Contexts in which the word man was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

• However, it will immediately return to the carriage of passengers as soon as stewards are available to man the ship. [More…]

• One cannot but help draw a comparison between the number of stewards that are necessary under Australian manning conditions to operate this ship and the number who work on shore. [More…]

• I am not sure what solution there is to this problem industrially and I can well understand the concern of the honourable member for Denison and the people of Tasmania over the continuation of this vital link between the mainland and their State. [More…]

• I have seen more of this House in the past 24 years than any other man. [More…]

• Thank you, young man. [More…]

• One remembers the Labor Party opposing the defence of Australia until the Germans suddenly attacked Russia. [More…]

• Immediately, Labor came in hot foot to the last man and to the last shilling. [More…]

• He was one Australian to whom I felt any man could turn on all occasions. [More…]

• I know that the many people who were associated with him in the Repatriation Department, particularly those ex-servicemen for whose care and guidance he was personally and ministerially responsible, looked on him as a friend and colleague and one who understood their problems. [More…]

• Indeed, I think that the Leader of the Opposition ought to use his influence as a man of Parliament and whatever influence he may have in relation to the membership- [More…]

• At the moment Army exercises are carried out in open areas and shells are being sent into no man’s land. [More…]

• The Tamar valley in the north and the Huon valley in the south are the principle apple growing areas in Tasmania. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Government is working out . [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that 22nd April was celebrated by millions of Americans as Earth Day and that this massive protest was against the poisoning of the atmosphere, pollution of rivers and streams, destruction of wildlife and the total rape of man’s environment? [More…]

• My question to the Prime Minister is based on a communication from a person named Santamaria in which he says: ‘You never know what the man will do next.’ [More…]

• He is a man of great talent and he has on his staff a number of extremely efficient, dedicated and able Australians, many of whom I met during the recent annual meeting. [More…]

• I noticed, as did other delegates, that certain remarks were passed by this Congressman during our meeting at Seoul. [More…]

• It does not seem to me that there is any harm in inserting the provision that in the performance of its function the Corporation shall have regard to the current monetary policies of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Any view that the honourable member for Lilley might have that the board might operate in a contrary way seems to be a very strange view from a man who is as conservative as he is. [More…]

• One must listen with some interest to amendments moved by the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), because when all is said and done he is a man in principle. [More…]

• What is the ‘Family Needs Allowance’ now paid to New Guinean public servants employed by the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in each part of the Territory in which a different rate applies in respect of family units of fa) man and wife, (b) man and wife and one child, (c) man and wife and two children, (d) man and wife and three children and (e) man and wife and more than three children. [More…]

• The following table sets out the scales of ‘prescribed minimum pay’ from which family needs allowance is calculated in respect of family units of (a) man and wife, (b) man and wife and one child, (c) man and wife and two children and (d) man and wife and three children. [More…]

• Has an estimate ever been made of the cost of man hours lost due to traffic delays at these crossings. [More…]

• I recall writing in 1966 to a man in Hanoi. [More…]

• It affects every person in the Parliament just as it affects every man, woman and child in Australia and as it will affect future generations of Australians. [More…]

• The Assistant Director of Medical Services in Eastern Command advised me at the time I received the representations that this man was medically fit. [More…]

• He had been asked specifically to look at this matter in relation to the question of spectacles and in relation to the man’s vision without spectacles. [More…]

• Taking into account the 3 earlier examinations that had been made, I had to reach the decision that on 4 occasions the man had been found to be medically fit. [More…]

• Nothing has been done to protect the rank and file man in industry from victimisation; nothing has been done to protect the shop steward from victimisation. [More…]

• We know from Reg Pollard that Mr Fisken was a gallant man. [More…]

• How man breaches of Federal awards were discovered by (a) Commonwealth arbitration inspectors and (b) State arbitration inspectors in each yearsince 1960. [More…]

• Onhow many occasions has a member of the Australian armed forces in Vietnam while driving a motor vehicle accidentally killed (a) a civilian man, woman or child and (b) a water buffalo. [More…]

• He will remember that a fortnight ago I asked him about 2 New Guinea matters, one concerning the indigenous hospital patient who 5 weeks earlier had been flown from Finschhafen to Lae to face an attempted murder charge but was then found to be the wrong man and the other concerning 4 expatriate sub-inspectors of police who 5 months before had been charged and suspended in connection with the assault on an indigenous prisoner near Rabaul but had later been reinstated. [More…]

• Apparently the honourable member is the kind of man who never learns his lesson. [More…]

• At that time the Leader of the Country Party, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen), took an attitude which was regarded as statesmanlike. [More…]

• It gave him a reputation for statesmanship. [More…]

• It is sad to see the deterioration in this man in the intervening 9 years. [More…]

• This has been a last round-up for the right honourable gentleman. [More…]

• I claim to have been misrepresented by the man who just sat down and I want to make a personal explanation. [More…]

• Does this Association provide Australians with a sufficient awareness of the actions and inadequacies of the United Nations and its prospects for development as a law-making and lawenforcement organisation of the citizens of the world in matters affecting world peace, civil rights, economic development and the conservation of man’s environment. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman will recall that 2 months ago, on 20th August to be precise, I directed a question to him in this House urging redoubled efforts to discover the whereabouts of this unhappy man and further approaches to the Peking Government with a view to securing his release. [More…]

• whether per worker, per man hour, etc.). [More…]

• I wish to comment on the necessity to appoint a full time chairman of the Austraiian Wool Commission. [More…]

• This will limit the choice of the best man available for the position. [More…]

• I think that the chairman of the Commission should be the counterpart of a chairman of directors of a company. [More…]

• If the position of chairman is open only to someone who is prepared to serve full time it will limit the number of people who will make themselves available. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) should give eanest consideration to this matter because the success of the Australian Wool Commission depends on who is appointed as its chairman. [More…]

• However, sometimes in politics, as at the bar, a man has to put an argument with which he does not completely agree. [More…]

• As a result of this incident a number of young men and a young woman whom I know were taken to the local court and were sentenced rather savagely. [More…]

• One young man, a constituent of mine, received a sentence of 14 days’ imprisonment and a very heavy fine. [More…]

• I personally do not believe that one man ought to be able to send another to gaol. [More…]

• However, I think it is worth the comment that I am sure that Mr Hawke in his new role as the captain of commerce would realise that he is subject to the same exigencies of competition and incidence of charges as any other commercial man. [More…]

• The ‘Freedom Ride’ was organised by the Association Against the National Service Act as part of its campaign for this young man’s release. [More…]

• At that point this young man was released from whatever he should have been doing and was permitted to address this gathering. [More…]

• But I do question the right of the authorities to allow this man out of what amounts to prison lo address a demonstration. [More…]

• This man who lives in a city electorate and represents people from the city has no idea of the position in the better Australia outside the metropolitan area. [More…]

• What kind of Australian is this man to say these things when men who travel with parliamentary delegations to countries overseas come back here, no matter from what side of the House they are, and say that this is the best country in the world? [More…]

• In view of the Government’s call for Australian industry to lift its rate of productivity and with the background of rapid increases in wages and holidays, a proposed reduction in the working week to 35 hours and a monumental loss of man hours following irresponsible strike action, will the Government give early and favourable consideration to providing some positive incentives to help industry to achieve this objective? [More…]

• The honourable member for Hindmarsh shakes his head, but during the period 1965-69 Australia lost 456 man days per 1000 workers. [More…]

• We can only assume, as I have mentioned before, that the honourable gentleman is seeking to recapture the initiative which the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has so effectively taken from him in the public forums of this country. [More…]

• I understand that the AttorneyGeneral - poor man, I sympathise with him with my infinite capacity for sympathy - has about 3 minutes to sum up all that has been said. [More…]

• Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• Does his Government consider that the minimum wage is sufficient to maintain a man, his wife and 2 children? [More…]

• These are young men of great moral courage, because any young man who can stand against the Establishment when he is between the ages of 20 to 24 is to be respected. [More…]

• Is he able to say whether, in the United Kingdom, a man who becomes ill while he is on strike is entitled to claim sickness benefit under the United Kingdom’s national insurance scheme? [More…]

• What is the position of a man in a similar case in Australia? [More…]

• When he took office he waa regarded as being a hard worker with a competent manner. [More…]

• The myth of McMahon was the myth of the strong man who would be able to heal the wounds of the once great Liberal Party. [More…]

• Today the command of this country has never been lower and this has been brought about by honourable members opposite. [More…]

• On behalf of the Opposition I reaffirm our opposition to this measure but I conserve valuable man minutes by not calling for a division. [More…]

• I have found Mr Beazley to be a very courteous and co-operative man but apparently he is following out the instructions of the Government and the legislation of this Parliament for which the Minister and his Government are responsible. [More…]

• This man’s pension has been reduced from $20 to $9 which virtually would not buy cats food, and we know that that is reasonably priced. [More…]

• From what I gather he has been an outstanding Australian citizen, an honourable, noble and highly regarded man. [More…]

• What would be the net cost of the medical and hospital insurance contributions for each of the three categories in each State in part (2) for a man supporting a wife and two children after the insurance contribution is allowed as a taxation deduction when his taxable income is (a) $2,500, [More…]

• How many man hours were lost in each of the last 10 years in industries covered by (a) awards of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, (b) determinations of the Public Service Arbitrator and bis deputies and (c) industrial agreements. [More…]

• Thou canst not then be false to any man. [More…]

• The conditions under which experiments such as these are carried out would not be encountered in the every-day use of dichlorvos, and no mutagenic effects of this substance have been demonstrated in either animals or man. [More…]

• Last night at about this time a person known to you, to me and to many other persons in the House was in my office, and most of my staff were gathered there. [More…]

• He is a man experienced in politics and in party politics. [More…]

• What percentage of the man days lost through strikes concerned employees covered by Federal awards in each of the last 10 years. [More…]

• Was a man killed in Campbell in the Australian Capital Territory on 27th September 1971 in an accident involving a trailer and was the man’s death partly the result of a trailer not being secured by safety chains. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• I do this in justice to a man who has sent me a telegram. [More…]

• There are more Mr K. Mitchells in the world than one and the man who sent me the telegram I hold is Keith Mitchell. [More…]

• The film was made as a biographical study of a man who was involved in important national and international events of the recent past. [More…]

• I suppose I have experienced as many interjections during my speeches as any man in the Parliament in the last 25 years. [More…]

• The issue here is whether one man or more than one man is to administer such a service as this. [More…]

• As far as I know, there are very few authorities - I do not know of any, but perhaps there are some - where one man has been vested with the authority that this Commissioner will have. [More…]

• For the last 2 days the blue daily programme which is circulated has had listed on it, no doubt with the connivance of this Minister, this so-called honest man, this item: [More…]

• The misrepresentation is that the man to whom the Government Whip referred is his assistant. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Labour and National Service recall asserting last week that the number of man hours lost last year in industrial disputes was staggering? [More…]

• Will he agree that fewer man hours were lost through industrial disputes than through unemployment or industrial accidents? [More…]

• How many man hours have -been lost by employees of Commonwealth Railways in industrial disputes in each of the last 3 years. ‘ [More…]

• At the outset I point out, as every honourable member knows, that I am not a legal man. [More…]

• He is the spokesman for the waterfront workers’ section of the NAWU. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Port Authority has said that Darwin cannot afford this sort of thing. [More…]

• We must have on the waterfront people who do not support the present leadership on the waterfront or this man who, by using strong arm thuggery tactics, gets alongside of the men and says: ‘Righto, buster’. [More…]

• As this man as the Minister knows, has severe silicosis with extreme breathlessness, uses $70 worth of oxygen a month and pays rent of $9 a week - making a total of over $106 a month - how does the Minister suggest that this couple should exist? [More…]

• If the honourable member in private - I know that he does not want to use the name of this man in the House - brings this case to my attention I shall certainly have another look at it. [More…]

• I would think, from what he has said, that many of the questions he raises might be in the court of my colleague, the Minister for Health. [More…]

• That is arrant nonsense and I am surprised that a man who pretends to be a lawyer, who should have read the Bill - and I doubt whether he has - has not understood what is involved in the whole matter. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman will have read the submission by the Australian Council of Social Service - the acknowledged professional body - that the inquiry should be held into social welfare and not confined to poverty and should be held by persons with skills and knowledge from Commonwealth, State, local government and voluntary agency fields though not acting as representatives, experts in social welfare and user and citizen members and that the issues are too complex and the skills required too diverse for one man or woman alone. [More…]

• The Commissioner of Taxation, Sir Edward Cain, is a man held in the very highest esteem and regard by all members of this House and by the public generally. [More…]

• I believe the honourable gentleman does not imply anything to the contrary in his question, but I think it is important that it be made clear so that anybody who may have listened in to the question would not have that thought in his mind. [More…]

• The important thing which should be made clear here is that in an attempt to do some damage either to the man concerned - the taxpayer - or to the Prime Minister, it inevitably means that there is an attack upon the probity of the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]

• The Opposition has tried to call the Budget a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• Well, through Mr Deputy Speaker to you, Mr Minister for the Army, the employer of this man at the time. [More…]

• I am prepared to give you this man’s name on one condition and that is that you are prepared to do everything - and perhaps to move a motion in this House - in order to have this man’s pension restored and to see that the Army, other Commonwealth departments and the Commonwealth Government accept full responsibility as honest people would in regard to this matter. [More…]

• *‘The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology’ by Barry Commoner. [More…]

• There were so many interjections and so many uncouth fellows trying to stop me speaking that I did not have the opportunity. [More…]

• People say that the Budget is a rich man’s budget. [More…]

• That is a delightful suggestion made by a delightful man. [More…]

• I was the man who brought in the wine tax but am now prepared to admit it was a mistake. [More…]

• I am essentially a parliamentary man in these things and I think that these matters should be done correctly. [More…]

• I wish to associate myself with the remarks made by the previous speakers and to offer my brief but sincere tribute to the late Jack Mortimer who to me had all the qualities of a real man. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Defence agree that it is strange indeed that a man who had served him faithfully for 6 years should tender a resignation to take rapid effect without giving any reasons whatsoever for such tendering? [More…]

• In which years since industrial statistics on man days lost were first compiled has the number of man days lost because of industrial disputes exceeded those lost during 1971. [More…]

• What was (a) the number of man days lost, (b) the amount of wages lost and (c) the number of workers involved in stoppages caused by industrial disputes in each State during (i) December 1972,(ii) January 1973 and (iii) February 1973. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister satisfied that this man, and perhaps others, are not the victims of unsubstantiated allegations of terrorist activities against Australian citizens? [More…]

• What action has the Prime Minister taken to try to establish the truth of the matter, the circumstances of this man’s trial, and the meaningfulness of Australian citizenship to the Communist Government of Yugoslavia, or is the Prime Minister prepared simply to accept the insults to Australia of a foreign government which has already been shown to have deliberately and flagrantly withheld the truth from his Government? [More…]

• What was the number of man hours lost and the extent of the disruption to industry, caused by the recent stoppage of tanker drivers in New South Wales. [More…]

• This sort of question is typical of the man who asked it. [More…]

• I am aware that this young woman is subject to a great number of imputations and that some very discreditable innuendoes are being spread by people in the Senate. [More…]

• During the period of the First Whitlam Ministry, Australia’s first two man government, and remembering his undertaking to conduct a more open government in the public interest, what were all the decisions made and instructions given by this government. [More…]

• When a member of the Liberal Party was Prime Minister it was all right for him to give interviews on television, but when a Labor man appears on television outside Parliament it is said that he is doing something wrong. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Transport consider that he can take over the Victorian Railways for $9.6m and one man, or is the man concerned to be a dictator of transport in Victoria? [More…]

• He is one of the most effective residents of this country and a man who is already, as the honourable gentleman would know, serving the Government in association with some other distinguished people as an adviser in this field. [More…]

• We ought to recognise that Australian governments - both the Australian Government itself and the State governments - can take many more initiatives than any governments hitherto have taken in making land available at reasonable cost. [More…]

• Australian servicemen to Papua New Guinea or some theatre of war to sink with the loss of every man on board. [More…]

• There is not a free vote on this issue, this is a Government Bill, and what the Government is saying is that that man should not be punished with the supreme penalty. [More…]

• 4 .ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: Is he aware of the reports that the 7-year-old Aboriginal girl who was taken from her foster parents in Darwin has been speared as a form of tribal punishment and is to become the child bride of a middleaged man? [More…]

• How many man hours were lost due to stoppages among workers employed at the Garden Island Naval Dockyard during each of the years 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973 to date. [More…]

• What was the imputed cost of these lost man hours in each of the same years. [More…]

• It is true that I was opening what I thought was a private exhibition of a painter from Romania. [More…]

• I was paying a tribute to this man for the way he had involved himself in the community and suggested that more Australians should do the same as he had done. [More…]

• I have formed a close relationship with this gentleman who happens to live in Blackburn. [More…]

• The man days lost due to industrial disputes at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard during the three periods referred to in the question were: [More…]

• During 1971, 15,706 man days. [More…]

• During 1972, 13,321 man days. [More…]

• From 2 December 1972 to 31 August 1973, 6,472 man days. [More…]

• How many man days were lost due to industrial disputes at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard in each of the years 1971 and 1972 and in the period from 2 December 1972 to date? [More…]

• House, a man who is prepared- [More…]

• We have heard the usual excellent performance by the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) - an excellent performance which really boils down to typical Country Party hypocrisy and humbug. [More…]

• I quote from the evidence given to the part-heard Commission of Inquiry into Land Tenure’s being conducted by Mr Justice Else-Mitchell who is Chairman, Professor R. L. Matthews of the Australian National University and Mr G. J. Dusseldorp, who is fairly well known as a developer. [More…]

• A gentleman named Mr McNamee was asked some questions, because he was one of these little men. [More…]

• He was asked by another man assisting the Commission, Mr Willcox: ‘Would you oblige Professor Matthews please?’ [More…]

• There is the little man. [More…]

• He pays $32 an acre for it and demands as the price of it being put to good use - a price that the community and the taxpayers of Australia must pay - $5,000 an acre. [More…]

• The honourable member for Cowper, who is seeking to interrupt me again, is a classic interjector but he is a man of very little knowledge on this subject. [More…]

• You are deplorable as a man. [More…]

• Well, 25 years- but it looks longer.- 1 know how well the right honourable gentleman has been brought up on the theory of neo-classical economics. [More…]

• I will not take any notice of a man who changes his expression merely because he changes his place in the House. [More…]

• I do not intend to waste a lot of time on a man who made a speech about me when he was asleep. [More…]

• It is an unbelievable experience to be accused of saying something by a man who is dead asleep. [More…]

• One looks at the stock exchange and sees the appalling consequence of the interventionist attitude of this Government on the private sector in the erosion of the value of the savings that are represented by stock on that exchange - the savings of the little man in this community. [More…]

• The remark, coming in particular from the Leader of the House, comes very strangely, because he is the man who, on the occasion when the 17 Bills were guillotined said: [More…]

• In the publication ‘Industrial Disputes, August 1973 (Preliminary)’, the Commonwealth Statistician provides available statistics of working days lost on account of industrial disputes involving a stoppage of work of 10 man days or more during the month of August 1973: [More…]

• How many man days were lost on account of strike action in each of the 3 States controlled by Labor Governments compared with the 3 States controlled by anti-Labor Governments during the last month for which he has statistics. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Immigration aware that that master racketeer, spiv, confidence man, company director and international crook, one Alexander Barton, who cheated Australian shareholders out of $21m before fleeing Australia is now travelling Europe on Australian passport No. [More…]

• I address a question to the Prime Minister and I refer to the honourable gentleman’s observations yesterday concerning China. [More…]

• Does he agree with me that it is the essence of futility to imagine that you can temper or moderate the attitude of a man by pretending that he does not exist and, a fortiori, that the attitude and politics of a country can ever be moderated by pretending that it does not exist? [More…]

• Does the honourable gentleman accept that as a sound principle in the conduct of international affairs? [More…]

• I refer to the prosecution of a man named McLeod in the Canberra court last Friday. [More…]

• I ask the honourable gentleman: Does he believe that the court was misled in that it was told that a gun in the possession of Mr McLeod was unloaded at the time he threatened officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs with it? [More…]

• He is an experienced and senior man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) has the initials of W.C. No man in this Parliament is more appropriately named. [More…]

• No man in this country with a more despicable record in ancestry so far as the exploitation of the people of Australia is concerned lives up to the reputation. [More…]

• Responding on behalf of the Opposition I had the full authority of both of the Parties of this House to say, and the man who led for the Australian Country Party, the honourable member for Indi (Mr Holten) also had authority to say: ‘We accept your challenge. [More…]

• I simply indicate that the Opposition parties to a man oppose both Bills. [More…]

• The man hours and time lost through industrial unrest and the growing acceptance that this is a natural state of affairs. [More…]

• For the purposes of sub-sections 4 (3a) and (4) of the Superannuation Act 1922-1973 the Chair man and the full-time members of the Commission shall each be deemed to be required, by the terms of his appointment, to give the whole of his time to the duties of his office. [More…]

• In order to protect its man in Peking, is it a fact that the ABC does not use reports on China emanating from Hong Kong. [More…]

• It ill behoves ignorant people to criticise now the magnificent job that this man has done for this country. [More…]

• Party (Mr Anthony) was caught out in this House as the man who stirred up that emotionalism, as the man who laid the seeds. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Labor and Immigration inform the House why he has so hurriedly deported recently to the United States a man named Utter? [More…]

• In his ideas he may be a few thousand years ahead of the time of the Neanderthal man but not much closer to this century. [More…]

• But a good man and a big man is prepared to admit his mistakes. [More…]

• The report described the caller, a young man, as being very upset. [More…]

• The report said that the young man who claimed to be the Treasurer’s son told the channel: [More…]

• It is that paper which is the basis of much that is said in the Department of Labor and Immigration paper, and the Department treats Mr Geluck as the man who knows more about indexation than any other person. [More…]

• Professor Eckenfelder who is a consultant to the United Nations and Israel on water pollution, addressed the 6th Federal Convention (Theme: Man and Water) of the Australian Water and Wastewater Association in Melbourne at its opening on 30 April 1974. [More…]

• It really is quite staggering to listen to the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay), who has suddenly discovered the ex-serviceman. [More…]

• But I suppose we can understand that the only thing that a man of such small* capacity is capable of doing with any expertise is calling for a quorum. [More…]

• But there are other public memorials to that great man, such as the John Curtin Medical School, and that is a different matter entirely. [More…]

• Sir, I think it would be a disgrace if this man were allowed to incorporate in Hansard unheard the details of the quite unfounded torrent of self praise which he has emitted over us all today. [More…]

• A man who flashes a toy gun at a hold-up has to be treated as if the gun is loaded. [More…]

• Why did he betray the Australian worker- the man his party claims to stand for- by agreeing to slash protection and to conduct the worst credit squeeze in Australian history? [More…]

• What assurances can he give to the hundreds of thousands of men, women and young people living on the dole that their future is not in permanent jeopardy? [More…]

• Has the man left ASIO? [More…]

• I ask you, Mr Speaker, to look at the detail of this report to see whether in your opinion there is a prima facie case to put this matter before the Privileges Committee, with a view to removing this man’s right to be in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. [More…]

• I have pleasure in welcoming Mr Berinson to the office of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I must say that all I know about Mr Berinson leads me to believe that he is a man of integrity and certainly a man of capacity. [More…]

• In support of my nomination of the honourable member for Perth, Mr Joe Berinson, as Chairman of Committees I point out that I have known him for over 20 years and that in that time I have seen him operate on many occasions in this House as Deputy Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker and outside of this House as a chairman of organisations. [More…]

• He is a man who can impart dignity to the office of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Not only, of course, will he be called to the office of Chairman of Committees if my nomination is successful but also he will be the person in this House who will most often act as the Speaker in the absence of yourself, Mr Speaker. [More…]

• I commend Mr Berinson on being elected as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I am sure that he is a man of great capacity and of outstanding quality. [More…]

• One Press man I spoke to about the editorial said: ‘What is he talking about in Queensland? [More…]

• He was not only a man of tremendous moral and spiritual strength but also a man of outstanding ability. [More…]

• The antecedents of the man concerned were checked thoroughly. [More…]

• He has proved to be a man of his word and a man of honour. [More…]

• I know that Mr Clunies-Ross is an honourable man. [More…]

• If so, is a man named Dubney, a Christmas Islander, to operate this propaganda organ? [More…]

• What about Sir Lenox Hewitt’s position as a man in the Public Service? [More…]

• I think the last speaker on the Opposition side was the man who honestly gave the intention of the Opposition when he said that meddling fingers being put into industry is the first step to nationalising and on that basis the Opposition opposes the Bill. [More…]

• He gave us an example of how an erudite man can fill out a few minutes talking about something about which he knows very little. [More…]

• I understand that on the Opposition side there are at least 2 infantry commanders now. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that the Government’s chosen intermediary, as reported yesterday, is a man of the highest integrity and repute and therefore suitable to act on behalf of the Australian Government, as he has done over the last 12 months? [More…]

• I think that describes adequately what I think of the man. [More…]

• The honourable member is a clever man. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) asked me this morning whether, to use his words, ‘the Government’s chosen intermediary’ is a man of the highest integrity and repute and therefore suitable to act on behalf of the Australian Government, as the Leader of the Opposition suggested he had done over the last twelve months. [More…]

• Also it is not fair to those people from all political parties, who voluntarily give of their time, to expect them to man polling booths from 8 o’clock in the morning until 8 o’clock at night. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, since the man will not front up any further today, I ask that further questions be placed on notice. [More…]

• It came to power through the ambition of one man and through a conspiracy of international proportions, a conspiracy which was cunningly conceived in the ambition of one man. [More…]

• That conspiracy was directed against a man whose integrity ultimately will prove that he was the greatest Prime Minister who ever stood in this Parliament. [More…]

• David Frost, a man with no political allegiances, has said that Whitlam is one of the most intelligent men he has ever interviewed. [More…]

• I begin by saying that the Australian Labor Party’s platform provides for participatory democracy in union affairs and provides that no financial union member shall be deprived of the right to vote in the election of union committees exercising any powers of management and that no committee man shall be permitted to occupy a full time office unless he is elected by a direct secret vote of the rank and file of his union. [More…]

• It is very obvious that the new lightweight from St George is a very worried man after last Saturday’s results. [More…]

• The most important of the rates is that payable in respect of registered waterside workers employed on weekly hire at permanent or continuous ports; that is, for approximately 85 per cent of the work force. [More…]

• This rate is presently $4 per man hour, which is the maximum defined by the Act. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I ask you to instruct the officer of the House who is required to present the documents that no questions other man the question relating to whether they are the documents will be able to be put to or answered by that officer. [More…]

• He was perhaps one of the greatest statesmen, ahead of his time, that the world has ever seen, and we were very fortunate, both here and in Westminster, to have a man with such foresight so shortly after the war. [More…]

• -I would like to speak briefly to clause 4 because I feel it offers a great challenge to the Ombudsman who will ultimately be appointed and a challenge to the administration of this Bill when it becomes law, because as the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) said in his second reading speech, this is the first time in a country with a federal system that an ombudsman has been appointed. [More…]

• The last thing we want to do in this Bill is to add to the office of the Ombudsman a touch of Canberra centralism. [More…]

• The office is very much a personal one and we do not want to create the sorts of problems that the ombudsman is trying to solve. [More…]

• Will the ombudsman see every complaint? [More…]

• There is a great deal of challenge, as I have said, about this, and of course a great deal will depend upon the man who is ultimately appointed to the office. [More…]

• He is correcting you, and he is man enough tonight to admit that he did say it. [More…]

• But the honourable member for Mackellar is a man who is not easily frightened, and in his concluding remarks he said that he did say it. [More…]

• I refer the honourable gentleman to the continuing saga of the Barton case. [More…]

• Whilst appreciating that the Government has spent thousands of dollars and has launched unsuccessful extradition proceedings in Paraguay in an endeavour to secure the return to Australia for trial of this man and his son, I ask the Attorney-General whether every possible avenue in this regard has been exhausted? [More…]

• It is fascinating to listen to a man who looks like a heavyweight but who sounds like a lightweight. [More…]

• I can only presume that as a result of too many political fights- no doubt with some dirty in-fighting in the party room- there is a degree of political punchiness about the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) who has just resumed his seat. [More…]

• There are 2 years in which the man hours lost are high. [More…]

• From November 1970 to November 1971 the man hours lost in the Whyalla shipyards was 43 hours per worker. [More…]

• From November 1971 to November 1972, there were 28 man hours lost per worker, or approximately 1.5 per cent. [More…]

• From November 1 972 to November 1 973- the year in which there was a big disputethere were 74 man hours lost per worker which is 4. [More…]

• From November 1 973 to November 1974- again at the end of 1973 there was a major dispute- 1 10 man hours per worker were lost equalling a loss of 6. [More…]

• During the period November 1974 to November 1975, 34 man hours were lost per worker, representing an average of 1.9 per cent of the available work time. [More…]

• From November 1975 until July 1976, 8 man hours per worker were lost. [More…]

• -A challenge was just thrown down by the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman). [More…]

• Seamen man tugs. [More…]

• I also take this opportunity to refer to an answer that I gave yesterday to a question by the honourable member for Hotham in which I said that no doubt the Chairman of the Commission had consulted his Commissioners before he took certain action. [More…]

• Any chairman of a board or commission of any intelligence would hardly make a decision unless he had had discussions with members of the board or commission. [More…]

• Certainly one would have expected Sir Henry Bland, a man of substantial quality and experience, to have done just that, and that is what happened. [More…]

• are that the subsidy for the State Dockyard alone in 1976-77 is $6,291 per man. [More…]

• The projection for 1978-79 shows a drop to $3,381 per man. [More…]

• drop from $3,812 per man in 1976-77 to $2,049 in 1978-79. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott)- the giver of gratuitous advice last year- are now being shown up for what they were by the man they suborned. [More…]

• They would do better to heed the words of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), a man who knows something about the workings of this Parliament and a man who has some regard for its traditions and for the traditions of democracy in this country. [More…]

• There is a significant aspect about this legislation: A man who came to this Parliament with a very clean background and who is respected by all members on this side of the chamber, the honourable member for Farrer(MrFife) - [More…]

• 1 ) What rates will repatriation beneficiaries who are entitled to medical treatment pay for insurance as (a) a single and (b) a married man for (i) medibank standard and (ii) medibank private. [More…]

• Dr R. V. Southcott, ‘Harmful effects to man from animals and plants’ [More…]

• What advice has he received from Crown Law officers concerning allegations, passed on to him 6 months ago, that breaches of the currency regulations had been committed by the man whom the Premier of Queensland had engaged to carry out loan investigations overseas? [More…]

• How will these benefits affect the man in the street? [More…]

• ) Has his attention also been drawn to the case notes reported in the Federal Law Review, June 1976, page 233, in which the commentator expressed the view that natural justice had been offended in the matter of a man’s liberty and that some of the Court ruled that its own Rules overruled an Act of this Parliament; if so, is there any substance in these points. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, concerns the tragic death of Archbishop Luwum of Uganda, a man who was widely known and highly respected by many Australians. [More…]

• Does the Archbishop’s death suggest that a wider campaign of terror is being waged and that basic human rights are being denied all Ugandans? [More…]

• -My question to the Minister for Defence is supplementary to the one asked by one of his supporters on Tuesday last relating to the able seaman who has been charged with an offence relating to the damage of aircraft at Nowra. [More…]

• Are we to understand that despite the many senior officers of the Navy whose duties are to look after security, particularly in respect of the extensive damage in the Nowra fire, that the only person deemed to be liable is an able seaman aged 19 years? [More…]

• Are we to understand that this man was under detention for some time before he was charged? [More…]

• He is a single, educated man who teaches English in Lebanese schools. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) will consider the application of this man to migrate to Australia. [More…]

• He was a man of considerable political perception who cared very much about the right thing being done in Australian politics. [More…]

• Tonight the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) has chosen to abuse an honourable and a distinguished member of the legal profession, Mr Laurence Gruzman, Q.C, a man whom I have never met. [More…]

• Hunter has chosen to use the privilege of Parliament to put this man before the public as being some sort of criminal. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ‘Man days lost’ is a specific technical term normally restricted to the measurement of the impact of industrial disputes. [More…]

• As such, ‘man days lost’ is a reasonably precise quantifiable term. [More…]

• It is clear that in the case of unemployment any attempt to quantify ‘man days lost’ would be so subject to argument as to lose any analytical value. [More…]

• What was the total number of potential man days lost to production on account of unemployment in 1 976. [More…]

• I pay tribute to his innate personal good manners and kindness at all times. [More…]

• When his funeral leaves the cathedral in Wollongong on Thursday the people of Wollongong will not be thinking that they have lost a great Australian to whom due reference has been made today; they will be paying tribute to a man who perhaps has been the greatest son Wollongong has produced. [More…]

• He is a man who suffered great mental torture. [More…]

• I am glad that his strength of character has been such that he fought against this awful stigmaone of the worst in the minds of many people that can be levelled against a man in the public eye. [More…]

• I do not think that I could have withstood the strain of appearing in court on an allegation that I had passed a $500 bribe to a man. [More…]

• Is there a man here who would say they would sooner put Australia into hock to the tune of $ 1,000m rather than devalue because that was the alternative offered to us by our official advisers. [More…]

• 1 ) While speaking at the Commonwealth Conference on 9 June 1977 in London, did he denounce the treatment of black people in Southern Africa as an offence to human decency and a scourge to the dignity of man. [More…]

• They realise that a man with his great ability-without doubt one of the finest Cabinet Ministers that the Australian Labor Party fielded- should never have been defeated. [More…]

• As a consequence I have nothing to add to the matter, other than to reiterate that the Government of Papua New Guinea agreed to the posting of this man in the first place. [More…]

• I know of nothing that would detract from the very high regard that I have for the Treasurer as a man and as a treasurer. [More…]

• You are one of those people- the honourable member for Denison is a man who is always talking about - [More…]

• I am advised that he is a man of the utmost honour and integrity in his profession, and I suggest that the statement be re-read. [More…]

• What happens simply is this: Between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., when there is very little traffic in the area, the man who is responsible for the tower control takes over the responsibility of viewing the radar display. [More…]

• I hasten to correct any vision that the man there is being driven into a state of exhaustion by his duties. [More…]

• The simple fact is that between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. one man is watching both the control and approach displays on the one radar screen. [More…]

• The honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) is such a man. [More…]

• He is a man who threatens violence and that in itself is to be condemned. [More…]

• Within units, the actual allocation to each man usually depends upon the particular role of the soldier in the unit. [More…]

• From that I believe we all realised that here was part of the strength of the man whom we honoured on that day. [More…]

• It is important in debating an important Bill such as this to mention the death of Alex Ramsay, a former general manager of the South Australian Housing Trust for nearly 30 years. [More…]

• He served under many governments in South Australia including the Playford Government, the Walsh Government, the Hall Government and finally the Dunstan Government. [More…]

• It was my great privilege when I was a Minister in the Whitlam Labor Government to appoint Alex Ramsay as chairman of the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]

• In 1972 Alex Ramsay was the chairman of the Habitat Committee which presented Australia’s case to the Habitat conference at its meeting in Vancouver in late 1972. [More…]

• The sad thing is that he died such a young man at 63 years of age. [More…]

• The honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) referred to the National Director and the Executive Board taking the place of what he said was a broadly representative council. [More…]

• The honourable member for Batman then proceeded to put up his own straw man and knock it down. [More…]

• It will be more effectively managed and more effective in doing the job that honourable members on both sides of the chamber agree needs to be done. [More…]

• I reassert that the behaviour of the Prime Minister is not the behaviour of an honest man. [More…]

• They are the product of a man who is temperamentally incapable of conducting national economic affairs and who has on numerous occasions cast aside the national interest in order to get himself on the front pages of the daily press. [More…]

• This is the man who deliberately undermined this country’s exchange rate, a man who has sought at every turn to talk the economy down both here and overseas and a man who has invited violence as a means of changing the present economic strategy. [More…]

• Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is not an honest man. [More…]

• I have known the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, Clyde Holding, and the Minister for Industry and Commerce for many years. [More…]

• I am concerned that one man in the Victorian State Parliament in Melbourne can use parliamentary privilege to blacken the characters of two men from different sides of the chamber. [More…]

• That this man can use the parliamentary system to blackguard and slander men who are serving their country in the way in which they see fit and want best to serve it is a very sad state of affairs. [More…]

• Cancers do not show up for many years after the cause. [More…]

