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

• Did the welfare officer of the Department of the Interior give protection to Rita Galkama, an Aboriginal girl at Gove Peninsula, when, contrary to Aboriginal custom, she refused to become the wife of an Aboriginal male. [More…]

• In inquiries by the Attorney-General’s Department as to whether criminal proceedings on charges of abduction and/or rape at Yuendumu native reserve should be instituted, was any statement taken from the 3 girls concerned, or from the male suspects? [More…]

• My question, which I direct lo the Acting Minister for Immigration, concerns our existing policy for assisted passages of migrants, ls it true that a European male migrant to Australia, if married to a non-European, is denied an assisted passage although he and his wife could enter Australia by paying the full cost of their fares? [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with the A.C.T.U. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with the ACTU policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance wilh the ACTU policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the Average Weekly Male Earnings for all States, as ascertained by the Commonwealth Statistician, plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with Australian Council of Trade Unions policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation, and by doing so give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]

• The male officers’ pay increase, which took place in September of last year, amounted to $ 1.041m. [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate an allegation of cruelty on the Yarrabah Reserve, where it has been stated that a male resident was handcuffed, with his hands behind his back, and then assaulted. [More…]

• 72 male officers (19 of them in Regional Offices), one female officer and another whose appointment is in train. [More…]

• Is it a fact that there is only 1 woman and 21 male members of the National Health and Medical Research Council; if so, how does this come about. [More…]

• Equal pay (Industrial Arbitration Act, 1940-1957, as amended by the Industrial Arbitration (Female Rates) Amendments Act 1 958, which provided that, for male and female employees performing work of the same or like nature and of equal value, the Industrial Commission may prescribe in State wages the same basic wage and secondary wage, to be phased in over a period of 4 years ending on 1 January 1963); [More…]

• Is it a fact that average male weekly earnings for the quarter ending December 1972 were $104.10 a week and that average male weekly earnings for the quarter ending June 1973 increased to $107.70 a week? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the standard rate of pension was $20 a week in December last year, representing 19.2 per cent of the average male weekly earnings for that period, whereas the current standard rate of pension, at $23 a week, is 21.3 per cent of the average male weekly earnings for the June quarter of this year? [More…]

• 1 ) Of the Army male officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 30 June 1974(a) 105 had served 12yearsor less, (b) 16 had served 13 to 19years and (c) 257 had served 20 years or more. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Naval officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 30 June 1974 (a) 34 had served 12 years or less, (b) 8 had served 13 to 19 years and (c) 52 had served 20 years or more. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male other ranks Servicemen who re-engaged in the Army between 1 January 1973 and 30 June 1974: [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Air Force officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 30 June 1974 (a) 106 had served 12 years or less, (b) 25 had served 13 to 19 years and (c) 111 had served 20 years or more. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Air Force Officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 31 July 1974, (a) 134 were eligible for a pension under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; (b) 140 were ineligible for a pension under the Scheme; and (c) 144 were above 38 years of age. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Naval Officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 31 July 1974, (a) 55 were eligible for a pension under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; (b) 45 were ineligible for a pension under the Scheme; and (c) 53 were above 38 years of age. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Army officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 31 July 1974, (a) 290 were eligible for a pension under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; (b) 127 were ineligible for a pension under the Scheme; and (c) 308 were above 38 years of age. [More…]

• I rise to support the male members of this illustrious House who require that their mode of dress in the summer should be more relaxed than it obviously is at this point of time. [More…]

• Has the Minister noted that the Commission’s terms of reference require that it examine family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of the male and female relationship? [More…]

• 1 ) (a) Precise annual figures for average weight of male sperm whales caught off Albany by Cheynes Beach Whaling Company are not available. [More…]

• (l)(b) Figures for the average length of male sperm whales caught off Albany by Cheynes Beach Whaling Company are as follows: [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Minister supply precise annual figures for the period 1953-1974 on the (a) average weight, and (b) average length of male sperm whales caught off Albany by Cheynes Beach Whaling Company. [More…]

• Why did our representative also oppose the five months protection advocated by the Scientific Committee for male bulls over 13.7 metres in length. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the total (a) male and (b) female population above the age of 1 8 years in each of the sub-divisions within each electoral division of the Commonwealth as reported by the Commonwealth Statistician to the Chief Electoral Officer following the taking of the 1 976 Census. [More…]

• The Australian Statistician has provided data showing percentages of (a) total, (b) male and (c) female labour force 1 5 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years in each State and Territory, and for Australia as at February 1 977 as follows: [More…]

• What percentage of the (a) total workforce, (b) male workforce and (c) female workforce is 21 years of age and under in each State and Territory of Australia. [More…]

• and (2) Four male and two female officers from the Office of Government Ceremonial and Hospitality were on hand as usual at the entrance to Parliament House for the arrival of guests invited by the Government to its reception on Tuesday evening 2 1 February 1 978. [More…]

• Does discrimination exist between male and female service personnel attached to HMAS Penguin in relation to billeting facilities. [More…]

• Do male service personnel live in dormitories of 40 persons. [More…]

• Are both male and female service personnel in receipt of the same allowance. [More…]

• How many: (a) male; and (b) female Aborigines are enrolled (i) at each University and College of Advanced Education; and (ii) in each faculty at each university or college. [More…]

• One of the allegations I made was that six male Aborigines were directed with the approval of the Superintendent to round up three girls and, as a punishment for an offence, take them out bush to be continually raped. [More…]

• 1 have referred both my allegations and your statement to Mr Nichols who originally supplied me wilh the information, and as a result he has informed me of the names of the three girls and the six males concerned and the names of eight staff members who would verify the accusations. [More…]

• Initiations, male and female circumcisions, the promising of young girls in marriage to old men are all parts of traditional culture which are still practised in Aboriginal communities of the Territory but which, judged from Western eyes, are repugnant. [More…]

• When we compare that price with the 61.34c a pound that they received in the 5 years from 1951-52 to 1955-56 we see that there has been a fall of 40%, notwithstanding the fact that the minimum weekly male rate for a full weeks work, excluding overtime, has risen from $20.18 in 1950 to $49.14 today. [More…]

• The second is the provision of our National Service Act compelling registration for national service by any male person in this country, irrespective of who he is, in his twentieth year. [More…]

• If the current periods of engagement were shortened, it is probable that there would be a marginal increase in the size of adult male intakes but this could be more than nullified by the shorter periods of effective service that we would get from our trained personnel and the resultant increase in costs and in the training load. [More…]

• During the past year average earnings per employed male rose by more than S6 per week. [More…]

• I am well aware that such a rent exceeds 20% and could even be as much as 25% of the current incomes of some families who receive at least the minimum wage but considerably less than the average weekly male eanrings. [More…]

• The male red kangaroo is a comparatively large animal which comes out to graze and which can be seen, if properly nurtured, before dark and again after daylight. [More…]

• There is completely indiscriminate slaughtering of the species regardless of whether the kangaroos are male or female and regardless of whether there is a joey in the pouch or at foot. [More…]

• That was when 1 first raised the charge of bad administration at Yuendumu and the sensational charge that orders were given to 6 male Aboriginals to round up 3 Aboriginal girls and take them out into the bush for a fortnight to be continually raped as a penalty for some misdemeanour or some behaviour in the camp. [More…]

• This is a male world where the brutality of the male is such that when he gets a young girl in the bush she does what she is told. [More…]

• They provide employment for 10% of our male work force. [More…]

• For a long time hospital and medical charges have been rising at about 3 times the rise of average male earnings. [More…]

• I raise with the Minister the case of the male, the head of the family, who is receiving treatment and benefits under the Tuberculosis Act and whose dependants may require medical or hospital treatment. [More…]

• If one compares this position with the situation in the United Kingdom, one finds that in the United Kingdom 33% of full time male students and 39% of female students are in residence in colleges at universities. [More…]

• male European migrant with a non-European wife is denied assisted passage to Australia. [More…]

• Is it a fact that any potential European male migrant, if marriedto a non-European, is denied an assisted passage although he and his wife could enter Australia provided they pay their own fares? [More…]

• (a female member of the Board receives $428 per annum less than her male counterpart) [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings all states plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with the A.C.T.U. [More…]

• Because these people, both male and female, have no particular skills, in many instances it is impossible for the Department of Labour and National Service to find them a position. [More…]

• Therefore the Government is expecting married pensioner couples to live on a weekly income equal to about 36 per cent of the average weekly earnings of a male worker. [More…]

• My view is that they should be subjects requiring immediate inquiry by fairly minded unbiased senators, male and female. [More…]

• The average weekly male earning in New South [More…]

• With today’s average male earnings after tax somewhere in the vicinity of $63, the base rate pensioner who gets Supplementary Assistance of $2 per week and the Fringe Benefits which average some $5 per week is up in the range of one-third average male earnings. [More…]

• When the wife died the male pensioner qualified for a payment under section 30a of the Act, but he was so distraught with grief and worry over the loss of his partner after so many years that for some time he was incapable of making an application. [More…]

• What are the average weekly earnings of the male worker in industry today? [More…]

• This publication has a circulation of 45,000. lt is posted free to all male members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union throughout Australia, if they request that it be sent to them. [More…]

• Many industries have been able to employ women operators on certain jobs at 75 or 80 per cent of the male rate. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with the A.C.T.U. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with the A.C.T.U. [More…]

• Surely Senator Webster is not trying to tell me that male pensioners do not shave, or that elderly ladies do not want a hairdo occasionally, or do not want to use lipstick. [More…]

• Taking a larger view’, one speaker declared, the pension in 1949 had been 26.3 per cent of the average male earnings– [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings for all States, as ascertained by the Commonwealth Statistician, plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with A.C.T.U. [More…]

• Male employees not specifically herein mentioned - The same rates as prescribed in the preceding item (c). [More…]

• Cooks - Male (cooking for 13 persons or more) - In accordance with Station Hands’ Award [More…]

• Cooks - Male (having less than three years’ expereicne-$24.00perweek Cooks - Female (cooking for 10 persons or more) - In accordance with Station Hands’ Award [More…]

• This result can be achieved by relating pension rates to what the Commonwealth Statistician calls the average weekly earnings per employed male unit in Australia. [More…]

• But we still need more suitable accommodation for some aged and disabled persons, some families without a male breadwinner and some large families on relatively low incomes. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30% of the Average Weekly Male Earnings for all States, as ascertained by the Commonwealth Statistician, plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with A.C.T.U. [More…]

• A recent survey of unemployed male migrants indicated that language problems are the most common single factor involved in a migrant’s securing suitable employment. [More…]

• Apparently male and female migrants were particularly affected when isolation occurred, lt was established that early breakdowns occurred much more commonly amongst migrants who could speak little or no English. [More…]

• Whilst prescribing a maximum age of 65 years for male officers, female Commission’s officers may retire or be officers at the present time must retire on attaining the age of 60 years. [More…]

• This restriction on female officers is to be removed and, in cases suitable to the Commission an officer, male or female, who has attained the age of 65 years may continue in the Commission’s service for a period not exceeding 12 months. [More…]

