberty of one Russian youth may be in jeopardy? [More…]
As regards the other part of the question about the liberty of the person, it is strange to see this great concern. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Are not the courts of this nation the safeguards of any person in this country whose individual liberty is threatened or denied? [More…]
How does the Government justify that Australia’s relations with Russia should involve not only a denial of individual liberty but a contempt of the courts? [More…]
But I would have thought that if there were a spark of concern for human rights and liberty that undertaking would have been given. [More…]
The only time that subjected nations such as these gain their liberty is when their tyrants, their oppressors, are in difficulties. [More…]
It seems rather strange to me that Opposition senators raise this matter of human rights only when it concerns the liberty or impinges on the rights of a person from the socalled communist countries or countries of the Left. [More…]
Since I became a member of this Senate I have yet to hear any member of the Opposition express any concern about the liberty of any person from anywhere other than a communist country. [More…]
We are exercising our rights and are at liberty to point out the basic fallacies in the Budget of which this is a part and the contradictions and, indeed, the stupidities in many cases of the arguments that are being advanced by the Government in support of these increases in postal and telecommunication charges. [More…]
Those societies which have chosen to leave the production of goods and services largely in the hands of private individuals and companies also enjoy a degree of personal liberty and political freedom that has been rare in history. [More…]
Expression of these attitudes and aspirations is largely possible because of that personal liberty and political freedom inherent in private enterprise. [More…]
Men and women who offend against the laws of society, as we accept them, must pay for their social sins but we have no right in a so-called civilised society to treat those who have been deprived of their liberty and personal freedom with physical punishment and undignified procedures that label them as less than animals. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments-Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments - Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
Any Minister is at liberty, as is any other member of Parliament, to hold private discussions with any member of industry, if he so desires. [More…]
If the honourable senator wishes to refer to the ex-Attorney-General, she is at liberty to do so. [More…]
It is the fundamental liberty of any citizen who claims the rights of a free people. [More…]
A classic example is the way in which throughout the world over many years communists have used freedom of speech, freedom of association and all the democratic traditions under which they can work to undermine democracy and liberty and to establish their own dictatorship. [More…]
On the other hand, if they preferred to use the stream of counselling procedures in what I might term the private sector they would be equally at liberty to do that. [More…]
However, as I have said, any honourable senator who wishes to read this letter subsequently is at liberty to do so. [More…]
Obviously the Government is at liberty, if it so desires, to look at the implications of the possibility of that legislation being rejected by the Senate but the present intention is to ensure that this legislation comes before Parliament in the normal way. [More…]
Is it not natural that any Minister overseas, if he saw fit to contact his own Prime Minister, would be at liberty to do so? [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
If Senator Greenwood wishes to make another of his typical contributions he is at liberty to do so and I will deal with it in the manner it deserves. [More…]
I took the liberty of sending to Mr Broomhill, the Minister for Conservation in South Australia, a copy of the text of replies given to questions asked in relation to Division 602- civil personnel, Off-Shire Wildlife Sanctuaries because, like a lot of other State Ministers, Mr Broomhill does have under his control off-shore islands which are sanctuaries. [More…]
In respect of Hallett Cove, at question time I took a greater liberty than I am prepared to take in this Estimates debate when I said that it was a subject I knew something about because I had walked over Hallett Cove, had climbed all the hills and rocks, gone into amphitheatre and everything there with a geologist and had everything explained to me in a fight to get money out of the previous Government. [More…]
I believe, as I recall an earlier occasion, that the Attorney-General suggested that if I personally objected to the presence of the tents I was at liberty to take action. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
Whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments- Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
The Queensland Government has not done so and honourable senators are at liberty to place their own construction on that. [More…]
Having let Senator Milliner go on while he slated Senator Sheil I believe that you will allow me the liberty of talking on Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
So honourable senators will see that a precedent has been created, and I do not think that anybody would assert that the business of the South Australian Parliament has been impeded by the members of that House being at liberty to dress as they desired, whether it be in shorts and shirt or in a safari suit. [More…]
If there is any further information Dr Cairns is at liberty to give on his actual discussions in [More…]
It concerns us very much because it demonstrates that the Government, and in particular the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee), are not taking a stand consistent with the long record of this country in matters of civil liberty. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights of Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights ofthe Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free nien and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
On 20 November 1973, the Prime Minister sent a further teleprinter message to the Premier of Queensland pointing out that, in addition to the provisions with respect to property management, there were other features of the Queensland legislation with respect to Aborigines and Islanders that were unsatisfactory from a civil liberties’ viewpoint, including provisions relating to liberty of movement to enter a reserve, legal representation before and appeal from Aboriginal courts, and relating to compulsory labour and conformity to a code of conduct on reserves. [More…]
-I await the day when, instead of bleating ‘Hear, hear’, a Liberal Party senator gets up in this place and tells us how the State governments in this country are at the moment safeguarding the individual liberty of the citizen and are bulwarks against authoritarianism, as has been claimed, because if one looks for authoritarianism in this country one does not find it in the national government- one finds it in the activities of the various State governments- and if one looks for efficiency one does not find it in the State governments. [More…]
We must examine the question: What ensures the liberty of the individual in Australia? [More…]