• We have heard nothing from the Government on these serious charges and questions raised by Mr Connolly, a business man of Perth, Western Australia in December 1976. [More…]

• -He is a man called Pownall. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to an article published in the Australian of 1 1 August 1 978 stating that an Aboriginal who killed a man by spearing him through the heart, and who was then released on a bond because tribal punishment had been meted out, has since expressed his remorse and been accepted back into his community. [More…]

• In the interests of the man on the land the Government should update the penalties in a Bill of this nature more often than every 10 years. [More…]

• My very word it is, young man. [More…]

• It is saying that he is incompetent in the manner and form in which he is carrying out his responsibilities. [More…]

• The Public Service Board has advised me that less than one man hour was involved in ascertaining this fact [More…]

• He was a man who contributed more to our knowledge of the universe than any other. [More…]

• Although he was one of the people who suggested to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that it was essential that the Allies develop an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany, he always campaigned against the spread of nuclear weapons. [More…]

• Those uranium maniacs that we haveand there are plenty in this Parliament and the community outside- ought to think very carefully of what Einstein stood for and his role as a man of peace. [More…]

• -The man who made the allegation has done so on completely false grounds. [More…]

• Reading the grossly excessive and uncalled for verbiage to which I have referred, the ordinary reasonable man in the street could easily come to the conclusion that the Chief Justice was severely castigating the honourable member for an alleged attempt to pervert the course of justice. [More…]

• I think it is appropriate for me to say on behalf of the members of that delegation that we were enormously impressed with the dignified bearing of this man, his demeanour, the hospitality that he extended to the parliamentary delegation and the very great interest and concern he expressed about our country. [More…]

• Ecclesiasticus says that the greatest gift that any man can give to the community in which he lives and works is the best that is in him. [More…]

• Trust, honour, principle and integrity were the hallmarks of the man. [More…]

• He wants to know from the Minister for Immigration how many people of Chinese origin are in the electoral division of St George. [More…]

• He is trying to ascertain how many Chinese votes he can get, now that the Greek community has been prosecuted for fraud. [More…]

• It is true that the Greeks have been sought out and viciously prosecuted by a man who, as we learned in the Parliament today, was given $60,000 as payment for legal fees in the prosecution of a former Prime Minister. [More…]

• -I had the honour to serve with Charles Adermann. [More…]

• He was a very fine man. [More…]

• However, he apparently thought better of doing that and went on to make some critique of the performance of the honourable member for Canberra (Mr Haslem) during which he misquoted and misrepresented the honourable member for Canberra. [More…]

• Can we expect anything else from a man of the calibre of the honourable member for Melbourne? [More…]

• Positive results demonstrate that the test chemical is carcinogenic for animals under the conditions of the test and indicate that exposure to the chemical is a potential risk to man. [More…]

• The actual determination of the risk to man from chemicals found to be carcinogenic in animals requires a wider analysis.’ [More…]

• I would say that there is no prouder ‘man in Australia than the honourable member for Murray, who has displayed great initiative and courage in this matter. [More…]

• A man of honour, distinction, achievement and gallantry is dead. [More…]

• We have one of the most reputable men in the world today, a great man, Mr Simon Wiesenthal who has devoted his whole life to tracking down and tracing people of this kind. [More…]

• I find it extraordinary that the honourable member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson) will defend to the death the right of a farmer to withold his produce from market in order to effect a larger return to himself but finds it completely immoral that a working man, or tradesman who has got nothing to barter with but his skill, should want to exercise his right, if necessary, to withold his labour in order to increase his return. [More…]

• ) Was an inspection of post offices carried out in the Nambucca Heads area, New South Wales this year; if so, was the inspection carried out by one man equipped with an air-conditioned, V-8 Fairlane 500 motor vehicle. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition will refer to the Minister by his title and not as ‘ ‘ that man “. [More…]

• He is the man who is guilty. [More…]

• He is the man who is answerable and he is responsible for these shortcomings. [More…]

• The point which I made and which the honourable member for Dundas failed to mention, was that under the Constitution- I did not refer him to the Bill- a man does not have to be a lawyer to be appointed to the High Court. [More…]

• In relation to the man of whom the honourable member is speaking, there is no doubt, and it is a matter of public record, that he lived with the enemy behind the enemy lines in wartime on an occasion when Australian troops were engaged in that war. [More…]

• There is no question but that he engaged in propaganda activities which were designed to be and which were helpful to the enemy in that time of war, and there is no question but that he visited prisoner of war camps, run in many cases under the most barbarous conditions by the enemy, in which Australian troops were incarcerated. [More…]

• That is sufficient for this Government to say that we do not believe that man should be provided with a passport, asking Australian posts to assist him, and I see no prospect whatever of that approach being changed. [More…]

• Under the Government’s proposals a family man earning $42.50 a week and supporting a wife will receive full protection under the health insurance scheme. [More…]

• I cannot see the equity of that approach when a man supporting a wife and five children and earning $48.75 a week will have to meet the full cost of the scheme himself if he wishes to insure. [More…]

• Let me refer now to the case of a man who is cast into sickness and is not insured because of apathy, ignorance or, maybe and most likely, lack of means. [More…]

• Contrast this with a better off man supporting a wife and two children who contributes $88.80 yearly for maximum private hospital and medical insurance protection in New South Wales. [More…]

• This man earns about $10,000 yearly. [More…]

• The poor man pays $57.51 a year for public ward treatment worth only $56 a week net of Commonwealth benefits; the rich man pays only $41.64 yearly for the superior comfort, convenience and advantage of private ward treatment worth $100.80 weekly net of Commonwealth benefit. [More…]

• The rich man pays 28% less than the poorer man but receives goods and services twice the posted value of those purchased by the poor man. [More…]

• Any man who knows them would be proud to stand here and say that he knows them - that he knows their quality. [More…]

• I would expect the work and interests of the Institute to extend, as time goes on, over a very wide range of possibilities - for example, the study of the geology of the sea floor; the potential of the sea as a source of food and pharmacological products; the need for and means of conserving our marine environment; the effect upon that environment of the activities of man, in his attempts to win new treasures from the sea, and of predators, among which 1 would anticipate that the crown of thorns starfish would be a continuing subject of study until the problems it has created may have been solved. [More…]

• I went through it and in my opinion every element of doubt was decided against the ex-serviceman. [More…]

• It was stated that the loss of sight could have happened through one thing and another but to my mind on every occasion the benefit of the doubt went against the ex-serviceman. [More…]

• It is difficult to describe them and they sound exceedingly dreadful.I want to say to the Minister that this man has written direct to the Minister for Repatriation and the file is available in the Department. [More…]

• I subsequently wrote again to the Minister stating that I thought that the Repatriation Department ought to visit a blind man and not expect him to go that distance. [More…]

• 1 have mentioned these details relating’ to the facts of this case once again because I believe they represent an absolute injustice to an ex-serviceman. [More…]

• Yet at this very time a man who has lost probably the most valuable asset in life, his eyesight, is now unable even to afford a guide dog because his income is so low. [More…]

• Surely when the Government can spend $27m in order to subsidise the primary producers and others it can spend a couple of dollars a week to give a reasonable pension to an ex-serviceman who has lost his eyesight. [More…]

• There were several points in this case on which I could have given the benefit of the doubt to this ex-serviceman rather than require him at all stages io prove his case to the hilt. [More…]

• 1 know’ that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is aware of this case but I think the case bears repeating again and again until something is done about it This man is now . [More…]

• man “ who can walk and see to be continually told to see this Department or appear at the tribunal but to tell this to a blind man and to expect him to do this continually is something which I do not think the Minister or the Government would tolerate if they really understood the circumstances. [More…]

• 1 suggest to the Minister that he should have a good look at the man who told him ro tell a blind man to walk 6 miles to visit a doctor. [More…]

• When all is said and done, this man is receiving an invalid pension and he is now pretty well on in years. [More…]

• If this poor man passed on the Minister might find that his wife probably would get a pension at that belated stage. [More…]

• I have supplied the name of this man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Dawson is a man who normally has something of substance to say, and I have a high regard for the thought that he puts into his speeches, but always there are overtones of the Labor Party’s doctrinaire policies. [More…]

• After seeing the performance by the honourable member for Riverina at Jerilderie last week, and the calamity howling that went on and the cool reception he received from rural leaders there, 1 doubt whether he will make very much impact either. [More…]

• Frequently when a man such as this loses his seat it is not through any fault of his; often it is because of the political climate that has been occasioned around him. [More…]

• If only one man elects the Government what is the point of our having public meetings? [More…]

• These topographic maps are of particular importance as they show the shape of the terrain, the location of all natural features, mountains, streams, lakes, coastlines and all1 man made features such as towns, homesteads, roads, railways, airfields, reservoirs and the like, all in their correct positions. [More…]

• This programme is now well launched and already over 200,000 square miles of mapping in manuscript form has been accomplished. [More…]

• In questions of power, let no more be beard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. [More…]

• To put it on the most material basis, man for all bis brain, his form and so on can be reduced in scientific terms to a series of chemical reactions. [More…]

• Yet these are the very conditions under which we expect the chemical reactions of human beings and other animals to proceed. [More…]

• In this case the sewage was not important but the detergent and chemical content was because this would have damaged all the flora and fauna of the Bay with great degradation to the uses of that area for man. [More…]

• In a spurt of showing himself to be a man of action and decision, the Minister said that the Fill would be delivered early this year. [More…]

• The law of this land is such that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. [More…]

• I believe the charges that have been made against this man are so serious that if he did, in fact, commit these crimes he has committed probably the most serious crimes that any Australian could commit against his nation. [More…]

• If these allegations are true action should be taken against this man because what he has done amounts to the crime of treason. [More…]

• This gentleman who has arrived in this country has stated clearly that he wishes to have an inquiry. [More…]

• ’, and then convict this man in this Parliament which creates the laws under which men are tried. [More…]

• I am deeply concerned that people in this Parliament can continue day after day to make these serious allegations when the man says: ‘Look, I am prepared to face an inquiry. [More…]

• Is that sufficient to convict a man? [More…]

• The man has said: ‘Look, I am prepared to go before an inquiry. [More…]

• I rise tonight to express my own deep indignation at the Commonwealth Government’s attitude towards a third generation Australian, a man who was Australian born, and a foreign correspondent for 28 years. [More…]

• This man has pursued every lawful and diplomatic means to obtain an Australian passport. [More…]

• The Government has adopted an attitude in respect of this man which it has not adopted with some of the worst Nazi war criminals, to whom it has given shelter. [More…]

• Does any man who has read anything about the Korean war believe that this was not done? [More…]

• Any man who does not believe it is hiding his head in the sand. [More…]

• I liked, as we all did, his sincerity when he banged his book down and said that this country would be cleaner and better if we allowed this man in. [More…]

• The honourable member spoke about the rights of this man and said that this man should be allowed to come in here. [More…]

• The Labor Party protested right, left and centre that this man should be prevented from coming into Australia. [More…]

• I ask honourable members to see how many times Wilfred Burchett is listed in it. [More…]

• I have many books on this subject, but I cannot quote from them all. [More…]

• The Opposition is asking the Government to give a passport to a man who has supported the enemy both in this country and abroad and who has made charges not only against Australians but against United Nations forces. [More…]

• Believe me, they are offended because the Press on certain occasions and the television media are prepared to give this man every bit of publicity and coverage that is possible but when the returned soldiers of this country who are the ones who allow you gentlemen to sit and prance and parade in support of your Communist friends endeavour to put a viewpoint, some sections of the Press say that it is not of interest to the public so they will not print it. [More…]

• I suggest that the majority of the people in Australia agree that this man Burchett has put himself beyond the pale and I do not feel that he should be given an Australian passport. [More…]

• As far as I am aware Australia has never adopted the position that any man was entitled as of right, to a passport. [More…]

• Blackstone, did contend at one stage that the King had no right to refuse any Englishman the right to leave his dominion by refusing him whatever were the travel documents or authorisations of Blackstone’s day. [More…]

• If these things are true this man has done something appalling!’ [More…]

• He found no fault in the man. [More…]

• This is a most peculiar thing, lt is no good saying: ‘Look, let this man not suffer. [More…]

• Pull out the stops’, because this man has done harm, and done harm to Australia on the international scale. [More…]

• I say that, in my view, the works and the writings of Burchett, what he has said publicly and on the record, and what he has had publicised in his name stamp him as being a man who has given his heart and soul to our Communist enemies and as a man who acts as their agent and their propagandist. [More…]

• If that is the case the Government is charged with allowing to go free a man whom it believes to be guilty of treason and against whom the only thing it will do is refuse him a passport. [More…]

• Tonight he stated that he believed Burchett was treasonable, that he would make the charges outside the Parliament, that he would do what he believes to be right and expose this man to the public, in the Parliament and outside. [More…]

• If that is the case how can this man, if he values his self-respect, remain in a Cabinet that refuses to prosecute a man whom he believes to be guilty of treason. [More…]

• The only respectable thing that the Minister for Social Services can do, if he honestly believes what he said, is tender his resignation from a government that refuses to prosecute a man whom he, the AttorneyGeneral and the Prime Minister say is guilty of treason to this country. [More…]

• The Government of the day had a lot to say about Burchett before he came to this country, but now that he is within its jurisdiction it accuses the man of all kinds of charges but refuses to prosecute them in court. [More…]

• Many a man who may well have committed murder has escaped the law because the offence has not been able to be proved in court. [More…]

• Every man is entitled to a trial. [More…]

• No government has been guilty of more infamous conduct than this discredited administration which charges a man with treason, refuses him a passport on that ground, and refuses to set up an inquiry or charge him in a court of law and give him the opportunity to clear his name. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that he knows the man is entitled to a trial and yet he, an eminent Queen’s Counsel, highly paid and highly skilled in the law, one who should be here to protect the rights of the citizens, stood in this Parliament at question time today and said that a man was guilty of treason but he, the senior man in the Department which administers the law, was not prepared to lay a charge against him in this country. [More…]

• I care not what side of politics a man stands on - whether he be right, left or centre, Communist, Liberal or anything else - he is entitled to a trial. [More…]

• I cited today that it is the right of every man to receive a passport unless it can be proved that he is not entitled to it. [More…]

• I had never thought that I would see these circumstances arise in this Parliament in which this Government has refused to lay charges of treason after suggesting that a man has committed treason. [More…]

• when we boast of our independence and freedom in this country, we would hear a Minister stand up and say that a man had acted treasonably and that he would repeat the charge outside the House, yet still support a Ministry which will not prosecute that man whom the Minister has quite truthfully said in his mind is guilty of treason. [More…]

• I hope you will stand up at this stage and explain why a man you say is guilty of treason should not be charged and at the same time think you can maintain your self-respect in this country. [More…]

• The specific question is this and only this: Assume for the purpose of the question that the allegations made in this House about the man Burchett are true. [More…]

• The question goes like this: ‘Why then do you not put this man up on a charge of treason?’ [More…]

• However much decent thinking Australians may view with revulsion what this man did or may have done during the Korean war, the plain fact is that the reach of the criminal law does not extend out to get him. [More…]

• But the AttorneyGeneral tackled this question in the correct manner by discussing the law rather than the political implications and the political backwash of the thing. [More…]

• Obviously the man did not commit a breach of the law of the Commonwealth at the time, and we have no guarantee that if it had been an offence against the law of the Commonwealth then he would have acted as he did. [More…]

• I am proud of Australia, only to the extent that it is entitled to demand my pride. [More…]

• a country that treats me as a serf or a slave, I cannot possibly engender within my being the same pride as I can as a member of a country which gives me the rights that belong to every free human being. [More…]

• I now wonder whether I am a citizen of a country that gives me the kind of citizenship rights that any proud free man is entitled to expect from the country of his birth. [More…]

• A man at Sea Lake could grow 200 acres but he grew 250 acres, some self-sown. [More…]

• The financing of primary industry is absolutely important to the future of this country because we have to depend for our present stability and our future progress on the man on the land. [More…]

• I want to say, as a man who for 13 years was a prominent member of these industrial organisations, that I for one do not hold that view. [More…]

• This Bill relates to the wheat industry and on questions relating to wheat the honourable member for Mallee is a man who displays some remarkable changes of front. [More…]

• Also, rarely have 1 heard such a bitter attack on a colleague as that launched by the honourable member for Mallee against the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey) who, when all is said and done, is the most knowledgeable man on the Country Party side in respect of wheat. [More…]

• Exploit it if you will, but let it be known that you are merely exploiting a man who has a responsibility not to speak at this point of time. [More…]

• Many of his basic assertions, in my view, were right. [More…]

• But the Leader of the Opposition and the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) have tried to imply that the Rorovana episode was typical of the handling of all Bougainvillians from Panguna to Kieta. [More…]

• So I invite the House not to look now at New Guinea as a political football but at the man who I believe tried to make it so. [More…]

• On the morning of 8th January last, a few hours before the Leader of the Opposition made these damaging statements about a man who was to face his trial, he was told the true facts by Mr Harry West, the District Commissioner, who at that time was on Christian name terms with the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• Yet that very same day this man tried to stir up passions by alleging that the shooting was deliberate - hence he should have been refused bail - and that the child was killed. [More…]

• We can see the way that the smell of power affected this man’s conduct towards the District Commissioner. [More…]

• I have recited how he demanded that the District Commissioner withdraw when a polite correction was made by way of interjection. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition was here dealing with the character and career of one of our most respected, capable and distinguished servants, a man representing the Queen and Australia in his district, a man whose only crime was to ask for the truth from a blustering person. [More…]

• But the effect on his audience was that of a great man coming to support their movement when they were still at the bar of world opinion for having used violence on their own countrymen, their own revered leaders who had committed no other crime than that of trying to represent their people democratically. [More…]

• That a man of the capacity of the former member for Adelaide could feel confident of becoming Minister for Defence and eventually Prime Minister, because his modest assessment of the talent offering was such that he could come to no other conclusion, in itself should be judgment enough. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has succumbed to the demands of the union leaders, particularly in respect of the notorious Metal Trades Award. [More…]

• Certainly, no recent happening in the industrial field has been more detrimental to the family man on the average wage or the lower wage. [More…]

• The Commission must be compelled to take into account the economic consequences of its decisions particularly as they affect the average citizen, the wage earner, the small business man and the farmer. [More…]

• Honourable members who wish to know more about him should be reminded that he is the man whose name was blazoned across the country when he stated that there was venereal disease in Arab horses. [More…]

• It was just as imaginative and wild a statement and was proved to be entirely as wrong as many of his other statements. [More…]

• He is a man who is held in very high regard by his people and for whom I have great personal respect and regard. [More…]

• In his later years - he is still a young man - would the Minister for National Development like to be sitting in his home watching television or listening to the radio, only to be left shaking, and wondering whether the end of the world had arrived as an aircraft zoomed over the top of his house? [More…]

• I understand that Sir Reginald Ansett, who is a very courageous man and a very forthright man, is anxious to operate his cargo flights by night; not the jets - there is a thought - but just the turboprop aircraft. [More…]

• Is this forthright, determined man to have his way? [More…]

• That is how the human being is constituted. [More…]

• We do not need a medical man to tell us this. [More…]

• We believe that in conjunction with the many other matters which the ICAO examines it should examine the problem of aircraft noise. [More…]

• In America, Europe and the United Kingdom government subsidies in many forms are necessary to keep the major civil airlines operating. [More…]

• My friend the honourable member for Bradfield said in an emotional moment that nobody was prepared to speak for the little man and that it was the aircraft operator who was to be considered first so as to keep his operation economic and allow him to perform his function, under licence from the Government, in a proper way. [More…]

• The implication was that the profits accruing to the airline operators, wherever they might be, were so great that the rights of the common man were being ignored. [More…]

• In the circumstances, and having regard to the technological problems that exist, I think it is wrong of the honourable member for Bradfield to say that the man in the street is the one who suffers. [More…]

• No matter how far from your metropolis you locate your airport it is inevitable that the local government authority will encourage people to build homes in the vicinity because so many hundreds of people work in a variety of services associated with an airport. [More…]

• As is well known in this House, the honourable member for Grayndler is a superb tactician, almost as superb as the man who is speaking. [More…]

• The essence of the statement is that the Australian Government took the lazy man’s way out when it encountered recruiting problems. [More…]

• In Britain the abolition of conscription has increased the average length of service per man by approximately 200%. [More…]

• This seems an eminently reasonable way of assessing the excess demands on a serviceman which would never be accepted by a civilian workman. [More…]

• A Warrant Officer Class 2 who is also a tradesman of high skill may earn about $100 a week. [More…]

• Against these figures it is worth noting that in the December quarter of 1968 the average weekly earnings for a man were $70 a week. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the demands and responsibilities of Service life, it is beyond question that servicemen are poorly paid on a work value basis. [More…]

• Honourable members can make their own judgments of this man who regards himself as the alternative Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• 1 turn to a brighter aspect and in doing so 1 pay tribute to the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes), a man who has come in for some criticism in certain circles. [More…]

• It has been fashionable in some political circles to criticise a man who has approached his problems with great sincerity of purpose. [More…]

• The Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) explained why the Government would not prosecute a man who it had accused of treason. [More…]

• Let him wriggle out of this unproclaimed and undeclared war proposition and tell u.s why a man can commit treason and go free when another man cannot protest against the war or refuse to register for national service without being placed in gaol. [More…]

• At the present time a young man is serving a 2-year gaol sentence in the Sale prison in Victoria because he is a conscientious objector against war, particularly the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• This young man failed to meet his commitments under the National Service Act. [More…]

• I know how difficult it is for a young man 20 years of age to stand up against the establishment and law and authority, and to have the moral courage to say as a conscientious objector: ‘I will not go to war’ or to say: ‘I will not go to this war in Vietnam because it is an immoral war, it is a war that is a crime against the people of Vietnam and it is a war in which the most advanced civilised nation of the world has dropped more bombs on this little peasant country of Vietnam than were dropped on all the Axis powers during the Second World War’. [More…]

• The point is that a man of 20 years of age has made a decision on a question of conscience. [More…]

• I think we should give such a man encouragement. [More…]

• Why does the Government pick on a young man and put him in gaol for 2 years when it will not deal with these other gentlemen within our community? [More…]

• In the 6th Battalion 1 man was killed and 13 were wounded. [More…]

• They have all left the Territory after 1 year, 4 years or 7 years at a time when they all would have many years to serve in important positions in the Territory on behalf of the Territory and on behalf of this country. [More…]

• The attitude has been that ‘we will show our strength here and we will return the man to his place’. [More…]

• But the real point made by the Leader of the Opposition was this: Here was a young man who was out on bail after having been accused of shooting a native child. [More…]

• I have never heard a man more meticulously honest in answering questions than he is. [More…]

• I will conclude that point very briefly by simply referring to the words of the honourable member for Fremantle. [More…]

• He said that the real point was that this young man was allowed bail and that he was an Australian. [More…]

• All I was doing was replying to the honourable member for Evans to indicate that these people were in prison for minor assault charges while a man convicted of a charge of serious wounding with a revolver received a suspended sentence. [More…]

• There have been so many things dragged into the debate on this statement that the whole pur pose of the statement is being lost. [More…]

• I know the sort of work he has done in Rabaul and the sort of man he is. [More…]

• I am very much concerned that a public servant, a man who is doing the best he can for the Territory and for Australia, has been attacked in this House where as a public servant he cannot defend himself. [More…]

• On the point of order raised by the Prime Minister: I fail to see how anyone can claim that when a Minister comes into this House and says that a man, an officer of his Department, had been told orally on 26th November that his leave was authorised, that that information was confirmed in writing on 24th December, that the officer had 142 days recreation leave which commenced on 8th February and would conclude on 16th March, he is not quoting from the personal file and history of the officer concerned. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has risen in this place and attacked the honour and integrity of a man who sits on the far flung boundaries of the Territories of this country. [More…]

• For some political advantage, to attract the warm feeling of the maniacal left wing that moves on his flank, he went to the Territory and with an almost homicidal political tendency attacked the very integrity of the Administration through the person of one man who could not answer back. [More…]

• That man reflects in his person and his dedication to duty the success of the Government’s policies and the integrity of the Government that is so well represented in this place by the Minister for External Territories. [More…]

• This is a man who has personal understanding and knowledge of it all. [More…]

• I have met the man. [More…]

• Many things happen there of which the Administration is unaware. [More…]

• It is not good enough to drag this man and his service into this House solely for the political purposes of honourable members opposite. [More…]

• I have asked Mr Wallace who is the one man who has some of their confidences to confer with Professor Stanner. [More…]

• Chif was a man who combined all the very essential human qualities of dignity, warmth, great capacity and great strength with toughness. [More…]

• A leading figure of the Italian renaissance once said that ‘man is the measure of all things’. [More…]

• It is this theme of many communicating with man, nation with nation, informing and, if you like, reforming, that I would like to develop. [More…]

• Woe to the Manly ferry when he sets out to sea. [More…]

• It was a typical polysyllabic peroration from the man from Moreton who could always make 600 words do the work of six words. [More…]

• I do not know what has happened to Australian command because I know many of the men involved and they strike me as being people of great dedication and great professional competence. [More…]

• Why does the Navy run into the Manly ferry and the ferry sails on and the Navy limps home? [More…]

• The Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), a man with a distinguished air record of his own, said that it was reasonable enough. [More…]

• In the jungle it is man for man. [More…]

• That is the most extravagant use of manpower. [More…]

• No, I am not particularly in support of some of the things that are going on there and 1 agree with you, but they are their internal policies and as was said by the man whom I consider to be the best leader in Africa: If I co-operate with them I have more chance of changing what I dislike than of driving more and more into the arms of the extreme right wing by ostracising them’. [More…]

• Australia should expand and protect all those industries on which defence ultimately rests, and so equip ourselves to defend our lives and country with the most sophisticated and effective weapons that man can devise - with no type excluded. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, for a man who did not discuss the defence statement presented by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in any significant fashion at all, I think that the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) used some very unnecessary language. [More…]

• If any man knows the story behind the extra cost of rock from Nauru I am sure he will not argue about doing the right thing by these people. [More…]

• I can assure you that it becomes very confusing for many folk in the country areas. [More…]

• The Government has done many things in the meat industry to help free enterprise to sell more meat overseas. [More…]

• In fact, one of Australia’s early claims to attract migrants was that we were proud of our tradition of every man having the opportunity of having his own home on his separate block of land. [More…]

• It is very easy in view of the way in which this case turned out - the man was charged and he was found not guilty - to suggest that a further charge should not be made. [More…]

• Would it reasonably be expected then that this man should continue in the employ of the Commonwealth? [More…]

• As I understand it, one radio station broadcast the Bureau’s forecasts many hours after they had been made. [More…]

• A man of some substance or position in the area took it unto himself to denigrate the forecast made by the Bureau. [More…]

• It is distressing that a man, who is already resident in New Guinea and who is, from al] our information, a highly respected resident of New Guinea, should have to wait for 7 weeks to know whether he can come back into the Territory if he leaves. [More…]

• A delay of this nature can be extremely damaging to a man. [More…]

• Then to issue a statement that a immigration policy applied to the man. [More…]

• But the aspect of this matter that may be personally damaging to a man is that previous instances of refusals of permits to enter the Territory, such as in the cases of Gluckman and Worsley, have been stared straight out to be security questions. [More…]

• So there is now an implication that any man who is refused permission to enter has some grave security objection against him. [More…]

• There cannot be any security objection to the man for him to be reappointed. [More…]

• I do not know whether it takes all that long to check up on a man. [More…]

• I support the Bill because one has to be grateful for the morsels that fall from the rich man’s table, and that applies particularly to social services where the Government in bits and pieces, by a method of stop and go and by a patching up system occasionally gives some benefit to this most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• If he is man enough he will stand up in this House and withdraw the remark. [More…]

• I, like many other honourable members, am prepared at all times to give and to take in debate. [More…]

• But when the honourable member lays a charge against honourable members on this side of the House without being man enough to stand up and name those honourable members who he believes are traitors to this country and who would betray this country, then J think the Parliament has the right to demand that the honourable member be man enough to stand up and make his charges against those who he believes are in this position. [More…]

• How many men are working at two jobs? [More…]

• How many men are working 60 hours a week? [More…]

• It is bad enough for the working man to be dragged away from his home at night when he should be with his wife and family but it is even worse when he has to send his wife out to work in order to make ends meet. [More…]

• It is like the biblical saying about the man who builds his house on rock: He builds a secure house. [More…]

• The man who builds his house on shifting sand builds a house that will not remain. [More…]

• We must recognise that there is a limit to what a man can do in a day. [More…]

• This practice operates inequitably in many cases. [More…]

• A man on $3,000 a year supporting a wife and 2 children will save $1 6.84 after paying tax, leaving $59 that he has to pay. [More…]

• Constantly recurring throughout that document are such expressions as ‘growth in demand’, ‘significantly fewer registered for employment’, unfilled vacancies up’, ‘private investment spending 15% higher’, ‘consumer spending buoyant’, ‘retail sales up 7%’, and ‘registration of passenger vehicles 10% higher*. [More…]

• A man named John Brunner wrote in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of 2nd June 1969: [More…]

• The same man applied the domino theory to our rural industries. [More…]

• The one which I particularly wanted to mention but which I will not have time to break into is the matter of rates payable by the man on the land. [More…]

• It amazes me how a man in his position, a man of so-called credibility, can go before a television audience and without blushing for one moment deny such an important thing, because the people of Queensland, if the Labor Party had been elected, would most definitely have lost what I understand to be and what most Queenslanders understand to be Queensland’s free hospital scheme. [More…]

• I have a comment here - I am not going to read from a newspaper, Mr Acting Speaker - from an ex-Labor man. [More…]

• He became an ex-Labor man only the other day after 40 years as a member of that Party. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition was prepared to sacrifice the free health scheme of the State in which a man holds the highest office at present held by the Labor Party. [More…]

• There is not one Labor man left in any high office in any other State. [More…]

• But this - and mark this closely - is what Digger Dent, the father of an ex-Australian Labor Party alderman and himself a member of the Australian Labor Party for 40 years had to say: [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition blossomed like a rose at the beginning of 1967 when he took over from the man to whom he had been loyal, the man he supported and the man whose every order he obeyed without flinching. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition also has fallen away and the great spirit and his forthright approach to the Federal Executive of his Party, which many Australians admired, have now disappeared. [More…]

• Many of my constituents have been alarmed by Labor’s proposals on this issue. [More…]

• This is the man whom honourable members opposite expect to lead the nation in the future. [More…]

• A new member sits where the former honourable mem ber for Batman sat. [More…]

• I refer to Sam Benson, who was a capable and fine man and an extremely sincere man. [More…]

• The Conference Lines of ship owners started off in the 17th century as pirates on the high seas, and they are pirates today to every man and woman in this community. [More…]

• I am sure that being a sensitive man he will be glad to have it over. [More…]

• 1 am sorry that he did not acknowledge the hard, detailed and persistent work of his predecessor, Mr Ian Wilson who, as chairman of the Government members social services committee, played a major part in the introduction of the tapered means test legislation and other humane legislation and who had a deep involvement in national issues. [More…]

• Why does not the Government take immediate action to close up the loopholes which are only available to those with wealth who can afford the cost of expert advice, or is it only interested in slugging the little man who has neither money nor influence in the right quarter? [More…]

• There are so many other devices being used that they are too numerous to mention. [More…]

• I am certain that this very respected and capable gentleman would be most happy to acquaint him of the facts. [More…]

• So it can be seen from what I have said that there is widespread opposition by the industry itself and even by the man in the street. [More…]

• Our top man is Colonel Peters. [More…]

• We all reckon he is a great man. [More…]

• Colonel Peters is alleged, by one of the mercenaries, to be a man who has high ideals about the world. [More…]

• The man who gave most of this information was an Australian soldier who had done 2 years Army service and became restless. [More…]

• The resultant interview when reported in the United Kingdom Press and by ihe British Broadcasting Commission surprised many people. [More…]

• I ask the PostmasterGeneral whether he is aware that the Australian Broadcasting Commission television station Channel 2 proposes to repeat the showing of the controversial nlm ‘Son of Man’ on 9th April. [More…]

• As to repeat performances of programmes, I have indicated to the House also that there is a difficulty facing television stations in obtaining sufficient good programmes in order to avoid repetition of some of them. [More…]

• Indeed, it is known that about one-third of the viewing public sees a presentation on the first occasion and that there are many other people in the community who would like a second opportunity. [More…]

• I have only to refer to the repeat of a series of films such as the ‘Forsyte Saga’ which, I am sure, was seen as an opportunity by very many people to see it when it was shown the second time. [More…]

• In relation to the film ‘Son of Man’, I have had a number of letters sent to me and I have been in discussion with the ABC because of the answers which the Chairman has made available to me, representing the point of view of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• This being so - this being the normal practice and this being an application to a man set up by that Government for that purpose - then I see no reason for any action to be taken on behalf of this Government and I am surprised that the honourable member should feel that that was necessary since what he seeks to set up is in fact being followed in this case. [More…]

• You, too, Mr Chairman, as a former minister of religion did not think your remarks were worth listening to so you voted to gag yourself. [More…]

• It does seem though, as honourable members from this side have pointed out, that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), with all his great talk about social justice and what he would do for the people of Australia, has proved that he is a bits and pieces and patch up man in respect of social welfare. [More…]

• I direct attention to the interpretation of ‘an aged person’, which reads: aged person’ means a man who has attained the age of 65 years or a woman who has attained the age of 60 years. [More…]

• So, it would not be a terribly expensive experiment to extend the subsidy which will be paid beyond Meals on Wheels services so as to include those organisations which today man these centres and assist in providing meals for these pensioner centres. [More…]

• Every man in this Parliament recognises that the party or coalition of parties which has the majority has, subject to the approval of this Parliament, the right and the opportunity to determine the policies of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• 1 do not know of any man in this Parliament who served on the previous Committee or who potentially could serve on this one whom ] would not regard as a person well capable of receiving any information that might be put before the Committee and of using his discretion as to how and where that information might be used. [More…]

• T do not agree with many of the opinions expressed by Government supporters - I believe that would be pretty obvious - but I would not think any were potentially traitors to the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• There are many deficiencies in our own procedures but at least most of us are prepared to stand up and be counted in public no matter on which side of the Parliament we sit. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) is a man of redoubtable capacity and courage. [More…]

• If we look at a lot of the evidence that has been given about Vietnam we will see that a man who previously was the greatest hawk in the Democratic Government of the United States is now not only the greatest dove but is speaking in a way that is completely contrary to the attitude that he had taken in the previous government. [More…]

• It was sometimes asserted that Jim Fraser was exclusively a local man. [More…]

• In the most official, affluent, sophisticated community in Australia there is the greatest need for an unaffected and accessible spokesman, mediator and advocate. [More…]

• He was indeed a most honourable and a most respected man. [More…]

• As has been said he was a kindly man. [More…]

• He was a completely trustworthy man. [More…]

• He was a strong and good man. [More…]

• He was a man of independent and determined thoughts. [More…]

• He was beholden to no man; yet was a man of extreme good will. [More…]

• He was a true Labor man as his parliamentary life has shown. [More…]

• I am quite sure that a great many people who reside in the Australian Capital Territory were not aware of his political affiliations but knew that if they had a problem Jim Fraser was the man to see. [More…]

• As has been said, Jim will be missed for many reasons in this chamber. [More…]

• J remember Jim as an able parliamentarian, as a man whose life was to help others and, if the House will permit me to say so, as a wonderful brother [More…]

• Is the Postmaster-General aware of the agony and distress given to many Australians because of the presentation by the Australian Broadcasting Commission of ‘Son of Man’? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the general manager, Mr Duckmanton, is to receive an appointment overseas? [More…]

• The film ‘Son of Man’, which has been referred to, was passed by the Commonwealth film censor in the same way that films which are seen in any cinema in Australia are approved. [More…]

• A year ago I drew the Prime Minister’s attention to the visit to Australia on an Australian passport by Air Vice-Marshal Hawkins, who was formerly Commander of the Rhodesian Air Force and was to become Rhodesia’s diplomatic representative to South Africa. [More…]

• Spurred by an interjection by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen), he went on to praise Rhodesia as a country in which many of our pilots trained to fight against this aggressive Fascism. [More…]

• He concluded by asserting the rights of a man with ‘a career which was distinguished and which had greatly helped the freedom of the world and the relief of Europe from conquest from abroad’. [More…]

• If the overall productivity per man has increased to the extent indicated, why has the Coal Industry Tribunal repeatedly refused to grant the union’s claims for reduced working hours. [More…]

• Most of the matters which the honourable gentleman raises are strictly outside the control of my Department. [More…]