• What coverage is given under our national health scheme where Turkish national custom requires circumcision at 8 years and not at birth to a male child born in Australia to migrant parents. [More…]

• The Commission will also be given the right to extend the service of an officer, male or female, who has attained the age of 65 years, for another year, taking the officer to the age of 66 years. [More…]

• About 2i years ago another member of the Government parties - I refer to the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) - addressing a pensioners’ conference, advocated publicly that pensions ought to be 50 per cent of the male basic wage. [More…]

• The situation is not dissimilar from that under which, in general, male lives pay a higher premium rate for Life Assurance than female lives. [More…]

• This does nol of course reflect any discrimination against the male but results solely from the fact that male lives experience higher mortality rates than female lives. [More…]

• To illustrate my argument on how discrimination can exist between States, I take the case of a lad who was born in Brisbane at 12.20 on the morning of 20th March” 1951 and compare it with the case of a child who was born at that same instant in South Australia or Western Australia, lt would not be unreasonable that a male child could have been born at the same time in those States. [More…]

• I hope I do not upset the decorum of the Senate by saying that I remember reading that on one memorable occasion when the creation of a massive bureau in Washington was being discussed, Harry Truman, the President of the United States of America, who was a very earthy man, listened to what was said for a while and then said: ‘That agency will be about as much use as the male nipple’. [More…]

• We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the Average Weekly Male Earnings for all States, as ascertained by the Commonwealth Statistician, plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with A.C.T.U. [More…]

• The above rates are applicable to males only. [More…]

• Under the system of the phased introduction of equal pay determined by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and applied in the Commonwealth Service, female Geophysicists are currently in receipt of 95 per cent of the appropriate male rate or $428 less than the appropriate male rate whichever is the higher salary. [More…]

• As from the beginning of the first pay, period commencing on or after 1st January 1972, female Geophysicists will receive the same rates of pay as male Geophysicists. [More…]

• Special commencing rates are provided in the Geophysicist Class 1 range for persons having completed a 3 year degree (currently $4099 male; $3894 female) and a 4 or 5 year degree course (currently $4466 male; $4243 female). [More…]

• The average weekly earnings per employed male in 1950 were $21 per week. [More…]

• With equal pay for the sexes - I am not growling about that at all - an unmarried woman without chick or child to maintain will receive the same income as a male, if she is doing the same work as that male; yet that male may be married and have a family to support. [More…]

• This is something that is urgently required not only in the field of which I am speaking now - the civilian aged person, male or female, who needs accommodation - but also in the field of the aged war widow. [More…]

• Sydney newspapers have carried stories about males who had what they called beer bellies. [More…]

• I suppose that from the male angle it could be argued that there should be some coverage in that respect, too. [More…]

• There are some 2 dozen female and a few male cleaners. [More…]

• A table shows the classification of male beneficiaries in our population. [More…]

• So twothirds of the benefits which were paid to males in Australia were paid for a period of under 2 months. [More…]

• They seem to mc to be not subjects about which honourable senators, particularly male senators, would be greatly concerned. [More…]

• lt is page 4254 of the Hansard of Tuesday, 7th December, lt shows thai 7 per cent of the male work force is in receipt of a total weekly income of less than S57.99, that 10 per cent of the male work force is in receipt of an income of less than S59.99 a week, that 24 per cent of the male work force is in receipt of an income of less than $70 a week and that 40 per cent of the male work force is in receipt of an income of less than $79.99 a week. [More…]

• Dr Neutze’s paper quoted figures for average weekly earnings per employed male unit which increased between 1952-53 and 1966-67 by about 106 per cent. [More…]

• It indicates that the rate for an adult unemployed male will be increased from $10 to $17 a week and that the rate for an unmarried person aged 18 to 20 years will rise by $5, from $6 to $1 1 a week. [More…]

• If one takes into account the magnanimous decision of the Government to attempt to alleviate some of the hardship which has been caused by its own action and the increase in the adult male rate of from $10 to $17 a week, in effect it means that the real purchasing value of that $17 is no greater than $7.1 4c. [More…]

• This is made up of $17 for the male, $8 for the wife, $4.50 each for the children and SI. [More…]

• Of course, twothirds of the male population in the world wear skirts. [More…]

• If the male members of the Senate achieved acceptance of the proposition that it was appropriate dress to enter the Senate in shorts, shirt and tie, our 2 lady senators, on the other side of the chamber, would probably seek to follow the Germaine Greer style and wear hot pants into the chamber. [More…]

• We, the undersigned, respectfully draw your attention that the conscience of the nation is not at ease while the records of our country show that social services are not comparable with those of other advanced countries administering such services, therefore, we call upon the Commonwealth Government to immediately legislate for: Base pension rate - 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings, all states, plus supplementary assistance and allowances based on a percentage of such earnings. [More…]

• It was also stressed during the inquiry that employment opportunities were provided in decentralised areas where clothing manufacture took place, but it was stated also that there were a number of clothing industries in industrial areas where male employment was high and that this afforded employment opportunities for females in those areas. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts investigate an allegation of cruelty on the Yarrabah Reserve as it has been stated that a male resident had his hands handcuffed behind bis back and was then assaulted? [More…]

• Base pension rate - 30 per cent -of the average weekly male earnings, all states, plus supplementary assistance and allowances based on a percentage of such earnings. [More…]

• Can the AttorneyGeneral inform the Senate the minimum age established in Commonwealth law below which charges of carnal knowledge can be lodged against a male for engaging in sexual relations with the consent of the female partner? [More…]

• Base pension rate - 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings, all states, plus supplementary assistance and allowances based on a percentage of such earnings. [More…]

• Base pension rate - 30 per cent of t. average weekly male earnings, all states, plus supplementary assistance and allowances based on a percentage of such earnings. [More…]

• He attended a meeting at which the Premier spoke in support of one of the State Country Party candidates, the Reverent Mr Male. [More…]

• Then he made various remarks about the religious attitudes of the Reverend Mr Male. [More…]

• The Reverend Mr Male then endeavoured- [More…]

• The dissent relates to the question of the eligibility of unmarried male and female members of the Services to pass on rights to others on the same basis as married male personnel can pass them on to their dependants under the existing scheme and will be able to do under the proposed scheme. [More…]

• The chart shows, amongst other things, that a single male pensioner requires an additional $5 a week to reach the poverty line, and that an invalid pensioner with a wife and 2 children needs and additional $15 a week to reach the poverty line. [More…]

• It is very noticeable from an examination of the figures in a document entitled Table A - Trends in wages, prices and productivity since 1955-56’ that was tendered in evidence by the Commonwealth during the national wage case that the average weekly earnings per employed male unit increased by only small amounts between 1955-56 and 1969-70. [More…]

• The Public Service Board has advised that male occupants of the following designations are, in normal circumstances ineligible under Public Service Regulation 84 for first class air travel in Australia whilst travelling on duty: [More…]

• In addition there is also the crime of carnal knowledge where a male person, boy or adult, has sexual intercourse with a female below the age of consent. [More…]

• Some naturalised Australian male citizens of Greek origin have been called up for military service on their return to the land of their birth. [More…]

• This table indicates that between the June quarter of 1967 and the June quarter of 1972 average weekly earnings in New South Wales per male unit increased by 53.2 per cent. [More…]

• The honourable senator did not say whether the photograph depicted a female gun carrying model or a male gun carrying model. [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, ls the Minister aware that a significant number of employers in New South Wales have stated that they are experiencing great difficulty in recruiting labour, both male and female, skilled and unskilled, in both city and country areas? [More…]

• At 18 years of age, the 2 main political parties represented here and, I am certain, the Democratic Labor Party have subscribed to the view that the male youth of Australia is old enough to go to war. [More…]

• The next in line has always been able to come to the throne at the age of 18 in the United Kingdom, male or female. [More…]

• They are all males. [More…]

• In overseas branch offices, Qantas employs 44 male expatriate Australian managers or company representatives, 36 locally engaged male managers or company representatives and one locally engaged female company representative (in Madrid). [More…]

• Trans-Australia Airlines has 7 positions of State Manager, all of which are at present filled by male employees. [More…]

• Today young people, whether male or female, leave home at an early age and look after themselves. [More…]

• I found that some of the measures in force to influence decentralisation of industry in the United Kingdom were: 40 per cent cash grants for plant and machinery; 25 per cent building grants given to service industries as well as manufacturing; discretionary loans and grants, including the possibility that the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom could subscribe to shares and stock; resettlement and removal grants for workers; grants to local authorities to rehabilitate derelict land and improve basic public services; controls on factory development in prosperous regions under industrial development certificates; and a wage subsidy of 1.10.0 as a regional development premium for each adult male manufacturing employee in the development areas for at least 7 years. [More…]

• I think that the children of mothers who are unable to care for them or of the single male parent who is occupied in earning income for the family will need to have Specialised care such as we envisage will be provided under this Bill. [More…]

• It should be noted that the survey related only to full-time adult male employees and related only to weekly earnings in the particular pay-period in which the survey was conducted. [More…]

• On the above basis, the survey results show that about 4,800 (or 0.3 per cent) of all full-time adult male private employees represented earned $300 or more in the survey week (equivalent to approximately $15,640 or more per annum), while about 1,500 (or 0.2 per cent) of all full-time adult male government employees were in this earnings group. [More…]

• equivalent to approximately $14,600 or more per annum), the comparable figures were about 7,100 (or 0.5 per cent) fulltime adult males in the private sector and about 3,100 (or 0.4 per cent) in the government sector. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the final report of the Committee of Inquiry into Financial Terms and Conditions of Service for Male and Female Members of the Regular Armed Forces. [More…]

• In view of the fact that working women who receive pay and status equal to that of a male worker can retire at age 60 years and receive the old age pension, when equal pay becomes the rule in this country will the Minister consider reducing the retiring age for the male to 60 years instead of the present 65 years? [More…]

• Therefore, males should be allowed to retire first so that they can have an equal number of years of leisure before they totally retire. [More…]

• All pensions will be immediately raised by $1.50 and thereafter, every spring and every autumn, the basic pension rate will be raised by $1.50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• This Government has approached the very sensitive and delicate field of diplomacy and foreign relations with the same finesse as would a rogue male elephant in a herd of females and with the same devastating results to all those around it. [More…]

• I pause there to emphasise the word ‘immediately’ - by $1.50 and thereafter, every spring and every autumn, the basic pension rale will be raised by $1.50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Already we find indications that with the rate of inflation this year, unless economic policies are changed by the new Government, it will not be possible at the rate proposed ever to achieve a base pension rate of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• I am sure that neither the Minister nor any other honourable senator opposite would deliberately set out to make a situation in which pensioners were not able to achieve the proposed 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• 1 also make the point that the selected basis of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings is something which in many ways is unfortunate. [More…]

• The trouble is that average weekly male earnings fluctuate considerably from time to time during the year and, therefore, they are not as reliable a basis for varying pension rates as would be a relationship to national income per capita. [More…]