It is stated in the platform of the Liberal Party that we do it through the States because they are somehow the guardians of individual liberty and because they save us from the threat of central government authoritarianism and so on. [More…]
Secondly, he said that there is a prohibition of liberty of movement to enter a reserve. [More…]
Concerning the prohibition of liberty to enter a reserve, this is the most important provision that the community people wish preserved. [More…]
This is the elementary basis of liberty and freedom, and you are the ones who are stopping it. [More…]
I think that we of the Liberal Party of Australia- some people of this nationhave some obligation to ensure that basic questions of liberty are preserved. [More…]
If it is necessary for a government to alter the rate of change, then a government is at liberty to do so. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether Press reports are correct that the Australian Labor Party conference in Terrigal last week agreed to include in the Party’s platform a clause which in part states sympathetic consideration of people who for political and other reasons would face danger to life and liberty upon return to their country of origin’. [More…]
For that reason, I would not be at liberty to indicate the price which has been negotiated in the meat deal. [More…]
Any employee or any worker is at liberty if he has a job and feels that he can improve his position elsewhere or if he feels a sense of insecurity in his present employment, to register with the CES for an alternative position. [More…]
I am not at liberty to make public the price but I think that the return to the producer is a little more than the figures which have been cited by the honourable senator. [More…]
Political liberty does not mean that people can get into the gutter and do what they like. [More…]
The third criterion is that the court should be so constructed that it is capable of being publicly seen as a coherent judicial body with a capacity for uniformity of approach not only to great issues affecting the liberty of individuals and the quality of their lives but also to the resolution of issues between citizens and the Government and between citizen and citizen. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Following the recent inclusion in the Australian Labor Party platform of a provision for ‘sympathetic consideration of people who for political and other reasons would face danger to life and liberty upon return to their country of origin’, what will the Government’s attitude be to the people of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian embassies requesting asylum in Australia if their present countries and governments should tragically fall? [More…]
Under the Bill there are provisions- on my reading they are serious infringements of the liberty of the subjectrequiring things to be done by brokers and others. [More…]
If he wants to say something when I finish speaking, he is quite at liberty to do so. [More…]
In its desperate attempt to perpetuate itself in office the Labor Party is attempting to destroy political liberty, and the Liberal Party will not have a bar of that. [More…]
We would be dishonest to the people of Australia, of all political persuasions, if we did not fight to protect them from this onslaught on their liberty. [More…]
If they are the sorts of things he wants to go into he is at liberty to do that and he, like anyody else, would be at liberty to give evidence to the judicial committee which the amendment proposes to establish. [More…]
If that information is not sufficient for Senator Wright, naturally he is at liberty to seek more detailed information which can be given to him by letter. [More…]
It is ironic that a very active member of the DLP, an organisation which demanded conscription of Australian youth, which was the most hysterical advocate of fire and slaughter in Indo-China, which sponsored television advertisements which purported to show that Chairman Mao was responsible for the atrocities of Belsen, and which blythely ignored the tiger cages of Con Son’ and the atrocities perpetrated by the former rulers of Saigon, should have the effrontery to pose as a person genuinely concerned about protecting life and.individual liberty. [More…]
I would not canvass whether she was right or wrong, but certainly she was at liberty to make her point. [More…]
I suppose that I would have been at liberty to recommend and justified in recommending to my Government that if they wanted to go it alone they could go it alone and we would go it alone; but I do not think it would have been in the interests of the beef industry to do so. [More…]
The preamble of that Act said that, under the prevailing economic conditions developed with the aid of Government authority for owners of property to organise in the corporate and other forms of ownership or association, the individual unorganised worker was commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract to promote his freedom of labour and thereby obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
I suggest that time will tell, if the Opposition’s amendment is carried, whether or not it is adequate, but at the present time to reverse the onus and to allow this clause to remain in the Bill would be a breach of the liberty which we have understood and enjoyed for many centuries. [More…]
‘Civil liberty in this kingdom has two direct guarantees; the open administration of justice according to known laws truly interpreted, and fair constructions of evidence; and the right of Parliament, without let or interruption, to inquire into, and obtain redress of, public grievances. [More…]
I think it is wise to see whether the Opposition’s amendment, which is the least restrictive of liberty, would be the cause in which it is done and I support the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]
I readily concede that what the Minister said would help to make it a less onerous provision than it is at the moment but this is an area where I think the ultimate purposes of the Bill are better served and where the purposes to which the Opposition parties subscribe, namely, to have as wide a liberty of expression as possible, will be aided by objecting to the clause in toto. [More…]
I take the liberty to quote from my speech during that debate. [More…]
The reason for that, as was given over many decades, was that such a system as is embraced within this Bill ran counter to the concept of the rule of law, and the argument went that the rule of law implied the absence of wide discretionary powers in the Government affecting the personal liberty, the private property rights and the freedom of contract of individuals. [More…]
I take the liberty of saying on their behalf and often against their interests. [More…]
But they still remain the ultimate and, in the last resource, the only safeguard of the citizen for his individual rights of liberty, home and property. [More…]
If he knows more about these matters of actuarial calculation than the people who are employed by the Treasury and people outside the Treasury and if he would like to take on these people in public debate about these matters, he is at liberty to do so. [More…]
I indicated that the Government is at liberty to use whatever channels are available to it if it seeks information concerning the sources of funds on the world money market. [More…]