• However I would deplore any system of marketing purposely implemented by oil companies which would require the little man, the garage operator, to bear the brunt of this problem. [More…]

• What stage of debate have we reached when a man rises on this side and pleads for a proper appreciation of a project which will cost - what? [More…]

• I would venture to say that there is no man either in this House or outside it who has more knowledge of the effects of Chowilla on South Australia, and the details associated with it, than has Sir Thomas Playford. [More…]

• Let me state categorically that the assessment by Sir Thomas Playford, a man who is respected in South Australia and indeed is almost an institution, may not impress honourable members opposite but they have my personal assurance that it will impress a very large number of people in South Australia. [More…]

• Any man who has a certain opinion on a matter and who sticks to it whether he is right or wrong never really does anything. [More…]

• If their policies are wrong then tell them, but do not tackle the man personally. [More…]

• For the first time in this place I have noticed new members - not many of them, but some of them - interjecting before they made their maiden speeches. [More…]

• One of the good things about this Parliament is that when a man makes his maiden speech it is traditional for other honourable members not to interject. [More…]

• The Opposition regrets what happened last night but there is only one man in this Parliament who is to blame, and that is the Minister for Labour and National Service. [More…]

• To gag my amendments on an important Bill, not even to allow the amendments to be put, is something which perhaps has happened before; but never has it happened since I came here and I am told that never has it happened in the experience of many of the older members here. [More…]

• I am quite certain that the Minister for National Development, as a man of character, will not rise and simply say that he did not know that I was going to move the 2 amendments. [More…]

• He is a trained man and realises that he was talking illogically. [More…]

• It is not just the fact that Mr Holt had a sense of decorum or propriety or that he was an urbane man, a decent man. [More…]

• The fact is that he was a professional and a gentleman. [More…]

• This Minister is the first man in our Parliament ever to have been censured twice. [More…]

• The Leader of the House is the guilty man, however much honourable gentlemen opposite may try to hide behind Mr Speaker. [More…]

• Does anybody believe this man? [More…]

• He himself is the most violent man in this Parliament. [More…]

• He is a man illiberal in his attitudes and intemperate in his actions. [More…]

• We know that he is not a man of honour and that he does not even break his word gracefully or effectively, because he is exposed when he breaks his word. [More…]

• If on every occasion they were to be debated by 3 or 4 speakers on each side then he would be, as he is seeking to be, a man who is obstructing the business of Parliament. [More…]

• He made his usual spiteful comments about the performance of the Minister as Minister for Labour and National Service, which has nothing to do with this motion at all. [More…]

• So the Leader of the House was incorrect but he was man enough to agree he was incorrect on that account. [More…]

• Unless you exercise your authority - I have every reason to believe that you are a man of some honour, integrity and bravery, but you must show it in the chair - not only you will be derided but this House of Parliament will be derided. [More…]

• The Minister wants to prove himself a big and tough man. [More…]

• In the nature of things tempers are raised here - occasionally by a man or two, occasionally by quite a number of people. [More…]

• Yet this same man has used terms such as reprehensible conduct’ and ‘unparliamentary conduct opposed to all the principles of democracy’. [More…]

• Then Mr Holloway, a kindly man, said: [More…]

• I say to honourable members that in the history of this Parliament - and I have been here for 27 years - there has never been a more disruptive personality than the man who leads the Country Party today and who made that speech a few moments ago. [More…]

• The present leader of that Party is the man who spoke a few moments ago. [More…]

• The fact is that he has done all the bad things - it was lovely while it lasted - but now he claims to bc a law and order man. [More…]

• He was the Country Party man - he has now gone on - who wanted to shoot people down because they would not enlist, or something to that effect. [More…]

• and that is the policy of the democracy that the man who has just spoken wants in this Parliament. [More…]

• And that would be a remarkable decision - to find out what a man has to say and then not let him say anything when he rose to his feet. [More…]

• Many more will retire with him but they do not seem to realise this. [More…]

• Will it be that every man who raises his voice in protest against the monstrous policies and actions of your Government in this Parliament will automatically be thrown out of the Parliament and refused the right to speak. [More…]

• But at the same time I could not let go unchallenged this great reform speech tonight which brought tears to my eyes, and I thought of this great man crying for a democratic institution and crying for approaches to be made to politics here when in his day he would have laughed at them if they had been brought up. [More…]

• When I was here years ago members of the Country Party took pride not in how many speeches they made but in how many times they went through the door. [More…]

• I come to the second element of the charge - the influence that the honourable gentleman has. [More…]

• If a man in this Parliament took the view that he could defy the authority of the Speaker he would not beckon to anybody from the left or from the right; he would say: ‘I defy the authority of this Parliament. [More…]

• I do not think the Leader of the House is a big enough man for his job. [More…]

• A good many of them had shrunken brains. [More…]

• But this man is so afraid of his job - granted that he might think that some are not really matters of definite public importance - that he cannot differentiate between significant and insignificant matters. [More…]

• He has a blunderbuss conception of stopping every debate on every subject, no matter how important it is or how humanitarian it is. [More…]

• The man who initially debased this Parliament was William Morris Hughes. [More…]

• This is a most dangerous situation because he himself, perhaps as a weak man, goes left and he has the reputation, whether deservedly or not, of not being fully left wing. [More…]

• and football hooliganism can be stirred together into an anti-Labour stew, it is, to be sine, powerful saloon-bar stuff; and provided Selsdon Man can keep the argument at the level of ill-informed rumour, ignorant prejudice and gut-reaction, there may be some electoral mileage in it. [More…]

• The gag man immediately moved the gag as soon as I had finished speaking. [More…]

• There were 320,000 voters interested in what I had to say, and what did this man do? [More…]

• Claimants in the courts of our land must appear with clean hands. [More…]

• Before bringing this matter before the House the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) should have made sure that he had clean hands - that he could come in as a man of honour and move this motion of censure. [More…]

• There, you see, is a manifestation of Liberal thinking. [More…]

• It would be, I think, fair to say that the man who established the Liberal Party, and who in fact created and led it with some distinction for a number of years, would be mortified to see the way that Party is traducing the democratic principles of the Parliament that he respected. [More…]

• For the first time in open Parliament we had the sign that the left wing of the Party had taken over and the Leader of the Opposition, who is a man of some education and background, realised that unless he got with it he was finished. [More…]

• I believe that every man or woman who serves this Parliament is entitled to a 9- hour break between periods of employment. [More…]

• I believe that that is only human. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for the Interior is a kindly man. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is a busy man, but he has a large staff available to help him. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister throws in a loose accusation and he finds that he has made a mistake, it is about time that he was man enough to get up and say: ‘I am wrong’. [More…]

• ; I have great sympathy for the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) because never have 1 heard a man misrepresented more In any sphere. [More…]

• I understand that a man was charged with a felonious offence which was committed against him. [More…]

• I saw only one small 3 line paragraph in the paper that this gentleman did not appear when he was called before the court. [More…]

• I would like to feel that the police and the justice of this country were taking all steps possible to find this man and bring him to justice so that the harm he has done to the honourable member for Lalor may be rectified. [More…]

• This man should be brought to justice. [More…]

• 1 believe that this is something that the man in question can give information about and the police can confirm. [More…]

• On the subject of guilt by association, I point out that when the late Harold Holt was Minister for Labour and National Service he had to meet on many occasions with the Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation at that time, Mr Jim Healy. [More…]

• When Sir Hubert Opperman was Minister for Shipping and Transport he used to take Mr Elliot Elliott for a meal. [More…]

• Is Sir Hubert Opperman a Communist because he associated with that man over a cup of tea or lunch? [More…]

• In the trade union movement, a man cannot dissociate himself from Communist officials when it comes to speaking on various occasions. [More…]

• 1 understand from published material that the honourable member for Lalor is the Chairman of a Vietnam Moratorium Committee in Melbourne. [More…]

• Included in that Committee is a man called Laurie Carmichael who is, 1 am credibly informed, a member of the Communist Party. [More…]

• It is an evil innuendo to suggest that any man in public life can be held responsible for whoever happens to be in the audience at a public meeting which he is addressing. [More…]

• It would seem to me that any man appearing on the same platform as a Communist would be subject to the very same smearing tactic of the Prime Minister. [More…]

• I am appalled, Mr Speaker, by the tactics adopted by the man elected to be the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• I think this Parliament has lost a very able and respected colleague - a man who, like the late Jim Fraser, had no meanness anywhere about him, and a man of transparent integrity and transparent honesty in all of his dealings. [More…]

• I admired the man very much on these occasions. [More…]

• Those of us in this place who had the opportunity to be with him or to talk with him would have had borne out the impression we had of him as a man of wide experience in many fields of public life, not only in this place but also in producer organisations and local government, and our impression of his quite exceptional strength of character. [More…]

• I associate the Australian Labor Party with the opinions expressed on behalf of us all by the Prime Minister and which no doubt will now be expressed by the Leader of his Party of which he was such a stalwart member both in this Parliament and for many years before. [More…]

• I am sure no man in the Parliament was more respected than Colin McKellar. [More…]

• He was a man to be respected and a man to be liked, and certainly a man to be trusted. [More…]

• In his Party work he operated within the New South Wales branch of the Australian Country Party with such dedication and effectiveness that he was appointed Chairman of the Party in New South Wales, a position which he occupied for 2 years. [More…]

• In that chamber his worth was recognised, and he became the Chairman of Committees in the Senate. [More…]

• He was a man of unquestioned integrity and high character, and indeed a very likeable person. [More…]

• Among those who served most closely with him in the Ministry there had grown up not only a respect but also a measure of affection for the man. [More…]

• I had the honour of knowing Senator McKellar for many years and also of working with him within the Australian Country Party organisation in New South Wales for 17 years. [More…]

• I knew him as a man of great character, integrity and warmth. [More…]

• On many occasions his profound common sense and wise decisions made a lasting contribution to sound and stable government, in Australia. [More…]

• As an ex-serviceman, having served in the Light Horse as a captain and then as a major in the Second Australian Imperial Force, he was well qualified to work with ex-servicemen in the field of repatriation and he never ceased to visit the repatriation hospitals throughout Australia taking with him that cheerful, amiable, kindly and sympathetic personality to those suffering in the hospitals. [More…]

• The late Senator McKellar was a man of great public spirit; he was dedicated to the service of his community and he served his country in peace and war. [More…]

• In fact, I have had the Secretary of my Department take part in most of the negotiations with the States - he is the most senior man I can put on the job - to try to bring this matter to finality. [More…]

• The proper foundation for government is a universal law of right and wrong self-evident to the intuitive commonsense of every man; that freedom is a power of personal self-direction which no man can delegate to another; that the purpose of society is not the protection of property but fulfilment of the needs of living human beings; that good citizens have the right and duty, not only to overthrow incurably oppresive governments, but before that point is reached to break particular oppressive laws; and that we owe our ultimate allegiance, not to this or that nation, but to the whole family of man. [More…]

• These are the representatives that this man wants to come with him. [More…]

• Then he started to move and manoeuvre, and there is no man of greater ability than he is in this regard. [More…]

• Everything, said this man of the law, was a well known fact. [More…]

• I remember one of the most prominent Labor men that this nation will ever see, a great Queenslander, who told Queensland generally, in many an article that he wrote against Communist infiltration and influence on the Labor Party, that he stood four square against anything that was suggested from this sinister and foreign creed. [More…]

• I refer to the great Labor man, Clarrie Fallon. [More…]

• If honourable members on this side of the House make the blue they made prior to the last election and fail to reveal the extent of Communist infiltration - if they fail to reveal the Communists for what they are - they will betray the people of Australia and deceive the decent Labor man. [More…]

• Those who understand the reactions of youth can readily influence the minds of young people going through the no man’s land of adolescence. [More…]

• As for the other man for all seasons, the Leader of the Opposition, with him you do not know where you are going. [More…]

• If I were a betting man I would take a fair shade of the odds that there will be violence and plenty of it on Moratorium Day. [More…]

• We wish no man ill-will but we stand up and be counted when great issues are at stake. [More…]

• I was sickened to hear the Attorney-General, who came to this House with a pretty formidable reputation as a man of intellect and as a man of great professional capacity. [More…]

• The sad thing is that this man - I do not know whether he was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition then but he is now - has reneged. [More…]

• I give it as 1 instance because it relates to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and this should be remembered because it shows the way in which the Communist Party conducting a reign of terror through its pre-selection control of so many Labor seats, is able to intimidate Labor leaders and bring them around to its way of thinking. [More…]

• There are other instances of this but 1 have chosen to concentrate on this 1 instance because it concerns the man who is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• One does not want to underestimate the influence of this man. [More…]

• In many instances it is a Minister acting for the Minister concerned who sends the final acknowledgment back to me. [More…]

• I bow to no man and I do not use my authority unless I have to use it. [More…]

• I am talking about health services in their totality for the total man. [More…]

• I have not tried to get any beds in Sydney lately but it is not many years since I was in practice there and it was quite a common procedure in the western suburbs where I was practising that when a patient had acute appendicitis we bad to ring the 3 nearest hospitals and if, as happened 3 times out of 4, they had no beds available we then had to ring up the hospitals admission officer who was on duty day and night in the city of Sydney. [More…]

• This man would say: T can get you a bed at such and such a hospital’. [More…]

• It was not many years before that time that I heard of a patient who had to be flown to Newcastle to have his appendix out. [More…]

• High land prices are delaying home ownership for many people; are a major burden for persons or! [More…]

• middle incomes and a family man; and limit the number of houses which need to be built. [More…]

• The McCarrey report also indicated the particular difficulties faced by the working man in this area. [More…]

• 1 do this because only 2 weeks ago I was at the home of one of my very close friends of many years standing. [More…]

• As I said earlier, I have known this man for many years, and like quite a number of my friends he neither drinks nor smokes. [More…]

• I listen with delight to his speeches because they always contain an element of mirth which shows that he is not merely a man of profundity and gravity but a man who, at various times, can blend with those qualities a degree of humour and levity. [More…]

• He would have done a very good job had he come over and joined us because many of the things he said, when he was not attacking us, were mainly in agreement with us. [More…]

• We on this side of the House are concerned for these reasons: Firstly, high land prices are delaying home ownership for many people. [More…]

• They are also a major burden for people on middle incomes and for the family man. [More…]

• However, I think that this amount is not only unrealistic but it is inhibiting in many ways. [More…]

• If a young man has an obvious future ahead of him and can see his way clear in the years to come to have a better home, why should we inhibit him by restricting him to a home valued at $17,500. [More…]

• They can now be supported, though they could not some years ago, by the insured loan they borrow through a permanent building society. [More…]

• However, before completion of the transaction the young man decides to add some improvements to it. [More…]

• In another case a man may buy a block of land and enter into a contract within the limit set by the legislation. [More…]

• Let him stand and be a man and express his opposition to it as I am doing now. [More…]

• Whilst 1 am sure that honourable members on this side can respect a good Labor man, and 1 am sure that his integrity is high, the honourable member for Sydney made some implications in his speech which I think should be answered. [More…]

• Firstly, he implied that no associations exist between members of the Australian Labor Party and Communists; secondly that there is no danger to Australia from China; and thirdly that the Liberals unfairly scare the Australian people.I think that is a fair summation of 3 points implicit in the honourable gentleman’s speech. [More…]

• I believe it is absolutely essential that indigenes of the Territory be given increasing opportunities to man and operate vessels in this trade. [More…]

• I think the matter is highlighted immediately by referring to the Consolidated Revenue Fund which shows that the amount extracted from every man, woman and child in New South Wales, and indeed in Australia, is $553 and that the reimbursment to New South Wales to carry on essential services is a mere $80 per head. [More…]

• An average man should be able to travel on a sealed highway to and fro without prohibitively high costs. [More…]

• Deafness isolates cruelly and completely because hearing is the deepest philosophical sense that man possesses.’ [More…]

• I wish to refer to the controversial play ‘Son of Man’ which has been televised in all States by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• The suspense in the scenes of the Garden of Gethsemane and the trial by Pilate was superbly maintained. [More…]

• Please remember that this man was trying to concertina a 3- year ministry into a 1-hour film. [More…]

• It is not generally known by people in this century that the times of Christ as well as several years before and many decades after His death were amongst the crudest and most violent in history. [More…]

• Compared with the activities described by Josephus, many of Hitler’s works were child’s play. [More…]

• The Romans did not mess around when they decided to get rid of rabble rousers, trouble makers and so on. [More…]

• Indeed, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) came into this House as a reasonable man and said that he accepted this arrangement on behalf of the Labor Party. [More…]

• The Trades Hall Council of Tasmania has repudiated him. [More…]

• When this man talks about democracy, what does he mean? [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman attends the Moratorium and if the result is not what he wants - if the result is tragic, as I hope it will not be - I hope he is man enough to admit in this House after 8th May that the responsibility was his. [More…]

• The Leader of the House (Mr Snedden), who is at the table, in a very tolerant manner introduced proposals which were acceptable, with one exception, to the Opposition. [More…]

• The honourable member for La Trobe is a remarkable man. [More…]

• Well, of course, the honourable member for Griffith is a very impressionable young man. [More…]

• He has proved himself to be a very able man, as his academic qualifications would show. [More…]

• In his performance in debate he has been a very vigorous and competent speaker on economic and trade matters as well as broader issues - but especially on economic and trade affairs. [More…]

• Now the present Minister, a man of immense experience and seniority in the Liberal Parry, has had his text sifted and amended by men considerably inferior to him in ability, experience and seniority. [More…]

• If a man has taken the trouble to learn a difficult Asian language, is he to be removed from that area after he has served there for a year or 2 and sent to Europe or somewhere else? [More…]

• No I am not particularly in support of some of the things that are going on there and I agree with you, but they are their internal policies and as was said by the man whom I consider to be the best leader in Africa- and I might mention that he does not name this person: [More…]

• The average Australian man in the street, when asked what he thinks about South Africa, would probably say he had a vague idea that apartheid in South Africa meant that the blacks were not paid quite as well as the whites, that they had to use separate public facilities and that they could not play in multi-racial sporting teams. [More…]

• What he would not know is how completely apartheid has separated, segregated, humiliated, oppressed and suppressed the lives of the 16 million who are black or coloured, to the point where they have been reduced to little more than numerical units for the white man’s labour force. [More…]

• How have they managed to maintain this permanent ascendancy? [More…]

• The black man, the coloured man, the Asian - a total of 16 million people - have no say in the government of the country in which they live. [More…]

• An African - that means a black man - is regarded as an alien, a foreign migrant when resident in white South Africa. [More…]

• If in fact the Commonwealth Government through its then responsible Minister - and he was a responsible Minister and a man who has the respect of this side of the House and, 1 believe, the respect of the Government side of the House - entered into an agreement or an undertaking - not necessarily a legal undertaking - with responsible State Ministers with respect to the administration, control and ownership of off-shore resources, it is imperative that this Parliament be given the right to analyse and understand what is meant by that agreement or undertaking. [More…]

• Honourable members should not forget that this decision was made after the Deputy Prime Minister, the Leader of and the most powerful man in the Country Party, had addressed this conference. [More…]

• When I hear of a Country Party conference doing this, I think well of the people of Riverina who have sent a man here like their honourable member. [More…]

• There is 1 man currently imprisoned after being convicted for failing to obey a call-up notice. [More…]

• Consequently, it should bc recognised that while my Department currently is looking into the circumstances of the fire and intends to examine whether or not all the necessary procedures for future operation have been adopted, in my opinion the circumstances of the fire were such that no reasonable man could have expected even the most adequate of fire fighting equipment to extinguish the blaze once it became substantial. [More…]

• The dried fruit man is still a comparatively small farmer in terms of capitalisation but nevertheless is still fairly large. [More…]

• But the man who needs it most gets least. [More…]

• There have been many cases where family farms have been broken up because of heavy estate and State probate duties upon the death of the owner. [More…]

• I would now like to read the remarks made by that wellknown man. [More…]

• So we are told that it was not necessarily to be permanent, but in the next part of the sentence we are told that he was not prepared to make a declaration that it would not in fact be permanent. [More…]

• Of course, he was a very enlightened man, but not as enlightened as he was when he left the Labor Party and joined the Nationalist Party. [More…]

• Why should the family of a man - or a woman - who throughout his life made his contribution to the development and progress of a country and who has paid income taxes, rates, levies and duties throughout his lifetime, have the savings or the residue from the taxed earnings subjected to a further tax upon death? [More…]

• He may be highly efficient in terms of productivity per man hour or whatever criteria one takes. [More…]

• Despite what one often hears, the Australian Labor Party is very much interested in the man on the land. [More…]

• It is right that a man should be able to work, to save and to leave his assets to close relatives and that they have some benefit for that. [More…]

• When a farmer goes into a city and says: ‘Look, I have assets worth $100,000’, the reaction is: ‘My great goodness, what a wealthy man you must be.’ [More…]

• But if the man were put out of business tomorrow morning, these would be put on the market and there would be no buyer. [More…]

• Whatever money is received for it is offset against the hire purchase debt, and if it is not enough then the man is charged with the balance anyway. [More…]

• I was once warned as a younger man against the tyranny of possessions. [More…]

• My answer is that the Sunraysia specialist is a man who grows dried vine fruits exclusively. [More…]

• The Sunraysia farmer referred to by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics is a man who may grow dried fruits and who also grows citrus fruits. [More…]

• If a man owns a property, which is worth $100,000 on these values, and he does not sell it, he does not realise his assets and he does not get anything out of it. [More…]

• But if the employer waits until the man joins a union and then sacks him, that is all right’. [More…]

• Here is the case of the draftsman doing what he and commonsense people thought was the requirement of the law, what the Parliament told him to do and what the Minister told him to do. [More…]

• Yet, a judge in one fell swoop nullified everything that Parliament thought it was doing and everything the draftsman thought he was doing. [More…]

• 1 think that, if society could get a little more common sense and fewer technicalities from the judiciary, we would get on a lot better and the job of the parliamentary draftsman would be made a lot easier. [More…]

• I learnt from my experience with this extremely capable draftsman just what a draftsman must know and what he must be able to do. [More…]

• Unless a member of this Parliament, whether he be a Minister or a backbencher, has had the advantage of silting with a parliamentary draftsman and being able to see a man who, on the other side of the table, can tell a member in a flash what it is that he wants to know and who seems to know all that is to be known about every subject at hand and also knows what the High Court has said about that subject in years gone by, that member does not appreciate just what remarkable and extremely experienced men these draftsmen are. [More…]

• Many draftsmen - most of them, perhaps one could say - have records similar to that of the man whose name I have mentioned. [More…]

• According to my information, supplied by a man who went to university with him, he was easily the most brilliant student of his class at the university. [More…]

• We are lucky enough to get this sort of man into the services of the Parliament as a parliamentary draftsman. [More…]

• We are offering the Senior Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman $13,000; we offer the First Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman $14,000 and we offer the Parliamentary Draftsman $17,000, which Ls the highest rate in the Second Division. [More…]

• Why it is that the senior draftsman ought not to be in the First Division is completely beyond me. [More…]

• 1 do not know of any more illustrious term than to be called a ‘parliamentary draftsman’ now. [More…]

• I therefore not only support the Bill but I again repeat that I hope that we will not merely change the name of the position but that the senior man will be put into the First Division - I see no reason why that should not be done - and that the others will be taken out of the clutches of the Public Service Board. [More…]

• should now like to quote from a man who, al the time he made the speech, was the President of the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association. [More…]

• In 1961, referring to the manner in which hospital medical staff discussed all manner of things relating to the mechanical functioning of the hospital, he said: [More…]

• I could quote from many examples of injustice to members of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority staff who are now approaching the retiring age. [More…]

• This man asked that in view of the special and difficult circumstances in which he found himself an exception be made in his case and that the undertaking given to him and his family should be honoured. [More…]

• During the debate on the adjournment of the House this evening the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) quite surprisingly, and I thought disappointingly, devoted most of the time available to him to an attack on the honourable member for Murrumbidgee in the New South Wales Parliament, who he said is a terrible man. [More…]

• I hope to march with many more people and 1 hope they will be equally stirred up and equally as dramatic. [More…]

• As we saw at the film showing by the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) last Monday week, many of these overseas films must be produced by the half-educated for the half-witted. [More…]

• Since John Garton became leader of this country we have had as Prime Minister a man who is distinctly Australian in character. [More…]

• This was a film that cost many millions of dollars many years ago. [More…]

• But surely the man who would be most qualified is the man who has made a success in the industry. [More…]

• This man was referred to by the honourable member for Kennedy as one of our very great early producers who suffered all the time from the malady of lack of finance. [More…]

• I am a censorship man, am proud of it, and I intend to stay that way. [More…]

• But the apologists for the ending of censorship condone the pollution of man’s mind, and that is far more serious than the pollution of a few cities. [More…]

• I have found nothing yet to change me from being a censorship man. [More…]

• For example, Mr John McCallum, President of the Australian Film Council and a man of great yet diverse achievements in the film industry throughout the English speaking world, said in a letter to the Australian Financial Review dated 14th April 1970: [More…]

• We are unlikely to find them in groups of laymen like myself, who have an average man’s interest in these things. [More…]

• Each of these committees is manned by people who are in fact magnates of the business world and who stand to gain in a very real sense from some of the decisions that the Government makes. [More…]

• If it is good enough for the Government to have these advisory committees which are directly related to very many topics, it seems more than good enough for the Government to allow a person with a pecuniary interest to sit on the Corporation. [More…]

• I repeat that if a man discloses his interest in a section of the film industry there should be no problems at all. [More…]

• At a time when there is a world wide awakening to the growing requirement to understand and exploit to the advantage of mankind the full bounty of the sea, the Gorton Government is to be congratulated on its timely action in establishing an Institute of Marine Science in Townsville. [More…]

• For too long we have been forced to think of and marvel at the mysteries of the seas, and it is not before time that there has been an international realisation that we should think of the oceans not only as the bounding main but as a source from which and by which many of mankind’s current and continuing problems can be alleviated. [More…]

• Nevertheless, there will always be mystery surrounding the seas, which man may never control even though his understanding of them improves. [More…]

• Again I would like to draw attention to the health hazards that are experienced by many surfers who use the beaches around our urban areas. [More…]

• But the tragedy of this pollution of man’s environment by himself is the lack of research that has gone into this aspect of pollution. [More…]

• From time immemorial man has been fascinated by the sea, and that in itself would justify an institute of marine science. [More…]

• It may also be a source of medical knowledge, since the immunity of certain fish to deadly poisons and to pain may have a significance for mankind. [More…]

• It may not be easy to find such a man, but it should not be impossible. [More…]

• As I follow the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King) it is interesting to note that our friends on the other side, the Country Party, appear to have got permission from their colleagues in the Liberal Party, who are now quiet on their antiCommunist bogy, to devote their evening to attacking the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby), a man who has won the hearts and minds of the Australian rural sector. [More…]

• This was said by the man who was telling us how to behave in Parliament. [More…]

• He is a very wise young man, Mr Speaker. [More…]

• With the contempt of a self-made man for those who had it easier, Mr McEwen told them what he had given them in the past 20 years: ‘I got a thousand million out of the Commonwealth Treasury into your pockets.’ [More…]

• I also draw the attention of the honourable member for Robertson to the case of the former honourable member for Batman, a distinguished member of the Labor Parts’. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable member for Robertson that this man had greater and longer membership than he has. [More…]

• The former honourable member for Batman was raised from humble beginnings. [More…]

• This honourable gentleman of whom I speak decided on one occasion to join an organisation concerned with the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite and this young gentleman may think that there is no concern in Australia about what is taking place. [More…]

• The Opposition and this gentleman have accused me of talking about Communism, anarchism, Bolshevism, or whatever it might be, but I suggest that they should not become lulled into too much of a sense of security and think that there are not a large number of people who are concerned about what is happening, what has happened and what will happen. [More…]

• Yesterday I read a book written by an Australian Army major whom I shall not quote verbatim but who ended by saying that ultimately we and the Americans may have got out of Vietnam, but there is no man, whatever his feeling, whether he approves or disapproves as an Australian or an American - I take this to myself as an Australian - who will not somewhere in his mind carry a moral issue as to whether he did the right or the wrong thing. [More…]

• in my opinion the circumstances of the fire were such that no reasonable man could have expected even the most adequate of fire fighting equipment to extinguish the blaze once it became substantial. [More…]

• in my opinion the circumstances of the fire were such that no reasonable man could have expected even the most adequate of fire fighting equipment to extinguish the blaze once it became substantial. [More…]

• It concerns a migrant, a Mr A. J. Vorstman. [More…]

• Mr Vorstman is a Dutchman who arrived in this country a little over 6 years ago. [More…]

• Repeatedly this man has sought Australian citizenship and his applications have been rejected without any reason or explanation having been given. [More…]

• But it would be even more undesirable that an ASIO agent in company with officials of the Department of Immigration should be in a position to say to Mr Vorstman or to any other person seeking Australian citizenship that although he was having difficulty and had been having difficulty for some time in obtaining Australian citizenship a more favourable attitude might very well develop on the part of officialdom if that person became an informer for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]

• It is quite wrong and repugnant to anyone who holds democratic concepts that a man’s political beliefs should be used as the issue which allows him to be held to ransom for something which he greatly wants to achieve; that is, Australian citizenship. [More…]

• This man is working in the Australian economy. [More…]

• As Mr Vors man’s case does not come within these categories I am unable to inform you of the grounds on which bis application was refused. [More…]

• It is quite wrong because Mr Vorstman and people in a like situation find themselves being treated in an extremely frustrating way, a way which Kafka found drove him almost to insane distraction; a remote almost featureless bureacracy making decisions in the castle, as Kafka wrote in one of his more renowned works; remote bureaucracy which cannot be reached and which is making decisions almost in the abstract and passing them down through goodness knows what sort of tortuous pipelines finally to reach the hapless victims of these decisions. [More…]

• I repeat that I do not support the political views of Mr Vorstman but he has a personal right, if he wishes to exercise it, to choose freely to belong to the Australian Communist Party. [More…]

• Mr Vorstman fulfils these requirements in every regard. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister, whom I regard personally as a reasonable sort of man, not to allow himself to be encrusted with the barnacles foisted on him by the rutted ways of the bureaucracy with which he has to work but to shrug this encrusting tendency off and to take a fresh and stimulating approach to this man’s problem. [More…]

• 1 am gravely disturbed at the very many cases which occur in Australia where people seeking citizenship find their applications rejected largely on the basis of some sort of secret report which often comes from countries outside; from such great democracies’ - I ask Hansard to put inverted commas around ‘democracies’ - as Spain and Portugal. [More…]

• There ought to be a clear statement as to why this man and other men in his situation have their applications rejected. [More…]

• Everything possible was done, including the giving of taxation concessions and help with fertilisers, to aid the man on the land to produce the export income which Australia so badly needed. [More…]

• The man who lives close to the soil is much more patriotic and more devoted to his country than other people are. [More…]

• Since he has been Minister for Social Services, he has become a much more kindly man. [More…]

• It is signed by Mr Price, a man who is well respected in grain growing circles. [More…]

• If nothing else has been established by the manner in which the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) has handled his portfolio so far at least 2 points become irrebuttably identified. [More…]

• Can the nation have faith and trust in a man who, until his Party’s trau matic experiences at the last election, asserted frequently, loudly and overbearingly the unqualified virtues of the Government’s so called voluntary health insurance scheme? [More…]

• Indeed, can there be confidence in the claims of such a man when today we have what is a major recasting of the National Health Act which covers that insurance scheme? [More…]

• Remarkably the Minister is the man who has forever been implying that he had the doctors tied up, but he is the man who has been quite severely rebuffed by the doctors. [More…]

• While proclaiming the benefits of the common fee to the public in a manner clearly designed to convince them that this sphere will be mandatory for doctors he has, through his Department, if one can believe public reports, told the doctors another version of what the practice will in fact be. [More…]

• An income tax deduction of $1 is worth nearly 3 times as much to a man on $12,000 a year as it is to a man on $2,000. [More…]

• The Minister for Health, a man with impressive academic qualifications, has doggedly defended the present scheme. [More…]

• In one of the notifications that we have had from one of these bodies - so many come along that we tend to forget who sends them - we were told that there are 6.000 general’ practitioners in Australia and that the number has remained static for the last 5 or 6 years. [More…]

• What will happen to the concept of the $5 maximum to be paid by the patient if he goes to the top man for surgery? [More…]

• The question is: What do you pay for - the skill of the man who does the job or the job that is done? [More…]

• As payments to benefit funds are tax deductible the poor man will get back in tax refund a negligible amount of the money he paid whilst the rich man will get perhaps half of it back. [More…]

• I am not concerned at the fact that a rich man pays more tax than a poor man. [More…]

• I accept that as I assume we all do as social justice which has motivated not only modern social welfare states but many other earlier and even ancient societies. [More…]

• If a man does this he is unable to keep up with the techniques of advancing medicine - not the knowledge . [More…]

• Has the per man output of coalminers increased since 1959. [More…]

• If so, what was the output per man-year in 1969 compared with the output in 1959. [More…]

• Man and wife; [More…]

• Man and wife and one child; [More…]

• Man and wife and two children; and [More…]

• Man and wife and three children. [More…]

• I ask you, Mr Speaker, as a reasonable man: What would be the position of any Service officer, airman or anyone at all who complained about the noise on a RAAF base? [More…]

• For one thing, I am concerned with the question of differential rebates; 1 do go along to a certain extent with the point raised by general practitioners that this proposal ultimately will have the effect of encouraging the young student who is doing medicine at university to take what could be the easy path and decide to become a specialist because such action has many advantages. [More…]

• As a layman I say that that may be so, but with the professional men there seems to be a variance of opinion. [More…]

• It seems to me that it does allow a professional man to work fewer hours. [More…]

• Who can blame a young man at the university for choosing to become a specialist, particularly in view of the propaganda that is being put about? [More…]

• Will a specialist be the man who has taken higher degrees overseas, who has gained his FRCS or whatever the higher degree is? [More…]

• In many group practices 3 or 4 members of the medical profession are gathered together, particularly in country areas. [More…]

• One may be a general practitioner, another a specialist in ear, nose and throat disorders although still acting as a general practitioner, and yet another a surgeon who has not sufficient demand to enable him to practise as a surgeon specialist and who accepts some responsibility and share of the general practitioner work which comes to the group. [More…]

• But in many instances this common fee will not be adhered to. [More…]

• This is not because the doctors are money hungry, as many people say they are. [More…]

• Because human nature is what it is, this may well happen. [More…]

• I think it is dreadful for a man in public life to criticise doctors, claiming that they are money grabbers. [More…]

• 2.2 You will agree that the Government also has a responsibility to respect the bona fide consciences of citizens and avoid overruling in the matter of a man’s serving or worship of God. [More…]

• 3.2 If conflict occurs between a direction by the Government and what the individual knows to be his responsibility to God, then his course is clear - God must be obeyed rather than man. [More…]

• If a man therefore purge himself from these he shall bc a vessel unto honour . [More…]

• For every child above the 2 children in the case of a man with a gross income of $45 an additional $3 could be earned without affecting entitlement. [More…]

• So our system would be based upon income of $45 per week for a man, wife and 2 children, allowing him an extra $3 income according to each child above those 2. [More…]

• If that man increased his earnings by $2 two-thirds of his insurance would be paid by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• But, on the other hand, a family man with a wife and, say, 5 children - maybe even more - receiving $50 a week will be required to pay the whole amount of medical insurance. [More…]

• But the important point about even that provision, as reported to me by an opthalmologist over the weekend, is that where an ophthalmologist, a medical man, carries out a very searching examination of a patient to see whether he is suffering from an eye disease and is of the opinion that the patient is not suffering from an eye disease but needs spectacles or different spectacles for his refraction problem, the patient attracts no benefits for the specialist’s service simply because spectacles were prescribed. [More…]

• What if a Labor man had threatened the doctors like that? [More…]

• If such a man has a doctor visit him at home he pays $1.20. [More…]

• He is a remarkable man. [More…]

• There are 1 1 members of the Tasmanian executive committee, 6 of whom are doctors. [More…]

• The Nimmo report, upon which this Bill is based to some extent, shows quite clearly that if the Government had been properly sympathetic, properly aware and considerate of the needs of the people, particularly the family man, and had it accepted and implemented our proposals - or, better still, had the Labor Party had the opportunity of putting its proposals into practice - a very substantial proportion of our population would have been saved a lot of worry and a lot of expense. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that Winston Churchill was labelled by many as a warmonger and received vicious criticism every time he stood up to warn the United Kingdom and the people of the world of the danger of those times. [More…]