• The Austraiian Labor Party, running true to form and always honouring its promises, said in its policy speech that it would introduce these measures which would give a rise of $1.50 a week in the basic pension rate and again in the spring and in the autumn sessions until such time as the basic pension rate reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Another thing on which the Government has given an assurance is that while it is the Government - and this will be for many years - the pension rate will never again fall below 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• All pensions will be immediately raised by St. 50 and thereafter, every spring and every autumn, the basic pension rats will be raised by $1.50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• I hope the Minister for the Media will answer the following 2 questions for me: How is it expected that the 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings level will be reached and by how much, if a S3 increase is paid to age pensioners this year, will the rate fall behind the projected figure due to the present inflationary trend? [More…]

• Because separate total income figures are not shown for males and females on pay-roll tax forms, estimates of average weekly earnings are calculated on the basis of ‘employed male units’, i.e. [More…]

• total male employment plus a proportion of female employment. [More…]

• This proportion is determined by the estimated ratio of female to male earnings. [More…]

• I again state that it is not a true indication of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• An instance is given of an unemployed standard family consisting of a man, his wife, one daughter 6 to IS years and one male student 16 to 21 years. [More…]

• All pensions will be immediately raised by $1.50 and thereafter, every Spring and every Autumn, the basic pension rate will be raised by, $1.50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• The honourable senator then queried - this just makes one smile - whether it was feasible for the Australian Labor Party, in accordance with the clear statement made by our leader, to increase the pension rates by $1.50 in the spring and autumn sessions of the Parliament until such time as they represented a full 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• He is now concerned that it may well be that because of the movement in the average weekly male earnings $1.50 a session would not be adequate to reach that percentage. [More…]

• his wife, one daughter aged 6 to IS years, and one male student aged 16 to 21 years. [More…]

• The Government has claimed that it will be related to 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• While the Minister may have admitted that his Government might have to review the question of the rate at which the pension shall be increased to achieve the target of 25 per cent of the average of the weekly male earnings, I think I must point out again that one of the important planks which the Labor Party put down in the election campaign was its desire to have a pension rate which, to quote the Prime Minister again, ‘will no longer be tied to financial and political considerations of annual Budgets’. [More…]

• What has happened is that in the past there has been some hardship in regard to male spouses, and I think that there needs to be rectification of their position. [More…]

• 1 invite the Senate, to realise that when a petition is served on a respondent today - male or female - that respondent has absolutely no knowledge, except by a couple of staccato words, what the ground for divorce will be and is denied natural justice. [More…]

• In view of the fact that working women who receive pay and status equal to that of a male worker can retire at age 60 years and receive the old age pension, when equal pay becomes the rule inthis country will the Minister consider reducing the retiring age for the male to age 60 years instead of the present 65 years? [More…]

• Therefore, males should be allowed to retire first so that they can have an equal number or years of leisure before they totally retire? [More…]

• We propose that these lump sums be related to the national average weekly earnings, on a seasonally adjusted basis, per employed male unit as published by the Commonwealth Statistician and this will provide an automatic adjustment at quarterly intervals. [More…]

• I am sure all honourable senators will agree that any person, male or female, over the age of 18 years should today be able to marry without the necessity of obtaining his or her parents’ consent. [More…]

• For the concessions granted to single or widowed female members of the forces without dependents be granted also to single or widowed male members of the forces without dependants. [More…]

• Under the Act the minimum age at which a person may marry is 18 years for males and 16 years for females. [More…]

• However, a judge or a magistrate in a State but only a judge in a Territory, if he is satisfied that the circumstances of the case are so exceptional or unusual as to justify his doing so, may authorise a male between 16 years and 18 years of age or a female between 14 and 16 years to marry a particular person of marriageable age. [More…]

• The Government has said that itwill pursue a policy of bringing pensions to a standard’ of 25 per cent of the average weekly earningsof the average male employee. [More…]

• In the same period, average weekly earnings per employed male unit increased by 61.5 per cent’. [More…]

• There is also a table which indicates the average weekly earnings per employed male unit. [More…]

• They show that within the Australian community over a 10-year period there has been an escalation of approximately 94 per cent in average weekly male earnings, but the price of not one item in those documents has escalated anywhere near that figure. [More…]

• hot escalated nearly as much as average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Average weekly earnings per employed male unit increased in that period by 61.5 per cent. [More…]

• No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with our advances will be allocated to families in which the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner (exclusive of any overtime and child endowment payments) does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as denned in the Agreement. [More…]

• Provision is also made for benefits to be payable to widowers of serving and retired female members on the same basis as widows of serving and retired male members. [More…]

• In short, within a few years we will see this required of employers not only by the female personnel but also by the male personnel of their staffs. [More…]

• They will have to be prepared to provide approximately $1,200 to the most menial female employee if she becomes pregnant. [More…]

• This is in pursuance of a view which I held in relation to unmarried male and female members of public superannuation schemes whether it is this scheme, the Commonwealth Public Service superannuation scheme or the parliamentary superannuation scheme andI disclosed my interest in my dissenting report in terms. [More…]

• The amendment which I shall present is one which sets out to provide that unmarried male and female contributors to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund would have some entitlements to pass on in succession to a surviving mother, brother, sister or child, particularly if dependent, in the same way as can a married man in the Services in relation to his surviving widow and children. [More…]

• That one surviving parent of an unmarried contributing or recipient member, male or female, or if there is no such, a surviving sister or brother of such deceased member be entitled to receive the amount of annuity prescribed in recommendation 15 (a) and (b) as if such person were the widow. [More…]

• Excluding unmarried service personnel below the age of 26 years (most of whom will marry or leave the Services) and presuming that those above the age of 45 years will not marry - on the figures in the First and Second Schedules 13.6 per cent of female personnel in that category will continue in the Service unmarried until retirement, but only 9.4 per cent of male personnel in the same category. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that yesterday in the course of debate on the defence forces retirement benefits scheme I moved an amendment to the second reading to project the same principle in relation to male and female unmarried members of the defence forces. [More…]

• The husbands of married female members of the Parliament will receive the same benefits on the deaths of their wives as do the widows of deceased married male members. [More…]

• It is Government policy that this type of rise should continue until the pension rate is 25 per cent of the average male weekly earnings. [More…]

• He did not know whether it was 25 per cent or 30 per cent of the average male wage. [More…]

• They went to the people and said: ‘We will raise pensions until they are one-quarter of the average male wage’. [More…]

• Previously, the big red was neither pregnant- a phrase to which the honourable senator referred- - nor identifiably male. [More…]

• I would ask honourable senators to contrast what this Government has done- the generous rates of increase in pensions, both in money terms and percentage rates against the indices set out in the table- with the record of the last Government which in the year ended June 1971, for instance, when the average weekly male earnings increased by over 13 per cent, increased married and standard rates of pensions by a mean and miserable 7.6 per cent and 6.7 per cent respectively. [More…]

• A male voice on the telephone then said: Mr Dexter is not here’. [More…]

• As announced in the Prime Minister’s Policy Speech, the Government intends to increase the basic pension rate every Spring and every Autumn until it reaches 2 5 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• I confirmed, in that Speech, the Australian Government’s determination to achieve its goal of a standard rate pension of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings and indicated that, if it is necessary, the pension increase for the Autumn Session will be greater than $1.50 per week. [More…]

• The honourable senator will be aware that in the policy speech of the Prime Minister delivered before the last election the Labor Party undertook to increase pensions at the rate of $1.50 in each sessional period of the Parliament until the value of pensions had reached 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• We will continue that policy until the value of pensions is 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• I think I told him that it was Government policy, in accordance with an election undertaking given by the Prime Minister, that in each session of the Parliament the Australian Government would increase the subvention payable to pensioners by $ 1 .50 a week until the pension reached 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• But today it has been revealed to me that somebody in Canberra in an office, not in Parliament, not so far as I can learn even with ministerial approval and not so far as I can learn with Government confirmation, has devised a scheme whereby, if a partnership is exporting a crop, the view is taken in this edict from the office that the shares of the male partners who actively participate in the orcharding activities are to be proportionate to their shareholding. [More…]

• If a partnership of 3 male partners has an export crop of 15,000 bushels, does it mean that each male partner is entitled to $ 1 ,500? [More…]

• Before asking my question may I say that I acknowledge the fact that the Government increased the age pension by $1.50 in the last Budget and that these increases will be made twice yearly until the pension is 25 per cent of the male average wage. [More…]

• But because it is impossible for me or anyone else to speculate on what the rate of inflation will be in future years it is naturally impossible for me to say when the full pension rate will amount to 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• The shares of male partners who actively participate in the orcharding activity are to be proportionate to their shareholding. [More…]

• So if a partnership is exporting 20,000 cases and 4 male partners are actively participating in it, each partner gets $1,500. [More…]

• If there are 8 partners who export 40,000 cases, each partner gets $ 1 ,500- if they are male. [More…]

• On each occasion I have said that the Government’s policy is to increase the rate of pension until such time as it is equal to 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Nonetheless, I reiterate that he belonged to a government which was in office for 23 years and which did not at any time give an undertaking that pensions would be based on a certain percentage of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• I have said over and over again, as Mr Hayden, the Minister for Social Security, has said that this Government’s policy is to phase out the means test in the lifetime of the Parliament, assuming that the Parliament runs for 3 years, of course, and to increase pension rates until they are equal to at least 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• The Federal Government’s scheme to replace voluntary health insurance with a compulsory, tax-financed scheme is a creation of men- not doctors, mind you, but male academics and economists. [More…]

• But the point is that they are exhibiting themselves- I do not know whether they are discriminating against themselves as being males- as chauvinists and probably prigs. [More…]

• But I do not see how they can differentiate before themselves and male academics and economists. [More…]

• Seeing the farcical nature of that result, the Department put out an edict saying that in the case of partners, if there were 3 male partners, it would give $1,500 to each. [More…]

• The standard rate of pension at 1 December 1972 was $20.00 a week, representing 20.7 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit in the September 1972 quarter or 19.2 per cent of average weekly earnings in the December 1972 quarter. [More…]

• The increase recorded in average weekly earnings per employed male unit between the September quarter 1957 and the corresponding quarter of 1973 is approximately 180 per cent. [More…]

• On the basis of the figures as they were published until March 1971, average weekly earnings per employed male unit in the September quarter 1 957 were $39. [More…]

• Last year the average earnings for a male worker were $103. [More…]

• This year the average male earnings amount to $119.90. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, you would be aware that today the buying power of the basic pension is less in percentage terms of average weekly male earnings than it was when Labor took office. [More…]

• 4) on 18 September 1973 I said that the Australian Government was determined to achieve its goal of a standard rate pension of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings and, if necessary, the pension increase for the autumn session would be greater than $ 1 .50 a week. [More…]

• The new standard rate of pension will be 22.57% of average weekly male earnings, seasonally adjusted for the December quarter 1973, of $115.20 a week. [More…]

• Already we find indications that with the rate of inflation this year, unless economic policies are changed by the new Government, it will not be possible at the rate proposed ever to achieve a base pension rate of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• All pensions will be immediately raised by $1.50 and thereafter, every spring and every autumn, the basic pension rate will be raised by $ 1 .50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Inherent in that statement was the belief and the pledge that by increasing the pension by $1.50 twice a year it would reach, and reach in quick time, 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• These pension increases are to be seen, not in the terms of an increase of $1.50 twice a year until the basic rate is 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings but in terms of the fact that today the Government would have to give more than $3 twice a year; it would have to give something like $4.50 or $4.60, maybe $6, which is double the present increase, to achieve its goal. [More…]