It is the sort of double standard which enabled it to posture and pose as the champion of the liberty of the individual against the tyranny of the State while at the same time it was sending out press gangs to dragoon Australian youths into fighting a war in IndoChina, a war in which Australia had become involved on the basis of a tissue of lies circulated by Senator Carrick ‘s party and the Government formed by his party. [More…]
He indicated that the Government was at liberty to use whatever channels were available to it if it sought information concerning the source of funds in world money markets. [More…]
I have taken the liberty of writing this letter to you, Mr President, in the hope that you will inform the Senate of it and in the wish that it may receive prior notice of the position I have felt impelled to adopt. [More…]
I have taken the liberty of writing this letter to you, Mr President, in the hope that you will inform the Senate of it and in the wish that it - [More…]
One of the basic aspects of the effect of government secrecy on individual liberty relates to the doctrine of crown privilege … [More…]
-On the last part of the question by Senator Jessop, any one of those industries would have been at liberty to make submissions to the Commission during its hearings. [More…]
Leave out ‘ No Senator shall speak for more than one hour in any debate in the Senate, except that in the debate on the Address-in-Reply, or on the First Reading of a Bill which the Senate may not amend, or in moving the Second Reading of a Bill, he shall be at liberty to speak for one hour and a half. [More…]
If rights exist which can be used to rectify injustice to prevent the violation of principle and to maintain some of our crumbling structure of liberty, it will be surprising indeed if, in the ultimate, free Englishmen fail to make use of them. [More…]
I find it ironic, to say the least, that people who oppose the extension of public ownership with quasireligious zeal very strongly tend to be the same people who were eager to maintain the premium on what they call our insurance policy with the United States, when the premium in question was someone else’s life or someone else’s physical liberty. [More…]
The Workers Party advocates that Government power should be gradually reduced till the Government is responsible only for the defence of Australia (non-existent at present), for the protection of honest Australians against criminals (at present the police are handicapped by unnecessary laws which restrict individual freedom), and the maintenance of a legal system to protect individual liberty and the rights of individuals. [More…]
However, I regret that I am not at liberty to spell out the details which are under consideration but I can restate that a great deal of thought has been given to this matter over the past three or four months. [More…]
The other point I regretfully make is that from the way in which Senator Greenwood handles these problems it is fairly obvious, I think, that he is more interested in exacerbating a very difficult problem between 2 countries rather than in the life and liberty of the individuals concerned. [More…]
If you would like to put it on notice you are perfectly at liberty to do so, but in any event I shall obtain the information for you. [More…]
Therefore, I suggest to the honourable senator that the practice that exists now can continue to exist and that if, after perusal of the report an honourable senator seeks to have the matter debated in the Parliament, he is at liberty to make such an application to the Senate. [More…]
I will take the liberty to quote that honourable gentleman. [More…]
If in fact fresh evidence is available then anyone is at liberty to place that evidence before the Commission. [More…]
I asked whether the Minister was at liberty to tell the Senate and me the representations which were made by Mr Hawke on the subject of duties on petrol or crude oil maybe along with other indirect taxes. [More…]
Jealous guardianship of unwritten constitutional conventions, based on precedent, is the firmest guarantee of liberty and order in any country. [More…]
I have always regarded the Australian Parliament as the symbol of liberty, freedom, democracy, free speech, and indeed quiet thought. [More…]
I support Senator Knight’s resolution, and I think that the implementations of the policies contained in the Governor-General ‘s Speech will direct us towards a new liberty and a new prosperity. [More…]
We should not confuse our idea of liberty with that of other people. [More…]
Liberty is a subjective commodity. [More…]
Other people’s ideas of liberty may be a lot more healthy for them than ours. [More…]
Our ideas of liberty are no more indigenous to Zaire, say, than are the Fabian socialist’s ideas of socialism. [More…]
The United Nations was designed on Western concepts of liberty and decision-making, especially decision by majority vote. [More…]
Before I take the opportunity presented to me in this debate to address the Senate on some problems in the Australian Capital Territory resulting from the present Government’s policies and non-policies, I take the liberty to address myself to some of the remarks which have been made by Senator Sheil. [More…]
While on a motion to close the sitting a Senator is at liberty to speak on matters not relevant to the motion, he is not entitled, under cover of the motion, to refer to matters which are otherwise not in order. [More…]
While on a motion to close the sitting a Senator is at liberty to speak on matters not relevant to the motion, he is not entitled, under cover of the motion, to refer to matters which are otherwise not in order. [More…]
He who would guard his own liberty must guard even his enemy from oppression. [More…]
Will she advise the Minister for Immigration that those consequences could be so severe as to affect the liberty and lives of the people concerned? [More…]
The Government has not played God and it has not brought a new liberty to women. [More…]
There is need for a determined campaign by all Australians- and that means all parties and all senators who have some understanding of the problem- by all those who value liberty and freedom and the rights of people, to see that this grave miscarriage of justice is not ratified and that the incorporation does not take place. [More…]
That whereas all people should have the right to life, liberty, and political and religious freedom and whereas there are increasing reports on human slaughter and repression by the Communist-led government in Cambodia, your petitioners humbly pray, that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should: [More…]
Civil liberty in this kingdom has two direct guarantees; the open administration of justice according to known laws truly interpreted, and fair constructions of evidence; and the right of Parliament, without let or interruption, to inquire into, and obtain redress of, public grievances. [More…]
I have taken the liberty of reading to the Senate that quotation because I do not wish those who give me ear here or outside to misunderstand the fundamental nature of the proposition that a court can be properly classed as a court only so long as it does its business in public. [More…]
This is by all accounts the way in which I can best help these people who are fighting for liberty in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I took the liberty of speaking to New South Wales officers of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
I take the liberty of pointing out to you that there are available a number of other forms of the Senate, including speaking on the first reading of money Bills, which you may use to press this point. [More…]