• That man was called a warmonger every time he warned people of the dangers. [More…]

• I point out that when the world was at its darkest hour he was the man who led them through with his courage, his faith and the beliefs that he had held and presented all the time. [More…]

• Undoubtedly contributing to the crisis is the fact that the auction system, so long a sacred procedure for many, is the middle man’s market and the grower and the user never meet. [More…]

• So we have a product in short supply, in strong demand, across the world. [More…]

• The report of the New South Wales Labor Government’s royal commission, headed by Mr Justice Cook, established that there was highly organised manipulation of the wool market in 1959. [More…]

• We of the Opposition are already committed to strong Government action in the industry and we believe that in the meantime there is no reason why strong Government action should not be taken to ensure the viability of an industry which is efficient in terms of its per man and per unit cost output. [More…]

• Edward John Ward was a remarkable man who possessed great capacity, energy and determination. [More…]

• He had the faults and failings that all men have, in varying degrees and of different kinds, but he was a great Labor man and his memory deserves more recognition from this Parliament and the nation than it has yet received. [More…]

• These were the men who, in association with Churchill, brought Britain to victory, lt was not a one-man band, lt was a combined effort on the part of very brave and intelligent people. [More…]

• The honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) was in a confused and rambling state tonight; so his performance was easily recognisable with past ones. [More…]

• However, it is always distressing that a young man who apparently has some talents, although he is quite successful in hiding his light behind a bushel, can contribute so much energy to inconsequential matters. [More…]

• I wish that the honourable member for Griffith would try to distinguish his performance in the House and the energy he expends here by making contributions on worthwhile subjects. [More…]

• I sympathise with the right honourable member because if the right man had been elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition at the time that he mentioned, he would not now be stuck in the position of having to follow a man for whom he has no respect and, I would suggest, nothing more than contempt. [More…]

• I understand that a man has been caught. [More…]

• I only hope that the Victorian Liberal Government brings that man to justice because justice should be done in this case. [More…]

• The laws that 1 stressed were, firstly, the National Service Act which requires a man, whether it is against his conscience or not, to take up arms and, in fact, to swear loyalty to something which he believes is totally evil, against all the laws of humanity and against all international law. [More…]

• What a disreputable and contemptible thing that is for a man who calls himself a democrat. [More…]

• The South Australian Government last week was defeated on the floor of the House of Assembly, not by the people but by 1 man - an Independent - frantically trying to hold his seat and trapped by a tape recorder - and by an Opposition having no regard for technological facts and no regard for founding its opinion on proper grounds. [More…]

• I had a vision of a young man, fit and strong and a first class example of Australian manhood who ought to be in uniform. [More…]

• This man who had so much to say about the egg industry- [More…]

• at least the small man in the community is really not significant when it comes to loan flotations. [More…]

• Look at the recent entry into this country of that traitor Burchett, a man who it is admitted was present during the questioning and torture of two American airmen who finally broke under this torture and signed some spurious document on germ warfare. [More…]

• Yet this man received assistance from the Labor Party, not only to get into this country but to do anything that he wanted while he was here. [More…]

• Some of the most inhuman actions ever perpetrated on man have occurred in Vietnam. [More…]

• To answer that question we must examine land prices in the many electorates and areas represented not only by Opposition members but by honourable members on the Government side of the chamber. [More…]

• How can any young man obtain a homewith a war service loan when a block of land alone costs $9,600? [More…]

• Many honourable members fought in World War II - and many suffered - for freedom of association. [More…]

• In our country a man is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty by trial by jury. [More…]

• They were able to ensure that no increased burden was placed on the farmer or the man on the land. [More…]

• Lenin wrote to this young man and said. [More…]

• Their key witness, the man they quote, is General Eisenhower, and they say that his statement was something like this: [More…]

• He was a man very much despised by the entire nationalist cause. [More…]

• And what a paradise it proved to be on the Communist’s own documentation, because this man soon emerged - not as the benign Uncle Ho, the father of the Vietnamese revolution, but as the hard line MaoistMarxist - to impose on the North the kind of conditions that he had seen taking place in the Chinese revolution. [More…]

• I do not have to state that man’s position in the national executive of the Communist Party. [More…]

• That is what this man says. [More…]

• The moral decisions involved must appear agonisingly difficult to all except those who have very simple-minded views of the nature of man and society. [More…]

• Even that man, who would not agree with the attitude of the Australian [More…]

• This was the case of a man who at this time is serving in Vietnam. [More…]

• Later, he will be a returned serviceman. [More…]

• If this Government is sincere in its advocacy of the Vietnam war and if it is sincere on all the other attitudes that it has expressed in this House in the last few days, surely the way in which it should be looking at this issue at this time is to say: ‘Yes, this man is overseas in Vietnam now. [More…]

• Even a man who was a base wallah in Sydney would be entitled to a war service home, as the honourable member for Sturt interjects. [More…]

• If the man is a member of the CMF, he cannot get the loan. [More…]

• I ask: What has this great man, the Acting Prime Minister, the Leader of the Country Party, contributed tonight? [More…]

• For example, the high wages that need to be paid to a man driving a transport truck are to a degree determined by the tariff protection related to the spare parts, the tyres and the component parts of that vehicle. [More…]

• The absurd situation which sees a Federal Government giving every encouragement to the growth of manufacturing interests and foreign controlled mineral development to the neglect and at the expense of the primary sector must be changed to allow at least a balanced economy. [More…]

• I take as an illustration the case of a man and wife who are members of this fund. [More…]

• As well, this man was receiving a 10% repatriation pension. [More…]

• This man had received $1.50 per week extra to help him meet the increased cost of living, but $1.64 per week was taken from him. [More…]

• A lot has been said about taxation, about the little man on a low wage and so on. [More…]

• The average working class man who arrives in Australia with his family is struck by the inordinate costs of social welfare in Australia both in the field of education and in the field of health, lt would pay honourable members to make a study of the advantages and disadvantages of the British medical service. [More…]

• He is a man whom 1 would have expected to involve himself deeply in the system so that he knew all about the hospitals of Australia. [More…]

• I would not expect him to know chapter and verse that there are so many beds in I hospital and so many in another, but I would expect him to know from where the information flowed and how accurate it was. [More…]

• 1 invite all honourable gentleman, just on the basis of some of the things that have been said in the last few months, to ask themselves whether the medical profession in Australia would accept 85% of the common fee in full payment, because some people have forgotten that this is absolutely integral to the Labour Party’s scheme. [More…]

• This has been changed so that the maximum of S 1 00 will apply in the case of a man and wife where both are working. [More…]

• I assumed that the State Ministers would accept me as a man of honour speaking on behalf of a government of honour. [More…]

• I construed them - and I think any sensible man would - as a position I was to maintain only if I could. [More…]

• Are those not the words of a man who believes - as I believed - he had entered into an agreement? [More…]

• Honourable members know him to be a man of honour and they know that he at least would take and observe accurate minutes. [More…]

• The Moratorium and the policy of the Australian Labor Party are not about violence but about compassion, conciliation in international affairs and the brotherhood of man. [More…]

• Honourable members will perhaps remember the agonised squeals of Molotov, a man who has just died. [More…]

• Russia has been Nazi Germany’s faithful friend. [More…]

• unskilled man past 40 years of age if he has the slightest disability which prevents him from doing heavy work. [More…]

• A man finds a place to put his industry, and that is where it will be. [More…]

• No incentive is provided to a man who wishes to establish, for instance, an electronics factory or a lingerie factory to put his factory in one of these areas. [More…]

• Its proposal was that any man who owned 200 sheep or produced 5 bales of wool should be entitled to a vole equal to that of any other wool grower no matter how great he might be. [More…]

• If a woman wants to buy a motor car she has to pay the same price that a man has to pay. [More…]

• If a woman wants a radio she cannot go to the shop and say: ‘Look, I am only on a woman’s rate of pay. [More…]

• It costs her just as much as it would cost a man. [More…]

• The female officer in charge of the Parliamentary Offices in Adelaide, which has some 20 members to attend to, is being paid the female rate of pay for doing exactly the same class of work, except that the volume is not so great, as the 2 men who used to be employed and are probably still employed in Melbourne and at least the same class of work as is being done by the man employed in Sydney. [More…]

• Senator Gorton was referring to Senator Willesee ; with some justice, that in a particular office at a particular time a man could go away for a week and it would not be necessary to replace him, but the inference to be drawn from the extension of that argument is that this could happen throughout the whole of the Public Service. [More…]

• If a patient is referred to an ophthalmologist, who is as we know an eye specialist and a highly trained medical man, by an optometrist or a general practitioner, as he is entitled to be, and if that eye specialist comes to the conclusion that part of the treatment required is the prescription of spectacles, no Commonwealth benefit will be paid to the patient. [More…]

• Many people will not be able to afford to have the examination because the ophthalmologist may have to prescribe glasses and the patient will be denied any Commonwealth benefit. [More…]

• The Bill needs to be amended in the way suggested by the Labor Party to eliminate the discrimination where spectacles are prescribed and to provide encouragement, first of all, for the medical man. [More…]

• Certainly it will not be an encouragement to the many patients who will require the services of an ophthalmologist. [More…]

• lt is said that many people can be saved from going blind by going at an early date to have their eyes examined fully by a specialist. [More…]

• There are many other eye diseases where early detection by a qual’fied man could preserve the patient’s sight. [More…]

• He set up a straw man and then set about kicking the stuffing out of it. [More…]

• The extraordinarily aggressive nature of man ensures that democracy is a somewhat fragile affair, even if it does not appear fragile to us living in Australia. [More…]

• The moral decisions involved must appear agonisingly difficult to all except those who have very simple minded views of the nature of man and society. [More…]

• It is only the people who have extremely simple minded views of the nature of man and society who will see this clearly as black and white. [More…]

• Another problem associated with the age pension which 1 fail to understand is the situation that exists where a man has married a lass some 6 to 10 years younger than himself. [More…]

• This was an answer that I did not appreciate because it does not take much thought to realise that there would be very few people who would employ a woman in her late fifties even if she were capable of working after devoting most of her life to rearing a family. [More…]

• A national serviceman must be fit physically and mentally for all service duties under full combat conditions anywhere in the world and no man can be enlisted for national service while there is any doubt about his fitness. [More…]

• That a man does not meet the required Army standards does not necessarily mean that he is unfit by normal civilian standards or that he is unable to pursue his normal civilian occupation or that he should be unduly concerned about his health. [More…]

• Where an examining Medical Board is of the opinion that a young man should in his own interests obtain medical advice or treatment, he is informed of this and advised to consult his own doctor. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Chisholm said earlier, it was not until 1942 when the then Labor Government was confronted with a situation of terror that the then Prime Minister of Australia who was a very frightened man - indeed, one has only to hear the recording of that voice making its appeal to the United States of America to recognise terror in a very real form; it was there- [More…]

• Our amendment seeks to make it mandatory that certain information be supplied. [More…]

• Will the Minister tell us whether he condones the appointment of a man like Huxley to the HCF by Mr Turner, Director of the HCF, simply, I understand, because Huxley nominated Mr Turner for membership of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales? [More…]

• On the basis put forward by the Nimmo Committee there was a clear case of want for a man, a wife and 6 children trying to exist on $58.50 a week. [More…]

• But a married man with a wife alone and no dependants on $42.50 a week will be getting full protection under the subsidised scheme. [More…]

• Let us take as an example the case of a man supporting a wife and 6 children. [More…]

• Again, one does not blame a man for going away and drinking at night. [More…]

• It is a pretty shabby state of affairs when a man has to keep looking at a very small section of the Bill which is worthy of utter and utmost condemnation. [More…]

• The general practitioner is there all the time and this is the man whom I want to see looked after in this Bill. [More…]

• The benefits which the people will derive from this Bill are very great and the Government is to be commended for this, but those benefits should be related to the procedure, not the kind of medical man who performs the procedure. [More…]

• In real terms production per cow or per acre or per man or per dollar have all gone up. [More…]

• In the manufacturing sector of the industry, that is among those producers who do not have access to the higher priced fluid milk market, the situation was even worse. [More…]

• The next feature mentioned in the Bill is that the agreement must include provision that the outgoing man will receive current market value for his land and structural improvements. [More…]

• By ensuring that the man who wishes voluntarily to leave the industry will receive current market value, the scheme will protect him against having to sell his farm at a sacrifice. [More…]

• The outgoing man will thus receive fair value for the capital and effort he has invested over the years. [More…]

• Another feature of the Bill is that in disposing of land, the man whose property is being built-up will be able to obtain that land at current market value taking into account the nature of the proposed land use and the system of tenure. [More…]

• By writing off these superfluous assets, the possibility of the in-coming man being saddled with a useless burden of debt is avoided. [More…]

• The man whose property is built-up will receive time to pay, the terms in respect of repayments being those specified by the State authority. [More…]

• To my mind there has been too much optimism from the gentleman who is now Minister for External Affairs and even his predecessor about this aspect. [More…]

• If we have regard to the reserve to which we have a right, and which we can get despite the say-so of any man, then the position is not so favourable. [More…]

• I do not think any man in Australia is in a better position to judge than the right honourable- gentleman. [More…]

• I do not think that anyone has been in a better position to see what has been happening inside the Government for 20 years than the right honourable gentleman. [More…]

• I have gone a little further than the right honourable gentleman did. [More…]

• I have no further comment to make on the honourable member’s speech except to say that it was a symptom of his negativeness, and the negativeness of other members of his Party, in respect of the control of foreign investment and the selling out of our national resources and our manufacturing industries. [More…]

• It would not be proper if we did not give credit to a great agitator in this Parliament - a man who for 20 years, from 1949 until 1969, continued to agitate against uncontrolled and unplanned foreign investment flowing into Australia. [More…]

• 1 invite honourable members to read page 1 of ‘The Highest Bidder’, a book written by the late Brian Fitzpatrick and the man who is now a professor of economics at Sydney University, Professor E. L. Wheelwright. [More…]

• 1 would lay down certain prerequisites for the chairman of the board. [More…]

• Fourthly and lastly, he must not be a man who has been involved in highly protected industry or who has fought for high levels of tariff protection. [More…]

• It is not know why the Government is not allowing this man to enter the country. [More…]

• Because of that, and because of the fact that there ought to be a standard principle that no man would be excluded from coming into this country merely because of political considerations, 1 feel that this House and the Australian public are entitled to receive a full and candid explanation of the reasons why Dr Mandel is being prevented from entering Australia. [More…]

• On this basis alone we ought to encourage the visit of this man. [More…]

• Very recently I have been advised that New Zealand has decided to grant Dr Mandel a visa to enter that country so that he can present academic papers there. [More…]

• Taking these factors into consideration - the granting by the United States of a visa to enter that country, and the decision of New Zealand, our nearest neighbour, and the country with great similarity in many respects to this country, to allow him entry - it is totally incomprehensible that he should be prevented from entering Australia. [More…]

• In addition, the Labor Party proposes to eliminate completely the means test for many in the community immediately and for others progressively so that it is non-existent after 6 years. [More…]

• Our policy also provides that when a man becomes the recipient of a pension his dependent wife should also be granted a pension regardless of her age. [More…]

• A man retires at 65 years or even 70 years and his wife, who is much younger, has not worked outside the home for all of her married life, which could be 30 or more years. [More…]

• Will the Minister also make a ministerial statement on the matter so that before he introduces the legislation forecast in his ministerial statement on 4th March honourable members may discuss these disturbing allegations by a man of Dr Gunther’s exceptionally long experience and high position? [More…]

• The former Minister asks: ‘Are not those the words of a man who believes he has entered into an agreement?’ [More…]

• Mr Speaker, those are not the words of a man who believes he has entered into an agreement. [More…]

• He was a man trained to understand and to use words. [More…]

• No man of commonsense or common understanding of the meaning of English can dispute it. [More…]

• We do not claim that the States Mines Ministers were not told that the Government intended to bring in this legislation, but we do claim that the Government has dishonoured a contract entered into by a Minister deputed to act on behalf of the Government, a man who enjoys a wholesome reputation in this place, a man of great integrity, a man who none in this place would ever doubt and a man whose word has always been his bond. [More…]

• He is the man who knows what he meant when he gave those assurances to the States Mines Ministers, and now for the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes), the Prime Minister and others to assert that they know better than he what he meant and what was implied in what he said shows a total disregard for the honour of the man who they are criticising. [More…]

• The present Minister for National Development is also a man of honour and when he was speaking last Friday he indicated clearly that he was in an embarrassing position as a result of the decision that had been taken without further consultation and negotiation with the States. [More…]

• It broke the pledge that was given by the honourable member for Farrer, a man whose word T have said, anybody in this Parliament would accept. [More…]

• He was the man taking part in the negotiations. [More…]

• He was the man making those statements. [More…]

• He is regarded in this House as a man of the utmost integrity. [More…]

• I believe the honourable member for Farrer to be an honourable man. [More…]

• I know an honest and a frank man when I see one. [More…]

• Yet the honourable member, whilst he believes that what that man has put forward is correct, refuses to support him by his vote. [More…]

• No man denies that he is a man of integrity and honour. [More…]

• The Press has been full of headlines such as ‘Fairbairn may go overseas’ - anywhere to get the man of honour and integrity out of the Parliament. [More…]

• The Liberal Party does not want men of that type and that is why it wants to send the honourable member for Farrer to any post in the world as long as it is not here in Canberra - because judged on performances here today men of integrity in the Liberal Party are like lost sheep. [More…]

• The most mysterious man in all these discussions has been the former Attorney-General. [More…]

• He is not only a man of integrity, he has more capacity than most of the present members of the Ministry put together. [More…]

• The honourable member for Farrer went on: 1 assumed that the State Ministers would accept me as a man of honour speaking on behalf of a government of honour. [More…]

• When a man of the integrity and experience of Mr Fairbairn makes such a statement it commands the attention and respect of the whole Party. [More…]

• The honourable member for Farrer is a man of great integrity. [More…]

• Charges have been levelled at this Government by a man who has held some of the highest offices in this country and who is respected as being an integral part of the governing political Party in this country. [More…]

• They are levelled at the Government of one of the world’s major democracies by one of its most distinguished citizens, a man who has held the office of Minister for many years. [More…]

• It has become a one-man band in which 1 man makes decisions or is dilatory about making decisions and the rest of the country has to tag along behind. [More…]

• I regard him as a very conservative man. [More…]

• Is there anyone who cannot produce plenty of evidence .to show that over the last 12 or 18 months, or even further back, the Prime Minister has been trying to run this country, his Cabinet and the Parliament as a one-man band; that he is amply supported in this by other members of the Cabinet; that in fact we have lost a great deal of the initiative to executive management, in this instance the Prime Minister himself? [More…]

• The honourable member for Evans said: ‘Well, the Prime Minister is a busy man. [More…]

• He did not address himself to many people in the Parliament. [More…]

• lt is not just the matter of rae man of honour and of whether we stand with him or not, it is the matter of the whole performance of an administration in relation to the States. [More…]

• He told us that the Prime Minister was a busy man. [More…]

• The issue today, 1 feel, is of either standing with a man of honour or accepting dishonour as the price of power. [More…]

• Does a man’s word mean nothing any more? [More…]

• That man resigned because of the stand taken by the Prime Minister and because of the way in which he felt he had been affronted. [More…]

• So many honourable members on the Opposition side of the House and so many honourable members on this side of the House have ascribed to him all kinds of virtue before, proceeding to denigrate his judgment; but I happen to believe that his judgment was correct and balanced. [More…]

• If one may refer to the virtue ascribed to the honourable member, his judgment was also the judgment of an intelligent virtuous man. [More…]

• In human terms my sympathies are with the Prime Minister, but the atmosphere of intrigue and undermining which has developed on the Government side means that sooner or later this situation must be resolved by the electorate. [More…]

• There were some who contended that he was not the sort of man who ought to lead the Liberal Party because he was not an establishment man. [More…]

• I do not know what an establishment man is. [More…]

• He always seems lo manage to convince me of the Tightness of his view. [More…]

• He is the man upon whom you rely, Mr Speaker, for advice on these issues. [More…]

• Some honourable members have been persuaded, because of the semantic twist that has been given to words, to change their attitude. [More…]

• Half a dozen of them were committed to the honourable member for Farrer because, they said, he was a man of integrity who would not tell a lie or give a false impression. [More…]

• But then along came the clever men who suggested some semantic differences. [More…]

• It was an arrogant act by a man who has been responsible for several arrogant acts on other occasions. [More…]

• It was the act of a man who will come in and make a decision because he has become convinced that that decision is right, no matter what his colleagues - whether they be in his Government or in some of the State governments - might happen to say. [More…]

• He is priding himself upon being such a man. [More…]

• I might remind honourable members opposite that the previous member for the Australian Capital Territory was the late Mr Jim Fraser, a man whom we all held in great respect. [More…]

• These are the bane of nurses in very many hospitals. [More…]

• I imagine that many nurses throughout Australia may envy this provision. [More…]

• The only other thing that I should say - and I say it in complete fairness - is that none of these improvements which have been made in Canberra Hospital through my own work as Chair man of the Management Board and through the work of my colleagues on the Canberra Hospital Management Board could have been put into effect without the approval of the Minister for Health, who is at the table, and f thank him for what he has done. [More…]

• I think it is no accident that in this second industrial revolution there is an increasing advocacy of greater participation in management and control of industry by the workers and by the community. [More…]

• So let us have as much industrial development as we can, but let us qualify that by saying: Just have that amount of industrial development that is consonant with minimal over exploitation of the environment by man, exploitation of man by man or exploitation of man by machine. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lilley is much better qualified as an economist, as a man who has studied finance profoundly, to express opinions on the matters that he has put forward. [More…]

• But could this man produce anything? [More…]

• That is the kind of thinking and the approach of the honourable gentleman opposite who has the tolerant laugh. [More…]

• Such a permit is issued in respect of whale meat from Antarctic whales only, as these whales do not carry diseases which could be transmitted to animals or man. [More…]

• The other man was not a member of this House. [More…]

• Man: Oh, the front of it ‘We paid off the Cops,’ by Evan Whitton . [More…]

• It is always regrettable when a man comes to the town to work but cannot bring his wife and family with him due to lack of housing. [More…]

• These medicos have to perform the duties of Government medical officer as well as carry out their own private practice, lt is obvious to any reasonable man or anyone acquainted with the position in Newcastle that an acting Government medical officer cannot afford the necessary time to carry out thoroughly the duties of a Government medical officer or the duties of forensic medicine and meet the requirements of his own private practice. [More…]

• This is probably the reason why, for approximately 12 years since the retirement of Dr Englund, the position of permanent Government medical officer at Newcastle has not been filled. [More…]

• Some honourable members may think I am a little impatient in raising the matter when only a mere 12 years have elapsed since the appointment of a permanent Government medical officer to this important city. [More…]

• One might ask how the absence of a permanent Government medical officer affects the community. [More…]

• In my electorate at St Gabriel’s School for the Deaf we have a wonderful, dedicated man in Brother Jerry McGrath. [More…]

• He is a wonderful man and he is assisted by other wonderful men. [More…]

• He is a man of great learning, a man that can assimilate, but above all a man who can disseminate what he has learned. [More…]

• 1 understand that Australian journalists may interview an Australian soldier only when he is accompanied by an officer or a public relations man. [More…]

• Especially is this so when they come from a man so respected and responsible, so informed and independent as Dr John Gunther is. [More…]

• Such an allegation cannot be ignored, not simply because of the stature of the man who made it, but because he himself was one of the official members of that Committee. [More…]

• A very distinguished expatriate member of the Parliament is Mr Lussick who has organised the independent group of 26 in the House of Assembly and virtually handed them over to the chairmanship of Oala Oala-Rarua. [More…]

• I urge honourable members in this House to read a book that has just been produced by a man who for many years up there was correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Mr John Ryan. [More…]

• I wish the House would understand what underlies the statement of a man like Ebia Olewale when he says: ‘Papuans are Australian citizens. [More…]

• This is why a thoroughly intelligent man like Ebia Olewale is campaigning for social services, child endowment and what not for the people of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• The greatest mistake that was ever made by the general banking system of Australia was to fail to give accommodation to the ordinary, honest man who may not have had a lot of assets but who was of good character, honest and in a steady job. [More…]

• It was founded and developed by a man named A. P. Giannini. [More…]

• The matter of costs is very relevant because, as has been pointed out in the House many times, the small farmer is the backbone of the intensive agriculture districts of Australia. [More…]

• Very often he is highly efficient, no matter what physical criterion you adopt - productivity per acre or productivity per man hour. [More…]

• Mir DONALD CAMERON (Griffith) [4.54] - Mr Deputy Speaker, for the last 40 minutes the House has been treated to a speech by that analytical and statistically minded man, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly). [More…]

• I am very sympathetic towards you, Sir, because the office which you must use in Brisbane is not what I would regard as suitable for a member of your calibre and a man of your standing. [More…]

• The salary of a member should be fixed at an amount which is not so low as to deter a man of good attainments and abilities who has no private income from entering or remaining in Parliament. [More…]

• Now I am considered - 1 hope that you will excuse the term - a bludger, whereas before 1 was considered to bc a hard-working business man. [More…]

• An executive - say a sales executive or the manager of a reasonably large company - is provided with a car and an allowance for operating costs. [More…]

• This is about double the milage 1 was doing when I was a business man. [More…]

• In private business the car, the donations and many of the other expenses would be paid for by the company. [More…]

• Man has effectively destroyed it. [More…]

• In this day and age when the population in certain countries is trebling, man most certainly is headed for definite destruction unless he makes some contribution towards ensuring that the seas continue to produce food. [More…]

• 1 would like to give the credit for the establishment of the marine research station to the man who raised this question in the Parliament. [More…]

• Because of the many problems associated with the continental shelf, of what we need to know about, the continental shelf, of what it means in terms of the coming of fauna and flora lo this country, and of what it means in terms of the actual coming of primitive man to this country, we need more research. [More…]

• The honourable member for Brisbane referred to some remarks made by Senator Felix Dittmer in another place many years ago. [More…]

• Here he is referring to a man who claims that the Labor Party which sacked him is a bunch of gangsters, and then he wants to praise him for this measure. [More…]

• But I would say that the Army’s home ration scale provides an entitlement of 1.5 ounces of butter per man per day for use as a spread on bread and its like, and also for cooking. [More…]

• It is true that margarine is supplied in the 1-man combat ration pack for use as a spread and there are some very good reasons why this is done. [More…]

• However, I would say that, with the exception of the use of margarine in the 1-man combat ration pack, the Army’s preference is for butter. [More…]

• The characteristic of a profession is that the professional man may diagnose the condition of his client or the condition of his patient and prescribe the course of action that is needed. [More…]

• An amount of $550 is taken from every man, woman and child in Australia, yet New South Wales receives back from the Commonwealth $90 per head of population to carry out all of its responsibities. [More…]

• So I can assure the honourable member that the standards which are adopted here not only Will conform to our rigid standards, to which we subscribe through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, but will be in accordance with the world standards which are laid down by the world agency, the chair-, man of which at the moment is the chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• This man has a reputation second to none in the whole of this nation. [More…]

• Mr Joshua will be remembered by those who knew him in this place as a kindly man with strong convictions, with a strong sense of his duty to the nation of Australia and with the courage to stick by those convictions and carry out what he believed to be his duty. [More…]

• He was very well respected in the Ballaarat community as a devoted family man and as a leader of the Anglican church. [More…]

• I, with others who have spoken, remember Mr Joshua as a man greatly respected in the Parliament. [More…]

• The benefits that are to be derived from this action are not only the human understanding and help for our fellow man, but also the economic and the national good that can be achieved for this country. [More…]

• In the past no effort has been made to create for these human beings a better way of life. [More…]

• Many handicapped people can be educated and trained to contribute tremendously to our production if they are given the guidance and the opportunity to do so. [More…]

• The next feature mentioned in the Bill is that the agreement must include provision that the outgoing man will receive current market value for his land and structural improvements. [More…]

• It flows from the theory that a man was not fully capable of bearingarmsuntil he was 21. [More…]

• In these graphic sculptured terms we can see that in the course of 5 centuries mankind has been physically transformed. [More…]

• Are we to deny these young men or any young man who could conceivably be liable to military service the right to full citizenship?Today, the youth as never before are separate and distinct in their approach. [More…]

• ‘Dog bites man’ is not news, ‘Man biles dog’ is. [More…]

• They say, as she does, that hire purchase and mortgage agreements are ‘a rock -on which many adults come to grief. [More…]

• Youthful optimism at the mercy of high pressure salesmanship can only end in disaster.’ [More…]

• She regards very young marriages as peculiarly likely to turn into a brake on a young man’s career and an end to a young gill’s dream. [More…]

• While wheat growers can justifiably argue that the level of protection or subsidy which they have been granted has been reasonable - particularly when one bears in mind the levels of protection given to certain secondary industries, some of whose products primary producers must use of necessity, and also keeping in mind the real economic problems confronting the man on the land - the fact that wheat surpluses have reached a level not before envisaged, and most importantly do not look like readily being disposed of, has of course given rise to a great deal of alarm. [More…]

• That is a pretty sad remark for a man who purports to be a representative of a rural community to make - ‘how many people did the honourable member report?’. [More…]

• The difference between the Government and the Opposition is basically this: The Government believes that the burden of the subsidy element should fall on the low income group, on the man with the big family whose children eat the bread and the eggs. [More…]

• The lower income group, the man on a small income, is in fact subsidising the wheat producer at present. [More…]

• If the Government is to subsidise the wheat producer under stabilisation, the Federal Treasury or the taxpayer should be the one paying the subsidy and not the low income family man. [More…]

• I think I have made the point clear that I believe that a minimum of $1.45 a bushel could be a hindrance to the Australian Wheat Board, under specific circumstances of demand for feed grain. [More…]

• Yet it not only receives a quota based on the best years of its performance out of which this over-production crisis grew, hut it demands and receives a share from he 1 less fortunate Slates as well. [More…]

• If the quota plan is to prevail then common justice demands that the principle of a minimum wage accorded the worker should be extended to the wheat grower. [More…]

• If the criteria for a right to stay in the wheat industry is simply to be who can produce a bushel of wheat at the lowest cost, then let us go straight out for collective farms on the Russian pattern or communes on the Chinese pattern or huge state farms and be done once and for all with this hypocrisy of pretence for the rights of the common man. [More…]

• For my part let me conclude by stating now in the clearest and most categorical terms that 1 am not prepared to sacrifice one traditional family farm or farmer to make a Roman holiday for a person who speculates in wheat growing during this time of over production. [More…]

• So let nobody come in here again and say that the Minister for Primary Industry is the guilty man in the piece. [More…]

• I was impressed by how he was able to prove that the quota system is really knocking the small farmers, of whom there are so many, and that the big wheat growing interests, small in number but very powerful within the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and within the Australian Country Party, have been able to force the spread of quota reductions over the whole industry so that the little man, the man whose capacity to grow wheat even if he were given the right to grow all he could, would not give him a handsome income, has now been forced to reduce the capacity of his farm. [More…]

• He is the man who leads for the Labor Party on primary industry matters. [More…]

• lt is a well known fact that if there were no quotas the man who would get it in the neck would be the small grower. [More…]

• I have found in my experience of this House that if a man makes an incorrect statement on a certain subject any member affected by the misrepresentation may rise and make a personal explanation. [More…]

• But here we have an instance of a man, the honourable member for Riverina, taking various parts out of a speech, putting those parts into a document and sending them throughout my electorate for people to read. [More…]

• I have never heard a Labor man complain about a strike preventing people from loading wheat or wool. [More…]

• I want to tell a story about a young man who enlisted during the last war. [More…]

• The young man served his country well. [More…]

• The bottom could drop out of the minerals market at any time, but the primary industries built this country and they maintain it In the 24 years that I have been in this Parliament I have defended primary industries and advocated the best possible deal for them more than has any man since federation. [More…]

• We heard the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), a man who came in to this place with a fanfare of trumpets, with a high position in the Country Party but wilh a very small majority. [More…]

• It is all right for people to get on an emotional issue and say that not enough is being done for the small man or the traditional wheat grower. [More…]

• The whole object of this exercise was to try to protect the small man, to try to protect the traditional wheat grower, the man who year in and year out over decades has been nothing more than a wheat grower. [More…]

• Certainly the small man needs protection. [More…]

• If economic forces are permitted to run wild only the strong will survive and the small men many of whom are traditional producers will be crushed out of business. [More…]

• The industry is important to this country because it earns export income but especially because it has decentralising features and provides income for many rural centres of Australia. [More…]

• I am speaking as a man who has had experience in the dairy industry. [More…]

• The Government had hoped that by the end of the original period of operation of the Act to have introduced legislation which would have provided for the future and permanent arrangements in the industry. [More…]

• It could be another 2 years before the future structure of the industry becomes reasonably clear and before the permanent level of the work force in the industry can be determined with any precision. [More…]

• Secondly, although only about 20% of the work force is not permanently employed, these workers are spread through a large number of comparatively small ports and there is a need to determine what sort of employment arrangements would be most suitable for them and for the industry. [More…]

• Thirdly, while the permanent arrangements have brought considerable benefits to the work force and while the position as to costs in actual stevedoring operations appears to be reasonably satisfactory - a factor which the Government regarded as crucial - the industrial relations situation in the industry has been far from good. [More…]

• Indeed over the past 12 months it has deteriorated to such an extent that the losses in man hours through industrial stoppages are of the same order as in the pre-permanency days. [More…]

• However, since the introduction of permanent employment there has been a marked diminution in the functions of the Authority. [More…]

• Primarily, this has occurred in the permanent employment ports which as I have said account for 80% of the industry’s labour force. [More…]

• Thus, there is no longer any justification for retaining a full-time 3 man Authority in the light of the reduced work load it has to carry. [More…]

• True, further ports may become permanent ports over the next 2 years, but this is simply in accordance with the intention and authority of the Temporary Provisions Act introduced in 1967. [More…]

• Today’s Melbourne ‘Age’ justifiably heads its sub-leader on this matter ‘White Man’s Bluff’, and its comment 1 quote in part: . [More…]

• Of course,” it so happens that there are a good many forms of direct Commonwealth assistance to the States for specific purposes to bring considerable benefits to local authorities. [More…]

• It is true that many public authorities everywhere would like to receive larger rates or raise a number of specific issues, but the fact is that the Commonwealth, although it is not obliged to do so under the Constitution, makes large ex gratia payments to local authorities in lieu of rates. [More…]

• But, as with so many other arrangements, over the years this has become part of the generally agreed complex of Common wealth-State financial relationships. [More…]

• 1 am the man to provide it.’ [More…]

• We are now in the 1970s and people are demanding an answer to the chaos of urban living. [More…]

• This will be caused, to a great extent, by man’s stupidity and by the starving of the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, the authority responsible, by the Commonwealth Government of finance that is necessary to solve this urgent problem. [More…]

• Cuba I went to the office of the KLM airlines, where a man said to me: ‘Are you Mr James from the Parliament of Australia?’ [More…]

• Take the case of a man who enlists as a regular soldier. [More…]

• However, he is not treated as a serviceman when it comes to the assessment of his disability and his future. [More…]

• At the time this was acceptable as the permanent serviceman had no commitment to serve overseas and was virtually a uniformed civilian. [More…]

• Today, every regular serviceman is a volunteer for overseas service. [More…]

• However, should a regular, or a national serviceman fail to be posted to a so-called ‘special area’ (for example South Vietnam) as a result of an accident of age, trade or employment, he is not subject to the Repatriation Act. [More…]

• These servicemen enlisted under exactly the same terms as the AIF man, fall under the provisions of a civil act, i.e. [More…]

• despite the fact that the volunteer for the AIF, and the compulsorily enlisted militia man, were covered by the Repatriation Act whilst serving in Australia up to 30th June 1951. [More…]

• Even after a man has given many years of distinguished service he is not allowed to resign except in the most exceptional - and I repeat the word exceptional - circumstances. [More…]

• I said previously that many of the clauses contained in the original Act were anomalous. [More…]

• We as members of the Government Members Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee have been responsible for having many of the anomalies rectified, but many anomalies are still under consideration by the Treasury and the DFRB Board. [More…]

• I know of one serviceman who served for 19 years and 10 months and was boarded out of the Service. [More…]

• But if that man retired and then married, in the event of his death his widow would not become eligible for a pension. [More…]

• That sounds highly complicated and, in fact, it is, but it becomes a very realistic matter when it affects an ex-serviceman. [More…]

• A young man enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in November 1 955 when he was aged 22 years. [More…]