• When this Government came into office, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) gave an undertaking to the Australian people, and particularly to those people on pensions, that we would move in Parliament each session for an increase of $1.50 a week until such time as the pension was 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• The Government now seeks to increase the pension to one-quarter of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Re-engagement rates for the December 1973 quarter compared with the December 1972 quarter for male other ranks were as follows: For the quarter ended December 1972, it was 59.3 per cent for the Navy, 72.3 per cent for the Army and 72.3 per cent for the Air Force. [More…]

• The average income of an adult male today is $6,400 a year. [More…]

• Such a male, if his wife is working, would have deductions which would make a net taxable income of, say, $5,500 a year. [More…]

• Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield has had a hard road to hoe in what is essentially a male community whose members perhaps do not understand a woman’s approach to a problem. [More…]

• We successfully supported the extension of the minimum wage to adult females. [More…]

• No longer may the Government advertise for a male clerk or for a female clerk but must advertise for a person who can do the job. [More…]

• But that applies only to a small portion of the female work force and of the potential work force. [More…]

• This attitude goes back to schools where teachers with the best will in the world sometimes believe that while a male has to earn his living a female will get married and does not need to do so. [More…]

• Let us look at the situation with respect to male Army officers. [More…]

• I extend to Senator Guilfoyle, who is the most experienced of the female senators, my congratulation on her appointment to the shadow Ministry. [More…]

• I also extend my congratulations to the new male senators. [More…]

• I know that privileges are extended to our husbands and families in exactly the same way as privileges are extended to the wives and families of male members. [More…]

• I refer to the obtaining of finance- for instance, housing finance, hire purchase finance for essential goods and services and in fact finance for anything at all- without a male guarantor. [More…]

• The Senate may be even more male chauvinist than is thought because, according to one of the books in the lobbies, the word ‘Senate’ comes from the Latin word ‘senatus’, which refers to a body of wise men. [More…]

• On 16 October 1970, the Minister for Defence informed the Parliament that the Government had decided to appoint this Committee of Inquiry into Financial Terms and Conditions of Service for Male and Female members of the Regular Armed Forces. [More…]

• Under the new scheme the full time training allowance for all adult trainees will be equal to the average adult male award rate derived quarterly from the Australian Government Statistician. [More…]

• Something like 20 per cent of the male population of Australia above the age of 20 years are ex-servicemen, and of those Australian males between the ages of 50 and 55 years well over half are ex-servicemen eligible for these benefits. [More…]

• As honourable senators know the Government is committed to increasing pensions twice annually until the standard rate of pensions reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• The new standard rate established by this Bill will be 26 per cent of seasonally adjusted average weekly male earnings for the March quarter 1974, the latest quarter for which figures are available. [More…]

• It will be almost 25 per cent of the estimated average weekly male earnings seasonally adjusted for the June quarter of 1974. [More…]

• In the interim report of the Australian Government’s Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Professor Henderson proposed that, for the Budget of 1974, the standard rate of pension should be $27 a week, increased by rises in average weekly male earnings since August 1973. [More…]

• On the basis of estimated average weekly male earnings for the June quarter 1974 this would justify an increase in the standard rate of pension of approximately $4.90 over the present weekly rate of $26. [More…]

• The anomaly is that if a widow is caring for such children there are government programs to assist her, but if a male parent has accepted the total responsibility for the children there is no government assistance to which he is entitled. [More…]

• A voter for the Assembly had to- be 2 1 years of age, and male possess freehold property to the value of 50 or the annual value of 5, or occupy a leasehold worth 10 per annum, or be a householder of the annual value of 1 0, or be in legal occupation of Crown lands for a period of 1 2 months in consideration of any payment to the public revenue, or be in receipt of an annual salary of 100. [More…]

• I suppose that within our traditional male chauvinist society it did cause a little confusion that the Government was at least recognising the fact that there were men who were placed in the position, which has traditionally been ascribed to women, of having the responsibility of looking after children without the assistance of the mother of the children. [More…]

• I am sure my male colleagues on this side of the chamber are very pleased to have yet another civilised woman in this place who can raise the standard of debate in this place. [More…]

• A man who had served 3 months in Stuart Creek on a charge of possession of cannabis said that when serving he heard of several wrong treatments by officers, especially male rapings and that several were locked up for no apparent reason. [More…]

• This is an accusation that approximately 2 years ago a naked Aboriginal girl was bashed by a male warder at Boggo Road Goal and left without medical attention for 4 days. [More…]

• There are accusations too that a number of female prisoners in this gaol have been bashed by male warders. [More…]

• One of the reasons is that female warders will not stay in the place. [More…]

• Under the NEAT system trainees will receive an amount based on the average adult male weekly award wage, and adjusted quarterly. [More…]

• Capital Hill is a pleasant hill shaped like a nubile breast which has been nibbled at by male chauvinist pigs. [More…]

• It is a very amusing book which introduced us for the first time, in English fiction at least, to the occupation of the professional co-respondent- the person, be it male or female, who was available for a fee to establish, complete with private detectives, photographs and so on, instant proof of the commission of adultery. [More…]

• To give an example, take the case of a couple who married comparatively young and the male partner undertook, say, a medical course and, in order to make it possible for him to study fulltime, his wife went out to work and, in effect, kept him for a few years. [More…]

• For example, each of us understands, whether we are men or women in terms of our genetic make-up, that we are caught in a situation in which we see our functioning in terms of our being male or female. [More…]

• The permit is necessary for male citizens between the ages of IS and 60 and for females aged 1 5 to 55. [More…]

• The population statistics for Aboriginals in 1971 show that, of some 106,290 individuals, 53,919 were male adults and children and 52,371 were females. [More…]

• I think it is probably very obvious to all those married male senators who are present that if they did not have wives prepared to support them strongly and to supplement the job they do here in the Senate and also in their home States then they would not be able to do the same job. [More…]

• What concerns me further is the fact that although male senators are under some restriction as to what they are allowed to wear in this chamber, female senators appear to be under no restriction because if I look to my right tonight I can see a newly elected female senator, Senator Coleman, dressed in what I would describe as an open-neck shirt. [More…]

• What would some of the more conservative members of the Senate think if a male senator were to enter this chamber dressed like that? [More…]

• Two-thirds of the male population of the world wear skirts, not trousers. [More…]

• I think effect was given to it by an English judge in a case a few years ago involving a so-called marriage between an undoubted male and a female who had been the subject of a sex change operation. [More…]

• The number of male officers resigning and leaving the service totalled 43 in September, the lowest number since April 1974 when it was 42 and the second lowest since December 1973. [More…]

• The banks will endeavour to use their allocation under the Act so as to achieve as high a proportion as practicable of their total housing loan approvals under this scheme to persons earning less than $150 per week, and will continue not to make any distinction between male and female applicants in the approval of housing loans. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Northern Development and the Northern Territory been drawn to newspaper reports that the women of Darwin are pressing for a bigger say in the reconstruction of the city because the old city had ample resources for male leisure and recreation but little for women and children? [More…]

• An income of $ 1 54 a week is in fact 1 1 0 per cent of the average male earning rate of $140 a week. [More…]

• In terms of broader movements, it is to be noted that from the March quarter 1973 to the December quarter 1974 (latest available) average weekly earnings per employed male unit (seasonally adjusted) increased by 44.0 per cent. [More…]

• From end-March 1973 to end-November 1974, weighted average minimum weekly wage rates for adult males increased by 49. [More…]

• Will the Minister ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration, if that is the appropriate ministry, to examine the feasibility and desirability of extending the present arrangement for bringing out Vietnamese orphans to embrace a plan whereby, in the case of the loss of the male parent, a mother with a child or children can be assisted to come to Australia and be provided with such facilities and opportunities here as are necessary to start a new life as a young family unit in this country? [More…]

• Although we have not quite reached our objective of a standard rate pension of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings, it is still a record proportion. [More…]

• Financial institutions tend to regard women less favourably than their male counterparts when they want to borrow money. [More…]

• Yet I put it to you, Mr Deputy President, that a lot of women in this day and age would be more financially stable than their male counterparts. [More…]

• If a woman wanted her child to become a teacher and there was a bonding agreement to sign, only a male could sign. [More…]

• If a woman was a deserted wife and had no idea where her husband was she had to get the signature of a male relative. [More…]

• The fact that that male relative may have been already fully committed to his own family or that he may in fact have been unemployed, or even that the sole male relative available to put his signature on a piece of paper may have been an alcoholic, did not make the slightest bit of difference. [More…]

• The little slip of paper distinctly stated that the signature of a female would not be accepted unless it was the signature of the widowed parent of the student. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy President, I put it to you that any male who would make such a fatuous statement as that would never have seen women at work in a supermarket. [More…]

• There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ. [More…]

• -There is no distinction between persons who can be classified as veterans, whether they are male or female. [More…]

• There is one difference which I think I pointed out some time earlier this year in answer to a question by Senator Coleman about repatriation benefits, and that is that the widows of male veterans are entitled to war widow benefits whereas the widowers of deceased women veterans are not entitled to similar benefits. [More…]

• The only thing I can say is that if any person is a veteran, male or female, the benefits or otherwise are the same. [More…]

• Senator Coleman said that there should not be an exclusive bar for males in one of the Canberra hotels, notwithstanding that there are four other bars in the hotel, I understand, which she could frequent if she wished. [More…]

• There is one bar which the men regard- apparently the licensee of the hotel regards it in the same way- as a place which should be a male refuge. [More…]

• 7 of 1966 with respect to the amount of wages that may be attached under garnishee proceedings whereby if a judgment of a court of the Territory is enforced a male debtor may be left with only $23 a week and a female debtor with only $15.25 a week. [More…]

• A municipal officer in the Brisbane City Councilthese figures refer to a male clerk in his first year -received $3,632 per annum in March 1973 and $6,384 in July 1974, an increase of 76 per cent. [More…]

• What number of people are employed by this scheme, both male and female? [More…]

• In 1973-74 some 47 per cent of the loans it insured were made to people whose incomes were equivalent to or less than average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Whether the member-contributor is male or female is entirely irrelevant. [More…]

• She had the capacity of being able to cut through a lot of the male political nonsense that goes on in this place, like a hot knife cuts through butter. [More…]

• She was able to combine 2 careers, which I am sure male senators would find it extraordinarily difficult to do. [More…]

• In view of the precarious balance outlined last night by the Treasurer in that he is predicting an increase of 22 per cent in the average male weekly earnings for this financial year, I ask: What measures are the Minister and the Government taking to support private employers who are expected to resist over-award claims for increased wages in view of the Government’s proclaimed support for wage indexation? [More…]

• There is possibly a fair proportion of the male population who have or could develop some disability relating to the prostrate gland, but the insurance company does not consider that worthy of the endorsements or discriminatory clauses that apply to female disorders. [More…]