In the light of the very deep concern being expressed by civil liberty groups throughout the community about certain aspects of the raid, will the Minister advise the Senate of the extent of Commonwealth involvement in the raid, including the use of HMAS Bayonet, and on whose instructions the federal agents were acting? [More…]
As Sir Hugh Greene, a former BBC director-general said, a broadcasting organisation must recognise an obligation towards tolerance and towards the maximum liberty of expression. [More…]
The right of a person is a fundamental and concomitant responsibility to see that the other person has equal liberty. [More…]
We therefore beg you to give immediate consideration to granting permanent residency to any Thai national now in Australia, who cannot return to Thailand for fear of life or liberty, and to ensure the security, and well-being of all Thais in this country, irrespective of their political beliefs. [More…]
We further request that the Australian Government grant refuge to Thai students and others who are forced to flee Thailand in fear of their lives and liberty. [More…]
Would you put your name on a letter if in actual fact you were under threat as to your freedom, life and liberty? [More…]
My concern is for those who feel that their life and their liberty will be threatened when they do arrive home or who may have cause to feel that their life and liberty may be threatened while they are here in Australia. [More…]
My concern is also for those students in Thailand who feel that their life and liberty are being threatened, who may look at Australia as being a refuge and who may apply to come here. [More…]
I hope that he, as a Victorian senator, will tell us what he thinks are the political and civil liberty implications of that strike. [More…]
The Opposition has moved this urgency motion because somebody, I am not sure whether it was Thomas Jefferson or Senator Withers, made the comment that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. [More…]
His unstinting support for TRUE civil liberty and rights for the oppressed, both here and abroad [More…]
Those are the fundamental principles on which the liberty of the subject rests. [More…]
In a democracy people have liberty and freedom but freedom brings with it responsibility. [More…]
I repeat what the Minister said because I think it is of fundamental importance that the people of Australia and honourable senators on the other side of the chamber understand that the spurious attempts by the trade unions to fine people for legitimately offering themselves to an employer for work is a complete negation of the principles of democracy and civil liberty. [More…]
The liberty and rights of the Mount Larcom farmers are under continual threat by the Queensland Government and by Darra Mining, which is an offshoot of a cement company which controls nearly all Queensland ‘s cement outlets. [More…]
They have just taken a total liberty in do this sort thing. [More…]
That whereas all people criminate, have the right to life, civil liberty and religious freedom; [More…]
Therefore, I take the liberty of drawing to his attention an affirmative statement, attributed to Mr Malcolm Mackerras, in the Bulletin of 30 October, which reads: [More…]
I take the liberty of telling the Leader of the Opposition that at the opening of the South East Community College at Mount Gambier the keynote of the speech made by the Premier of South Australia, who performed the opening ceremony, was that the whole basis and value and virtue of technical and further education was its community involvement, the benefit it obtained from local awareness, and the benefit and progress which it obtained from cooperation with local government and community organisations. [More…]
They come from courageous people whose liberty, as well as that of their friends, could be in jeopardy if we were to reveal to the Senate and to the Australian people the source of this information. [More…]
In view of this precedent, can he inform the Senate as to when the Government will provide residence status to Thai students who are deeply concerned about their prospects of liberty upon return to Thailand following the brutal coup in October 1976? [More…]
Singapore Airlines is not a signatory member of IATA and thus is at liberty to take that course. [More…]
Whilst it is dangerous to read passages from a report I shall take the liberty to do it. [More…]
I think that was a very despicable action because Dr Mosley, who is a very fine man and who is the Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, took the liberty of sending to me the final submission of the Foundation to the Fox inquiry. [More…]
I said that they came from courageous people whose liberty, as well as that of their friends, could be jeopardised if we were to reveal to the Senate and the Australian people the source of that information. [More…]
On the contrary, anybody who is aware of movements that have grown up in the world in recent times involving people who have struggled for liberty and the right to determine their own affairs, must realise that such movements cannot be sustained unless they enjoy the overwhelming support of the indigenous people. [More…]
Some might say that in suggesting that no Prime Minister would conduct himself in such an unconstitutional manner as to flout the liberty of the citizen an immodest claim is being made for the superiority of the British politician; yet this is not necessarily an egoistic attitude. [More…]
However, let me hasten to assure you that if any patient has a difficulty, he or she is quite at liberty to talk to the administration about it, and would certainly get a sympathetic and understanding hearing. [More…]
Any senator on the Opposition side will be at liberty to contribute to debate and to amendments as he or she sees fit. [More…]
I hope they will be concerned also about deprivation of civil liberty and human rights in Southern Africa, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay- the last 3 traditional parliamentary democracies, all of which have been destroyed, not by the Left but by the capitalist class- by the extreme Right. [More…]
I take the liberty of mentioning a few names. [More…]
Secondly, a penal prohibition sought to be imposed by the State upon what an individual does abroad involves a restriction on the liberty of the individual which we think can only be justified on compelling grounds of public interest. [More…]
They are at complete liberty to indicate to the Parliament every aspect of the areas for which they are responsible. [More…]
The parties to a proposal are, naturally, at liberty to make public any information relating to their proposal. [More…]
The Committee has accordingly taken the liberty, at various points in the report, of advocating action within the ambit of State instrumentalities or the timber industry. [More…]
I took the liberty of forwarding copies of this legislation to him for his information. [More…]
I took the liberty of taking to task representatives of the Australian Mining Industry Council at a Senate committee hearing. [More…]
Because I have an interest in the operations on Christmas Island, I take the liberty of referring to a couple of the paragraphs in the IAC report. [More…]
A safe nuclear industry would require an unprecedented security investigation and police program that threatens the liberty of any person associated with such an industry. [More…]
If honourable senators have the liberty of this chamber they should not abuse it and they should not be protected themselves by it. [More…]