• He is a young man with 3 children who has decided not to throw in the towel but to continue to make the best of his situation and the best of the circumstances that descended upon him. [More…]

• It is another case of the middle man’ being given a bite of the cherry without earning it, and another example of this Government bowing to the pressure of private and sectional interests. [More…]

• It has been carried out exceedingly well and is one of the man made wonders of the world. [More…]

• In addition to that, Mr Speaker, have you ever thought of the effect of sitting into the early hours on a man in your position in the Chair? [More…]

• We believe that the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority has shown its efficiency and has been able to manage if own affairs. [More…]

• The present Minister is an honourable man and can be trusted, but his successor might not be able to be trusted. [More…]

• If it is going to be a strong consultative committee - and 1 have the idea that many members on the Government side want it to be a consultative committee that will hamstring the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - is the Minister going to agree with the advice of 1 member of that committee or is he going to accept the majority decision? [More…]

• Why give 1 man the right to put in a minority report? [More…]

• No firm sets up a consultative committee that can advise its general manager. [More…]

• For many years now those thousands of Australians who take pride in their country’s achievements and triumphs have found satisfaction and inspiration in the successes of the Snowy Mountains Authority. [More…]

• Even the former Minister for National Development, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), a man dedicated, it would seem, to presiding over the death of the Snowy Mountains Authority, was unstinting in his praise of the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]

• An article in the ‘Australian’ on 19th October 1967 was headed ‘We are too Smug, says Snowy Man’. [More…]

• ), as it stands at present, states that no functions, including those that have been outlined in the previous part of the clause, will be exercised by the Corporation for private organisations unless a middle man contract is made with a consulting engineer. [More…]

• One man who is a Liberal voter named China, the USSR and Japan. [More…]

• When it is offered, let us assume that a man with a big income - a big city business man - bids for that land. [More…]

• Such a person can pay much more for that land than can a young man in this country yet we desire that young men should have the opportunity to take part in primary industry. [More…]

• So, the man with the very big income spends the money on these improvements and receives the taxation deduction. [More…]

• What is the position of the young man buying such a property with very little money and hoping to start out in life in this way? [More…]

• Therefore, a city business man with a large income is placed in a position in which he enjoys a much more favourabe advantage in this respect than does the young man or anyone else who wants to start out in life on such a property. [More…]

• We know also that the businessman who buys this type of property is generally speaking an absentee owner. [More…]

• So many matters come into our consderation of this problem that are against the interests of the primary producer and of course favour the big business man. [More…]

• Because of these things, I thought that the best thing that I could do was to put the subject up to the Treasurer so that he might look into it to try to overcome the anomolies to which I have referred by making the law provide that a man has to receive, for instance, at least 80% of his income - I put that figure forward, but it is subject to change - from primary production to be entitled to the taxation deduction. [More…]

• So, a dual advantage awaits the big city business man who buys into land at this time. [More…]

• If it is, the big city business man has the chance that the property will increase in value. [More…]

• I refer to the case of Aircraftsman Glen Allan Piper who on 21st March 1969 at 17) years of age enlisted and signed on voluntarily for 6 years service in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• He is the youngest man in Holsworthy. [More…]

• He applied for discharge in the formal manner on 2 separate occaions. [More…]

• He is a man I know well and respect. [More…]

• In my view at that time the lad, psychiatrically, should not have been allowed back, but they went to see a Wing Commander Carter, the resident Royal Australian Air Force officer in New Guinea who told them that in his opinion the boy would be dealt with sympathetically by his commanding officer and not sentenced to Holsworthy. [More…]

• The lad said to the commanding officer that he would accept the summary justice of the commanding officer, and subsequently he was awarded 28 days detention, lt might be a matter of judgment as to whether in all the circumstances that sentence was adequate or severe. [More…]

• It was the commanding officer who saw the person, who formed an opinion and who had all the circumstances under review and he would be the only person in a position to make an assessment. [More…]

• Having regard to the fact that this young man absented himself without leave for 7 weeks and told the Air Force it could go its own way it would be unreal to expect the commanding officer to say: ‘Well now, this is most kind of you. [More…]

• A case can not be made out on the basis that this person was absent without leave for 7 weeks and that his commanding officers sentenced him to 28 days detention. [More…]

• Into the conflagration that is Vietnam, you sent my son, a man whom you knew that without his glasses, could not see a hand held four feet away, or a car at 30 feet, and whom you told could see reasonably well with glasses. [More…]

• I can recall going to a place called Giligulgul in Queensland where one of the first men to do crop fattening of cattle on brigalow land was considered by many people to be a crank. [More…]

• But this man soon showed the people in the Miles district who was making the money. [More…]

• Provided a man was an eligible ex-serviceman who had signified a desire within 5 years of his discharge to go onto a property, he could take up a property. [More…]

• It is quite true that when a man becomes a new senator, a new State member or, sometimes, a member of this House he tends to be a crusader. [More…]

• He is keen and will do everything for these people, but because not many political votes are involved and because war service land settlement is a hot political potato, he finds he can do little. [More…]

• The young man who goes to Vietnam and returns is given an indication of his repatriation rights. [More…]

• However, when a young man applies as an ex-serviceman from Vietnam to enter the ballot for a Coleambally farm he has to go through a very close examination. [More…]

• He makes a written application and he must have a basic amount of money, as well as managerial and farm experience. [More…]

• If he cannot prove his financial position and his possession of plant and equipment and his managerial experience to the satisfaction of the tribunal he loses the farm he hrs drawn in the ballot. [More…]

• This is the case of a young man who had all the necessary qualifications - youth, cash and managerial experience - and who is approved by the State authorities and therefore allocated a farm. [More…]

• This man is then able to go to private bodies and obtain plant and equipment. [More…]

• The query 1 pose is that if we are going to have resettlement loans administered by the Department of Primary Industry and if we are going to recognise the debt due to the men who have returned, then we have to at least match the State and the private sector with the resettlement loan which the man has been led to expect. [More…]

• I have endeavoured to point out that, in relation to land use, a man can be given 10 times the area he has at present and, if the land use recommended has been wrong, this will only multiple his troubles 10 times. [More…]

• Sometimes capital also is involved; sometimes a man is affected by matters beyond his control, such as the imposition of wheat quotas; and at other times problems arise associated with the man himself. [More…]

• All of these things mean that, within the concept of closer settlement, a great many variables exist. [More…]

• A great many matters must be given close and specific attention. [More…]

• My colleague, the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) will be interested in this particularly enticing title: ‘Between Man and Man’, lt was a book on philosophy, and that is why it would be of interest to him. [More…]

• We often call upon the hapless policeman, who is not educated for this fairly delicate role in our society and which calls for a high degree of judgment based on, I feel, a well informed mind drawing on a reservoir of education over some years. [More…]

• The next question was: ‘Do you know whether he was a member of Lord Mountbatten’s staff for the South East Asia command?’ [More…]

• He said: ‘1 know a man in Sydney named Shelley, but I take it you refer to an author or something?’ [More…]

• I think his silence exemplifies his guilt and the reason why that man was appointed. [More…]

• 1 have mentioned that this has been sent back twice from another place, and those who voted twice for it to come back to this House are fair weather rebels from your Party, Mr Deputy Chairman, who apparently send things back only when they realise that something should be done in the public interest and they try to escape their responsibilities. [More…]

• Why should we not have known whether a man like that intended to invest these funds in his organisation that went haywire and lost millions? [More…]

• The point I make with due deference to you, Mr Deputy Chairman, is that we believe that the business connections of directors of these funds in the business world should be known. [More…]

• I know that the Minister is a man of integrity and I believe that the last thing he would want to do would be to take out this amendment which has been sent back twice from another place. [More…]

• This is a reasonable, humane and democratic request. [More…]

• Any man on that advisory committee who is worth his salt will not use this as an excuse to resign. [More…]

• In fact, it will be an incentive to a man of honour to go on and justify his decisions as to which drugs are made available to the public of Australia. [More…]

• What I would call the fourth part of the Bill is that which implements the tariff changes which follow from the Tariff Board report on man made fibres and yarn and tyre cord and tyre cord fabric. [More…]

• I want to quote from this newspaper advertisement certain very significant criticisms of the report on man made fibres and yarn, lyre cord and tyre cord fabrics. [More…]

• Firstly, the Textile Council of Australia is the organisation of all lextile manufacturers, it carries, and should carry, very considerable authority in the industry and with the Government. [More…]

• Page 9 of the Tariff Board Report on Man-Made Fibres and Yarn, Tyre Cord and Tyre Cord Fabric, states: [More…]

• There are reports that the Japanese textile industry, particularly the man made fibres part of it, is now a most unprosperous industry and that there are cutbacks. [More…]

• From the way he answered the first question I asked him some weeks ago, I thought that he might have been indicating that he had been outvoted in the Cabinet on accepting and implementing the report on man-made fibres, because he answered the question in a way that made it possible so to interpret it. [More…]

• I seriously ask the Government to pay attention to the man made fibres industry. [More…]

• I am going to handle this debate in a different manner to that adopted by the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]

• prominently, a defence of the Tariff Board for the quality of the report on man made fibre. [More…]

• But no-one has changed more frequently than the Labor spokesman on tariff. [More…]

• Since then, as one would expect with a man like Bill Callaghan as the executive officer, it is beginning to face up to its problems and to realise that protection can be too high in some industries and that it must be based on principle. [More…]

• 1 shall defend it during the discussion on the Tariff Board Report relating to man made fibres. [More…]

• I congratulate the Government particularly on the man made fibres case. [More…]

• That is all the Tariff Board has done in this case of man-made fibres. [More…]

• The producing industries stressed their importance to the economy in terms of employment, funds employed and value of production with particular emphasis on the high value of production per employee in man-made fibre extrusion compared with Australian manufacturing industry generally. [More…]

• 1 find it difficult to subscribe to that point of view, because I would believe that, per man production plus those other factors, the industry certainly must have been on a very efficient basis. [More…]

• From the adoption of this report on man-made fibres I cannot help but think that not only the Minister for Trade and Industry but also the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) have capitulated to the Tariff Board’s experimental changes in tariff policy, and that is indeed to be regretted. [More…]

• As I said, I am somewhat concerned that such a good advocate for adequate protection for Australian industries in more recent times as the Minister for Trade and Industry, is silent on the man made fibres report, which implies a policy which I believe is detrimental to those industries and contrary to what the Deputy Prime Minister has said were his views in days gone by. [More…]

• I rose tonight to express my opposition to the proposals which are contained in the man made fibres report and to endorse the comments made by the honourable member for Lalor in respect to the Opposition’s policy on this question. [More…]

• I hope that no government, what ever its political colour, will sacrifice Australian industries and Australian workmen for foreign interests so far as manufacturing is concerned. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Industry said in this Parliament on one occasion: ‘You can have cheap cars but you will have no motor industry; you can have cheap clothes but you will have no secondary textile industries; you can have cheap everything if you want it, but if you want to be able to afford it you have io make sure that Australians are working and the only way to do it is to see that industries are efficient, economic and adequately protected in coping with the demands we make on them to maintain the workforce in reasonable conditions and, at the same time, to add to the development of the defence potential of the nation’. [More…]

• The first is the Tariff Board Report on Man Made Fibres and Yarns. [More…]

• But what the advertisement did not point out was that the vast majority of this work force has a vital interest in keeping the man made fibre tariff as low as possible. [More…]

• One of the disabilities of the Australian textile industry is having to pay higher than world prices for yarn used in the fabrics manufactured. [More…]

• Australian industry’s present situation might be compared to that facing a man who inherits an old ramshackle house built on poor foundations. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wakefield was very laudatory in bis remarks about the Tariff Board report on man-made fibres. [More…]

• On many occasions in this Parliament I have given my views about high tariffs. [More…]

• I will give examples of the terminology on which the conclusions about man made fibres have been reached. [More…]

• The main opportunities for the local industry to supply a greater share of the total market for man-made fibres will be in noncelllulosics [More…]

• The Opposition opposes the schedule because of the reduction of tariffs on the man made fibres industry. [More…]

• Fruit and other little things would also have to bc taken to the sick man while he was in hospital. [More…]

• Under the First Schedule of this Bill the weekly rate of compensation for an employee without dependants will be increased to S3 1.80, for a dependent female to $7.70 and for a child to $2.80- making a total of $45.10 a week for a man, his wife and 2 children. [More…]

• Under this legislation, this man, his wife and 1 child, would get S42.30 a week, so that over 13 weeks his loss in salary would be $396.50. [More…]

• This loss of earnings could be a tremendous loss for the family unit, particularly for the young married man who has commitments for furniture and maybe the purchase of a home. [More…]

• Those in the Parliament who have known him have known him, as you have said, not only as an efficient and very courteous man but also as a very helpful man. [More…]

• by leave - I join with the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Buchanan), the Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, in expressing my appreciation to the representatives of the various Government departments who were most helpful and co-operative in the work of the Committee. [More…]

• I also express appreciation to him - the honourable member could not do it himself - for the manner in which he, the honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) and the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) have worked. [More…]

• All except one of the recommendations were unanimous and I was odd man out on one with which I will deal in a moment or two. [More…]

• I was the odd man out there. [More…]

• There are many suggestions. [More…]

• lt is peculiar to think that a man will build on a river bank to be close to water. [More…]

• The Bill (hat we are now asked to debate provides for the continuation of permanent employment in the stevedoring industry for an additional 2 years from 1st July 1970 until 30th June 1972. [More…]

• The Bill amends the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority from a 3-man authority io a l-man authority; that is, from a chairman and 2 member’s to a director, lt also provides the necessary machinery to establish that position. [More…]

• The Opposition supports the legislation but feels that rather than having the Director as the sole member of the authority it should consist of a 3- man directorate, not necessarily as it is at the moment with 3 full time, permanent members, but with a permanent director and 2 part time directors. [More…]

• In many cases hours have been lost because gear for handling cargo has not conformed with the Navigation (Loading and Unloading - Safety Measures) Regulations. [More…]

• In 1964-65 there were 148 cases resulting in a loss of 14,494 hours; in 1965-66 there were 108 cases involving 13,530 man hours lost; in 1966-67 a total of 14,425 man hours were lost; in 1967-68 there were 140 cases with 17,526 hours lost; and in 1968-69, which was the worst year, there were 243 cases costing 22.446 hours. [More…]

• Thus in the last 5 years, because of employer negligence, 82,421 man hours have been lost. [More…]

• All of the stoppages could have been avoided if management, employers of labour and shipowners had been prepared to rectify the things about which the men went on strike. [More…]

• There were 45 cases of defective winches and/or cranes involving the loss of 2,990 man hours; there were 27 cases of defective ships gangways and 1 ,264 hours were lost: defective cargo runner splices - 22 cases and 3,081 hours lost; and defective hold ladders - 1 1 cases and 324 hours lost. [More…]

• This man, who had led the Labor Party, apparently forgot later the very sound principles that he had learnt in his early years and became the Prime Minister of Australia as leader of another Party. [More…]

• That legislation provided for and sought to aid and abet any small number of men in ports like Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Brisbane and Hobart who to gather together and to form themselves into a trade union organisation correctly regarded as a scab organisation. [More…]

• That organisation was given the blessing of the Minister of the day and the Government of the day in order to pit the loyalties of one man against another man and to aid and abet as well as to encourage it. [More…]

• All members - man to man, gang to gang on the waterfront, port to port, output to mainport and mainport to capita] port - were determined that they were not going to allow that type of legislation to break their ranks. [More…]

• lt appears at first blush thai section 5 gives protection against victimisation, lt certainly appears to bc a section thai gives protection against a boss sacking a man for joining a union. [More…]

• I asked the Minister’s predecessor whether he would do something to alter this section of the Act in such a way that it would no longer be possible for a boss to sack a man for joining a union or for taking part in union activities. [More…]

• A man working in Cockatoo Dock had the audacity and, shall we say, insensitivity to use foul language, lt must have been a shock to hear foul language in a dockyard. [More…]

• At least the Commissioner was a man of the soil. [More…]

• He was satisfied, however, that the delegate had, on repeated occasions, refused to perform his normal duties and that the management of the Garden Island dockyards had acted with justification when it dismissed him. [More…]

• Mr Monk is a man whose views are entitled to the utmost respect. [More…]

• Because of his conduct and performance as President of the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions for so many years, he is entitled to our warmest and deepest respect. [More…]

• They are the views of a man who is entitled to the utmost respect having regard to his service to the trade union movement and to his vast experience. [More…]

• We live in a society in which the wage and salary earner has lost the most basic of all human rights, which is the right to decide whether and on what terms he will allow another to use his labour power. [More…]

• The late Mr P. i. Clarey, M.P., who was at one time the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, was correct when he declared that the right to strike is the one thing which distinguishes the free man from the slave. [More…]

• Compare the impact on the manager of a company whose company will pay the $1,000 fine without so much as blinking an eyelid with a similar penally upon a rank and file member working in industry. [More…]

• It is ridiculous lo suggest that a man working in industry for the wage obtainable under the awards in this country should be made to pay the same penalty as a rich employer such as those 1 mentioned or, for that matter, any employer who owns industry and employs labour. [More…]

• Every man worked at his lathe and there was tons of space around him. [More…]

• Many places, particularly those engaged in heavy industry, are unfit for people to work in. [More…]

• It is always instructive to me that the worst relationships are in the industries where the management has been tough and the working conditions are poor. [More…]

• In other instances there are not only happy relationships but also what one might call a close friendly relationship between the management and the workers. [More…]

• Even at election times the way in which the management treats its workers is manifest. [More…]

• The watchman, whose duty it was to go around and look for fires, should have been warned that gouging had been carried out. [More…]

• This man should have been charged with the responsibility by his employer of carrying out a very close and thorough investigation to make sure that no hot metal was left around in areas where a fire could be caused. [More…]

• I emphasise that point But the night watchman did hot make any inspection beneath the ‘Amanda Miller’ or along the slipway crane track during the shift. [More…]

• In other shipyards I have seen men burning and welding and a man has been standing by with a portable fire extinguisher. [More…]

• I do not really think that I need to tell this House that Billy Kent Hughes, as we all knew him, was a remarkable man and a fine Australian. [More…]

• In a crowded lifetime of 75 years he time and again demonstrated his courage, determination, integrity and rugged individuality, and with these qualities were combined a high sense of service, exceptional abilities and great humanity, making him one of the outstanding personalities of this Parliament. [More…]

• Many members of this chamber would have often disagreed with him but I believe that most of his parliamentary colleagues, if not all, on both sides of the House, had a respect and an affection for him at all times. [More…]

• As the oldest member of the Parliament be could look back on a lifetime of achievement and service that few men could rival, as scholar, soldier, sportsman, parliamentarian and even poet. [More…]

• Our late colleague, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, was by any standard a great man in his day. [More…]

• He exemplified his greatness in many spheres. [More…]

• It is not every great man who is necessarily a likeable man. [More…]

• Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes was great by any test that one could make, and a man to be friends with and to respect on any occasion. [More…]

• I have never known an incident in Billy Kent Hughes’s life that did not mark him as a man of great integrity, of great dedication and of great courage, whether it was physical courage in war or moral courage which is called for on occasions in the lives of people who enter politics. [More…]

• I remember him for many things. [More…]

• Perhaps one of the best memories I have of him is that he, along with Sir Thomas Blarney, Judge Drake-Brockman and a few others who had all served in the First World War, came to the conclusion in the mid-1 930s that war was certain to come. [More…]

• This group gathered together, particularly around Sir Thomas Blarney, and dedicated themselves to preparing for what they regarded as the inevitability of war and to persuading many others that if war was to come there had to be a greater consciousness in the Australian political mind and the public mind generally. [More…]

• It is not given to many to be so prescient as this, nor to be so dedicated. [More…]

• He was a man who had in the First World War, served his country in a manner that demanded no further service. [More…]

• It is true that he was the youngest man in the first AIF to hold field rank, the rank of major. [More…]

• But he was not the kind of man who avoided any call to which he felt it was his part to respond. [More…]

• He was a man who devoted himself to comprehending the problems of international relationships, and he brought the results of his study, his very frequent visits overseas and the contacts that he made into the Cabinet room, into the Party room and into the Parliament. [More…]

• He was a very great man and a very good man, and his life could well serve as an example for others to endeavour to emulate. [More…]

• The man whose memory this Parliament honours today often quoted these words: l slept and dreamt that life was beamy; [More…]

• For one to have lived out his days as our late colleague did so vigorously and with such splendid good humour and to have won such wide respect in his own country was a revelation of the man he was. [More…]

• That was not the boundary of that remarkable man’s achievement. [More…]

• Few, if any, have passed through this Parliament and won such wide respect in so many countries and among so many people. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) has paid a well deserved tribute to the memory of a very remarkable man and there is nothing that I or anybody else can add to the Prime Minister’s tribute. [More…]

• After the struggle was over he had all that the Prime Minister said in the matter of humanity and even humility. [More…]

• The shock of his death the day after he had been in the Commonwealth Parliament offices - I did not see him then - was distressing to me as it was to many other people 1 have said that he was a remarkable man. [More…]

• When I attended the funeral of Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes with so many others 1 sat in the church and looked at the noble gathering that attended and I thought much of the man whom I had known over many years through family friendship and through my experience in this House. [More…]

• We backbenchers in this House - many of us radicals, rebels or whatever we may be called occasionally - could always seek out Bill Kent Hughes and receive sound advice which perhaps would temper what we had been thinking was good common sense. [More…]

• I have heard him called a racist but I think it should be said - and, indeed, it was understood by all who were debating with him - that no man had more friends in Asia, South East Asia and Africa than he. [More…]

• I look at him as a man who, through death, has been forced to put down his load of sticks. [More…]

• He unfortunately, together with many others, was imprisoned for many years by an Asian people. [More…]

• Only time will tell whether many of the things he said were right or wrong but I feel that some may be right. [More…]

• This man has gone to what to me - h may be wrong for me to say it - is his Valhalla. [More…]

• I think that a very gallant gentleman and a very gallant warrior has joined that host [More…]

• rise to speak for myself and the Government Members ExServicemen’s Committee of which Sir Wilfrid was the Chairman. [More…]

• He was a man of the highest integrity whose life was spent, in the main, in the defence of Australia both as a soldier and as a parliamentarian. [More…]

• Despite his greatness in so many fields, his humility was one of his outstanding characteristics. [More…]

• He was, as has been said, a very highly intelligent man and he was a complex person in himself; but his personal needs and his own requirements were very few. [More…]

• As many honourable members well know, I was his jogging companion in Canberra. [More…]

• I felt so humble on each occasion when 1 went around with him that a man of his greatness and of his ability should say Thank you’ to me. [More…]

• But this is the type of man that Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes was. [More…]

• As I have said, he was a highly intelligent man and he reached the attainments of a highly intelligent man. [More…]

• He was a great man and I too join with those who have extended their condolences to his wife. [More…]

• Whittorn), but it does manifest the energy of Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes and his concern with public affairs right up to his death. [More…]

• I mention it only because it does manifest the commitment that this man had to matters of public affairs. [More…]

• He intended to go on a world tour to meet so many people he knew for an up-dated appreciation of the world situation. [More…]

• I first saw him in September 1945 in Manila in a prisoner of war transit camp, and 1 will never forget the impressive, striking appearance of this man with a chest of ribbons. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the coal production per man shift amounts to 13.81 tons. [More…]

• Coal production per man shift worked amounted to 13.81 tons for the year 1968-69. [More…]

• The Country Party appears to be frightened by the numerically powerful Liberal Party which without doubt represents the vested interests, the middle man, the overseas cartels and the very big growers who are in a position to dictate their own terms. [More…]

• He is the man best equipped to tackle it. [More…]

• We know that irrigation helps and that it takes the drought problem away from the man who farms the irrigation land. [More…]

• The demand of the young was in particular for a political system that would create and preserve the individuality of man and the sense of community among men. [More…]

• 1 remember the words of Mr Desai, a man in India for whom I have tremendous respect, who said that an important phase of this Association has been during this period in which the Empire has been changed into the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Mr CLYDE CAMERON (Hindmarsh) 111.5] - Although 1 have not had many opportunities to say this I have always said that the Parliament is at its best when it can debate any subject on a non-party basis, with each man being free to speak as he wishes and to vote as his conscience directs and dictates. [More…]

• I am also sure that the views that have been put forward tonight by the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor), who is a man of long experience in the Parliament, are genuine ones and are based on experience. [More…]

• Supply of complete man camps and dormitory type huts to (he U.S. [More…]

• How many immigrant families, consisting of man and wife or man, wife and family, arrived in Australia during each oft he past five years; [More…]

• Figures for immigrant families arriving in Australia (a family being defined as a man and wife, or man, wife and children) do not take account of those cases in which the husband and wife migrate separately. [More…]

• We have just seen a stoppage by one union because of confused claims as to what happened to a man in Greece. [More…]

• I am disappointed that that happened because I thought that he was a man of greater stature and would not want to fall to the use of those sorts of tricks. [More…]

• This will be reflected in less emphasis on combat jobs and a trend towards support and technical functions similar to those found in many areas of civilian life. [More…]

• While a soldier will have to retain his skill as a fighting man, he will be trained in an increasingly varied range of skills which are not purely military. [More…]

• There will tend to be a breaking down of the old styles of management and discipline with service life becoming more and more like civilian life. [More…]

• They recognised that all these things were happening and that, above all, the situation had arisen where there was, on the one hand, the Prime Minister - a charismatic man like Pierre Trudeau - and, on the other band, the public at large and the Parliament, which used to be the representative of the people - this intermediary - was ceasing to matter. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bradfield - again I do not criticise a gentleman for whom I have the greatest admiration - said that the House of Commons attracts candidates of greater calibre than we do in this Parliament because many of its candidates are what he termed part time candidates. [More…]

• My own view is that a parliamentarian in this chamber, because of the demands that are made on his time, must of necessity be a full time member. [More…]

• A man cannot be a part time representative in this Parliament, and no-one can be a part time representative in any other parliament, if he is to do his job effectively. [More…]

• But that is not quite good enough, because one gets the emphasis from the man himself. [More…]

• Interjections of that kind are tremendously unfair and do not do much for the prestige of the man who makes them. [More…]

• This means that this man has to find some other method of converting this tenure into freehold. [More…]

• The man I called the heart and soul of Australia. [More…]

• The people of the Cottesloe region felt the need to associate John Curtin with the area in which he had lived for so many years. [More…]

• He is accepted as a man who strove mightily for the welfare of all Australians as he viewed that welfare. [More…]

• His political views and administration could be challenged by his opponents but it was unthinkable to attack the man, his ideals, sincerity jnd integrity. [More…]

• In the grimmest days that Australia has faced, when the Japanese were in the Coral Sea and this country was threatened, the man to whom the honourable member has paid tribute tonight stood as a symbol of our salvation. [More…]

• I place on record tonight my personal appreciation and that of the Medlyn family for the justice - no doubt delayed justice - which has been received by the suffering Medlyn family because of war injuries sustained by this man. [More…]

• This man looks robust enough to play in any football match but is totally blind. [More…]

• I also wish to pay my tribute to Mr Russo of the Legal Service Bureau and to certain medical practitioners who tendered submissions on behalf of this man. [More…]

• I share the Minister’s satisfaction at knowing that justice has been done to a man who served his country well and who, despite the great payment made to him, is still suffering great and serious disabilities. [More…]

• Tonight I pay my personal tribute to the Minister for Repatriation and to his Department for a very splendid effort to give justice to an ex-serviceman. [More…]

• The Customs Tariff Bill 1970 had a provision in schedule 17 for the reduction of tariffs on man made fibres. [More…]

• I should also like to commend Mr Bolton, the man in charge of that great instrument, and his band of workers. [More…]

• I say to my friends in the Parliament on both sides that there is nothing in the recorded history of man which shows that a rich, undefended country will not be the subject of aggression. [More…]

• Let us look at the basis on which the right honourable gentleman has made his allegations. [More…]

• I think that what the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said is true, that every man in this House would want to see peace come to Indo-China and remain in our part of the world, but it is one of the lessons of history that when a war is over all of the people concerned have to be rehabilitated. [More…]

• We are too close to the Vietnam war to be making value judgments on numbers of these things but I think we all recall that after the Second World War the Western countries - Great Britain and the United States in the case of Germany, and very much so the United States in the case of Japan - contributed greatly to the rehabilitation of those war torn countries which had been our enemies but a short time previously. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman went on to associate the Labor Party with the recent demonstrations at the home of one of his colleagues. [More…]

• I would think there was not a man on this side of the House who would not dissociate himself, as I dissociate myself, from any intrusion into a man’s private home and any intimidation of his family. [More…]

• I certainly disassociate myself from that kind of thing and I think it ill becomes the right honourable gentleman to suggest that the Labor Party would condone such an intrusion. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite want this man who lives in the bosom of the Communist Chinese to dominate Cambodia. [More…]

• For instance, Robin Day asks whether it is altogether reprehensible for a camera man to say to a celebrity: ‘Would you mind going back and coming through the door again. [More…]

• The man on 10,000 receives $348 - nearly $7 a week. [More…]

• The man on $16,000 - the income which to the Prime Minister, according to his election promise, represented a middle income - receives $500, or $10 a week. [More…]

• The average family man with a wife and 2 children with a taxable income of $3,000 receives a benefit of $32. [More…]

• The man similarly situated but earning $16,000 receives $492. [More…]

• In all this there is not the slightest pretence of equity, not the slightest attempt to distribute benefits according to need, nol the slightest effort to protect the family man and the genuine middle income earner against the raids which the rest of the Budget makes on his standard of living. [More…]

• At great loss to revenue, the Treasurer has managed to produce only great injustice. [More…]

• So much for the Liberal mandate! [More…]

• The year 1968 was the year of compassion and last year we had what was touted as the little man’s Budget. [More…]

• This gentleman has been stunting ever since he returned to Australia, showing concern with these matters. [More…]

• Over the past 5 years the increase in this cost, the worst cost that a working man could have, has been well over 60% in real terms, an incredibly high rate of increase. [More…]

• These deductions have remained broadly unchanged for many years and 1 believe many of them aTe out of date and inappropriate. [More…]

• An income tax deduction of Si is worth nearly 3 times as much to a man on $12,000 as it is to a man on $2,000 a year. [More…]

• This would of course make the assistance equal for everyone and eliminate the situation where the assistance - the sum of child endowment and income tax deduction - for a first child, for instance, is $1.29 for a man on a taxable income of $2,000 a year and $3.17- nearly 3 times as much - for a man on $20,000 a year. [More…]

• There are many areas of anomaly here, and I should like to draw attention to only one example. [More…]

• I heard the other day of a professional man - and probably there is not too much difficulty in guessing his profession - who wanted to invest $132,000 on his property last year. [More…]

• The distraught farm management consultant had run out of ideas on how he could spend the money because, as he said, he already had super a foot deep over the property and elephant proof fences at intervals of 10 yards. [More…]

• What this man was trying to do was to deprive the Federal Treasury of something like $100,000, so that he could have a capital gain or perhaps an attractive holiday home. [More…]

• This has been increased to $1,200, which it would be impossible for a man who receives an income of $2,200 a year, and also many others, to pay. [More…]

• The Budget once again provides a stop-gap form of assistance that goes part of the way and leads people in many cases further into debt and into more trouble by not giving them any real sight of a solution to their problems. [More…]

• It has abandoned the farmer, the wool grower, the country business man particularly, and the worker. [More…]

• Mascot, if I had not been persuaded I would have been the odd man out because J would not have spent another farthing at Mascot. [More…]

• In fact, many city councils are just getting round to framing by-laws. [More…]

• People want to look at all the facts before they condemn one man who is not here to defend himself. [More…]

• There did not seem to be any deviants from the substantial point of view that permeated out of that community through their spokesmen on the local government authority that the people of Keilor to a man did not want the curfew lifted and they certainly did not want this runway extended close to their community. [More…]

• Suffice to say that T am not seeking to exonerate my own point of view although I happen to be one man out on the Committee. [More…]

• Manila, Honolulu and other ports. [More…]

• But like several honourable members who preceded me in the debate, I feel that the lifting of the curfew represents obtuseness of a kind which could manifest itself in most undesirable ways in other capital and large provincial cities in Australia. [More…]

• As is fairly well known in this House, for many years I have been an advocate of earlier risings at night. [More…]

• I feel I am back where I started many years ago. [More…]

• Banks commence operations at 10 a.m. At one time if a man were late for work he was asked whether he was working banking hours. [More…]

• No man, young or old, can go to bed as late as we go to bed and come back with a mind clear and able to cope with the business of the House the next day. [More…]

• You will see, Mr Speaker, that the motion leaves the adjournment at 11 o’clock in the hands of the Leader of the House who may or may not confer with the spokesman for the Opposition. [More…]

• While 1 believe that the Government has done its best to bring down a Budget that overall is in the interests of the nation and that less emphasis should have been given to lower taxation and more emphasis placed on assistance to the pensioner and the man with a large family, I maintain that economic measures are not enough. [More…]

• Unless irresponsible, power drunk, strike happy disruptionists are controlled and unless the control of unions is restored to the hands of the decent rank and file members then the purchasing power of the pensioner, the superannuitant, the lower wage earner and the man with a large family, together with the exporter of primary products and manufactured goods, will continue to deteriorate at an ever increasing rate. [More…]

• Why is it then that so many Australians go to such lengths to try to create the impression that wool is finished, that wool can be done without, that other textiles are better or have more desirable characteristics? [More…]

• Wool is by far the best and most desirable fabric known to man. [More…]

• lt is most appealing for its wearing qualities, appearance and health reasons and it far outperforms any man-made fabric. [More…]

• It would be interesting indeed to know how many Australians who have never grown wool are making large sums out of dealing in wool and wool futures and forwarding selling. [More…]

• The trading banks stand to lose very large sums indeed in currency conversion if direct sales are made from the producer to the manufacturer, just as they did when the Australian [More…]

• There is good reason for dismay and consternation over the Budget, particularly in the case of the family man and those persons on fixed and low incomes. [More…]

• I cannot recall when a family man and those struggling to make ends meet were subjected to the type of confidence trick perpetrated by the Government in this Budget. [More…]

• In fact many people will be worse off as a result of this Budget. [More…]

• The ones most adversely affected will be those least able to pay - the family man, people on fixed or low incomes and pensioners. [More…]

• We must not forget, as the Prime Minister would wish, that these increases will not be felt by the man in the street only when he uses the services or purchases an item subject to increased charges. [More…]

• There will be a general increase in the cost of living because manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers will ensure that they recover their increased costs by the simple process of increasing the prices of the articles they make or sell. [More…]

• Perhaps Government supporters can see no reason why a man in those circumstances should have a telephone. [More…]

• For instance, a man with a taxable income of $1,600 rather than $16,000 will receive a reduction of only $13.94 per year. [More…]

• His weekly all clear income will be increased by the princely amount of 27c compared with $9.65 for the man receiving $16,000. [More…]

• A man with a taxable income of $2,000 rather than $20,000 will receive a reduction of $21.73, or relief at the rate of 41c per week; while the man with a taxable income of $2,500 rather than $25,000 will get a reduction of approximately 62c per week or something like half the amount that the man on $30,000 will receive. [More…]

• These are some of the areas of taxation where the Government could assist the low income earner, the family man and those people resident in country or remote areas. [More…]

• I do not care what anyone says, even the young man who is screaming at the moment and who is probably eligible for national service, if the Government introduced universal national service, say at 18 or at whatever age the honourable member is who interjects, for I year and provided for service in the Navy and the Air Force as well as the Army we could finance it as a nation, and we would be a stronger and better nation for it. [More…]

• On the other hand a man on a salary of $32,000 a year with a wife and 3 dependent children will have a saving in income tax of slightly less than $500 a year. [More…]

• A man presently earning $50 per week pays $6.80 tax per week, or 13.6% of his income. [More…]

• Let us look at the position of a man on an average weekly earning of about $70 who has a wife and 2 children. [More…]

• The family man suffers most, as tax allowances for dependants have not kept pace with inflation. [More…]

• This applies even more to the family man in the lower and middle income groups. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to adjust these dependants’ allowances has meant that large families have had their relative tax advantage over the single man substantially reduced. [More…]

• The present system of deductions assists the man on the higher income. [More…]

• In other words, the public pays 55% of the education bill for the wealthy man and 1.1% for the process worker. [More…]

• He is an amiable and peacable kind of man in his face to face transactions but it is his resort to violence at the international level that I want to criticise tonight. [More…]

• Any man alive could be shown to be a scoundrel if a series of his ‘worst moments’ were quite factually and truthfully presented - out of proportion to the rest of his character and behaviour. [More…]