• She may want to have the same type of insurance coverage as she provides for the male executives she employs. [More…]

• For instance, a white collar worker- male, of course- probably would be on the lowest scale of risk, while a labourer probably would be nearer the highest scale, depending on the type of labouring job that he was doing. [More…]

• So what those discriminatory clauses mean is that a woman pays 50 per cent more than her male counterpart for each $10 a week coverage for the sickness component, even if they are doing the same job. [More…]

• I wonder how many of the male doctors sitting on the Opposition benches are concerned at the discrimination against their female counterparts. [More…]

• Would they consider, even though their counterparts are female, that they are still second rate citizens and not entitled to equality? [More…]

• A male who works on a door-to-door sales commission basis can obtain insurance coverage, but the women are not entitled to it. [More…]

• I find it even more astounding when considering the figure with which I have already provided the Senate which shows that more than 50 per cent of the entire population are female. [More…]

• Let us look at the woman who lives in a mixed household, which is quite acceptable in these days of changing life styles, where there are a number of females and a number of males. [More…]

• She may not even be able to take out insurance coverage for those goods- it depends entirely on the insurance company- but a male in the household will be able to take out insurance. [More…]

• The only observation I was able to make from the letter was that the sexist nature of our society seems to have been continued in this letter in that the highest degree was held by the one male member of the group. [More…]

• The number of female toilets provided in the wings added to the building in recent years is considered to be adequate for the occupancy in these areas but this is not true of the main block where, in general, and on the main floor level in particular, facilities are inadequate. [More…]

• I have given thought to the suggestion made by Senator Coleman concerning the toilets at the rear of the Senate chamber and in order to alleviate the problem mentioned by the Senator I have given approval for one of the existing male toilets being converted for female usage. [More…]

• All pensions will be immediately raised by $1.50 and, thereafter every spring and every autumn, the basic pension will be raised by $ 1 .50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• It is available to only 16 per cent of schools with male enrolments. [More…]

• It seems to me to be totally wrong that an Australian male should be obliged to work until he is 65 years of age before he can retire and receive a pension, while thousands of teenagers are walking around the streets of this country looking for employment. [More…]

• Underlying this estimate are assumptions that average weekly earnings per employed male unit will increase by 22 percent . [More…]

• As far as I can ascertain the only crime that Mrs Anstee had committed was that she was a female and that she was drinking in a male domain. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that according to figures released by Dr Everingham, perhaps 5 per cent of the male population, perhaps one in twenty Australians, drinks excessively and could be classed as having an alcohol problem. [More…]

• During August 36 male officers resigned compared with 67 in the previous month. [More…]

• The army is currently controlling the intake of male general enlistments on a monthly target basis. [More…]

• The Senate will be aware of the report cited in a Jakarta newspaper Kompas on 20 October that advancing UTD and Apodeti forces had come across the remains of 4 male Europeans in the Balibo area. [More…]

• Honourable senators will know it is the Government’s objective to progressively lift the standard of living of pensioners by raising the standard rate of pension twice a year until it reaches 25 per cent of seasonally adjusted average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• The proposed standard rate of pension is $38.75 a week which is equivalent to 25.2 per cent of average weekly male earnings for the June quarter 1975, the latest quarter for which figures are available. [More…]

• Compared with this, over the period from June 1972 to June 1975 the consumer price index increased by almost 45 per cent and seasonally adjusted average weekly male earnings increased by 61 per cent. [More…]

• Mr da Cruz was of course the UDT official reported in the Indonesian Press as having confirmed the sighting of the bodies of four male Europeans in Balibo following capture of that town by UDT/ Apodeti forces. [More…]

• Already we find indications that with the rate of inflation this year, unless economic policies are changed by the new Government, it will not be possible at the rate proposed ever to achieve a base pension rate of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• We know that female senators can enter this chamber in sleeveless gowns and low cut frocks and no objection is raised. [More…]

• Yet a male senator is not allowed to enter this place and even take off his coat in the atmospheric conditions that exist. [More…]

• I object to there being any discrimination between male senators and female senators. [More…]

• A male senator should not have to enter this place attired from the ankle to the Adam’s apple. [More…]

• I do not want a rule to be brought in to compel a female senator to do the same and to comply with the same standards with which we have to comply. [More…]

• So I ask you, Mr President, if you would give serious consideration to allowing honourable senators to come into the chamber, not necessarily wearing shorts- that might be something that would have to be put to a test- but allowing them, if they so desire, at least to come into the chamber coatless so that they can be a little more comfortable, just as the female senators can be when they take their place in this chamber. [More…]

• I do not know of the new senator to whom Senator Mulvihill refers, but I suggest that whether it be a male or female senator, he or she should resign before he or she gets frustrated with the things which have to happen and which do happen in this place. [More…]

• This, of course, is irrespective of whether the spouse and parent is the male of the species or the female of the species. [More…]

• The same inquiry revealed that 20 per cent of all female full year full time workers earned below $2,500 per annum in 1973. [More…]

• By comparison, only 5 per cent of all male full time workers earned below $2,500 per annum in that year. [More…]

• But 1.9 per cent of women in the work force have trade qualifications as compared with 20.3 per cent of males. [More…]

• In 1971 only 27 per cent of students engaged in post school study of any kind, that is tertiary or technical, were female. [More…]

• The injustice to women implicit in the concept of the male breadwinner, which was first applied by Justice Higgins in the Conciliation and Arbitration Court in 1907, has finally been removed. [More…]

• Viewed historically, the recent high rate of female participaation in the work force cannot be regarded as a temporary phenomenon. [More…]

• High female work force rates have occurred frequently throughout Australia’s history. [More…]

• In August 1 975 the average female weekly earnings were only 74 per cent of the average male weekly earnings. [More…]

• I say to them: You just try to knock back equal pay and take us back to the days when women received 60 per cent of the male wage. [More…]

• Some women were lucky to receive 40 per cent of the male wage. [More…]

• Women in the textile industry will not go back to receiving 60 per cent of the male rate and neither will the rest of the women in Australia even countenance the idea. [More…]

• I see this as a retrograde step and one which will reduce the rate of pension below the rate that would have applied had the normal procedure of bringing the pension to 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings been followed. [More…]

• The preliminary estimate for the December quarter is that average weekly male earnings arc $172 a week. [More…]

• Applying the Labor Party’s policy of 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings the standard pension would increase by $2.75 a week making a total of $43 a week or S1.75 more than the amount proposed by the Government in legislation to be introduced later in this session. [More…]

• The anomaly is that if a widow is caring for such children there are government programs to assist her, but if a male parent has accepted the total responsibility for the children there is no government assistance to which he is entitled. [More…]

• I suppose that if male senators can make maiden speeches, so can I. [More…]

• However, one thing we must fight is not our male population but ourselves; for the only things standing in the way of women are the psychological barriers we ourselves impose. [More…]

• Furthermore, it should be noted that in February 1972 about 30 per cent of unemployed registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service received unemployment benefit and this had increased to 70 per cent in February 1976; about 70 per cent of male recipients at the latest analysis last year were unmarried; some two-fifths were under 2 1 years; threequarters of them had been on benefit for more than 1 month. [More…]

• One young woman stood up- if she had been dressed in male attire I would have mistaken her for Colston- and she asked me, ‘Mr Aikens, what is your attitude to masturbation?’ [More…]

• The division of labour is such that, because one sex gets one title and the other sex gets another title, the male sex is entitled to a higher rate of pay. [More…]

• I know that it raises a bit of a giggle among my male colleagues and even my male constituents, but the fact of the matter is that women are depicted on radio and television and in the newspapers as happy little twirps who have no mind of their own and as some sort of a vegetable that has a continual smile on its face, that is never allowed to lose its temper, that is never allowed to be a human being and that is never allowed to have hates and loves of its own. [More…]

• This occurs in respect of deserted husbands and single male parent families, as well as single female parent families. [More…]

• My male colleagues who do no more, and sometimes do a darned sight less than I, in general have an unpaid housekeeper for whom they claim not only the $364 deduction but also any additional expenses involved in the health and welfare of their spouse. [More…]

• My situation is no different from that of any number of women who work in the community, whether from economic necessity, because they are concerned that having only a male breadwinner places a strain on the man and could leave them widows in early life, or whether purely and simply they desire to go out to work to fulfil themselves. [More…]

• I am not talking about claiming money paid as salaries or about claiming accommodation, board or lodging charges but simply about the amount of $364 which is allowed to a male if he employs a housekeeper in particular circumstances. [More…]

• The Taxation Act states that male taxpayers are allowed to claim for a female housekeeper whereas female taxpayers are not. [More…]

• I am just as concerned about male and female partners in a marriage who at some stage have to employ a housekeeper. [More…]

• On a number of occasions it is the female who is going out to support the family. [More…]

• With the change in life style it will be most interesting to see what the Commissioner of Taxation will determine in regard to the woman who decides to go out to work and become the bread winner, and the male who remains at home and looks after the house and the family. [More…]

• She therefore enrolled in another course and was doing that course this year when she discovered that there was a male student who had received inferior passes to hers in first year and had been accepted into the second year quota. [More…]

• She was told: We are getting too many female graduates in this course and, therefore, we are limiting the number of girls we are allowing into second year’. [More…]

• It is the province of the public to decide whether there are too many female graduates and then perhaps to come to some conclusion. [More…]

• ‘under the National Employment and Training System; and that ‘ for all trainees over 2 1 years and Junior trainees with dependents a full-time training allowance equivalent to the average adult male award wage, which will be adjusted quarterly- at the present time approximately $90 per week’, is to be provided; and that there is strong objection to the reduction in training allowance to trainees under the National Employment and Training System, to be effective from 1 April 1 976, as this places these trainees at considerable financial disadvantage. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Members in the Senate assembled will take the most urgent steps to readjust the payments under the National Employment and Training System so that they are equivalent to the average adult male award wage. [More…]

• These are the sort of funeral benefits schemes which people who are now of an age when they are really worrying about who will bury them enter into: They pay out $60 on the death of a male, $30 for the death of a wife- obviously, it costs less to bury a woman than it does a man- and $30 on the death of an unmarried female. [More…]

• But male pensioners receive $60 and a wife receives $30. [More…]

• I think we must recognise that in this century there has been a dramatic and continuing decline in rural community population to the extent that today only 8 per cent of the male work force is now involved in rural farm employment. [More…]

• Nonetheless, average male weekly earnings increased 56 per cent in that time and the consumer price index increased by 41 per cent. [More…]

• There is another aspect of the legislation I would commend, and that is that it equalises the position of male and female contributors to the scheme. [More…]

• It recognises that the female public servant should have superannuation benefits in exactly the same way as a male public servant has. [More…]

• The Bill also provides for a break in service for the female public servant if she wishes to withdraw from the work force for a number of years to have children. [More…]

• Second Division Officer ( Level 1 )- Male- Aged 58. [More…]

• Third Division Officer (Class 1 1 )-Male-Aged 55. [More…]

• Third Division Officer (Class 9)-Male-Aged 57. [More…]