if the representative system is to survive then we can no longer order our politics so that those of us who share basic under-lying assumptions about freedoms, about the supremacy of the individual over the state, continuously light each other in essentially mock adversorial political battles … We must also have the courage to call a halt to the increasing growth of those institutions, the state, the unions, the bureaucracies which are weakening our resistance to incursions on liberty. [More…]
What we have done in recognising land rights for Aboriginals is to offer the universal freedom of personal liberty and private dignity inherent in Liberalism to Aboriginals so that they may choose their own life styles and live by their own culture and enjoy the same freedoms as all other citizens of Australia. [More…]
In view of the continuation of disturbing reports from Uganda to the effect that the murder of political detainees is still routine- the lastest example being the apparent battering to death of a British-born businessman, Mr Robert Scanlen- will the Minister indicate whether the Government is currently aware of the whereabouts of any Australian citizens residing in Uganda and whether such persons are still at liberty and safe? [More…]
I refer to the firm statements made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs earlier this year expressing the Government’s strong opposition to apartheid in South Africa and to other denials of liberty in that country. [More…]
if the Lords who have the power of treating, advising, giving counsel and applying remedies, cannot amend, abate, or refuse a bill in pan, by what consequence of reason can they enjoy a liberty to reject the whole?” [More…]
But the Government is at liberty to ignore its recommendations. [More…]
I should have thought that there were some difficulties in accommodating the entire economic interests of this country and at the same time, as the Speech purported to do, accommodating the civil liberty needs of the whole of the community. [More…]
The point, which I shall reiterate for Senator Wright’s benefit, is simply this: The notion of economic freedom does not necessarily lie well with the notion of individual liberty and individual freedom. [More…]
What has been the response of the Australian Government under Mr Malcolm Fraser to that sort of problem which I hope the Parliament will recognise is a real problem in terms of the civil liberty of Australian citizens? [More…]
How will this Parliament, if it cannot solve present problems of the kind to which I have referred, be able to solve the problems, in terms of individual liberty and so on, of the communications technology which is changing so rapidly, of medical science, of genetic engineering, of ecological disruption or of the breakdown of urban complexes and large cities? [More…]
In the presence of such force there is no resistance; liberty is a word without meaning. [More…]
Please do something positive for the liberty of the Timorese people. [More…]
Why should not all legislation be referred to a committee which has the assistance of counsel, which looks at legislation from a purely technical point of view, which sees whether the liberty of the subject is transgressed, whether there are unnecessary averment clauses, whether the onus of proof is being reversed, whether the legislation is retroactive and so on. [More…]
in the final analysis public safety and individual liberty sustain one another. [More…]
I take the liberty of mentioning these remarks because this is an occasion on which we review the activities of Parliament and in particular put on record the importance, the role and the responsibility of the Senate. [More…]
Secondly, a penal prohibition sought to be imposed by the State upon what an individual does abroad involves a restriction on the liberty of the individual which we think can only be justified on compelling grounds of public interest. [More…]
We are all at liberty to move a motion at any time we wish as to the noting of papers. [More…]
The purpose of the subclauses is to protect the liberty of the subject if the Attorney-General does not give his consent. [More…]
The Bill also makes it quite clear that although the Industries Assistance Commission is requested to report on the level of assistance required to maintain the desired level of activity and employment in the industry at the time of the reference, it is at liberty to recommend a lower level of assistance, but it is required to state its reasons for doing so. [More…]
Surely it is an infringement of personal liberty to say to a person: ‘You must go out to work if you want some assistance in this area’. [More…]
I do not claim unto myself any special right or liberty in this place. [More…]
I do not see that as an infringement of my liberty. [More…]
I know of other, far more radical proposals which in themselves would not infringe anybody’s civil liberty but which would only limit physical access to certain areas of this building, but not total access to it. [More…]
I do not think the changing of the locking system on the side doors will in any way infringe anybody’s liberty. [More…]
I take the liberty of reminding you of your telex to me on Friday, 25 November 1977, regarding the reconstruction of the Stuart Highway from Port Augusta to Kulgera. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack you are at liberty to speak if you so desire. [More…]
I must say to Senator Georges that the intention was to avoid the cluttering up of the Notice Paper but the main aim in respect of reports being tabled was that honourable senators might have time to look at the reports, to assess them and then give notice- and they are quite at liberty to do so at any time- that they will seek leave to move that the Senate take note of the report. [More…]
On all occasions there has surely to be a balance between security and the liberty of the subject. [More…]
Where there is a conflict, certainly the weight should be for the liberty of the subject. [More…]
We all know that murder, muggings, holdups, rapes and other types of attacks on personal freedom and liberty and the right to the preservation of personal integrity, take place; but what we try to do as a society is create a balance. [More…]
I am not at liberty to disclose that information. [More…]
Again, this legislation offends demonstrably against concepts of civil liberty and it offends grievously against this Government’s professed interest, which has been continuing for a long time now, in freedom of information legislation. [More…]
I have taken the liberty of giving the Minister at the table, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), a copy of a letter from Mrs Walters, the very energetic and competent secretary of that organisation. [More…]
Once this mere formality has been observed, the Federal Minister is at liberty to go ahead and do exactly what he and the Executive Government wanted in the first place. [More…]
It can always be justified in terms of liberty. [More…]
As Senator Rae says, the question is: Where does liberty cease and licence start? [More…]
I am not at liberty, of course, to do anything other than to express a view. [More…]
I believe that the liberty of every individual citizen in this country must be put to the final test as to whether it contests the overriding public interest. [More…]
A great little game has been played in this regard by the Labor Party over the years, that is, never to allow criticism at all- try to stop criticism- of any action of the ABC by way of its public statements or programs because if it can intimidate the Government into being frightened to make any criticism the ABC can have not only liberty but also licence. [More…]