• The situation is that the honourable member for North Sydney would like to be free of the responsibility of serving on 2 committees, especially as fits duties as Chairman of the one from which he is now to be discharged are onerous. [More…]

• We have the good fortune to have in the honourable member for Ballaarat (Mr Erwin) a man who was Chairman of the former Standing Committee on Printing and of the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary and Government Publications. [More…]

• He was also responsible for the introduction of a uniform printing style manual throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Indeed, the committees were responsible for many achievements under the chairmanship of the honourable member for Ballaarat, who will replace the honourable member for North Sydney on the Publications Committee. [More…]

• Because it has the advantage of having such a man who is willing to serve on the Publications Committee, I think the House should take the opportunity forthwith of making arrangements for his appointment to it. [More…]

• Perhaps it is true that the Liberal Party is disinterested in and opposed to the man on the land, lt would appear to be so as there is only one backbench member of the Liberal Party in the House at this moment. [More…]

• Primary industry is to get a token subsidy but the problems of the man on the land will continue unaltered. [More…]

• I wish to refer now to a matter that is of concern to every man, woman, and child in this country. [More…]

• Mr Arthur Calwell was never Prime Minister of this country but he may well be remembered as the man who had the greatest single influence on its development and its prosperity. [More…]

• Such a budget would have reacted more savagely against the people whom that Party purports to represent - the worker, the family man and the low income earner. [More…]

• But the stage manager of this disaster, the real hand behind this disaster, was that master of compassion, the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) - the man who is so sensitive to the needs of the elderly and pensioned peoples of our so-called affluent society; the man who made that now famous or . [More…]

• Could any remark - it is an offensive and insensitive observation even for him - highlight in greater detail the contempt with which this man and his entire coterie of collaborators hold the people of Australia? [More…]

• A man with an income of $10,000 will receive a reduction of $348 - almost $7 a week. [More…]

• A man on $16,000 will receive a reduction of $500 or $10 a week under this so-called equitable scheme. [More…]

• What humanity is revealed towards the men who have served so well. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that this self same gentleman, this disciple of law and order, has in fact sat down with Communists and negotiated trade agreements with them. [More…]

• What fatuous humbug for this man to protest and tilt at windmills. [More…]

• He openly promotes and fosters trade with Communist countries and has the temerity to incite this nation and this Parliament with speeches which would have done Lenin proud, lt would be interesting to note, Mr Deputy Speaker, just how many times that right honourable gentleman and his colleagues refer to mainland China - and 1 underline the word ‘mainland’ - where trade matters are concerned. [More…]

• But when they don the mantle of law and order and respectability it becomes Communist China. [More…]

• This is a devious and deceitful exercise in semantics which is being foisted on the Australian people. [More…]

• It is true that prices have risen even faster in many other countries, but whereas the inflationary rate is tending to slow down overseas it is tending to rise in Australia. [More…]

• Nobody likes high interest rates expecially not the man who is buying a home or who is relying on consumer credit. [More…]

• Many factors have operated to raise domestic prices. [More…]

• Some of these are independent of the level of demand: for example award wages have tended to rise faster than productivity. [More…]

• But there is no doubt that excess demand contributed in a major degree to last year’s inflationary growth. [More…]

• To begin with, shortages of labour in many areas of the economy caused overtime work to increase and put pressure on over-award payments, both of which add to cost structure. [More…]

• One beneficial effect of our past migration policies is that our home markets for both primary products and secondary goods in general have been significantly increased and 1 am quite sure that the man on the land realises this. [More…]

• We know that the home market is our best market nol only for our primary products but for our manufactured goods too. [More…]

• No one is asked to contemplate a future Australian community composed predominantly of farmers, nor can anyone be asked to accept the concept of a future Australia collecting its foreign exchange from the export of manufactured goods alone. [More…]

• At least the man engaged in primary industry knows that if he does not replenish the original soil he soon goes down. [More…]

• I know that in the long run we will never assist primary industry by trying to wreck secondary or manufacturing industry which has proved to be successful, but if our policies of protection have provided an unequal opportunity in export markets favouring secondary industry then those policies should be reviewed, not so much as to principle as to degree. [More…]

• The wage level must be balanced against production per man hour or per machine hour. [More…]

• I mention this only because I know the man who was responsible for collating the material and because I know the circumstances .in which it was collected. [More…]

• Honourable members should not fall for the trap of looking at the unemployment figures in a country town because as soon as a man loses his job there he leaves. [More…]

• In many cases it is being stated that private nursing home businesses can expect a return of from 12% to 15%, which is a good return in any man’s language. [More…]

• When we consider the pensioner whose sole income is the pension, it becomes quite obvious that many of the aged people of Australia are simply debarred from getting the attention that is their right. [More…]

• A woman must be over 60 years of age and a man over 65 years of age. [More…]

• But many invalids are people who have been disabled in their youth or ha%’e been bom with various disabilities. [More…]

• 1 want to deal, by way of example, with the position of a tradesman who received about $1,500 a year in 1954-55, which was the last time that the tax schedules were amended, and who today would receive about $3,000 a year. [More…]

• In 1954-55 such a man would have paid $123 tax on his earnings of $1,500. [More…]

• The average earnings of the tradesman would have doubled in the period between 1954-55 and 1968-69, the period to which I am referring. [More…]

• Working on that basis and that factual position, such a tradesman would today receive about $3,000 a year. [More…]

• So we can see that while this man has received some relief he has not received as much relief as the taxpayer in the next category. [More…]

• When we take the taxpayer who was classified by this Government as being in the higher income group - the man in recept of $16,000 in 1954-55 and who today would be earning about $32,000 a year - he is paying $17,251 in tax which represents an increase of 153% over and above his 1954-55 tax. [More…]

• So we can see that the man in the low income group - the tradesman - has had an increase of tax, even under this new schedule, of 246% over and above the amount he paid in 1954-55. [More…]

• We should have regard to the fact that a man who receives $50 a week receives by way of taxation relief a saving of only 70c a week. [More…]

• The man on $60 a week receives relief of only $1 a week; the man on $70 a week, $1.20 a week; the man on $80 a week, $1.50 a week; the man on $100 a week, $2.30 a week; and the man on $200 a week or near enough to $10,000 a year, $7.10 a week. [More…]

• What effect did the latest increase in the price of steel have on the ordinary man in the street? [More…]

• Opposition spoke of injustice and inequity when referring to a man on a salary of $10,000 who receives tax relief of about $350 while a man on a salary of $3,000 receives tax relief of about $50. [More…]

• Presumably, his justice and his equity demand that each of those persons receives the same absolute relief. [More…]

• It is true that the Leader of the Opposition is a man of words, but he is not the only man of words in this place, as will be well known. [More…]

• This is 1970 when man has been to the moon twice: yet this Government cannot find even half the money needed to complete even half the project this year. [More…]

• He was a man so many honourable members of the Opposition respect and a man for whom I have respect. [More…]

• He is the man they look to so often and say: ‘Remember Old Chif.’ [More…]

• But every time that a union wins an unjust increase it is the little man and the pensioners who get screwed right into the ground. [More…]

• In the mind of a great man on the other side it is a matter of: ‘get it over with as quickly as possible. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman showed us the level of his intelligence when he said that the reason for the difference between his estimate of the time for which the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) spoke on one subject and that of one of his colleagues was that his colleague comes from South Ausatralia where the time is half an hour different from that in the eastern States. [More…]

• If that is the level of the man’s ability, I do not think we need to argue with him very much further. [More…]

• The man concerned has been a soldier and fought for us in a previous World War. [More…]

• I have knowledge of a case of a man who has been in hospital for some time. [More…]

• He may be permanently injured, but while his condition is not considered to be permanent his wife and family can receive the sickness benefit. [More…]

• If it is found tomorrow that he is permanently disabled the sickness benefit will cease and he will have no income at all. [More…]

• I believe more people are moving into the area of poverty, because in my State, for instance, the State Housing Commission does not try to compete with private owners of homes and there is growing up a far greater demand for State Housing Commission homes than will be met for many years. [More…]

• This would not happen to the old Labor man. [More…]

• One man was carrying a tomahawk. [More…]

• They should know the nature of the political parties that sponsor these things, and that when legislation was introduced in this Parliament that did not suit the huge interests behind them in days gone by, every force known to man was used to destroy the Labor government of the day irrespective of the effect that might have on the law abiding citizens of this country. [More…]

• 1 propose to quote a description of the younger generation written by a very wise man. [More…]

• If that is so, the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Hughes) should sack the Aus tralian Security Intelligence Organisation and every man in it. [More…]

• I believe that no man did more for Australia than did the late Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, in the sporting field, in war time and in civic affairs. [More…]

• He was a true statesman. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who is in the House, must be a disappointed man and a dejected soul today because of his failure, as one of the 1 2 wise men, to influence the others. [More…]

• We have not given them even the self-respect of being able to bring themselves into the white man’s culture and raise a few goats on their own land. [More…]

• I thought that this was a rather tender issue in the Australian Labor Party and in many of the unions. [More…]

• I shall not vote for the amendment proposed by the Labor Party because in my opinion the amendment is ridiculous, lt is couched in terms which are those of an ambitious man who wishes to take control of this country in any circumstances. [More…]

• He is the man who said that he would not under any circumstances serve in a Gorton government. [More…]

• In a very poor performance he led off by attacking Canada in general and the principles of Professor Galbraith in particular. [More…]

• I would sincerely hope that the leaders of those other countries will pay attention to his words and that those who are responsible and in control in the European Economic Community and those who are responsible and hold responsible positions in the sphere of international trade will realise that these words are spoken by a man who has had - I think I. can safely say - more experience in the field of international trade than any other man in world politics today. [More…]

• We know the battle that he has put up on many occasions, not only for Australia but also for New Zealand and the other countries in this Asian area, against a lack of thought and lack of vision by countries such as the United States and, I am afraid, in certain instances the United Kingdom and other European countries. [More…]

• The next matter that I would like to mention has been referred to in some instances by some of our news media in a rather cynical manner - the matter of law and order. [More…]

• I would say that there are many times when the excuse that we are undermining freedoms is used by those who themselves would desire to undermine the freedom and security of this country. [More…]

• The magistrate did everything that he could to assist and this young man refused to make any comment. [More…]

• I am afraid that that would make me question the sincerity of that young man. [More…]

• That man was a wasted figure; fortunately, his mental capacity was still there. [More…]

• He and the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) went to Mount Isa and supported Eugene Martin, the man who cost the miners of Mount Isa their homes. [More…]

• There is no deterrent to a man refusing his labour. [More…]

• Every man in this House knows this is the sort of thing that goes on from one end of Australia to the other. [More…]

• lt is not only the pensioner but also the man on a fairly small income or on a middle income, say a person under $5,000 a year, who will be affected by the Budget. [More…]

• For a man with a taxable income of $3,000 a year the reduction will be $46.12 and for a man on $3,500 a year the reduction will be $60.58. [More…]

• This man, very often a family man with children to keep at school, a wife to maintain and a house to rent or pay off, will face increases in sales tax and in the cost of a telephone - it will be $7 a year for him - which the Budget imposes. [More…]

• One of the things that interest me in this place is that this Liberal-Country Party coalition Government has been in office for so long and yet so many problems associated with rural industries have not been solved - for instance, the problems of finance, i know that no-one will solve the problems of drought. [More…]

• for that matter, a business man with a small business who becomes ill, even for a long period, has no entitlement to social service benefits because he is a self employed person. [More…]

• But I know of a case - and I would not think there would be very many people in exactly the same position- of a man who is now 75 years of age and who is a naturalised Australian citizen, having been naturalised in 1962. [More…]

• But in order to bring this about this man has to be destitute. [More…]

• I have also mentioned the case of this gentleman whose name I will not state but it is well known to the Minister for Social Services. [More…]

• This man spent a considerable period in New Guinea carrying out work which was very important to Australia and an Australian territory. [More…]

• At that point of time this man would be 83. [More…]

• He described the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) as a man of gloom. [More…]

• Then the honourable member for Riverina reflected in a very, very shabby manner his lack of appreciation, understanding or grip of the circumstances as we find them when he referred to the proposal that we, as a nation, should raise these tremendous problems with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as approaching GATT for ‘uncertain mercy’. [More…]

• This works out at about SI, 250 for each man added to the total strength. [More…]

• The man is given something that is prepared for him by expatriates and he tells us that New Guinea - whoever that is - cannot afford to pay better wages. [More…]

• This has happened many times with the wage earner. [More…]

• It can watch the demand for certain skills disappear. [More…]

• If a man is so poor that he pays no income tax at all, obviously the way to assist him is not to reduce income tax. [More…]

• A man who pays 50c in the $1 would get back through his income tax deduction a child endowment benefit of $104 compared with the poorer man’s benefit of $2.08. [More…]

• That would be a way of benefiting the poorer person, the man who now gets back $2.08 if he is a lc in the $1 man. [More…]

• The next man contacted operates in a lower class area in Adelaide and he reported that there was some panic buying. [More…]

• Above all, I am urging that for a change the neglected man in our community, the long suffering and much exploited Australian consumer, be given consideration. [More…]

• Regrettably, too much do we think of our obligation as being in relation to sectional pressure bodies - manufacturers, farmers, trade unions, and so on - and not enough about the people who really count in the long run and about whom the duties of Government and the aims of society aught to be - that great mass of private people, the consumers. [More…]

• If you look at it another way, the man on $20,000 a year receives 9 times the minimum wage but his saving will be 16 times that provided for the minimum wage earner. [More…]

• In contrast, could anything be more dishonest, misleading and dislocative to the performance of business than for a government to claim, as this conservative one frequently does, that its economic intent is clearly portrayed in the Budget and then, when the Budget clearly propounds expansion or balance, to clandestinely impose recessionary measures through the back door of monetary policy? [More…]

• It is not the Government of the Australian people who have a long tradition of commendable personal values of fair play, of giving a man a go, of look ing after the battler whether the battler is the young married couple trying to build a home for the future, the wage and salary earner struggling to raise and educate a family, or the pensioner trying to establish security and human dignity - his right - in retirement. [More…]

• No other animal so abuses his environment as does man. [More…]

• As democratic socialists we of the Australian Labor Party reject this objectionable philosophy of pandering to personal selfishness by ignoring the human want and qualitative needs of our society and environment. [More…]

• I hope that not only all the young families in the electorate of Denison but the many thousands of young families throughout the length and breadth of Australia who happened to have missed those stark words when spoken by the honourable member for Denison may at least have had the opportunity to hear them repeated this evening. [More…]

• The attitude they reveal is positive proof that the family man, the wage earner, just does not rate in this Government’s estimation. [More…]

• By way of illustration I take the case of a man on an average weekly wage in 1961 and compare his position then with his position in this year, taking into consideration the 10 per cent taxation reduction. [More…]

• So while the wage has increased by 39 per cent over that period the tax burden has increased as follows: For a single man by 79 per cent; for a married man by 94 per cent; for a married man with 1 child by 105 per cent; for a married man with 2 children 114 per cent. [More…]

• Where in this Budget can it be claimed that the Government has shown even a hint of concern for the family man. [More…]

• We should consider how costs of the family man have increased since then. [More…]

• The promised reform that resulted in the illogical general 10 per cent tax cut on incomes under $10,000 is patchwork confusion tragically directed against the family man. [More…]

• More tragically, the lower down the tax scale a man is, the less than new tax rates will help him in actual moneyinthepocket terms. [More…]

• Has the right honourable gentleman received the report on the inquiry which Mr Justice Prentice recommended 5 weeks ago into what he called the perfectly disgraceful state of affairs under which an indigenous hospital patient who was too ill even to walk was flown from Lae to Finschhafen to face an attempted murder charge and was then found to be the wrong man? [More…]

• From what has been stated by the Opposition and from what has appeared in the Press concerning the poor deal that pensioners have received in the Budget it would not be unreasonable for many people to arrive at the conclusion that all pensioners have received a poor deal. [More…]

• I know that many pensioners, particularly those who pay high rents, are having difficulty in getting by on their pension. [More…]

• Many pensioners have families. [More…]

• I know that, for certain reasons, it is not possible for all families to assist, but the majority of young people could do far more for their parents man they are doing at the present time. [More…]

• Every country says this, and the enemy of the Australian farmer is not the man in the Australian cities, the city dweller. [More…]

• They have to realise that their real friend is in the Australian city because that is their permanent market, one which is theirs for all time. [More…]

• Look for Kerensky, the Socialist and the well-intentioned amiable man with Lenin behind him. [More…]

• The Budget provided for no increase in deductions for the family man. [More…]

• The $52 increase in the deduction would be worth very little to a man on a low income. [More…]

• It has been correctly said - and it bears repeating - that when a man marries and has a family he has given hostages to fortune. [More…]

• It is merely returning something out of the $480m which it extracted in the financial year just ended- Out of a total of $7,887m, $3,035m is to be paid by the workers and the other salary earners of Australia, the self-employed businessman, the farmer if he can make a profit, and the professional man. [More…]

• As a further part of the confidence trick that is being played on the wage earners of Australia in the low income groups, let me illustrate the actual deduction that is available for a working man, for his wife and 2 dependent children. [More…]

• Deductions for fares are another entitlement that has been consistently denied to the working man, and the impact of it is worse in my district than anywhere else. [More…]

• It is not merely direct taxation that affects the working man in this country. [More…]

• But what kind of savings do a man and his wife have to hold to give that income as well as to assure them of capital growth sufficient to take care of losses in value due to inflation? [More…]

• Even then it would be a bold man who would claim that, with an adequate income today, his investments are such that he can be sure that they will be equally adequate in 10, 15 or 20 years time. [More…]

• No man alive is more proud of his parents than I, yet if they were alive today they would be drawing the full old age pension. [More…]

• He was Chairman of the local Parents and Citizens Association and of the Group Committee of the Scouts. [More…]

• I am going to work as never before to get my colleagues to accept this programme: First, we must have an end to the policies which still discourage savings and thrift and which make a breadline pension inevitable for numbers of Australians; secondly, we must have an end to the position where some people can bludge on the community, spend all their income on non-essentials and know that they will be just about as well off as a man who struggles to educate his family and who saves only a few thousand dollars before retiring or whose superannuation is little if any better and is doomed to decline to the breadline; thirdly, we must face the fact that the vast majority of Australians do not want old people to suffer real poverty, no matter why they are in that position. [More…]

• This goes down well with many folk who like to see this big handsome Robin Hood of a man talking of squeezing the rich to give more to the poor. [More…]

• What a fool a man would be to study and strive and slog away at carving out a successful career when he is confronted by a Socialist attitude in government that outdoes Russia itself. [More…]

• It is never surprising to a Labor man that this Government is always more effective in pushing the interests of property than it is in looking to the interests of the people. [More…]

• He is one of Australia’s most distinguished trade, unionists and a man who has been chosen to lead one of the world’s greatest and most disciplined trade union movements. [More…]

• He is a man who is going to lead it to greater and continuing distinction. [More…]

• The Sword of Damocles is hanging over the head of every young man entering a profession, a university or anything else. [More…]

• I begin with the premise that no man has the right to dispose of another person’s life. [More…]

• Jim Fraser, great man that he was, said: ‘But I did not go to any university, and I have rendered good service in Parliament*. [More…]

• 111.13] - I wish to draw the attention of the House to a problem that has concerned me as the parliamentary representative of a 19-year-old man called Tan Jin Lee. [More…]

• This young man came out to Australia from Malaysia in February of this year on a visa which enabled him to study for his higher school certificate. [More…]

• The issue surely is: What did this young man want to do? [More…]

• It may happen again, but they should remember that a simple manperhaps not so simple; a man with a very simple background, an engine drivercould become the Prime Minister of this nation. [More…]

• His home symbolises to each and every Australian the fact that this can be done in Australia, although it has not happened on many occasions. [More…]

• It is almost unbelievable that this speech could have been made by this Minister in referring to this man. [More…]

• Gregory, a man of proved personal courage, wanted none of this blood on his conscience. [More…]

• I am at a loss to know why the Government has sought to ban this man from entering Australia. [More…]

• 1 cannot believe that this is the action of the Minister for Immigration, a man whom, in the short time I have been here, 1 have grown to respect, a man whom I believe to be a small ‘1’ liberal and a man whom I have praised on other matters in the House. [More…]

• He is a man who has tremendous qualifications and who is admired by his own race. [More…]

• In fact, he died that morning and the young man wished to have his compassionate leave extended to the Monday to allow him to attend his father’s funeral and to remain with his mother who that day had collapsed. [More…]

• Commodore Ramsay is a person who commands a most distinguished record in the service of this country. [More…]

• It would be an impertinence on my part if 1 were not to say that he is a very kindly man. [More…]

• With great respect to the honourable member for Port Adelaide, the Commodore is a very kindly man. [More…]

• When a serviceman has to get on an aeroplane or go back to a ship to meet a posting this exacerbates the sense of grief. [More…]

• It is dreadful to think that a man like the Premier of South Australia could say that he would advise his son to disobey the law in respect to the National Service Act. [More…]

• The position has been created where many people who do not understand the implications of their actions have created disturbances and adopted an attitude that they would not otherwise have adopted had they not been encouraged to do so by people in high places, including the honourable member for Wills. [More…]

• I do not think he should have used the word deceptive’ because that is nol a proper parliamentary approach by a man who aspires to be Prime Minister. [More…]

• In my opinion, the statement made by the Leader of the Opposition was a most irresponsible one for a man who aspires to be Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• He has adopted the theme that a man on a low income receives a smaller reduction in taxation than a man on a higher income. [More…]

• I ask the people: Can Australia trust such a man or such a Party? [More…]

• It is obvious that, if we stood up those countries, as the honourable member for Riverina would have us do, with the surplus of so many commodities available they could get them elsewhere and tell Australia to jump in the lake. [More…]

• 1 notice that the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), the man who generally speaks about primary industry on behalf of the Australian Labor Party, has been effectively suppressed. [More…]

• I thought: Is this man so dull or is he ill informed? [More…]

• Is he just being a ‘yes man* or being manipulated by the Treasury? [More…]

• The costs of these continued stoppages, in loss of production and man hours at work, must now be astronomical. [More…]

• Very often the stoppage is accompanied by an increased demand for wages which is sometimes given without any increase in productivity. [More…]

• The man on a weekly wage of $.160 will receive a tax deduction of $247 a year or $5 a week. [More…]

• The honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) continually gets under the skin of Country Party members because they know that he not only won a seat which was misrepresented by the Country Party in days gone by but he has made it one of the greatest Labor seats in Australia because he is a man who talks and works for country people in a way that country people understand. [More…]

• I’d rather negotiate 10 trade treaties than deal wilh that man. [More…]

• My heavens, if any man was disgusted with the Government, the hon ourable member for Lilley must have been, because he said that even in the lowly position of Deputy Government Whip be could not serve under this man’. [More…]

• I would say that the former Treasurer must be a happy man today because, if I may use an expression just’ in passing, he has made a donkey out of the new Treasurer by showing how far behind the previous Budget this Budget is. [More…]

• As a union man, I do not wish to have anybody work in what ought to be his or her meal break. [More…]

• My recollection is that Gibbon said that Augustus was conscious that mankind is governed by names and that if he respectfully assured the people that they still possessed their ancient freedoms they would submit to slavery. [More…]

• Mankind is governed by names. [More…]

• I will have nothing to do with the amendment moved by the honourable member for Denison who, very significantly and symbolically, was the man who moved the gag earlier in this debate, ls this a matter of small importance and just a matter of the convenience of members of the House? [More…]

• I bet there are not too many honourable members who are game enough to do it to me or to anybody else yet they will complain behind a man’s back. [More…]

• One is a negro and one is a white man. [More…]

• He was a man of principle. [More…]

• There is Dr F. V. Newman, a member of the executive of the North Sydney Branch of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Today I want to quote from the writings of the man who evidently impressed the honourable member who raised this matter today. [More…]

• But he sought to deny to a man who stood for freedom the right to exhibit his belief on his lapel. [More…]

• He is not a man whom one usually expects to run away from things. [More…]

• He is, as we all know, an honourable man. [More…]

• This is the man who is saying that the Vietnam Moratorium should be supported. [More…]

• He is prepared in order to gain support, to gain privilege and to provide a smokescreen for it to attack bitterly a man who, he knows, is activated by the highest motives and who on all occasions has acted with the greatest of concern for the national interests of this country. [More…]

• The Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden), with mock gravity and phony indignation which are the hallmarks of his performance in this House, contributed a speech of similar quality in support of the one made by the honourable member for Lilley. [More…]

• One of the great ironies in political practice in this country is the way in which the Liberal Party proclaims itself as a party of freedom, of liberty and of standing for the rights and the dignity of man. [More…]

• After all, the man deals in jokes, and inevitably sooner or later he would have to deal with the Government, which is Australia’s biggest joke, because of the way in which it tries to handle the affairs of this country and avoids the real issues. [More…]

• I attended on 38 days in the last session of Parliament; the man who criticised me attended on 23 days. [More…]

• We are interfering with an institution that has stood the test of time for about 600 years and which, I hope, will stand the test of time while man lives in this country. [More…]

• The question is how many of us will be involved in making decisions for the nation. [More…]

• The jury may be sending a man to gaol, to his death, or imposing a fine or some other penalty. [More…]

• Will the Minister remit the remainder of the young man’s gaol term in view of his physical and mental suffering? [More…]

• If he will provide me with the man’s name and any other information for which he can warrant I will make appropriate inquiries. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will listen to the remarks of the many speakers who have had something to say about this and will allow the Parliament to decide, in the name of those who are to follow us, where the parliament house will be built and will put an end to this business of one man walking into the chamber and saying: ‘I wish to announce that the new parliament house will be sited on Camp Hill’. [More…]

• I cannot help but again refer to the gross anomaly which exists where the female member of the Hansard staff is paid even now $428 a year less than a man for doing the same sort of work. [More…]

• I was rather surprised to hear the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) earlier in his speech refer to a 1 man dictatorship and government by regulations. [More…]

• The salaries of a member should be fixed at an amount which is not so low as to deter a man of good attainment and ability who has no private income from entering and remaining in Parliament. [More…]

• The country man’s view is different from the city roan’s view. [More…]

• How can a man make a telling point when he reads his speech word for word? [More…]

• I tried many years ago to stop this practice of reading speeches but I got nowhere. [More…]

• 1 remember that, when 1 was a new member 3 years ago, I used to apologise to the man with whom. [More…]

• I shared an office because I must have distracted him by asking many questions as to how the Parliament worked. [More…]

• He is a decent hard working man with corns on his hands through hard work. [More…]

• I am informed that the man concerned is David Keane, who registered for national service in July 1967. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child in Australia is entitled to receive these benefits and the patient has complete freedom of choice both as regards the doctor and chemist, there has been a continuing increase in the expenditure under the scheme and the Commonwealth expenditure has increased from $70.4m in 1961-62 to $ 136.7m in 1969-70. [More…]

• Finally this cost reaches the taxpayer, the man who bears all the burden, because he is the man who has to provide the public finance for expenditure in various areas. [More…]

• Honourable members on this side of the House have not advocated a reduction in the bounty but have advocated a more equitable distribution of the millions of dollars involved with a view to providing greater benefits for the man who works hardest in the industry and gets least from it. [More…]

• Is the Opposition going to say, through the honourable member for Fremantle, that it was a fundamental mistake that this man should have been overthrown by a government: It was not a coup d’etat. [More…]

• It was a change after many warnings, many requests and many pleas to Sihanouk. [More…]

• The human misery of war can be assuaged by the exercise of all the talents and skill and wealth of this country. [More…]

• That is why I believe that in the consideration of these estimates the Minister for External Affairs and the ministry should be condemned for their failure to accept the fact that war is man’s greatest folly. [More…]

• We must demand that armies stop crossing frontiers and we can at least do something about the human misery, the refugees, the sick, the wounded and the homeless, not under some great miasma of moralising about what is happening in Vietnam. [More…]

• This is significant because this man is held in high esteem by the rugby union community. [More…]

• He is a man in his early 70s and he is a life member of the New South Wales Rugby Union. [More…]

• I believe the man concerned in the case of mistaken identity was a Mr Tabarang Marum. [More…]

• There are some occasions - and I know of one in my own electorate - when it is not necessary to have a professional man engaged full time in doing the research that is necessary, but unless a company has a professional employed full time it is not entitled to claim a research and development grant because it has failed to employ a professional full time in the supervision of research and development. [More…]

• The cove who is turning out a business with one or two employees is the administrator; he is the professional man; he is the labourer; he is doing all sorts of work in order to get his business off the ground. [More…]

• In addition, he is devoting some of his time to research and development in the field in which he is engaged, but unless he devotes all his time - he is the only professional man employed - to research and development then his salary cannot be considered when considering a grant under the Act. [More…]

• Because they do not have a qualified research man at the head of their research department they are denied such grants. [More…]

• I am sure the Minister for Trade and Industry would admit that in areas such as the sugar industry and the wheat industry a man who is brought up on instruments, who makes machinery, knows far more than a university graduate in engineering or science, so far as the actual carrying out of that work is concerned. [More…]

• But because that firm does not have a top professional man directing research it is denied a research grant. [More…]

• Yet this firm is exporting machinery in competition with the world’s best manufacturers of that type of machinery. [More…]

• Let me illustrate: A man with a wife and 2 children will receive $24.50 including child endowment when he seeks sickness or unemployment benefits. [More…]

• People have rights as well as does property and, in a just society, the dignity and self respect of human beings will be recognised as the mainspring for human activity and aspirations. [More…]

• In that society, machines will be created and operated to serve the needs of man. [More…]

• The tempo and direction of productivity and the distribution of wealth generated by that productivity will be geared according to the needs of man. [More…]

• The rights of property and the need for conformity in a property dominated society have been elevated above all else and assume qualities of sacredness which in many respects seem profane. [More…]

• .We are told by Christian teachings that mau was created in God’s image and per se should be accorded the deference and esteem of which I speak ahead of the inanimate creations of man. [More…]

• Yet, man is being shouldered aside constantly to make way for a machine dominated technology. [More…]

• Under the present provisions relating to the payment of invalid and age pensions, a man and bis wife, who are both pensioners, may each receive an income and still retain their right to pensions. [More…]

• I wish to pay a tribute to the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) for the tremendous job he has done in handling a very demanding portfolio. [More…]

• I pay a tribute to his dedication and sincerity and to the great humanity he has shown in the administration of a very difficult office. [More…]

• From my close association with him 1 know that there is so much more he would like to do in many areas of social services. [More…]

• I support the raising of child endowment firstly because it has not been raised for a long while and secondly because it would appear to be the one area foi which substantial help could be given to the man in the lower income group who has a large family. [More…]

• In 1949 a man with a wife and 2 children on the minimum wage paid $1.60 a year in income tax. [More…]

• A man with the same family on the minimum wage now pays $2.55 a week or $132.60 a year. [More…]

• A man, his wife and 3 children is close to the size of the average family. [More…]

• After all, man does not live by bread alone. [More…]

• The complexities of government in Aus tralia and the fact that we are over-governed create a situation that results in a much more unhappy state of affairs in this country than exists in many other parts of the world. [More…]

• Has the Minister not yet come to believe the contentions that he must have heard so many times in the places where earnest volunteers apply themselves to these matters that an inter-relationship should be effected so thai in every region we have not an ad hoc or casually developing system of social services but a planned approach to the matter so that we can go arm in arm with a view to minimising the hardship and suffering that is so evident in many parts of Australia? [More…]

• We should realise that man does not live by bread alone but needs many other services and the co-operation of all those people in the community and government instrumentalities, at both State and local government level, who are able to assist and co-operate. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is a kindly man and I am certain that he would have liked to come before the House with a higher increase than is proposed. [More…]

• In 1941 a man with a wife and 3 children received child endowment of $1 a week. [More…]

• But the woman whose husband is killed at war does not get compensation and we make up to her by way of the pension we pay. [More…]

• Let us balance these things out and put them in the right perspective, lt is a very peculiar state of affairs for anyone to state that a widow and a child of a man who loses his life in the service of his country are not entitled to what we are giving them. [More…]

• I wonder what man in this House would want to be maintaining himself and 4 children on $32.50 a week. [More…]

• I can only think how much worse it would be for the widow of a tradesman or a person on a comparatively low income. [More…]

• In all reasonableness I think that when a man turns 65 then his wife ought automatically to get the full pension. [More…]

• I would not know what makes us presume that such an adult woman with her commitments would be able to live on $1.75 a week less than her counterpart who happens to have an age or invalid pension. [More…]

• He is reported to have said that the Government should use taxation and endowment to correct the unfairness of the wages paid to the family man. [More…]

• In many cases there are no resources on which <to live but only accumulated debts. [More…]

• I am prepared to say that this will be of some help but again, $15.50 is not very much for a working man to live on after having been sick for 6 weeks with the prospect of a considerable period of invalidity to follow. [More…]

• If he happens to be a married man his spouse will gain no increase. [More…]

• Under the present provisions relating to payment of invalid and age pensions, a man and his wife, who are both pensioners, may each receive an income and still retain their right to pensions. [More…]

• The Secretary of the Police Association of New South Wales has pointed out that a young man of 19 who joins the force as a constable earning $3,027 per annum is likely to leave it 28 years later as a sergeant first class still earning only $4,777 per annum. [More…]

• No-one admires a man who lies when that same liar masks himself as a decent man and in a loud voice proclaims- [More…]

• As I was saying, no-one admires a man who lies when he masks himself as a decent man and in a loud voice proclaims that he is honest and that all who oppose him are fools or charlatans. [More…]

• To report on this Kapunda meeting, the Advertiser’ sent a special staff man. [More…]

• Now, the honourable member for Angas is a very estimable man who would never break a law. [More…]

• There are not many laws in Australia which can stand that. [More…]

• Is there nobody here who can exercise some influence upon that dreadful man? [More…]

• These people were treated in an absolutely and remarkably civilised manner and I only wish that the procedure followed by Mr Speaker on that occasion could influence the people who run the police forces of Australia. [More…]

• A Redline bus which hit and lulled an elderly Canberra man had defective brakes, Canberra Coroner’s Court was told today. [More…]

• A man who has no market for his orchard products and whose property has been reduced tremendously in value cannot really be compensated by sending him a cheque, This is a tremendously important question. [More…]

• No-one admires a man who lies when that same liar masks himself as a decent man and in a loud voice proclaims- [More…]

• As I was saying, no-one admires a man who lies when he masks himself as a decent man and in a loud voice proclaims that he is honest and that all who oppose him are fools 01 charlatans. [More…]

• That man would be about 73 and, on the law of averages, his wife would be 68 or thereabouts. [More…]

• Not all may have done a great deal of fighting, but many of them have. [More…]

• We have to examine the way a man’s entitlement is decided through the system, In the schedules to the Act - we are now on to the 51st schedule - efforts have been made to try to make the system tick. [More…]

• This is all very well but it has become increasingly onerous on the ex-serviceman. [More…]

• The tribunals do their best to be affable and friendly but no matter how hard they try it is very difficult for the ordinary ex-serviceman not to be awe-struck when he attends these tribunals. [More…]

• It involves a man who was in the Light Horse, in the First World War. [More…]

• Yet for some strange reason this man is not accepted as having a war caused disability. [More…]

• Let us take the example of the young man who is called up for national service, goes to Vietnam, treads on a mine and is totally incapacitated. [More…]

• Because of the TPI situation the young man who has been invalided out of Vietnam has been conscripted into a lifetime of poverty. [More…]

• Take the case of a young man who joined the services in 1939, went off to war and fought in the Middle East and then in New Guinea and died when he was, say, 40 years of age leaving 3 children, one in matriculation year, one about 13 or 14 and one a bit younger. [More…]

• Although it could not be proved that his death was war caused especially if he died from a disease such as cancer or heart disease, I think it would be an act of decency for the community to accept some responsibility for the children of that man who served in combat in this way. [More…]

• Only this week a man came to me because there was some doubt about whether he was entitled to go into the repatriation hospital in Sydney. [More…]

• I spoke to the Minister at 10 o’clock in the morning on the day in question and by 5 o’clock the man had been transferred from a civilian hospital to the Concord Repatriation Hospital. [More…]

• This man felt that he had served his country and he wanted to go to the repatriation hospital. [More…]

• A pay book that was discovered by 1 man had the very well defined signature of Lieutenant [More…]

• This man had suffered for 20 years with a bronchial complaint and because of the evidence in his pay book we were able to establish that his condition was due to war service. [More…]