• Clause 25 is directed to the male dependant of a deceased contributor under the old Bill. [More…]

• So, a Bill like this, designed simply to carry on the old ship for the purpose of providing the old pensioner’s legal right to float through the rest of his life, is being taken advantage of to give to those male dependants not merely a pension until remarriage or death, as is the entitlement under section 46 of the Act. [More…]

• So that by virtue of saving the ship from the shipwreck of the new legislation we take advantage of it to give to the male survivor a pension not merely until death or remarriage but until death, whatever his circumstances and whatever the relative circumstances of the dependant. [More…]

• A further point that Senator Wright makes is that it is true also that the spouse of a female pensioner living with her at the time of her death would under the new scheme obtain a pension notwithstanding that he was a millionaire and had a substantial income in his own right. [More…]

• There is no distinction between the eligibility conditions applying to a spouse of a deceased female pensioner of contributor and a deceased male pensioner or contributor respectively. [More…]

• According to police evidence, within a matter of minutes, every able-bodied male Aborigine had committed an offence and been arrested for it. [More…]

• Where a male pensioner marries after his retirement, pension shall not, upon the death of the pensioner, be payable to the widow or in respect of any child of the marriage’. [More…]

• ) Which banks enforce different rates of (a) interest and (b) reduced interest for the purchase of a first home as between male and female staff members. [More…]

• The statistics maintained under the program have not to date differentiated between male and female workers, but it has been estimated that women make up approximately 33 per cent of migrants enrolled in courses in Victoria. [More…]

• And that ‘for all trainees over 2 1 years and Junior trainees with dependants a full-time training allowance equivalent to the average adult male award wage, which will be adjusted quarterly- at the present time approximately $90 per week’, is to be provided; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Members in the Senate assembled will take the most urgent steps to readjust the payments under the National Employment and Training System so that they are equivalent to the average adult male award wage. [More…]

• It took a Liberal federal government to embark upon significant redistribution of income from the male spouse to the female spouse, that is, redistribution of income to the mother to help her with her responsibilities for supporting the family. [More…]

• My question is: Is such an investigation carried out in relation to male breadwinners who seek sickness benefis? [More…]

• I assure the honourable senator that the requirement for a female breadwinner would be no different from the requirement for a male breadwinner. [More…]

• 1 repeat, it is becoming a case of the male pig- if I can put it that way- being able to exploit Asians while we do not do anything about it. [More…]

• It is not known whether any male Australian citizens under 35 years have obtained passports with the intention of travelling to Rhodesia. [More…]

• The Cheynes Beach Whaling Company caught 153 male whales, 13.7 metres and over in length last year. [More…]

• And that ‘for all trainees over 2 1 years and Junior trainees with dependents, a full-time training allowance equivalent to the Average Adult Male Award Wage, which will be adjusted quarterly- at the present time approximately $90.00 per week is to be provided; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the members in the Senate assembled will take the most urgent steps to readjust the payments under the National Employment and Training System so that they are equivalent to the Average Adult Male Wage; thus honouring the Governments contract with the said students. [More…]

• Since 1973 the cost of employing a male process worker has increased by 40 per cent in Australia compared with 1 5 per cent in the United States of America. [More…]

• Can the Minister comment on what seems to be the practice, although not the policy, of her department in respect of supporting mothers; that is, where a supporting mother shares accommodation with a male person she is automatically assumed to be in a de facto relationship with that person and thus to be ineligible for the supporting mothers’ benefit? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to the fairly recent promotions of some female officers in the Australian defence forces to senior posts. [More…]

• As some of these officers are now posted to senior established positions previously considered to be exclusively for male officers, will the Minister request the Minister for Defence to consider a special review of salary scales applicable to these officers which are less than those applicable to male officers and to consider any similar situation or anomaly affecting other servicewomen? [More…]

• You, Madam Acting Deputy President, would know something of what female migrants have to put up with in some of our clothing factories. [More…]

• That is the thinking of the male pig. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a pay rate differential of 20 per cent still exists between male and female Army officers? [More…]

• However I shall pass on to him Senator Missen ‘s question about the discrepancy, which does appear to be revealed in the question, between the pay of male and female members of the defence forces. [More…]

• A very distressing case was brought to my attention yesterday concerning a male age pensioner caring for his totally blind wife, who is also additionally handicapped by the loss of a leg. [More…]

• The fish were being looked at to see whether it was possible by breeding to neutralise the male so that no more carp would breed in certain waters. [More…]

• For example, the annual income of a male employee on average weekly earnings of $180,30 would be about $9,300. [More…]

• So actually a wage earner today receiving average weekly male earnings would be paying the 2.5 per cent levy on $9,300 a year. [More…]

• As I said, a wage earner earning average male weekly earnings of $ 1 80.30 will pay under the proposed levy $232.50 a year, whereas that same wage earner in 1974 under Labor’s proposed 1.35 per cent levy would have paid only approximately $120 a year. [More…]

• Although the female work force had grown much faster than the male work force over the nine year period, in recent times between June, 197S and June, 1976, the female workforce did not expand at all, while the male work force grew by 5000 or by 2 per cent. [More…]

• I am talking about female unemployment. [More…]

• Female unemployment in the 15 years to 19 years age group has increased from 8.22 per cent to 17.19 per cent while male unemployment in the same age group has increased from 10.12 per cent to 17.54 per cent. [More…]

• A survey of families conducted in May 1975 showed that there were about 19 300 one-parent families in Australia with a male head and one or more children aged 1 7 years or less. [More…]

• It is not known whether any male Australian citizens under 35 years have obtained passports with the intention of travelling to Rhodesia. [More…]

• The reason I posed the question in that form was that I did not think any male over the age of 35 years would be silly enough to leave Australia to serve in a foreign army. [More…]

• All pensions will be immediately raised by $1.50 and thereafter, every Spring and every Autumn, the basic pension rate will be raised by $1.50 until it reaches 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• However, the maximum period that a male age pensioner would have to wait before qualifying for a pension increase would be 5 years, because at the age of 70 he would then qualify for a pension free of means test. [More…]

• I refer to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 as amended, section 55 (4) of which stipulates that where a male pensioner marries after his retirement, pension shall not upon the death of the pensioner be payable to the widow or in respect of any child of the marriage. [More…]

• We find that Tasmania now is the State with the lowest trading bank deposits per head of population, the lowest income per head of population, the lowest average weekly earnings per employed male unit, the lowest number of new dwellings completed for any State in Australia- significantly lower than the national average for home ownership- and so on. [More…]

• The amount stipulated in sub-section ( I ) shall be adjusted on 1 July 1978 and on 1 July every two years thereafter, and such adjustments shall have regard to the average weekly adult male earnings at the relevant time. ‘ [More…]

• The amount stipulated in sub-section (1) shall be adjusted on 1 July 1978 and on 1 July every two years thereafter, and such adjustments shall have regard to the average weekly adult male earnings at the relevant time. ‘ [More…]

• The amount stipulated in sub-section (1) shall be adjusted on 1 July 1978 and on 1 July every two years thereafter, and such adjustments shall have regard to the average weekly adult male earnings at the relevant time. ‘ [More…]

• Eligibility under the Act was originally confined to former male members of the RAAF. [More…]

• In 1965 eligibility was extended to include certain former female members. [More…]

• However a former female member, unlike her male counterpart, is required to have served or been liable to serve overseas on active service and also to have a dependant for whom it is necessary for her to maintain a home. [More…]

• These conditions in practice render many former female members ineligible. [More…]

• As there is no overseas active service condition under the Act for former male members, the Government considers it would be appropriate to remove the distinction between former male and female members in this respect. [More…]

• The Government also considers that the eligibility condition for a former female member to have a dependant should be removed. [More…]

• Here again there is no corresponding requirement for former male members. [More…]

• What he found by looking at the reproductive organs of male grey teal in the MurrayDarling area revealed evidence of remarkable adaptation to its environment and the first understanding of the species’ eccentric life cycle. [More…]

• Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by adding the following new sub-section: “(3) The amount stipulated in sub-section (I) shall be adjusted on 1 July 1978 and on 1 July every 2 years thereafter, and such adjustments shall have regard to the average weekly adult male earnings at the relevant time. “ [More…]

• Between December 1975 and August 1976 inclusive, 430 male officers resigned from the Defence Force (Navy 69, Army 164 and Air Force 197). [More…]

• Male officer wastage (including resignations) from the Services is discussed in some detail in Chapter 5 of the Government’s White Paper on Defence. [More…]

• As the White Paper shows (page 36) total male officer separations as a percentage of average officer strength have fallen from 10.5 per cent in 1 973-74 to 8.7 per cent in 1 974-75 and 8. [More…]

• In the report there was evidence of the appearance of a metabolite in the urine of male volunteers who had used semi-permanent hair dyes. [More…]

• According to the IAC, as well as to statistics generally, the male rural work force has declined from 26 per cent of the total employed males in 1921 to 8 per cent in 1971. [More…]

• an increase in average earnings (in male units) of 12 percent; [More…]

• an increase in the average number of employees (in male units) of 1 . [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• Between 30.7.76 and 30.9.76 the CES received requests from the Darling Downs Co-operative for Adult Male, Junior Male and Junior Female Factory Hands. [More…]

• Their male comrades will say that the Services could not have operated the way they did without the unselfish work that these women put into their wartime jobs. [More…]

• They want assistance in buying houses- the sort of assistance their male comrades have been able to call on since the end of the last war. [More…]

• It has been very successful and there is no reason to believe that these women would be any less successful than the men and would fall behind in their commitments when their male comrades have not. [More…]

• For so long it has been said- perhaps it still applies in some of the lower echelons of the Australian Public Service- that the Australian woman cannot make progress when she is in competition with the Australian male. [More…]

• This, of course, is irrespective of whether the spouse and parent is the male of the species or the female of the species. [More…]

• -Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was speaking about the plight and poverty of some of the sole male parents in Australia who are trying to continue to support young children and, at the same time, to remain in employment. [More…]

• The reports of the Henderson Inquiry into Poverty stated that 17 1/2 per cent of sole male parent families were living well below poverty level. [More…]

• Government departments are not geared to assist the sole male parent who comes home and suddenly finds that he must care for his children alone. [More…]

• She can go to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, but for the sole male parent there is very little assistance offered. [More…]

• However, the sole male parent who would like to provide his children with a home perhaps would like to provide them also with a substitute mother until he sorts out his affairs and emotions. [More…]

• If a sole male parent employs a housekeeper-and frequently we find that he employs someone who has experience with children or has a child or children of her own- and she is in receipt of a supporting mothers’ benefit or a widows’ pension, her pension could be placed in jeopardy. [More…]

• In what male chauvinists might have called ‘the good old days’ husbands, in the main, deserted their wives. [More…]

• In May 1976, 6 per cent of the female labour force, as against 3.9 per cent of the male labour force, was registered as unemployed. [More…]

• has attained the age of sixteen years but, being a male, has not attained the age of sixty-five years or. [More…]

• being a female, has not attained the age of sixty years: [More…]