He is at liberty to speak on this matter. [More…]
The second comment I make is that when I hear particular members of the Liberal Party proclaiming their grave concern about this vital principle which is being violated by what they call retrospective taxation legislation they remind me of those other Liberals- frequently they are precisely the same Liberals- who fomented or pontificated about the liberty of the individual while simultaneously voting for conscription to send Australian youth to the Vietnam war and similar wars. [More…]
They proclaim themselves to be the defenders of the liberty of the individual against the real or potential tyranny of the State while simultaneously voting for the tyranny of the State for which confiscates the personal physical freedom or even the life of arbitrarily selected individuals. [More…]
-What is the honourable senator’s attitude towards the liberty of the individual? [More…]
It seems to me that anyone reading the extract of what the Minister said in his second reading speech and what is contained in the sub-clauses of the Bill would be entitled to believe that the States do not have the liberty to do exactly what they like. [More…]
Part of the statement, if I may take the liberty of reading from it, is: [More…]
I take it that his wife or my wife are at liberty to go into the parliamentary guests’ dining room and the areas set aside for such purposes. [More…]
But its program calls for a Westernstyle parliamentary system, guarantees of civil liberty and an equitable distribution of wealth. [More…]
As democratic socialists- we bear the label proudly- we stand for the values of equality, liberty and democracy: greater real equality in the distribution of wealth, income, power and status in the community; full respect for the personal freedom and dignity of the individual; the fullest possible opportunity for democratic participation by every individual in all the major decisions that affect his or her life in the work place and in the local community as much as in the larger political sphere. [More…]
As I will point out later, that is scarcely compatible with ideas of personal liberty. [More…]
In his essay ‘On Liberty ‘ he stated: [More…]
The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. [More…]
Some people in Australia, adherents to Mill ‘s philosophy, see any regulation of drug use of any kind, whether the drugs are licit or illicit, to be an infringement of their liberty. [More…]
This clear evidence of lifestyle induced diseases of immense economic and social significance raises problems with respect to individual liberty in the sense of John Stuart Mill. [More…]
We have a paradox of a need for some social control against a general desire to accept and stay with the proposition on liberty propounded by Mill and people like him. [More…]
It appears that we have ourselves, collectively, by the decisions made in the past, the roots chosen and the situations tolerated, created limits for our own liberty. [More…]
This is my first speech in the Parliament and I understand that I may take some liberty to speak in a general and introductory way about my own political philosophy as a Liberal. [More…]
The reality is that the condition of liberty in Queensland has assumed all the dimensions of a national scandal. [More…]
The United Nations Human Rights Commission, which Mr Bjelke-Petersen has had the temerity to call in aid on his own behalf, would, I suggest, be only too delighted to have an opportunity to scrutinise the state of liberty in Mr Bjelke-Petersen ‘s own backyard and to consider not only the treatment of Aborigines in Aurukun and Mornington Island, which the Premier himself concedes to be at least controversial, but also the systematic denigration of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders generally in that State which is embodied in the legislation of that State which purports to govern the affairs of those people. [More…]
It relates to undertakings which have been given by Ministers over a period of years to the Regulations and Ordinances Committee in relation to complaints about regulations and ordinances which we have considered to be inadequate, which have perhaps interfered with the liberty of the subject or, on one of the particular criteria of the Committee, have been found to be offending. [More…]
So there is a question of the physical liberty and freedom of movement of the subject involved here. [More…]
There is no objective criterion against which any deprivation of liberty which the officer in question might be minded to impose can either at the time or after the event be tested by any court. [More…]
I can only say that the drafting of the Bill was not intended in any way to attack the personal liberty of a person or to make it impossible for him to proceed with his travel plans bearing in mind that we are now introducing a departure tax that is to be collected. [More…]
If the courts become disposers of those who are socially inconvenient the road ahead would lead to the destruction of liberty. [More…]
The Senate remains an important cog in the machinery of parliamentary government and, as such, is one of the bulwarks of liberty and of private and public wealth and well-being in this country. [More…]
If I may take the liberty of saying so, we can see that nothing much has changed because Senator Guilfoyle continues to wield her accountant’s scalpel. [More…]
I refer to the mounting concern which has come to be expressed by democrats around the world in recent years at the condition of civil liberty in West Germany. [More…]
I would certainly concede that the restrictions that have been imposed on liberty in West Germany and to which I propose to advert briefly bear no resemblance whatsoever to the curbs on liberty which exist in the German Democratic Republic, that is Eastern Germany, which are manifestly worse than anything that West Germany has been able to manage. [More…]
I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of this communication to each of your Cabinet colleagues, to all members of Cabinet in Queensland and further to all members of the Police Federation of Australia who will be discussing this problem at their Federation’s Conference in Adelaide from 13 March onwards. [More…]
We are dealing with the rights of the individual and matters such as expense and inconvenience should never be given consideration when the liberty and good name of the individual is at stake. [More…]
I am being very careful about what I am saying because I know that as parliamentarians any one of us may feel that there is a suppression of ideas by political censorship but on the other hand we get back to the very fine distinction between liberty and licence. [More…]
What cannot be ignored is the absolute need to ensure that where breaches of the normal rules relating to the protection of life, liberty or property are concerned, some law be certain and available to deal with them. [More…]
In a half-hearted, cavalier manner the Leader of the Government in the Senate said: ‘Senator Colston is quite at liberty and is entitled to put those facts on the record of the Parliament’. [More…]
We believe that, having regard to the need to balance the interests of the State with the liberty of the individual, the Senate should deal with the legislation in a calm and deliberate way, and that the Government should be responsive to any suggestions which may improve it. [More…]