• I have spoken to an ex-chairman of a tribunal. [More…]

• He is a man of great integrity and he assured me that on all occasions the benefit of the doubt was given to the exserviceman. [More…]

• On the front of the pamphlet is a photograph of a man who no doubt is training for service in Vietnam. [More…]

• Finally, 1 want to mention a recent experience I had concerning an exserviceman. [More…]

• The gentleman was a World War II ex-serviceman. [More…]

• The exserviceman was suffering from acute cancer. [More…]

• I asked whether an appeal had been made to the repatriation authorities to have this man accepted as being eligible for a service pension subject to the means test. [More…]

• The man obviously had no income and he had very few assets, yet it had never been suggested to him by the repatriation authorities, when he did not get a war pension, that he might apply for a service pension. [More…]

• I made a good many representations on his behalf and ultimately he was accepted as being eligible for a service pension and was transferred, belatedly, into the Concord Repatriation Hospital. [More…]

• By the time the ambulance reached the convalescent home, bis condition was such that the doctor and nurses at that home registered utter amazement and dismay that a man in his condition should have been so transferred. [More…]

• That man died 4 days later. [More…]

• Reynolds) spoke about the amount of the total and permanent incapacity pension. [More…]

• He was a very fine gentleman and I was very friendly with him. [More…]

• Mr Barnard said: ‘The honourable member for Wimmera does not understand that that amount of money, the basic wage, is all that the man gets. [More…]

• Therefore the TPI pensioner is better off than the man on the lowest wage’. [More…]

• I have mentioned this matter on different occasions in these debates but the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the son of the man who put me right, never seems to grasp the point or to concede it when making speeches in this place. [More…]

• It is very good for a man to get a 20 per cent, 40 per cent or up to a 100 per cent pension. [More…]

• But if a man on a 100 per cent pension is not getting enough to compensate him for his disability then I, as his representative, will put up the case that he should get the intermediate pension. [More…]

• The intermediate pension was established for men who are not totally and permanently invalided - men who can do some work but whose incapacity is more than can be compensated by the 100 per cent rate. [More…]

• Recently I dealt with the case of a man I had served with. [More…]

• That man received the intermediate rate. [More…]

• Many other things have been said in this debate and I do not know which to deal with. [More…]

• There is nothing too good for an exserviceman. [More…]

• He cannot say: ‘Give this man a pension.’ [More…]

• When one works the whole thing out, the person who decides who is going to get a pension is the doctor who examines the man. [More…]

• If he recommends a pension for a man he is almost sure to get it. [More…]

• If the man’s condition is such that the pension does not meet the situation, a case should be made out to put him into the category of the intermediate pension. [More…]

• If you get knocked over and you can never work again and can never be an ordinary citizen again you can come back here and we will guarantee to give you an amount which is $4 a week less man the minimum wage.’ [More…]

• Not many volunteers would turn up to go overseas and serve the country in that situation. [More…]

• I refer now to the matter that the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) raised regarding the man who was transferred from a repatriation hospital to another hospital. [More…]

• I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether he can assure the House that he will take action to ensure that never again will any young man be imprisoned for 11 months, or any period, before it is discovered that he has a conscientious objection to military service entitling him to exemption from it? [More…]

• I emphasised that this was a case in which the man concerned omitted to take - indeed, upon deliberate reflection refused to take - steps which were available to him under the National Service Act to have the question of his conscientious beliefs determined. [More…]

• This had been given in a previous case in which the plaintiff was a man called Gridic. [More…]

• This young man is now a complete cripple. [More…]

• The sum of $40,000 is all that the insurance company has paid the young man, and this has to cover the legal costs that he incurred in going to court. [More…]

• But this does not detract from the fact that the injured man is a complete cripple and cannot be compensated in the way in which the judge intended that he should be compensated. [More…]

• These are not necessary parts of the law’s task: Certain categories of misconduct ought to be a matter between man and his Maker rather than a matter of criminal consequence between man and his temporal law maker. [More…]

• It is obvious that a man who holds political views such as those held by this gentleman will finish up causing a disturbance and possible riots at a university. [More…]

• Yet a man who has an opposing point of view is prevented from entering this country. [More…]

• Might I remind the House of a very significant recent case in which a man who had been convicted by court martial of having killed a lieutenant in Vietnam was subsequently vindicated by a court martial. [More…]

• When the Prime Minister, who is the senior man in the country, made that decision surely he must have had in mind where the alternative site would be. [More…]

• He has serviced many private aircraft in the inland areas. [More…]

• Unfortunately because of the economic situation in western New South Wales and northern Victoria many private aeroplanes are no longer flying. [More…]

• Masling has been a successful man with an extraordinary career ranking almost with the spectacular rise of Reg Ansett but in a later day with greater difficulties and more competition. [More…]

• A man who has 1,000 flying hours can have quite a few tickets but at that stage of his career very often he has far more confidence than ability. [More…]

• This in itself is a fine contribution by a man who certainly understands a little about aviation. [More…]

• If the Government were really sincere and wanted to help the rural industries, or for that matter if it wanted to help the pensioners and housewives, it would take immediate steps to see that the man on the land gets the right price for his products. [More…]

• Again, the threat to wool from man made fibres has been perfectly evident for years. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman and the House will recall that I publicly stated in June last thatthe regulations would be amended to enable me to refer cases to magistrates where a person claimed to be a conscientious objector but who refused to make application in accordance with the Act. [More…]

• At that time one man was in a unique position. [More…]

• There will be one of 3 ways in which a man’s conscientious objection claims will be determined in the future. [More…]

• Thirdly, if upon prosecution before a magistrate the man raises a conscientious objection, counsel appearing for the Crown will be instructed to invite the magistrate forthwith to determine the matter. [More…]

• Therefore, any man who claims to be a conscientious objector must have 3 opportunities to put his belief to the test. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s statement that there are still no regulations which authorised his reference to Mr Justice Smithers, will he state why this innocent young man was permitted to serve 11 months in prison before the Minister bothered to take any action to have his case examined? [More…]

• Every accountant and business man recognises that interest on capital borrowed is a legitimate charge against profit. [More…]

• I cannot see how the Labor Party, which has said it is the champion of the small man but which I doubt, could justify the small man subsidising big business. [More…]

• I realise that no-one wants inflation and that inflation or rising costs makes it difficult for the man on the land but the real killer for the man on the land today is not the fact that his costs have gone up. [More…]

• That agreement was negotiated by the then Minister for Trade and Industry, the man who still holds that portfolio. [More…]

• Does any man who knows the first thing about wheat deny that the wheat industry would be in a chaotic situation today were it not for the International Grains Arrangement? [More…]

• In terms of productivity per man hour Australia leads the world. [More…]

• It is a great credit to the white man in the north that he has been able to apply knowledge and in recent years to substitute cap- italforlabourwhencostshavebeen increasing and has proved to the world that Australia can produce sugar at a highly efficient standard. [More…]

• They make it harder for the man who is battling to hold the line to obtain money to help him advance. [More…]

• This shows the problems that are faced by the man on the land. [More…]

• I suppose we can excuse some of the remarks made by the honourable member because he is a man who is not as young as he used to be. [More…]

• Is he or his Party prepared to subsidise them to the tune of many millions of dollars? [More…]

• This is the man who cost farmers in his electorate hundreds of thousands of dollars by continually talking about an exaggerated black market for wheat and played right into the hands of the grain dealers. [More…]

• This is not only the case in the honourable member’s electorate but it also applies in many other areas in Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]

• This is the man who has supported that policy and still supports it [More…]

• That is what the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has said repeatedly and if this happens Labor will disfranchise many country electorates. [More…]

• This has been brought about by the many reasons that I have recounted. [More…]

• Even the secondary exporting industries are finding themselves in the same position because of these continual rises in costs mainly due to the rises in wages which are not helping the man on wages. [More…]

• Any working man will tell you today, if he is not being coerced or stood over by some organiser, that every wage rise recently has cost him money because the cost of living has gone up faster than his wages have. [More…]

• If we agree that man is entitled to a certain degree of artificial stimulation or relaxation, it is Important to know which drugs do this most effectively and with the greatest safety. [More…]

• 1 really suspect that the Leader of the Opposition himself, being the man of destiny he claims to be, will realise that many thousands of Australian people are genuinely concerned that the Leader of the Opposition and some of his supporters should, while making antiVietnam speeches, be seen to be so patriotically attached to the Vietcong flag that they should make speeches under the Vietcong flag. [More…]

• If a man is in Vietnam he owes it to himself and to all his comrades in arms to obey orders. [More…]

• They were entitled to come to me, just as they go to many other persons whom they expect to give advice - members of the clergy, family friends and so on - and as a member of Parliament I am not going to spurn anybody who seeks my advice in a matter concerning Federal laws or Federal administration. [More…]

• I told the Caucus that if I were asked by a man who objected to the Vietnam war as to the course he should take I would give this advice: He should register and at the time of doing so give written advice that if he was inducted and ordered to go to Vietnam he would not obey that order. [More…]

• Never have I said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam. [More…]

• If 1 was asked by a man who conscientiously objected to the Vietnam war what course he should pursue then he would take these steps. [More…]

• This hypothetical young man … [More…]

• 1 want to get this quite clear - I never said that if a man was in Vietnam he should not obey orders. [More…]

• The devil may be a beautiful girl or a handsome young man. [More…]

• But young people today do not recognise for what they are the plausible manner and the appearance of people who are peddling drugs. [More…]

• The post to which they were appointed had been run for many years by a man who did not have a degree, but he had to teach these young men all about what their job really meant. [More…]

• The Minister was quite right in saying that the Government collects information from its trade posts around the world and makes it available to manufacturers in Australia. [More…]

• But what about the small manufacturer? [More…]

• The Country Party has dictated the tariff policies of this country for some considerable time and today there is probably a considerable argument in the Country Party as to who will have the tariff whip in his hand when the grand old man finally retires. [More…]

• Most especially, students should be encouraged to analyse society, what man’s role should be in that society, and how the present structure of and relationships in society should be reformed to achieve really worthwhile goals for mankind. [More…]

• A 2i per cent increase in the cost of essential commodities docs not hurt a man earning $5,000 a year and his wife with $3,000 nearly as much as it hurts an indigenous clerk on $1,500 or the laborer on $500. [More…]

• Within the limits of this speech, the foregoing is an over simplified exposition naturally, but it is at the practical root, I believe, of the Government’s disinclination to impose target dates, and that accounts for its policy - which is correct, in my view, on both philosophical and pragmatic grounds - to expedite development throughout the Territory so that, when the people determine for home rule, there will be, first, some prospect of a national outlook; secondly, some prospect for cohesion against secession movements - there are at least 4 active in Bougainville, the Gazelle, the Highlands and Papua - and personal ambitions for leadership, but perhaps they can form together a federation; and, thirdly, some prospects of government under a democratic system rather than relapse into army or political dictatorship under some strong man, a few of whom can be seen today striving mightily with the cry. [More…]

• Europeans, the Chinese and the Mixed Race communities who will have to live under tensions and fears of violence because of the political paddling of a man whose party has as much hope of victory at the next elections as Rabaulites have of seeing snow on the Mother Volcano. [More…]

• Furthermore, before the white man came to the Rabaul area retention of land rights was by brute force. [More…]

• Hie only sacredness about Tolai land claims today is that the Tolais happened to be in power when the white man arrived. [More…]

• He is a man who could become a future leader of his country. [More…]

• Many an educated and sophisticated native has asked me where the Territory would get iiic money if ii received independence tomorrow. [More…]

• Those who saw him questioned on television must have felt extremely embarrassed and extremely ashamed of Australians who would take advantage of such a man and put him in that position where he showed how difficult it was for him to accept our standards and to know what he was really talking about. [More…]

• Those people who found out that I was a Labor man seemed to hold the view that the Mataungans had an argument which was not without merit. [More…]

• New Guinea and I have seen the indigenous people - man, wife and little child - at work shelling coffee beans. [More…]

• We know that the big white man boss would threaten them; otherwise they would not have been working flat out at the plantation at the time I was there. [More…]

• Able Seaman Killen would hate to have to refer to anyone in this way. [More…]

• I venture to say that when he was jackarooing in Queensland many years ago, never expecting to some into this Parliament and be become the Minister for the Navy, he never reduced himself to the level where he had to say to big man grazier: ‘Yes master, what do I do next’. [More…]

• Thus under the Government’s scheme a man supporting a wife and 2 children on $50 a week currently pays 3.91 per cent of taxable income for private health insurance, on $75 a week he pays 2.45 per cent of taxable income and when we get into the higher income brackets we find the cost amazingly less onerous. [More…]

• My interest in this has been developed over many years of having examined a lot of the health problems in my association with our health committee. [More…]

• I am not a medical man. [More…]

• It includes a hospital bill for so many days’ accommodation, X-rays, pathology and also a fee in about the fifth or sixth column for the assistance at the operation by the medical resident who assisted the specialist surgeon. [More…]

• Why was that particular amount arrived at in connection with the assistance given by a man who is on a fixed salary? [More…]

• If the assistance at the operation were given by a medical man the fee charged should be recoverable through the fund in exactly the same way. [More…]

• Many of these patients who may be insured are admitted to private hospitals which are subjected to inspection. [More…]

• In other words an effort is made to get them out of insurable private hospitals to uninsurable nursing homes where so many of them receive only $2 a day. [More…]

• It concerns a man who has been 50 years in a hospital benefits fund, has a chronically ill wife with brain damage in a nursing home but he cannot receive any benefit at all from his voluntary insurance. [More…]

• In this particular case the argument refers to Vietnam but of course it goes far beyond that because if it is proper to say to a young man - a soldier: Disobey a military order to go to Vietnam, if you do not want to go there’ then it is equally right to say to a soldier: ‘Disobey a military order to go to any theatre that you may say you do not wish to go to.’ [More…]

• The fact that this can be advocated publicly by the Leader of the Opposition - not by somebody outside Parliament, not by somebody seeking to attack the Vietnam war or the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam war, but by the Leader of the Opposition, the man who hopes some day to become Prime Minister - for him to advocate such an action is in fact an implication to which I referred at the beginning of this speech which has national significance. [More…]

• This, coming from a man in that position, has very, very grave implications indeed and, Mr Speaker, COL,1. [More…]

• This of course is the objective of many - those who take part in moratoriums and those who are members of the Communist Party. [More…]

• In the first place there is no inescapable obligation upon any young man in Australia to go to fight with the Army in Vietnam. [More…]

• If a young man has genuine conscientious beliefs then he can go before a court - that is, genuine conscientious objection to bearing arms at all or to taking part in any war. [More…]

• But, secondly, if a young man does not have that conscientious objection to war but objects to some particular theatre of war then there is provision in the law for that young man to join the Citizen Military Forces, in which case he cannot be called up and will not be called up to serve in a theatre to which he objects. [More…]

• Surely the law being what it is the right and proper advice to give to such a young man would be to say: ‘If that is how you feel then I can advise you this way. [More…]

• This is the first advice I give to a young man’, then what he is saying is this: ‘I show this young man a legal and proper way for him to obtain the objective that he seeks. [More…]

• I do not believe for one moment that that contention can hold any water in a country where parliaments make the law and people elect the parliaments but however that may be when there is a legal Act and there is a legal method of obtaining an objective - when a Leader of an Opposition in his capacity as adviser has pointed out that a legal method of avoiding the service required and is then prepared to go on - because an individual refuses to take a legal course - and advise an illegal course, and advise a young man to join the Army and to refuse to go to Vietnam or to any other place to which he does not want to go, then I believe there can be no more reprehensible or irresponsible thing than for a Leader of an Opposition in such a position to say: ‘There is a legal way that you can act but of course if you will not act in that way I advise you to act in an illegal way.’ [More…]

• The implications of this, coming from the source from which it comes, are very grave indeed for Australia and I believe that all Australians should ponder deeply the fact that that man who now leads the Opposition is prepared to urge - or rather let me say advise - a course of action which would lead to the inability to use our troops and is prepared to advise an illegal course of action when there exists a legal way of attaining the objective required. [More…]

• This is gong to result as I said, whether intentionally or not, in an attack upon our capacity to fight and in a real threat to the rule of law in this country, and it comes from a man who has sworn to uphold the law. [More…]

• He is under censure from the Government that knows it cannot maintain office because of its own performance, and which, therefore, tries to divert public attention from itself - to create at least a mild form of hysteria and persuade people that there are others whose faults are even greater than its own. [More…]

• First of all he said that if he were speaking to a man who already objected to the war in Vietnam he would tei) him what course he should take if in fact he were called up. [More…]

• And then the whole nation - pulpit and all - will take up the war cry and shout itself hoarse, and mob and honest man who ventures to open his mouth and presently such mouths will cease to open. [More…]

• It is their record which is on the conscience of this nation, with their selfrighteousness, their self-sufficiency and their unwillingness to give any credit to a young man who is prepared to undertake 2 years gaol for his conscience - a situation which I do not believe any honourable member opposite is capable of understanding. [More…]

• They emerge with an attack upon a man who was willing, at risk to his political popularity, to stand upon the principle that something must be done to help and advise these young men who happen to be in this position. [More…]

• Finally I suggest that if one is to refer back to his tory one would find that Lenin the protagonist and Kerensky the man with the aparent power formed a more realistic example of the current situation than one would even dare to imagine. [More…]

• This is strange coming from a man who ran out on his mates when they were helping him to pull down the signs of his electoral opponents. [More…]

• The man who is most under attack today is my Leader. [More…]

• He is the son of an ex-Crown Solicitor of the Commonwealth of Australia who was also Australia’s representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. [More…]

• His wife is the daughter of a late Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales who was also the Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]

• Mrs Whitlam, who is known to roost of us in this House as a charming, distinguished and friendly woman is herself a diplomate in social studies from the University of Sydney. [More…]

• Does this sound like a man who could be guilty of undermining law and order or of encouraging mutiny? [More…]

• 1 speak as a man who was a conscript in the 1939-45 war. [More…]

• I have the deepest sympathy for him because I have never seen a man who appeared to be more uncomfortable than he was. [More…]

• You put in the man with the warm feeling towards the Leader of the Opposition, his loyal supporter, the man who never whispers in the Library, the man who never leaks what happens in Caucus. [More…]

• I think the text of that interview should be read by all in Australia because it is indicative of how this man’s ego and desire for aggrandisement and position has allowed his sense of values to be completely lost and how, in his desire to gain office, he has, I think, lost what standing and what outlook he ever had. [More…]

• He criticised statements made in regard to the army service of a man convicted of murder following national service. [More…]

• The man who made those statements was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. [More…]

• A man should not have been forced into the Army when he had no intention of obeying orders, Mr Jess, MHR, said today. [More…]

• Sir Robert Menzies - the founder of the Liberal Party;the man who brought most of the honourable member’s opposite into this Parliament. [More…]

• The other day the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) asked a question in this Parliament. [More…]

• Included amongst those 9 is the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes), the man who is now putting men into gaol at this stage. [More…]

• We know that the law provides for the man who claims that he has a general conscientious belief against war. [More…]

• The laws have not always been easy or pleasant laws for many of the people to accept but the Australian community has shown a responsibility towards the maintenance of the rule of law over the last 100 years, a record of respect for laws democratically arrived at I would say there is no better record to be found in the world than the record we have. [More…]

• As a lawyer and a parliamentarian the Leader of the Opposition knows that there is an alternative for the young man who is not a conscientious objector to all wars but has an objection to fighting in Vietnam. [More…]

• Many have taken advantage of it. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is in his private capacity a professional man whose profession enables him to be turned to for advice. [More…]

• I say that if a young man came to this lawyer and said: ‘1 come to you professionally. [More…]

• I say that this has exposed the Leader of the Opposition as a man who in his political capacity is not acting in good faith when he urges his political party to embrace this policy of defiance of military law and propound it and convey it to all the young men who are troubled by the Vietnam war. [More…]

• What were the motives of the Leader of the Opposition in giving advice to young men when he knew that their problem could be solved without one man going to gaol. [More…]

• He would give a young man advice that would inevitably lead him to prison and cause him to have a stigma for the rest of his life. [More…]

• He would be a man with a record of military imprisonment, a record of defiance of authority, and his personal and private life would be thrown into disorder. [More…]

• It is embarrassing to the Government to have one man in gaol because he takes this stand. [More…]

• I point out that I have represented more persons of conscript age than any other man in this Parliament. [More…]

• Many men came to me as individuals or with their parents to seek my advice on this question. [More…]

• What if a man is conscientiously opposed to this unconscionable war in Vietnam? [More…]

• They are incensed at the fact that the war service homes administration is still bedevilled by restrictions which were imposed in 1951 and tightened in 1961 - restrictions which prevent a serving man from getting a second war service homes advance despite the fact that last year the Division made a profit of $22im. [More…]

• Hansard will demonstrate that I have shown as consistent an interest in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, war service homes, pay and allowances, training for ex-soldiers and educational opportunities for their children as any man who has served in this Parliament. [More…]

• No man in this place has had to represent more men affected by national service; no man has had the privilege of representing more men serving in the armed forces. [More…]

• I personally know half the colonels who have commanded the battalions which have served in Vietnam. [More…]

• He is a man of the same age as the Deputy Prime Minister. [More…]

• He is a man who, if he had any similar sense of public duty, would be retiring similarly. [More…]

• When he was a young man and went into Parliament - and I quote from the Queensland Hansard - he said: [More…]

• He used about me the same term that Mr Askin put up to him to use which he used against the other man whom Mr Askin has urged him to treat as the great ‘bogy man of the Labor movement - Mr Hawke. [More…]

• This is the way this right honourable gentleman, when he is at his very peak just after question time, describes everybody who happens to displease him. [More…]

• I disagree with the honourable member on many, if not most, things but I regard him as a man of integrity. [More…]

• I want to know whether it is true that a member of the Prime Minister’s own staff admitted that the picture had been faked and whether an officer of the Prime Minister’s own staff actually demonstrated to a Press man how it was faked and. [More…]

• It also appears that the Leader of the Opposition is not content merely to advise young men to break the law - to join the Army and to disobey a legitimate order - but be has gone further than that now by indicating that, if a young man joins the Army, does not have conscientious objections then, does go to Vietnam, but when he is in Vietnam develops some conscientious objections he should go to his commanding officer and say that he does not feel he could carry on there. [More…]

• T believe there is an attempt to divert attention from the further step taken by the Leader of the Opposition of saying that even when a man gets to Vietnam, if he does not like it and then develops some conscientious objection he should go to his commanding officer and say he cannot carry on there in Vietnam. [More…]

• I searched the records as quickly as I could and I can find no reference at all to where a Prime Minister’s integrity or his word of honour has been under impeachment as it now and where people are doubting the integrity of the man who holds the highest position in the land. [More…]

• This reminds me that the Prime Minister was not so careful about disguising or concealing the truth 2 or 3 years ago when it was suggested that the permanent head of the Department of Air should be brought before the bar of the House to deal with questions relative to the use of VIP aircraft. [More…]

• He got this job because death intervened and everybody in the Liberal Party was so impressed with the integrity and probity of the man who showed the Government up for the lies it was telling that they said: ‘A man like this is what we need at this moment. [More…]

• Of course we need a man like this.’ [More…]

• They needed a man like the man they thought he was, not the man he turned out to be. [More…]

• If it is true - and I am not saying it is because I am not allowed to say that - this man who sits at the table this minute, this man who struts the political stage as the chief Minister of the Government, is not fit to clean the toilets of Parliament House much less to hold the position of Prime Minister. [More…]

• They know that he is an upstanding man of great probity and dignity. [More…]

• No-one can destroy a man whose integrity is as high as that of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• It certainly did not please the Government agents who were walking around with Vietcong flags in order to be photographed and thus give a photograph bearing a resemblance of a man talking to a bunch of Vietcong agents. [More…]

• Is this the attitude of a man who can get up in this House and defend the Leader of the Opposition? [More…]

• But he wanted them to indulge in some sort of concerted mutiny and he wanted them to make it clear, at least to their commanding officers, that they would be very reluctant dragons and should not be sent into the field. [More…]

• There is not a great deal of difference between what the Leader of the Opposition said and what the despised Mr Crawford - the man rejected from the Party - said in Victoria. [More…]

• They have to stick together on this issue because the integrity of the man who keeps a lot of them, like the Minister for Social Services, in the Ministry, is under challenge, and whether he is right or wrong he must be defended along Party lines. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is not a man who normally goes around with his eyes closed. [More…]

• the man of destiny that he is, could see that the position was going to slip from his grasp because of some stupid thing he had said. [More…]

• I really suspect that the Leader of the Opposition himself, being a man of destiny he claims to be, will realise that many thousands of Australian people are genuinely concerned that the Leader of the Opposition and some of his supporters should, while making anti-Vietnam speeches, be seen to be so patriotically attached to the Vietcong flag that they should make speeches under the Vietcong flag. [More…]

• Was it achieved by trimming off the surrounds, allegedly removing evidence of a roadway between the man and the flag? [More…]

• But that is humbug because every version of the photograph shows a vehicle on that roadway between the man and the flag. [More…]

• This is the man who took over the first Moratorium from the parsons. [More…]

• Later, the honourable member for Lalor, who took over the chairmanship of the committee, announced that the dates had been changed to 8th May and 10th May. [More…]

• There was a man who was sticking by the tenets of his Church, pronounced and reiterated again and again on a State and national basis. [More…]

• Manly, to write through the columns of the ‘Sydney Morning Herald* in these terms: [More…]

• We thought that in would come a man on a charger with a long lance, who would drive a wound into the Government’s side. [More…]

• We have become accustomed to the honourable gentleman at every opportunity on the public media saying, pointing to himself: T, [More…]

• This is the man of destiny, so anointed, but the modesty that he suddenly adopted fell like the sham it was at a later point when he reverted to the usual form: ‘When I am Prime Minister and when I am Foreign Minister.’ [More…]

• So spake the Leader of the Opposition, the man of destiny anointed by the Almighty, the man who mixes with the greats and in mixing with the greats puts into his language words which you. [More…]

• I do not admire this attitude in any man but I find it reprehensible out of the mouth- [More…]

• This provides the opportunity for us to examine the man who spoke last, the Leader of the Opposition, making the allegations he did against the Prime Minister. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has said a lot of things which do not bear repetition, but let us come to the point of the motion. [More…]

• I told the Caucus that if I were asked by a man who objected to the Vietnam war as to the course he should take I would give this advice: He should register and at the time of doing so give written advice that if he was inducted and ordered to go to Vietnam he would not obey that order. [More…]

• Never have I said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam. [More…]

• On Monday night the Leader of the Opposition said that a young man on service in Vietnam who decided it was a bad war should notify his commanding officer that be cannot conscientiously continue. [More…]

• How does that line up with his words ‘Never have I said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam’? [More…]

• Not only did he shift the geography from Australia to Vietnam on Monday night; he very seriously elevated the level of condemnation of the young man’s fighting comrades, if he should follow that advice. [More…]

• Let me tell the whole House, Mr Speaker, that the performance of the Prime Minister has been to the satisfaction of every man on this side of the House and, I believe, to the satisfaction of the majority of the people of Australia. [More…]

• When the time comes it will be tested and both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition as people, both of whom I know and have seen over many years, will go before the people and there is no doubt where, in my judgment, the people’s vote will go. [More…]

• But what is more important, there is no doubt about where, on the objective judgment of their performance, it ought to go. [More…]

• But I wonder how many of those honourable members who are laughing can say that in the privacy of their own mind they support a Leader of the Opposition who makes those divisive and derisive statements. [More…]

• A Justice of the Peace who has been sitting on the bench for many years finds that his hands are tied and he can do nothing but commit a man to gaol for something that is obviously a psychiatric matter, whether it is alcoholism or the effect of the pressures of modern day life on the Aboriginals or, in very many cases, on the itinerants who come to the north. [More…]

• Fortunately, since that time there has been a report to Australian parliamentarians by a leading social psychologist, a man in this very field that was recommended to me by the Minister’s office. [More…]

• But what would a man from Mars think looking on at this war and seeing what is happening in Vietnam about our motives- [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the proposals by the Australian Labor Party meant the imposition of a levy type charge on a person’s earnings over a year ;md that if a man’s wife was working she would be required to pay the levy too.- The present scheme in Queensland operates in this way. [More…]

• On the other hand it represents the dispensing of 70 million prescriptions in a year, and that is a lot of prescriptions; involving many millions of man-hours of professional service to fill. [More…]

• If we see a man counting out 100 capsules or mixing up 4 oz of ointment there is not much point in trying to find out how much of the end cost of the product should be ascribed to rent, the window cleaner, telephone, wrapping paper and so on. [More…]

• But I want to deal with the destruction of our environment by machines made by man, such as the bulldozer. [More…]

• Such a disaster - such destruction - created by so-called progressive man should never have been permitted in the 1970s. [More…]

• In many countries, particularly the United States and some of the European Economic Community countries, farm acreages are being restricted. [More…]

• In many cases the governments are purchasing farms and allowing them to revert to their natural environment. [More…]

• The people should share in the beauty and prosperity and I hope that the stupidity of man, as was illustrated with the destruction of Bellbird Hill, will not be evident again. [More…]

• Gone is the Australian tradition by which every man has a home or his own block of land in which he has a garden and there is the opportunity for his family to play and to grow in dignity. [More…]

• The pity of it is that so many of the people who are forced to accept this accommodation are migrants who have come to this country to escape this type of crowded community development so that their children might have a better future. [More…]

• L wonder whether the honourable member for Swan realises that when capital cities like Sydney and Melbourne are fully developed it is impossible to do as he suggests in relation to the age old tradition of a man, his home and his garden. [More…]

• Proximity to work and the need for all manner of things require them to live on their own so, in this sort of circumstance, high density housing is a necessity for 25 per cent of the population. [More…]

• I base this claim on many years of experience. [More…]

• The political future of the Northern Territory demands this, lt would enable a different type of man to seek election to the Legislative Council and the Territory would be far better off if there were a realistic approach to the question of remuneration of members. [More…]

• We had to wait for the Chifley Labor Government in the late 1940s after the war to set about finding solutions to the many problems that confronted Australia on the road to post-war rehabilitation. [More…]

• The evidence of sound governmental planning by Mr Chifley and his government has been manifest for the last 20 years or more. [More…]

• In so many ways the succeeding governments, including this one, have followed the guidelines that were soundly laid down 20 years ago. [More…]

• Mr Chifley’s inherent ability to find the right man for the right job led him to choose the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell), as he now is, to institute an immigration policy. [More…]

• This is surely a tribute to the man who conceived it. [More…]

• Despite resistance from a number of areas and a number of institutions we have been able to persuade many institutes, organisations and trade unions to accept the qualifications of migrants. [More…]

• The man who is receiving a salary or wages and is enjoying a decent standard of living in Australia is the best market which the Australian primary producer could ever hope to have. [More…]

• This young man applied for naturalisation, but his request has not been acceded to. [More…]

• If this is so, it reminds me somewhat of the man who was linguistically at the crossroads in an East German hotel where he made a valiant attempt to write in English a sign which said: ‘Do not enter the lift backwards and only when lit up’. [More…]

• 1 do not agree with the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh) that there is a general consensus that migration is at the crossroads. [More…]

• So many of the families are outside any kind of community activity. [More…]

• Even the comradeship of work is denied them because the man works here, the women works there, and by the time they meet it is to get some rest for the next day’s grind. [More…]

• In many cases the only individuals they ever meet are those who want to sell them something. [More…]

• In many cases these disengaged people are robbed by those who pretend to serve them. [More…]

• While they are still unmarried they may earn money that our fathers would have been amazed to contemplate as an ordinary working man’s wages. [More…]

• One of the first pieces of advice given to a young man who seeks to avoid his military obligations and who seeks to do so before he registers is that he should leave the country if he can and not return before his twenty-sixth birthday. [More…]

• have too many people sabotaging our national servicemen and our national effort, including members of the Opposition and particularly the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• 1 would like to see every young man do national service - military training. [More…]

• It is a fact of life that in an emergency every able bodied man in this country would have to carry arms. [More…]

• It would not take very much longer to knock a man into shape. [More…]

• I have nothing but disgust for the young man who is not prepared to learn to bear arms so that in an emergency he is able to effectively defend this country. [More…]

• I have no respect for the man who is not prepared to get up and fight. [More…]

• I am critical of those who are not prepared to do what that man did. [More…]

• Every election in which we elect a young man who is of military age to this place on a Liberal Party-Country Party ticket is an exercise in national humiliation. [More…]

• Only the other day a young man in South Australia was sent to prison for 2 years. [More…]

• In Whyalla there have been many disputes in recent times. [More…]

• many of these disputes would not have occurred. [More…]

• One dispute which I recall concerned a man who refused to join a union because of his reigious beliefs. [More…]

• After all, a blind man could see that the first nuclear power station in this country would not be set up for the prime purpose of producing the cheapest power of all time. [More…]

• It has many greater implications than that. [More…]

• The second thing is that no union accepts a man’s claim to be a conscientious objector merely because he says he has a conscientious objection. [More…]

• The most notable case was Monaghan’s case in June 1967 when a young man was exempted because the magistrate found he had a conscientious belief with respect to serving in the military forces at the present time. [More…]

• Under it, a magistrate could sincerely believe that a young man objects to all wars at all times and in all circumstances. [More…]

• To test this, he could put to the man a hypothetical question on the folowing lines: ‘Would your beliefs prevent you from bearing arms if at some future time Australia is invaded and your family is directly threatened?’ [More…]

• To sustain his objection the young man would have to answer: Yes’. [More…]

• Under the Court’s interpretation there is an obligation on a young man to predict the beliefs and convictions of a lifetime if he is to be exempted as a conscientious objector. [More…]

• Quite obviously, a young man of 20 cannot say with certainty what his beliefs will be at 30 or 40 or 50. [More…]

• This young man was recently released from prison after the judge found he was a conscientious objector under changes in the National Service Regulations which are still before the Parliament. [More…]

• As interpreted by the Courts and with the onus of proof on the claimant, the present administration of the conscientious objection is excessively severe. [More…]

• Obviously a young man will not go through the most difficult and agonising legal test of all - the public exposure and test of conscience - unless he is motivated by his most deeply held beliefs. [More…]

• For example a man might object to the use of napalm or the practice of classing civilian occupied territory as freefire zones. [More…]

• He said that a young man applying for exemption on the grounds of conscientious objection would have the question put to him: ‘Would your belief prevent you bearing arms if there was an invasion and your family was threatened?’ [More…]

• To that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition says the young man must answer ‘Yes’ in order to be granted exemption on the grounds of conscientious objection. [More…]

• One thing that is abundantly clear is that you cannot give conscientious objector status to any man simply on the claiming of it. [More…]

• No country in the world will give conscientious objector status to a man simply because he claims it, especially when acceptance of his claim to conscientious objection removes him from any liability to service, as distinct from the position of his colleagues who have to render service. [More…]

• But a third and more cogent reason for this debate today is the attempt by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to align the whole of the parliamentary Labor Party with his statements of the week before last, which were quite irresponsible for a man who is Her Majesty’s loyal Leader of the Opposition and who so constantly reminds us that he is the alternative Prime Minister. [More…]

• Quite clearly, the Parliamentary Party, possessing as it does very many responsible and serious men, does not embrace those statements, lt is worth remembering what they were. [More…]

• I told the Caucus that if I were asked by a man who objected to the Vietnam war as to the course he should take, I would give this advice: He should register and at the time of doing so give written advice that if he was inducted and ordered to go to Vietnam he would not obey that order. [More…]

• Never have 1 said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam. [More…]

• The necessary consequence of this proposal is that a young man would disobey orders in Vietnam because he would say: ‘1 have a conscientious conviction against this fire pattern’; ‘I have a conscientious objection against taking this ridge’; ‘I have a conscientious objection against scouting, lo prevent surprise attack on some other elements in the force’. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Leader of the Opposition knew when he said: Never have I said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam’ that within 48 hours he was going to do exactly what he said he had never done. [More…]

• that a young man on service in Vietnam who decided it was a bad war should notify his commanding officer thai he could not conscientiously continue. [More…]

• It is another to accord a special status to a man who believes that there is an inner conviction which tells him he can undertake military service under some circumstances and not under others. [More…]

• The Commission members considered that ‘selective pacifism’ is essentially a political question of support or non-support of a war and cannot be judged in terms of inner convictions, (as distinct from views and opinions a man may hold). [More…]

• There are many reasons why a man who is fully prepared to be a soldier of Australia should object to the war in Vietnam, without being what is normally understood by the designation ‘conscientious objector”, and there may be future contingencies in which this will again be true. [More…]