• How does the current policy of the Department of Social Security ensure that in the case of a woman who shares a house with a male with whom she does not have a de facto relationship and from whom she receives no financial support retains her eligibility to receive a pension. [More…]

• has attained the age of sixteen years but, being a male, has not attained the age of sixty-five years or, being a female, has not attained the age of sixty years; [More…]

• has attained the age of sixteen years but, being a male, has not attained the age of sixty-five years or, being a female, has not attained the age of sixty years; [More…]

• interest rates: a two tiered interest rate structure based on needs test of 125 per cent of the Northern Territory average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• Approximately 75 per cent of this turnoff was male cattle. [More…]

• At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative qf every adult male and female in the community. [More…]

• The General Social Survey conducted in May 1975 showed that there were about 19,300 one parent families in Australia with a male head and one or more children aged 17 or less. [More…]

• The Budget figure refers to male units only. [More…]

• Does the Government anticipate an increase in female employment of more than 4 per cent, the figure which would be required for a reconciliation, or was the Treasurer in his Age article again indulging his propensity to stretch figures? [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Government, through the Department of the Northern Territory, provides single and married accommodation for public servants, both male and female. [More…]

• The problem is that when the wife made application for the allocation of a government home she was refused on the ground that the male is regarded as the breadwinner, regardless of any decision made by the family. [More…]

• The Department of the Northern Territory follows the well established practice of regarding the male of the family unit as the breadwinner. [More…]

• Exceptions to that rule could result from a variety of factors, ranging from physical incapacity of the male through to a break-up of the family unit. [More…]

• Under the new scheme, which applies for the period 1 January to 31 December 1977, the subsidy rate of 25 per cent is being maintained in the case of male cattle. [More…]

• However, in the case of female cattle it has been substantially increased to50 per cent. [More…]

• The limit of 3,000 head per producer only applies now to male cattle. [More…]

• Senator Melzer made reference to a female hairdresser, who she said had left, and to the use of the sauna room by ladies. [More…]

• The male hairdresser is continuing to be in attendance each Tuesday and he is competent to attend to ladies’ as well as men’s hairdressing requirements. [More…]

• Is the Depanment able to comment on the significance of the figures, which seem to suggest a lower likelihood of conceiving or carrying to live birth a male child in areas heavily contaminated by air pollution. [More…]

• 2 ) The first publication hypothesises a lower likelihood of conceiving a male child in polluted areas, but the data presented show only variations of sex ratio within the limits of chance; it is noteworthy that the data presented in the second publication do not support the hypothesis. [More…]

• The second publication also found a nigh stillbirth rate in one area, with a suggestion that the male fetus was more likely to be involved. [More…]

• Orders it is quite clear that it may apply only to the male members of the Senate. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the recent case of an Australian male who was injured while riding a motor cycle in Denpasar. [More…]

• I would think that in many cases, in the case of a male sole parent, it may be a much snorter term that it would be used by him. [More…]

• 5m because not all sole supporting male parents would want to accept the pension or would have a need for the total pension. [More…]

• A male marriage partner arrives home in a state of intoxication and proceeds to chastise physically his wife, his children, the dog, the cat and anybody who happens to come in his line of fire. [More…]

• I would presume that those other purposes would be for the male population. [More…]

• I have not bothered to check whether the writer is male or female because I believe that the sooner we stop worrying about the gender of the people the sooner we will get rid of one of our main social ills. [More…]

• For female migrants there is a 7.3 per cent unemployment rate, compared with a male rate of 4.5 per cent. [More…]

• The junior migrant female unemployment rate is 19.5 per cent, compared with 14.8 per cent for males. [More…]

• Prior to 1 July 1977, records were kept only for total wastage of female officers and other ranks, thus there are no separate statistics available on the resignation of female officers or separation of female other ranks at own request. [More…]

• The following tables therefore refer to male separations only. [More…]

• Sixty-two per cent of the total female unemployment comprised women under 20 years of age. [More…]

• Thirty-six per cent of the total male unemployment in that great city comprised men under 20 years of age. [More…]

• Another single parent, this time a male, complains that he has been in a house for 16 months, during which time no maintenance or repairs have been done. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the recent case of an Australian male who was injured while riding a motor cycle in Denpasar. [More…]

• The case of the young Australian male injured while riding a motor cycle in Denpasar was not brought to the attention of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta at any stage. [More…]

• At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative of every adult male and female in the community. [More…]

• We will immediately be discussing this matter with State governments, and I am hopeful that there will no longer be the discrimination between supporting male parents and supporting mothers which exists at the present time. [More…]

• The new single rate of pension will represent 24.9 per cent of the seasonally adjusted average weekly male earnings for the June 1977 quarter. [More…]

• They are usually male, but not always. [More…]

• Their level of schooling was much lower than the average, and the proportion of the sample that had never attended school was almost three times as great as that of the male population of New South Wales at the time. [More…]

• But the most important person is the person, male or female, who supports and guides the program. [More…]

• Previously a male was eligible to receive the sickness benefit irrespective of how much his wife earned. [More…]

• The Australian Bureau of Statistics August 1977 labour force figures show that 22,500 junior females and 15,200 junior males between the ages of 15 and 19 years seeking their first job are unemployed. [More…]

• The total of unemployed juniors is 118,200 which means that 28.3 per cent of all junior females and 16.3 per cent of all juniors, male and female, are unemployed. [More…]

• He said that the subsidies will now amount to 3716 per cent of the male average adult award wage for trainees receiving adult wages and 27V4 per cent of the male average adult award wage for junions. [More…]

• Where as a male previously had access to a benefit regardless of the income of his wife he will now be tested on a family income basis. [More…]

• Those who used to laugh at the domino theory should consider what has been happening in Cambodia ever since then and the senseless, mindless slaughter of innocent women and children, let alone male political opponents. [More…]

• She rarely can get superannuation and when she can usually it is not on equal grounds with her male counterparts. [More…]

• Can female workers move from one place to another? [More…]

• If a male worker is retrained for work in an industry based on the other side of the city to where he lives or in another city, what happens to his working wife? [More…]

• Why should not all workers- male and female- be entitled equally to the unemployment benefit, to training in all areas of work and to retraining. [More…]

• Why do they not have the right to provide for their old age in an independent way through superannuation enjoying exactly the same benefits as their male counterparts? [More…]

• They should not be nodded at and passed over in preference for a male. [More…]

• Modern psychology now recognises that the father is as important a model as the mother and that the child needs two parents or responsible and loving male and female substitute parents. [More…]

• I support the right of both the male and the female of the species to work without discrimination and I recognise the necessity for adequate child-minding facilities being provided for widows and other single parents. [More…]

• The Bureau of Statistics figures for 1975 indicate that there were 505,300 married women and 23,300 other females without children under eleven in the work force. [More…]

• An Australian historical study shows a relationship between male suicide rates and unemployment for the period from 1901 to 1967. [More…]

• For example, in the metropolitan region unemployed males had an attempted suicide rate of 118.6 per 10,000 compared with a rate of 2.4 for professional and managerial personnel, 14.9 for white collar workers and 23.4 for blue collar workers, the latter three categories being employed persons. [More…]

• Similar contrasts were shown in attempted suicide rates for females. [More…]

• The ratio of females to males in country towns in Western Australia has increased dramatically over the last few years. [More…]

• In Kalgoorlie there has been a 100 per cent increase in female unemployment compared with male unemployment over the last five years. [More…]

• In 1972 the ratio was one female to 6.94 males unemployed. [More…]

• In other words, for every female unemployed there were 6.94 males unemployed. [More…]

• In December 1977 there was one unemployed female for every 3.4 males out of a job. [More…]

• In December 1972 the ratio was one female to 1.75 males out of work whereas in December 1977 it was one female to every 1.25 males out of work. [More…]

• In Merredin in the same period the ratio increased from one female to 1.91 males in 1972 to one female to 1.3 males in 1977. [More…]

• At present the accommodation occupied by female personnel at HMAS Penguin is superior to that provided for junior male personnel. [More…]

• Extensive modernisation of male accommodation at HMAS Penguin is currently in hand. [More…]

• Adequate male accommodation to Service Scales and Standards, will then be available. [More…]

• Both male and female personnel however pay for their accommodation. [More…]

• As women on single mother’s pensions are subject to security officers investigating their premises and their beds to ascertain whether or not they have regular male visitors but those on unemployment benefits are not, will women who are placed on a single mother’s pension in those circumstances be exempt from such supervision? [More…]

• As a result, the Police have issued a photofit depiction of the male cyclist who was seen riding in the area at 2.30 a.m. on the relevant date. [More…]

• This man was accompanied by a female who had a single strap bag over her shoulder. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to recent allegations that an Australian male has died of leukemia as a direct result of exposure to nuclear radiation at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor. [More…]

• For example, the figures show that the total unemployment amongst women is 10.4 per cent compared with a 6 per cent male unemployment rate. [More…]

• Will the Government consider taking special measures to combat female unemployment similar to the special steps it has taken to assist unemployed youth? [More…]

• If, however, such a person is told that, as has been estimated, such risk ( 1 in a million) is the same as that involved in smoking 1 Vi cigarettes, travelling SO miles by car or 2S0 miles by air, rock climbing for 90 seconds, canoeing for 6 minutes, engaging in ordinary factory work for 1-2 weeks or simply being a male aged 60 for 20 minutes, it would mean a great deal to him. [More…]

• How many of these persons were: (a) male) and (b) female. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Social Security been made aware of recent Press reports stating that pensions and other social welfare benefits have been denied to women who are living at the same address as a male? [More…]

• I have not seen recent Press reports regarding the withdrawal of pensions or other social security benefits from women because they are living at the same address as a male. [More…]

• The suggestion that there is a blanket withdrawal of pension because a woman is living at the same address as a male could not be substantiated on any of the information I have. [More…]

• When these sorts of assets move from a deceased male farmer to his wife, no duty is paid at that point, but on the eventual death of the wife, because of the progressive rates of tax that apply, the whole of that estate is taxed at a far higher rate than it otherwise would have been. [More…]

• So, the inescapable conclusion is that even in the very long term a merino flock bred on a random basis- that is, run as wild sheep with no selection of parents, either male or female- would not change. [More…]

• Are officers in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service paid only about 80 per cent of the pay of equivalent officers in the Royal Australian Navy, whereas Petty Officers and other ranks in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service receive 98 per cent of the pay of male petty officers and sailors. [More…]

• When will the ranks of Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Officers (currently Third Officer, Second Officer, First Officer and Chief Officer) be changed to the male equivalent, namely Sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Commander and Commander. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay that salary differences between all male and female members of the Defence Force be abolished. [More…]

• Male rank titles for the categories mentioned will apply to female officers in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service from the date of gazettal of amending regulations. [More…]

• In the manufacturing industry there were 72,400 unemployed; in construction 27,400; in the wholesale and retail trade 67,800; in the category of people looking for first jobs there were 44,200 unemployed; in the category described as tradesmen, production workers and labourers there were 1 19,600 unemployed; male electrical workers 27,900; building workers 20,200; sales 29,200; and service, sport and recreation workers 34,100. [More…]