I think that to that extent the responsibility lies even more heavily upon us as a House of review and indeed the Parliament as a whole to maintain a watching brief as far as possible over all activities which impinge in any way upon the security or the liberty of the individual citizen. [More…]
What we are not prepared to accept is this Bill which goes much further, in our suggestion, than it needs to in authorising interferences with or restrictions on personal liberty and which does not go nearly far enough in incorporating within it the kinds of checks and balances which we believe are quite indispensable if security legislation is ever to be acceptable in a democratic society. [More…]
We do not live in such a society and it would be absurd to permit individuals whose professed aim is to destroy our economic system to cripple our security service in the name of individual liberty, a concept in which they do not believe. [More…]
I have a passionate belief in civil liberty and a determination that I shall not allow those rights to disappear in cases where that can be avoided. [More…]
But the reenactment of this legislation should come before this Parliament so that we can carry out our duties as legislators and ensure that we have not sacrificed the liberty of the people by giving too much power to public servants. [More…]
I took the liberty of drawing to the attention of the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) the matter which I will now outline. [More…]
I think we are nearing the time when, with the restrictions on freedom and liberty in Queensland, there shall be greater violence in that State than we have experienced in other States of Australia. [More…]
The Liberal Party vigorously advocates individual liberty and the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, organisation, assembly, procession, religion and non-violent dissent. [More…]
Those of us who are in the radical movement surrender to no one our defence of the principles of liberty and freedom, of the right of assembly or of any of the principles that are embodied in the platform of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I take the liberty of commenting on what Mr Viner said today in another place when he virtually heaped tons of praise on the Queensland Government for its enlightened attitude to Aborigines in that State. [More…]
After that, Mr Fraser will be at liberty really to put the screws on the States financially and, by that indirect means, force the State governments to impose a State income tax. [More…]
I take the liberty of referring to the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution which a few years ago tabled a report in this Parliament. [More…]
Let me say in summary- I will add further weight to this point later- that the reason why the Opposition is insisting upon this amendment and is so concerned about it is simply the magnitude of the invasions of personal liberty and, in particular, personal privacy that are associated with the exercises of these powers. [More…]
That might be construed by the Minister of the day as a statutory direction that he take only these considerations into account and not concern himself with other considerations of principle or civil liberty. [More…]
We are not talking simply of dozens of people or even scores of people but are talking about each year thousands of people and scores of thousands of different conversations being intercepted and recorded by the security service, with all the implications that that state of affairs has for the condition of privacy and the condition of civil liberty in this country. [More…]
Of course, the purpose of imposing a time limit in the AttorneyGeneral’s mind, as in our minds, is that in dealing with this dangerous area from the point of view of the liberty of the subject, a person like the Attorney-General should be called upon to apply his mind to these important considerations from time to time. [More…]
I am therefore thrown back very largely on the sort of situation to which Senator Button referred- I think with some degree of disquiet- that is, that to a large extent the rights, reputation, liberty and perhaps even the future career prospects of individual Australian citizens will be in large part determined by the personal attitude of whoever happens to be the Attorney-General. [More…]
But their voice ought to be heard because the best guarantee of a society’s status is one which genuinely preserves and respects civil liberty in a society that gives exactly the same consideration to minority groups which might be thought unattractive or disreputable to mainstream people in our society like Senator Sim and others with whom he sits. [More…]
I took the liberty of conferring with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
I know that, in making a point in explanation and clarification, I am not at liberty to debate the substance of the matter. [More…]
The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT- You are quite at liberty to move dissent from my ruling if you want to. [More…]
The situation calls for application of a principle of construction comparable ‘to that which requires that a statute, which is intended to abridge the liberty of the subject, should use plain language to express that intention. [More…]
From the expressionistic response that one gets, simply from scanning the publicly-available information, it is obvious that delays of eight, nine or 10 months, even in matters involving directly and immediately the liberty of the subject are commonplace in this Court. [More…]
by leave- On behalf of the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) I simply say that the Opposition regards this situation that besets the Government as one in which a very fine decision has to be made between liberty and licence. [More…]
It seems to me of fundamental importance, with the Westminster style of government which we have in Australia, that the separation of powers is the best safeguard of the individual’s liberty; that is, the more we can devolve power throughout the administrative structure within our country and the executive arm of government, the more likely it is that the interests and the liberties of individual Australians will be safeguarded. [More…]
I believe that in the interests of the individual’s liberty, it is of the highest importance that the dissemination of that information should be authorised specifically by this Parliament. [More…]
We are proud of our democratic rights but the line between licence and liberty is very fine indeed. [More…]
Those objections were raised in relation to what are basically civil liberty issues. [More…]
In a country such as this we should insist on the fundamental liberty of being able use the telephone freely without fear of someone eavesdropping. [More…]
This, in our opinion, far from strengthening the liberty of the ordinary citizen, might very well have the opposite effect. [More…]
The potential for abuse, the potential for very widespread invasions of personal liberty- in particular, personal privacy- is such that a whole series of safeguard mechanisms ought to be built into this legislation, not the least of which should be a requirement that the agency operate under a closer form of parliamentary scrutiny than it has operated under in the past. [More…]
But this also raises the question of the right to travel which in turn raises the more general issue of personal liberty or any possible curtailment of the right of citizens in this country to participate in such organisations and their right to basic democratic freedom such as freedom of expression and freedom of religion. [More…]
the implications for personnel liberty of any curtailment of the right of citizens to participate in such organisations and their right to basic democratic freedoms; [More…]
The arrests of these people were all for what must be recognised, by any common standard of civil liberty adopted in the world, as lawful acts. [More…]
In this way one gets some idea of the suffering in Czechoslovakia when people are prepared to put their names to a document in the interest of human liberty. [More…]
I think it is also incumbent on our Government to make some representations because of the concern for liberty to which our country and our Government are dedicated. [More…]
I appreciate the point raised by Senator Cavanagh, which is consistent with the points he has made in this chamber from time to time, and that is a concern with the liberty of the subject. [More…]
In that case we are in a great tradition of liberty. [More…]
A man’s liberty of movement is regarded so highly by the law of England that it is not to be hindered or prevented except on the surest grounds. [More…]
The passport issuing area is just one of those really crucial areas of civil liberty which are a test of any government’s sincerity and credibility. [More…]
In the whole debate on human liberty over the centuries liberty, subject to the rights of others, has been a profound qualification. [More…]
So we can see that, in determining the concept of human rights and human liberty, the right to travel is recognised. [More…]
In our community we have very proper rules to determine the enlargement and the limiting of the liberty of individual citizens in Australia. [More…]
As to the specifics, I believe that this Bill is widening the liberty and dignity of the individual Australian abroad. [More…]
One is very much at liberty to return the passport before then for safe keeping if one so desires. [More…]
I take the liberty of reproducing what I wrote in a recent Full Bench decision: [More…]
If I may have the liberty again to refer to the Prime Minister’s speech, I point out that he said: [More…]
This publication by AUS- I have the liberty to say it is one of the weakest and most farcical that I have seen that organisation produce, which says a great deal-in terms of the ten points it puts forward exposes each one of those points severally and collectively as a great deal of nonsense. [More…]
In order to assist with assessment I have taken the liberty of examining signatures appearing on the eighteen (18) sheets which make up the petition handed to me by Mrs Yeatman [More…]
I do not believe that they were good laws, but one would think from listening to the propaganda which has been spread about the situation within West Germany, most of it coming from East Germany, that in West Germany severe restrictions are placed on one ‘s political activities but in East Germany it is Liberty Hall. [More…]
Even the common law tradition, which may influence judicial approaches towards favouring the liberty of the subject in the interpretation of statutes or constitutional provisions has not always been all that self-evident in the decisions of our courts . [More…]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [More…]
If people are interested in following this even further, I think the most perceptive thing written recently about this matter was published in 1977 in a book entitled Individual Liberty and the Law, The Tagore Law Lectures delivered by the now Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen. [More…]
Finally, Sir Norman Anderson again presenting a Hamlyn Lecture entitled ‘Liberty, Law and Justice’ was at great pains to spend part of his discussion on illustrating why he believed the state of the common law in Great Britain was such as to require, in that country, the enactment of a Bill of rights. [More…]
No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law. [More…]
Complaints have come from civil liberty groups, employer groups, church groups, the United Nations Association of Australia, trade unions, a number of important citizens in our community and people in the legal fraternity who know what discrimination means because they have to deal with the rough side of discrimination almost every day in the law courts. [More…]
One finds throughout this Covenant ringing statements of liberty that are immediately qualified by remarks recognising administrative convenience. [More…]
Everyone lawfully within the territory of a Slate shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence. [More…]
Then there are other bodies such as the Immigration Control Association; the Immigration Restriction Council; the British Australian Association; the Ku Klux Klan, Melbourne branch; the Conservative Party (Western Australia) Inc.; Women Against Asian Immigration Committee; Westralian Nationalist Movement; National Australian Association; Truth and Liberty Mission; British-Israel World Federation; and the Children of God. [More…]
Other rights would spring from that right, for example, the right to property and to liberty. [More…]
France had a revolution in which the cry was for liberty, equality and fraternity. [More…]
Since the beginning of time people have sought the good life, liberty and human rights. [More…]
But even after Magna Carta, it took people a long time to realise that liberty was an essential element in civilisation, and it was not until Charles I assented to the Petition of Rights that the idea of government by deliberation became feasible. [More…]
But it was here that we had individual liberty ranged against the rights of Parliament and the absolute sovereignty of the King. [More…]
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [More…]
Queensland inevitably comes in for a special degree of singling out and treatment because of the extraordinary width and diversity of the intrusions upon individual liberty that have become characteristic of that State. [More…]
Even the shortest catalogue of intrusions upon civil liberty in Queensland would necessarily number a dozen major items. [More…]
Similarly, in Australia it is obvious that the Federal principle of letting the States do their own thing has produced nothing but a continued record of disaster with regard to civil liberty principles. [More…]
But I do think that that kind of serious consequence for successful appellants involving the liberty of the subject ought to be the subject of specific argument and justification, either by the Attorney-General in introducing and explaining the legislation or, preferably, by the Administrative Review Council, which is charged with the task of advising the AttorneyGeneral on such matters and, indeed, has made that recommendation. [More…]
It would add another string to the bow of the Human Rights Commission to at least be able to investigate and report upon the state of human rights, by reference to the standards in the Covenant, in the States and in the territories where most of the civil liberty interfering action, as we know, takes place. [More…]
There are occasions- I recall reading about one before I entered this chamber- when, without any intention to do so and given the nature of a government’s program, a Bill is introduced into one chamber of the Parliament, proceeds to the other and becomes law without members or senators being alerted to the fact that there may be a serious possible infringement of a human right, personal liberty or personal right in the operation of the law. [More…]