• I would like the Minister to explain to me specifically how the Government would deal with these situations where a particular skilled job is available but nobody in our permanent male work force is available and a person on a tourist visa has the job. [More…]

• Forty-three per cent of male school children were drinking once or more a week in 1973; 51 per cent did so in 1977. [More…]

• The culprits are large and small, male and female, and nothing sexual motivates these particular attacks. [More…]

• It is all too easy for an overwhelmingly middle-aged male, white, upper income parliament to make laws for people who have little or no direct voice here and then boast about its great deeds. [More…]

• The other areas of homelessness which have added to what was predominantly a male need show us that in future there will be room for government consideration and consultation on these matters, certainly with State governments and also with voluntary organisations. [More…]

• It is very sad to see these women’s groups exploited by male politicians who are well practised in the art of exploitation of community groups. [More…]

• This change was made for the benefit of the male because the previous legislation related only to a wife left with children. [More…]

• A second year male receives $155.16 a fortnight, less tax of $6.50, and on top of that he has to pay a compulsory levy of 20c for the Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade. [More…]

• A second year female teacher receives the princely sum of $139.69 a fortnight, and from that she is required to pay $1.80 tax plus the 20c levy. [More…]

• As a male I can say only that a tremendous responsibility rests with those women who are forced to make these sorts of decisions. [More…]

• The provision, as I said, simply allowed any male Commonwealth employee who became the father of a new baby to take a week’s leave to assist his wife to look after their other children and to get to know his new baby. [More…]

• However, I am familiar with the conditions of many of my male constituents. [More…]

• I think it is somewhat insulting to the resilience of the male members of the Australian Public Service to suggest that if they took some of their recreation leave at the time of the birth of the child the loss of the holiday aspect of the leave at some later time is likely to have some serious affect on them. [More…]

• I would have thought in fact that that sort of use of recreation leave would be something which would be as refreshing to any male member of the Public Service as a week at the coast. [More…]

• How many (a) male adults; (b) female adults; and (c) persons under 18 years, live in each Commonwealth hostel in New South Wales. [More…]

• The effects of televised violence emerged as the major issue but there was also much concern about the effects of constant exposure of children to programs that portrayed male and female role stereotypes, unreal or foreign life-styles and the gratuitous use of sex. [More…]

• Does the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 discriminate against de facto relationships in that the Department of Social Security will not pay the male partner in the relationship unemployment benefits if the female partner is working. [More…]

• ) Does the Taxation Department refuse to recognise the female partner’s right to claim her male partner as a dependent if he is unemployed. [More…]

• ) No rebate is allowable to a female partner in a de facto relationship in respect of her maintenance of an unemployed male partner nor is any rebate allowable to a male partner in a de facto relationship in respect of his maintenance of an unemployed female partner. [More…]

• In view of the present high level of youth unemployment, is the Minister aware of any evidence that highlights the apparent preference of employers for young and middle-aged women over school leavers, especially male school leavers? [More…]

• -Has the AttorneyGeneral noted a recent United States Supreme Court decision which waived alimony awarded in a divorce case on the ground that the male appellant would be suffering sex discrimination if his wealthy wife were to receive maintenance from him? [More…]

• Maximum income which would attract maximum allowance would be related to yearly equivalent of average male weekly earnings. [More…]

• Contrary to popular belief, the Australian male is not a superman. [More…]

• Let me assure my female colleagues that I am not being chauvinistic about this matter. [More…]

• I have no knowledge of the problems faced by Australian female nationals who go overseas and are in the same situation. [More…]

• What I am saying will apply to both male and female Australian nationals. [More…]

• I expect that honourable senators know that half of the male workers in this country earn less than $ 1 90 a week and that half of the women workers in this country earn less than $137 a week. [More…]

• Where any male person apparently of the age of 16 years or upwards is convicted of an indictable offence against the person of another, and in the opinion of the court the commission of the offence was attended with or accompanied by cruelty or great personal violence the court may in addition to the punishment awarded direct that he be once, twice or thrice privately whipped. [More…]

• The children of the marriages are thus illegitimate and either partner of the marriage- but usually the male- is free to return to Greece, desert the spouse married in Australia and marry again in Greece. [More…]

• It apparently happens much more frequently with Greek males who have been guest workers in countries such as West Germany and Sweden. [More…]

• At the International Whaling Commission meeting to be held in December 1978, Australia should seek to classify both male and female sperm whales in Division 5 as Protection Stocks and to amend the catch limits presently set for this Division to zero. [More…]

• The gravest indictment of the International Whaling Commission since its beginning is that it has presided over the decimation of blue and humpback whale stocks and the severe depletion of most fin and sei and some male sperm whale stocks. [More…]

• 1 ) How many male and female pilots are employed in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• male adults; [More…]

• I am a divorced person with two children to support, the department has cut off the pension because some person (who is known to me) reported to the department that a male person was seen at my home. [More…]

• He said he was looking for male items of clothing but there were no such articles to be found, he was very rude in his manner and I would like to know what rights a woman has against this sort of activity or is it correct for an officer of this type to walk into another’s home without a warrant. [More…]

• He said he was looking for male items of clothing- [More…]

• I suppose that if she had had a grown-up son he could have found some items of male clothing. [More…]

• As it is, she has two young sons but I presume that he was looking for adult male items of clothing. [More…]

• Mrs Miller was terrified and said that she did not have a man friend although in fact she did have a male friend who visited here from time to time but with whom she had never had a de facto relationship nor had she ever had such a relationship with any man. [More…]

• That night Mrs Miller contacted her parents and on their advice went to the Social Security Office next day and saw a social worker and explained about her male friend. [More…]

• That is the only reason she told him that she did not have a male friend. [More…]

• It was only because she was worried that she went to the Department and told it that she had a male friend who visited her at her home. [More…]

• The average male wage at this stage is $205 a week and the average female wage is $136 a week. [More…]

• The effects of televised violence emerged as one of the major issues, but much concern was shown also about the effects of the constant exposure of children to programs which portrayed male and female role stereotypes, unreal or foreign lifestyles and the gratuitous use of sex. [More…]

• What were the areas in which female and male apprentices were trained in those years. [More…]

• Based on an average weekly wage of $ 160- which is the minimum adult male rate- and taking into consideration that a proportion of workers would be single taxpayers and a proportion would claim for dependent spouse, another $620m would be involved. [More…]

• I have drawn up a table which shows the tax payable by a single adult male on average weekly earnings, comparing the September quarter of 1978 with the September quarter of 1979. [More…]

• Last month’s unemployment figures showed the unemployment rate to be 5.2 per cent for the male work force and 9.4 per cent for the female work force. [More…]

• The unemployment rates for adolescents were 15.7 per cent for males and 23.5 per cent for females. [More…]

• The higher rate of unemployment for females directly relates to their concentration in but a few occupations. [More…]

• The Federal Government, in introducing $30m worth of word processors in the next three years, will eliminate employment for about 10,000 female typists. [More…]

• If a male in a particular area of the work force is named to be redeployed or retrenched, who is most at risk? [More…]

• I suggest that the females in those areas are most at risk when a man is declared ‘in excess’. [More…]

• I do not altogether blame the males. [More…]

• A male who has a wife and children to keep at home and who is desperate to keep his job may declare that woman as the alternative person to be sacked. [More…]

• What is the latest figure available of the total number of unemployed: (a) male adults; (b) female adults; (c) male juniors; and (d) female juniors, registered for employment at each Commonwealth Employment Service centre in New South Wales. [More…]

• What is the ratio of unemployed: (a) adults; (b) male adults; (c) female adults; (d) juniors; (e) male juniors; and (f) female juniors to job vacancies recorded, at each of the centres. [More…]

• That the Government take steps to grant free medical, hospital and pharmaceutical benefits to all female citizens on reaching age sixty and all male citizens on reaching age sixty-five years. [More…]

• The ratio of female to male trainee technicians is unlikely to change substantially in the near future because of the very few applications being received from suitably qualified females and, in the case of the Navy, the requirement to maintain a satisfactory sea-to-shore service ratio. [More…]

• Secondly, that represents between 10,000 and 25,000 young Australians, equally divided between male and female and normally aged between 16 and 25 years, who are addicted to this disease, whose habit costs them between $400 and $900 a week and most of whom will be either classed as insane or dead within two years of addiction to their habit. [More…]

• That the Government take steps to grant free medical, hospital and pharmaceutical benefits to all female citizens on reaching age sixty and all male citizens on reaching age sixty-five years. [More…]

• Reviews by Mr Wraith, then State Director of the Department in Tasmania, and Mr Lanigan, the Director-General of Social Security, decided in December 1977 that Mrs Clarke was not eligible for the widows pension because she was living in what was called a de facto relationship with a male in the house. [More…]

• The 1915 mean average male wealth was $665, which converts to about $6,000 in 1970, using the continuous series of retail price indices. [More…]

• As unemployment grows and as more male breadwinners find themselves trapped, as it were, back at home in a situation to which they are unaccustomed with small children under their feet hour after hour- these people are low in self-esteem because of lack of employment and are frustrated- they will take out their frustrations on the small children who are under their feet. [More…]

• On 1 5 June the boy was examined by a new male doctor who had never set eyes on him before that day. [More…]

• Also, 809 male and female juniors were unemployed. [More…]

• The number of males and females that have been employed as Clerks in the RAAF in each year since 1975 is shown below in column A; the figure is for 30 June of each year. [More…]

• The number of male and female Clerks enlisted by the RAAF during each financial year is shown in column B. [More…]

• I am speaking here of male and female prostitutes aged as young as 1 1 years. [More…]

• It is granted five years earlier than the age pension to a veteran who has served in a theatre of war, has reached the age of 60 years if a male, or 55 years if a female, or has become permanently unemployable. [More…]

• In relation to an allied veteran the specific requirements he will have to meet are that he- served as a member of a formally raised force; served in a theatre of war; resided in Australia for at least 10 years; satisfies the income test applicable to Australian and British Commonwealth veterans; and reached 60 years of age if a male or 55 years if a female or become permanently unemployable. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such a scheme has merit and might be a convenient way of eliminating the anomaly whereby men receive age pensions at 65 years and women at 60 years, even though the life expectancy of a female is much greater than that of a male? [More…]

• I am not going to have my staff lectured by any senior member, whether they be female or male. [More…]

• I would not expect a male officer to do it. [More…]

• Of the total tradesmen, male process workers and labourers in this country 52.8 per cent were born overseas. [More…]

• Of the male migrants, 62 per cent of the Greek migrants, 59 per cent of the Italian migrants and 40 per cent of the Yuoslav migrants have had five years or less schooling. [More…]

• Of the female migrants, 72 per cent of the Greek migrants, 65 per cent of the Italian migrants and 50 per cent of the Yugoslav migrants have had five years or less schooling. [More…]

• Another major influence on the participation of women in senior levels in the Service is that the average length of service of female officers is significantly less than that of their male counterparts, reflecting in part the higher resignation rates of female officers. [More…]

• Possibly it could be argued that there is some discrimination against men insofar as a male dependant of a deceased female veteran does not receive the same benefits, not as high benefits, as a female dependant of a deceased male veteran. [More…]