• Although the United States commands the Pacific with overwhelming naval superiority, the port of Haiphong is not blockaded. [More…]

• What is a man who may not be a conscientious objector to make of that? [More…]

• What does a man who may not be a conscientious objector to war in general make of that? [More…]

• In the thinking of many Vietnamese the mandate from heaven, the accolade of legitimate government, passed from Diem after his assassination to Ho Chi Minh. [More…]

• He argued that if Americans dealt as they had done with a man who had been as faithful to them as Diem had been, he, Sihanouk, could not afford to have them around. [More…]

• Asians are tired of the white man’s government, tired of the white man’s economic exploitation and, above all, tired of the white man’s contempt. [More…]

• If a young nian does not have that conscientious objection to war but objects to some particular theatre of war then there is provision in the law for that young man to join the Citizen Military Forces, in which case he cannot be called up and will not be called up to serve in a theatre to which he objects. [More…]

• As a lawyer and a parliamentarian the Leader of the Opposition knows that there is an alternative for the young man who is not a conscientious objector to all wars but has an objection to fighting in Vietnam. [More…]

• Many have taken advantage of it . [More…]

• If it is accepted that it is right that a man should have a conscientious objection to one theatre then it must be accepted that he is allowed to have it about all theatres, and this is what- [More…]

• First of all, there is an attempt to pretend that there is no other way in which a young man who may be called up and who has objections to going to Vietnam or to any other theatre could avoid that possibility, and an attempt to pretend that if that young man joins the CMF then he is not thereby excused from that kind of service - an old legal attempt to pretend that there is something in this. [More…]

• That has been accepted by the Australian people and that, in all common sense, is an alternative, and a proper alternative, to get the young man for whom the Leader of the Opposition says he is so concerned out of the obligation to carry out his service. [More…]

• The person with a taxable income of $500 cannot avoid paying sales tax because it is imposed on such articles as shaving necessities, hair oil, face powders, body powders, which include baby powders, many toilet preparations, wireless sets, television sets, motor cars and all articles which any man, wife and family would normally use - even toys. [More…]

• The poor old man does not escape this inequitable sales tax either. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) was another sturdy freedom fighter for the primary producers, but he is the most silent man in the House on the subject. [More…]

• Take the case of a man with a 25-acre vineyard from which he takes 100 tons of grapes for wine and 60 tons for spirits. [More…]

• After all, if a company collects a premium for motor vehicle insurance from a man, he could have an accident the following day. [More…]

• It is only the lurk man who will want to do if. [More…]

• It means that a man has more of his earnings at his disposal to spend as he wishes and if he does not care to buy those items on which the excise or sales tax has been increased that is for him to decide. [More…]

• This is what the Government is doing; it will place the man on the low income in a worse position comparatively than he is at present. [More…]

• Surely this has not been corrected by simply leaving a man on an income of $50,000, for example, at the same rate of tax and then reducing the man on only $1,000 by $5.33. [More…]

• Let us take, for instance, a man with a wife and 2 children who is completely unskilled and therefore can accept work only of a labouring nature. [More…]

• That man will attract only the minimum wage. [More…]

• This man would finish up with a taxable income of $1,300. [More…]

• The man to whom I referred who earns $40 per week and finishes up with a taxable income of $1,300 has an amount of $38.17 a week left, after paying tax under the present scale. [More…]

• If the taxable income were $2,500, which would mean that the man was earning more than $60 a week, the proposed tax reductions would give each member of his family the colossal increased spending power of 16c a week or. [More…]

• The fact is that the Government’s decision to increase sales tax will gather in the amount to be granted in the proposed reductions in income tax in many cases, and as a matter of fact in some cases the amount granted by way of relief in income rax will not be sufficient to meet the increases in sales tax. [More…]

• But if we take a man who has a taxable income of $13,000 up to and including a taxable income of $16,000. [More…]

• But under the proposed rates the man who has an actual income of $2,000 will receive a tax reduction of $146.58, if his taxable deductions are $1,000, while, as I said earlier, the taxpayer whose actual income is $20,000 will receive a reduction of $639.60. [More…]

• Now, the effect of that deduction is that if a man with an actual income of $3,000 took out the permissible maximum assurance of $1,200 - it is not likely that he would because he could not afford to do so; but if he did - it would mean that, in effect, he actually pays $944 for the insurance. [More…]

• But if a man with an actual income of $20,000 took out that insurance, his taxation reduction would mean that, in effect, his insurance cost him only $353 or thereabouts. [More…]

• the man on - the high income obtains the same amount of insurance cover but at a cost which is approximately $590 less per year than what the man on the low income has to pay. [More…]

• In other words the individual consumer - the man in the street - pays 50 per cent more than all the major companies of Australia put together. [More…]

• For example, in the period 1954-55 to 1968-69, during which average weekly earnings doubled, a man on $1,500 net taxable income in 1954-55 and whose income kept pace with average weekly earnings would have had his tax increased by 277 per cent; That is his income went up 100 per cent and his tax up 277 per cent - 2i times the rate of Increase in his salary. [More…]

• On a net taxable income of $6,000 per year which increased to $12,000 over the same period the tax increase would be 206 per cent while the man on $16,000 whose income increased to $32,000 would have seen his tax increase by a comparatively low 153 per cent. [More…]

• lt is truly said that a married man gives hostages to fortune. [More…]

• In other matters, such as allowances for fares or the cost involved in the running of a motor car from a man’s place of residence to his place of employment, this Government has persistently over the years refused to give the slightest taxation concession. [More…]

• It is not merely a matter of what the man gets in the pay packet. [More…]

• As to the fairness of the incidence of taxation let us look at the position of a man with a wife and 2 children and let us take an average net taxable income of $2,000 per year. [More…]

• The nominal concessional deduction for that man and his family is $676. [More…]

• In the case of a man with a wife and 2 children who is in receipt of $3,000 per year the concession is worth $329 per annum. [More…]

• What we really need is a reverse tapered concessional deduction for a man with a wife and family. [More…]

• Even be, of all people, had to rebuke manufacturers for the exorbitant price increases they were imposing and which bad no relationship to increased costs. [More…]

• In Tasmania last week there was a rebuke delivered by the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) in respect of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]

• I am disturbed to hear him speak because every time he rises to his feet he becomes a man who trades iri gloom and doom. [More…]

• how this meshes into a broad long-term plan proposing adequate welfare services for the benefit of the whole community and of the whole man. [More…]

• Many of these unfortunate people require special attention. [More…]

• They had just provided authorisation for a grant of several thousands of dollars to a former lumber man who had been injured in a work accident and had had a leg amputated. [More…]

• There is no requirement at all on this man to repay this money. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s proposal is to set up, as I have mentioned many times before, regional departments of social welfare harnessing the co-operative support of the State governments, local authorities and voluntary agencies. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Public Service is pretty demanding as far as physical fitness is concerned. [More…]

• It is pretty quick to retire a man or to reduce his status if he does not measure up to its standards. [More…]

• It attempted to discredit a man who had put his time and money into a protest against the present crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• The South Australian delegation apparently was betrayed by a man who sold his farmer neighbours out for political endorsement. [More…]

• J am quite capable of managing it. [More…]

• I think it was a miserable action to try to label and to denegrate a man who gave his time and his dedication only for his family and his neighbours in the countryside. [More…]

• The individual has rights, and in a world increasingly indifferent to liberty and individualism, a man’s remaining rights must be respected. [More…]

• In the time that is available to me I cannot put on record the whole of this man’s letter. [More…]

• But as this man has said, some of the agents are charging fares as high as $500 and $567. [More…]

• He said that a young man should obey the Jaw only as far and as long as his conscience allowed. [More…]

• In the unions membership is not only to be mandatory, but once a man is enrolled he is to be tied to union decisions. [More…]

• He will not be be able to opt out of a strike, for instance, as a national serviceman may opt out of service in Vietnam. [More…]

• Here is a man in business in South Australia whose firm has had no compunction in going to the waterfront and causing stevedoring operations to cease whilst it uses a ship, that ship’s gear and its cargo, that does not belong to it and is not imported for it, for the purpose of making television advertisements. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Labour and National Service, concerns a constituent of mine who holds a certificate under section 47 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act saying that he has satisfied the Industrial Registrar that his conscientious beliefs do not allow him to be a member of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, ls the Minister aware that this man has recently been sacked - obviously for not belonging to a union? [More…]

• The inquiries that I have made disclose that a solicitor in Sydney, who customarily acts for people of the particular religious sect to which this man belongs, had contacted my Department in early October because the young man concerned had been told by his employer that he would be dismissed. [More…]

• In fact, the young man did that and did obtain acertificate. [More…]

• It was recognised that the man did have conscientious objection. [More…]

• The employers were asked not to dismiss the young man. [More…]

• I do not so recall the 2 statements made by the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• Nonetheless if the man is in prison and it appears to be for an unjust reason I would make inquiries to see whether there was any action that the Government can take. [More…]

• These people arrived in Tasmania. [More…]

• If I were the Minister I would sack this man, because he acted before he even had the chance to get the report back from the investigating officers who were in the plant. [More…]

• When the man realised he had made a mistake, to cover up he sent a telegram of more than 400 words down to the plant listing more and more defects. [More…]

• In the whole of this young man’s career, because of his effort and because of the facilities of Bedford Industries, he has never been a pensioner. [More…]

• This boy, now a man, is a spray painter working successfully in outside industry. [More…]

• Mr Chairman, I wish to delay the House but a short time. [More…]

• Insofar as our relations with the States would be concerned, he set about putting up a straw man, fulminating against it with fury and futility. [More…]

• It is obvious to anyone who has taken an interest in psychiatric services in Australia that Dr Barclay has many advanced ideas on what ought to be done in this field. [More…]

• Hs is a man who, if given the opportunity through adequate financial support, will develop an extremely valuable community psychiatric health service. [More…]

• Most of the major diseases of the body are beginning to give ground in man’s increasing struggle to find their cause and cure. [More…]

• This advice by a man who would be supreme in his knowledge of atomic fission would be well followed. [More…]

• Bronhill, Frank Ifield, Rolf Harris, Frank Thring, John Serge, Lana Cantrell, The Seekers, the Bee Gees, Cathie Goreham, who is a world leading ballet dancer; and writers such as Morris West, famous for the book ‘Shoes of the Fisherman’, Ralph Smart of the ‘Danger Man* series, John Cleary, John O’Grady, Eric Taylor, Chris Beard, Patrick White and Ray Lawler. [More…]

• Let us take the statement regarding wheat and the $1.10 payment, which was made by Mr Young, the Federal Secretary of the Australian Labor Party and the man running the Victorian Branch of the Labor Party. [More…]

• Of all types of human undertaking education has been the slowest to respond to change in this century of change. [More…]

• The complexity of the learning process itself is a process very vaguely understood by comparison with relatively simple matters like sending a man to the moon or building aircraft like the Fill. [More…]

• But I think the honourable gentleman would be making a mistake if he said that these people deserve only sympathy - which they do - but that the community should not be protected from them. [More…]

• I think that a pusher who is not a user is a person without conscience and is wreaking havoc on his fellow man. [More…]

• But at the present time the infantryman, the rifleman, is to a certain extent at the lower end of the pay scale. [More…]

• But surely everybody realises that all these specialists are there basically in time of war to do one thing, that is, to service the rifleman who is in time of war the most important man in the whole team. [More…]

• Further, the five man Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee - all members arc public servants - should have high level representation from each of the Services. [More…]

• Would the honourable gentleman suggest that witnessed should be paraded, that counsel should be there to assist the inquiry and that it should have all the accoutrement of a judicial inquiry? [More…]

• It is with infinite respect that I say that the man who will preside over this inquiry has one of the best furnished minds in this country. [More…]

• It is readily conceded on all sides that the one who will preside over it, Mr Justice Kerr, is able, highly intelligent and a man of the utmost integrity and of wide and varied experience. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) is well known in this House as a man who has a keen and informed interest in defence matters. [More…]

• This man has an entitlement to speak on behalf of Service personnel. [More…]

• allow the honourable member for Wills, as a man who has served this country for 25 years, who has seen active service and who was wounded while he was serving his country, to put the servicemen’s point of view. [More…]

• As a member of the Australian Country Party I want to say that all our members in all States wish to thank the Postmaster-General for the manner in which he has handled their deputations and the result which has come about. [More…]

• This has pleased so many people who are worthy of the best deal we can give them. [More…]

• The man goes away to the markets and the wife and children are left alone on the farm. [More…]

• The district telephone manager is Mr Gilshenan. [More…]

• Not only is he the manager of the district telephone office but he is a colonel or major in the local branch of the Citizen Military Forces and a man with great public endeavour who wishes to do what he can. [More…]

• Mr Thornton is the next man to him and both these gentlemen have come along readily when I have called meetings of subscribers. [More…]

• I pay a tribute to Mr Madden, the District Telephone Manager, and Mr McGregor, who is, I think, second in charge. [More…]

• I am not sure whether there has been some change in the district telephone manager there recently. [More…]

• As far as the postal business is concerned we also have a district postal manager at Mildura, Mr Harry Allen. [More…]

• No-one could expect to get a better man anywhere to give service. [More…]

• He handles the meeting in a workmanlike manner and it is appreciated not only by me as the representative of thousands of people but by the people with whom he comes in contact. [More…]

• In the electorate which I represent there have been renovations to post offices in modern times at Robinvale, Mildura, Kerang, Swan Hill and many other places. [More…]

• I speak with appreciation of the Department and the man who is at its head. [More…]

• The unpredictability of this matter of public importance can be judged by the actions and words of the man quoted so often by the honourable member for Hindmarsh in his speech, that is Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]

• In our egalitarian society, where we judge that a man’s skill ought to be rewarded by the possession of skill, his willingness to work and the way in which he works, we believe that wages should be determined by relative wage justice and not by the possession of industrial power. [More…]

• Why should not a young man do a trade course in-one of the Services for a few years before returning to civilian life? [More…]

• With such a system of random selection, the Minister seems to be saying: You must on the laws of chance pick up a wealthy man or a university graduate or a son of one of the privileged families. [More…]

• In the remaining time I wish to discuss service personnel, for what is the use of having this sophisticated equipment if the men who man it are brassed off? [More…]

• Many of us have been very concerned for a long time about service pay and conditions. [More…]

• In so doing I note that the chairman of the committee of inquiry happens to be a 2nd AIF man. [More…]

• Never have I said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam. [More…]

• T told the Caucus that if I were asked by a man who objected to the Vietnam war as to the course he should take I would give this advice: He should register and at the time of doing so give written advice that if he was inducted and ordered to go to Vietnam he would not obey that order. [More…]

• Never have 1 said that a man should not obey orders in Vietnam. [More…]

• The Federal Opposition Leader, Mr Whitlam, said last night that a young man on service in Vietnam who decided it was a bad war should notify his commanding officer that he could not conscientiously continue. [More…]

• Never have I said that a man should not obey orders in Viertnam. [More…]

• He referred to the rifleman. [More…]

• How will we replace the rifleman by the volunteer? [More…]

• We will not replace the rifleman, as a volunteer, by paying him no matter what we will unless the cause is just and something worth fighting for. [More…]

• No-one is going to join the Army to become a rifleman in a cause which most people in Australia reject. [More…]

• How many wealthy, privileged and educated end up as riflemen now? [More…]

• What happens to the man who is at the university and who is in the proper age group? [More…]

• Does he end up as a rifleman in Vietnam? [More…]

• What should we pay a man who walks continuously on the brink of danger? [More…]

• General Brogan, General Officer Commanding Eastern Command, has estimated that his own command is 1,000 mcn below strength, and his command is probably better off than others in Australia. [More…]

• What happens to the young man who turns up at the local citizen forces unit and says: ‘I want to join up’? [More…]

• The only inquiries I have made lead me to believe that as soon as the recruiting officer wakes up to the fact that the young man is seeking an alternative service to national service he sets up a pattern of inhibitions. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister for the Army was treated by LieutenantColonel Forward as an office boy on a man’s errand. [More…]

• He had to be humiliated because the man he attacked was a Liberal Minister. [More…]

• This man, one of the leading Navy men of the time, contravened the regulations and he was pulled into line. [More…]

• I put it on record that the reason why he would not rebuke him was because a Labor man was involved. [More…]

• His Walter Mitty performance this evening has prevailed upon me to say a word or two- He has complained with, I thought, a mock sense of anger about one law for Labor, one law for Liberal. [More…]

• I just want to bring the honourable gentleman back to his muttons about this matter. [More…]

• I want to say to the honourable gentleman that it is a pretty old defence as far as our existence is concerned that one can fall back on provocation. [More…]

• If ever there was a glaring example of provocation given by anyone to any person ever serving in any armed Service it was offered by a Labor senator to a man serving in the field, facing angry men and being shot at. [More…]

• As far as the honourable member for Oxley is concerned I would be the closest to an angry man he has ever seen in his life. [More…]

• Surely noone can use so many words in as much time as he does to say as little as he says. [More…]

• I must be fair about this and concede quite willingly that the Minister is a man of some literary merit himself. [More…]

• I remember the honourable gentleman asking me a question concerning the whereabouts of Mr Francis James. [More…]

• We will continue to do all we can to help this man and if I can get any worthwhile information 1 will immediately convey it to the House. [More…]

• If a judgment were to be made on that alone, on the grounds that a man’s worthiness or unworthiness, goodness or badness, capacity or incapacity is to be judged by the colour of his skin, then that approach could not, I think, be justified on moral grounds. [More…]

• The question that the honourable gentleman raises is one of very considerable difficulty in the industrial area. [More…]

• I think the way in which the honourable gentleman put his question was to ask whether 1 would use influence with the Queensland Government to achieve a result. [More…]

• Equally, of course, the honourable gentleman will know that recently the High Court ruled that fire fighting was not an industry. [More…]

• will be very glad to receive him because he happens to be a man whom I have known for very many years and like as a nian. [More…]

• I do not confirm nor- do I deny the allegation implicit in the question, but it is true that all 6 men appeared in a Sydney Court on Saturday morning and notwithstanding the alleged possession of $400,000 worth of amphetamines one man was granted bail of $300; two were granted bail of $500; one obtained bail at $1,200 and two at, I believe, $2,000. [More…]

• I think it is a tribute to him as a man who is probably in his mid-70s that he is able to speak with such eloquence, indeed with more eloquence than anybody else on the Government side and in such a visionary way. [More…]

• lt, is unfortunate that there are too many others dragging the chain about this matter and who lack those visionary qualities. [More…]

• The premium on a total loan for 30 years, or however many years it is, is at the rate of only11/2 per cent, which is added to the loan and is included inthe weekly payments the home owner makes. [More…]

• The Corporation must create proper reserves but it does not seek a profit and to the average working man in Australia and the average person on medium and low incomes this is a magnificent encouragement to own his own home because he can obtain finance on a very low deposit. [More…]

• This works hand in hand with the building society movement in Australia, particularly the permanent building society movement. [More…]

• As far as housing is concerned, I am not playing politics and I challenge any man to say that I am playing politics regarding primary industry because everywhere in the country we can see what is happening while the cities are booming. [More…]

• I would like to quote from a statement of a man who was very much involved in the Fill, the TFX. [More…]

• A man can change or suppress his political views but he cannot change the colour of his skin. [More…]

• Has any honourable member opposite ever thought of the fact that there is the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT stored up in nuclear weapons for every man, woman and child on this earth today. [More…]

• Those were the comments of a highly informed man such as Denis Warner in those times, and since those days the recent 1970 statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been along the same lines. [More…]

• But what on earth is the same man saying today, or is there noi an election round the corner? [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) has, unfortunately, not been able to equate with the times since he had an unfortunate experience as an ex-serviceman, so we will leave it at that. [More…]

• But if I might get back to the point of view of the Labor Party, what did a man named Dr Evatt say about 22 years ago? [More…]

• On that day an Aboriginal man was jailed for 2 years with hard labour for attempting unlawfully to use a motor vehicle. [More…]

• The man was said to have a lengthy criminal record including a number of charges for unlawfully using motor vehicles. [More…]

• The black man gets 2 years for attempting to unlawfully use a car, the white men are put on probation for 5 separate offences of breaking and entering. [More…]

• At the moment we have the situation in which the arts are not for every man by any manner or means. [More…]

• i suppose 1 am no more inquisitive than the average man, but I would like to know whether we are still paying - and whether it falls within the ambit of the Prime Minister’s Department - for one of the greatest political farces of all time. [More…]

• The House ought to be informed how many people are on the silent list. [More…]

• We ought to be told how many other Governors-General and what-have-you are on this list. [More…]

• The sums of money that were involved in the case of the 2 Governors-General who received some publicity were far in excess to what I consider they were entitled to in view of the salaries which they commanded during their term of office. [More…]

• I will leave the question of how this man carried out his job to the thoughts of honourable members. [More…]

• The gentleman to whom I referred is still in employment. [More…]

• But coming down to the grass roots, I say that this man ought not to be treated any differently from those who have paid taxes during the whole of their working lives and are denied by this Government the right to receive lc of that money in return during their retirement. [More…]

• We find, for example, that 150 years ago around Sydney and around the west of Victoria, 30 or 40 years later, that many people believed that all they had to do with the Aboriginals was to break up their civilisation or culture and to Europeanise them as quickly as possible and that all would be well. [More…]

• For example, there is nobody in Australian history who would have approached this problem with a greater degree of sincerity and dedication than Robinson of Tasmania. [More…]

• Yet his endeavours failed because, I believe, he was trying to Europeanise too fast and trying to bring these Tasmanians - I am talking now of a century ago - indirectly into the European framework without giving them the chance of a reasonable transition. [More…]

• He was a man for whose dedication we all have in retrospect the most unstinted admiration, and yet we see the unhappy result of what he was trying to do. [More…]

• As some magical solution to the problem, the Government must believe that 2 can live as cheaply as 1 woman - that is, not a man and a woman. [More…]

• One hopes that room will be found for such persons in the sickness benefit pensions in the future, or that some provision will be made to allow a pensioner to obtain a minimum payment as a married man to enable him to maintain a wife, just as the arbitration courts provide for a married man with a wife when considering his minimum wage. [More…]

• Why should an elderly man of pensionable age be forced to continue to work just because he wishes to support a younger wife? [More…]

• A Service pension may be granted in the case of a man of 60 years or a woman of 55 years provided he or she has served in a theatre of war at a rate not exceeding the maximum payable if he or she were qualified to receive the age pension. [More…]

• But a war pension is not given to any man as an income; it is designed to cover a disability. [More…]

• The Federal President of the Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Soldiers’ Association in one of his letters referred to the disability pension and said that the war pension should have no connection whatever with the age pension. [More…]

• The TPI man can have a big income and still get the TPI pension. [More…]

• As an ex-serviceman in Australia the British migrant is on the same footing as an Australian who is not an ex-serviceman and who has to participate in the contributory national health scheme. [More…]

• If he were in the United Kingdom he would receive free hospital and medical benefits by virtue of his capacity as an ex-serviceman. [More…]

• This seems to highlight the unreality of determining a man’s entitlement by reference to circumstance and conditions outside Australia. [More…]

• [ think at one stage he said that the UnderTreasurer in Western Australia, if that is the title that the gentleman has, was to be commended for finding this growth tax. [More…]

• f would think that the man who thought up this form of taxation would be suffering nightmares for the rest of his life because he had been forced by the activities of the Commonwealth Government to impose this form of regressive tax on the people. [More…]

• But there has been a recognition by both sides of politics in Australia that man does not live by bread alone and that there are finer things and other forms of social services that should be considered. [More…]

• But day after day many tragic cases are brought to my notice. [More…]

• When an old man is deprived of wealth or friendship, at least he can go into the Lidcombe Old Men’s Home and still receive $3 or $4 of his pension which he can use to buy the ordinary amenities, such as tobacco or cigarettes, or to have a SOc bet on a horse or a dog. [More…]

• The increase takes a single man to the princely sum of $15.50 per week. [More…]

• If my memory serves me rightly, and I believe it does, it means that the maximum amount a man in that category can get is $17.50 per week at a time when the average income of Australians is about $75 to $80 per week. [More…]

• A man can leave work today that is bringing him in, say, $50 and tomorrow is expected to live entirely on $17.50 per week. [More…]

• The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) drew to my attention some time ago the case of a man who, he said, was 104. [More…]

• 1 found that the man concerned, as far as can be ascertained from our records, is not 104 but 100. [More…]

• Furthermore, I found that the man was paid a special benefit for about 3 or 4 years, erroneously and under the impression - I do not know how it came about - that he had come into Australia without any maintenance guarantee. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I am a tolerant man but it did not seem to me to be entirely reasonable that having been approached and having made agreement of that kind f should be wiped by some person in Sydney. [More…]

• That is the story to which the honourable member for Newcastle referred and that cannot possibly be properly represented as going and demanding time on the ABC and getting upset when it did not happen. [More…]

• The young man who has been called up cut short his education on the sudden death of his father. [More…]

• Once again the Minister for Labour and National Service said that there was no provision for exemption and that the young man could go to court. [More…]

• He insisted that certain Labor members of the State House, because of the late shopping referendum held recently, ought to vote in the House of Assembly in South Australia in accordance with the manner in which the vote was cast in their electorate, which returned a ‘yes’ vote. [More…]

• I will mention another Liberal member - the man who won the seat of Hanson, Mr Becker. [More…]

• I believe that not only 1 but virtually everybody in Australia would have been shocked, distressed and disgusted that a man could be kidnapped from in front of his home where he was playing with his children, taken away by thugs and murdered because those thugs wanted some kind of political activity on their behalf. [More…]

• This kind of thing I believe in the hearts of Australians bas the same effect as did the senseless assassination of President Kennedy or Robert Kennedy where we can see that a man’s life can be snuffed out like that by probably half-witted people walking the streets. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Industry has done as much as any man in the history of Australian government to move in this direction. [More…]

• All these things have started during the time that the right honourable gentleman has been the Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]

• We have just seen the Leader of the House, the man who stands up and sneers at the idea of a 35-hour week and so on, the man who is supposed to be responsible for the development of good industrial relations in this country, handling the situation in this haphazard fashion. [More…]

• In fact, the other day there came to my notice the position of a man who 12 months ago had a $250,000 capital investment which was readily negotiable as an asset. [More…]

• One noted man, Sir John Crawford, was appointed to draw up a wool marketing scheme. [More…]

• It was decided that one man should undertake this task because this was the quickest way of doing it. [More…]

• That distinguished gentleman did a remarkable job in writing up his proposals in a matter of a couple of weeks. [More…]

• This is a community that is accustomed to having individual records, individual care and, for that matter, individual pursuit if it comes to the income tax man. [More…]

• But, as a young man, I lived in the western district of Victoria. [More…]

• I remember a man named Captain Crawford. [More…]

• The Aboriginals in those days, many years ago, were a very happy lot. [More…]

• Many are still living there. [More…]

• In fact, in that very place there was the son of a chief, a man named Angas King. [More…]

• He was a man who umpired football matches. [More…]

• He was a man who was highly respected. [More…]

• I think that he was as highly respected as any white man in that district. [More…]

• He was a man of great outstanding character. [More…]

• No doubt, he did much to mould the general character of many of those with whom he came in contact. [More…]

• We have had a disgraceful performance from the Government tonight We know we can always get the honourable member for Mallee up when we say no-one from the Government side has spoken. [More…]

• The only man who spoke with any sincerity was the honourable member for Maranoa, who has a genuine interest in the subject. [More…]

• I must compliment the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. for its attempt to employ as many Aboriginals as possible in its enterprise. [More…]

• I had to lean forward to hear what the Aboriginal man said. [More…]

• We can just imagine ourselves being in the position of an Aboriginal in such a circumstance and being told that the white man will let us have back the land originally taken from us without compensation providing we can produce the white man’s currency. [More…]

• If any part of Aboriginal land is to be excised, it should be the standard practice to weigh the benefits to the white man against the disadvantages to the Aboriginals. [More…]

• Many of these have human form in Aboriginal mythology. [More…]

• The under-privileged white man who is living in poverty is orientated more towards the present. [More…]

• It is not surprising, therefore, that loss of land has placed many Aboriginal people into a limbo and into a situation becoming, as Dr Coombs has said, a depressed rabble of fringe dwellers. [More…]

• But a lot of people who exploit these depressed people seem to have the impression that there is something biologically different and that Aboriginals cannot adapt and cannot use the white man’s culture and the sort of values that are used by white men to progress and improve themselves and succeed in a white man’s culture. [More…]

• They taught her manners and how to help around the house. [More…]

• No-one can tell me that she got the acceptance, the affection and the security in that white household that she received from that man sitting with her in the dust by his humpy. [More…]

• She was not thought of as a human being but as an appendage of humanity who should be grateful to be recognised as an appendage. [More…]

• they have not followed up their enlightened view of Aboriginals as human beings with potential equal to that of white people, by giving them equal opportunity and that is the whole point of our amendment. [More…]

• This man had an asset worth some $14m lying on the bottom of the ocean, but he could not be contacted. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the failure of the Federal Government’s monetary and fiscal policies to halt the insidious increase in costs and prices throughout the nation demands that the Government be given constitutional powers to intervene directly in Australian industry for the regulation of prices of basic industrial commodities such as steel, aluminium, oil, petrol and chemicals. [More…]

• But the man in the street and the man in the farming community throughout Australia are fed up with the ceaseless caning they have taken from the cost price spiral. [More…]

• Just about every restrictive economic practice known to man is used in Australia. [More…]

• So, here we have the man who, with his colleagues, has led the wool industry into disaster telling us what we should do about irrigation, telling us in effect that whole communities should not have come into being. [More…]

• The man who has offered the 1,300 acre* of land has made a wonderful contribution to national development. [More…]

• Perhaps he wants to help himself but his offer will also help many others. [More…]

• I think it is a pity that the honourable member for Dawson did not make his calculations a little more accurately, because a man who has been involved in making a survey of costs in the wheat industry should know that there are more costs than just the costs of hired labour when taking labour costs into account. [More…]

• It is 6c a bushel, and if you take into account the effects of a shorter working week and the consequential increases in rates, freight charges, cost of materials and in many other directions, and consider the full impact of the 14.3 per cent, the increase is shown to be 13c a bushel and the effect on the profitability of the wheat farmer is quite disastrous. [More…]

• I told the Caucus that if I were asked by a man who objected to the Vietnam war as to the course he should take I would give this advice: He should register and at the time of doing so give written advice that if he was inducted and ordered to go to Vietnam he would not obey that order. [More…]

• The penultimate Western man. [More…]

• It is thus important that the physical environment be seen in relation to the social environment and that the psychological, social, cultural and technological variables be considered when analysing the destructive influence of man on bis surroundings. [More…]

• It is a question of the survival of life, including man, on this planet. [More…]

• Man, by his rapid increase in population, and his rapid advances in technology, has upset the delicate balance of nature. [More…]

• Mian must help nature to restore the balance or else nature will wreak a terrible revenge by destroying man. [More…]

• It is mandatory upon the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation to provide these operations out of the finances that it receives from the work that is undertaken. [More…]

• It seems to me that a man who is running a business undertaking, particularly one that will be as intense as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, deserves as much money as the Commissioner of the Exports Payments Insurance Corporation, which will not be expected to operate as a business undertaking. [More…]

• Yet, here is a man who will have as part of his duties the job of trying to keep peace on the waterfront, and who will draw a salary much lower than the salaries paid to men in positions in which they will have far less industrial troubles on their hands than this man is likely to have. [More…]

• Whilst I do not really want Parliament to fix salaries, I sometimes wonder exactly how the Public Service Board arrives at its decisions in many of these matters. [More…]

• But be that as it may, the Australian Labor Party’s policy on this matter has been made clear on many occasions. [More…]

• Of course, this would mean over time - and I stress over time - virtually the end of the middle man or the wool broker. [More…]

• It is nonsense to talk of the needs of the little man* in the wool industry. [More…]

• Purely economic forces show that the small man is doomed . [More…]

• Really, some of the things he said are not worthy of a man who speaks for the Opposition! [More…]

• If 1 were to send a man to plough a paddock I would not say to him: ‘You go around 3 times in second gear and then lower the lever a bit’. [More…]

• If I gave a man the job and the man I got to do it was a good man I would expect him to do that kind of a thing himself. [More…]

• Not only have the debts of these farmers risen at a tremendous rate and to frightening proportions but they are in a position where there are so many farms for sale that it is virtually impossible to sell them and prices for farms have fallen as rapidly as farmers’ debts have increased. [More…]

• One gentleman came to me very concerned one day. [More…]

• However, he owed the man from whom he was purchasing the land $14,000. [More…]

• The bank manager told him that to obtain that money he would have to put his farm on the market at a reasonable price and would have to understand that the sum of $14,000 as an advance was the limit of the money that he could borrow from the bank. [More…]

• He finds now that his farm is being advertised by stock firms and that the bank manager concerned has zealously gone among his neighbours to tell them that the place is on the market and to inform them of the price. [More…]

• I looked through the Australian Wool Board’s interim annual report and when I saw the names of Board members I checked with experts to ascertain how many of those members were from outside the woolgrowing area or the Public Service field. [More…]

• I was told that practically none of them has had any experience in the manufacturing, designing or retailing fields. [More…]

• It may be that they have done a fair job, but they are not getting many results. [More…]

• 1 should like to see at the top level of the wool industry those who have had the practical experience of having to manufacture, design and sell the goods. [More…]

• Despite the growth of man-made fibres I understand that almost 80 per cent of all the fibres used in the textile industry are natural fibres and that only 20 per cent are synthetic fibres. [More…]

• The Wool Board should get in touch with the man who makes the sale - the young man of 20 or 21 in the shops of the big retailers such as Myers and David Jones, and in the small stores - and say to him: ‘You have a vested interest in selling woollen garments’. [More…]

• Perhaps we should give awards to the man who sells the most garments. [More…]

• The salesman says: Take the orion one, it does not shrink’. [More…]

• I admit some of these synthetic garments do not shrink but the salesman has not bothered to describe the virtues of the woollen garment. [More…]

• I feel the Wool Board, particularly the promotional and merchandising side of it, can do a great deal more by getting to the man who is making the final contact with the customer and educating him in the aspects of selling wool. [More…]

• I know that many of the organisations, from branch level right through to the Australian Wool Industry Conference, have been offering congratulations to the Minister. [More…]

• Finally, the man who made it possible to introduce this legislation into the House so quickly is Mr Comans, the Parliamentary Draftsman. [More…]

• As 1 said earlier in my remarks, I think that if ever there was a man acting as Calamity Jane it was the honourable member for Eden-Monaro. [More…]

• The honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) - that honourable gentleman who always is so vocal on issues connected with primary industry and more often wrong than right - said that this Bill does not actually cover what the industry wants. [More…]

• Many honourable members on this side of the House have had years of experience in matters concerning the wool industry, although we do not have properties. [More…]

• The Bill which is before the House tonight is as out of character with this free enterprise Government as spectacles are to a blind man. [More…]

• One man may buy wool, take it to the United Kingdom and split it up between two or three Bradford mills. [More…]

• I pay tribute also to a man who has been criticised tonight by some people. [More…]

• I refer to the Chairman of the Australian Wool Board, Sir William Gunn. [More…]

• I believe that the industry in Australia learnt something about the problems that these people are facing from their competitors, the synthetic manufacturers. [More…]

• But there are many difficulties involved. [More…]

• Why should the wool industry bodies promote blends when the synthetic manufacturers, or the producers of man made fibres, are not also making a contribution? [More…]

• The honourable member asked about consultation with the Board on the appointment of the Chairman. [More…]

• On this type of illogical reasoning the honourable member for Hume would not even entertain appointing to the Commission a man like Sir John Crawford or the members of the Advisory Committee. [More…]

• Of course, the honourable member would criticise a man like Sir John Crawford if he were offered part-time or full-time chairmanship of the Commission. [More…]

• Perhaps it is not important but at the same time there is an inconsistency in the Bill regarding the appointment of the Chairman and the members of the Commission. [More…]

• To be consistent, perhaps the Minister might consider writing into the Bill the provision regarding the appointment of the Chairman. [More…]

• I may have missed it, but I could not find any reference to the appointment of the Chairman of the Commission after consultation with the Australian Wool . [More…]

• The honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) asked whether a part time chairman of the Australian Wool Commission would be appointed if the best man available would accept the position only on a part time basis. [More…]

• However, I think it is important to have provision for a full time chairman. [More…]

• Representations have been made for a full time chairman to be appointed to the Australian Wool Board. [More…]

• I certainly want to place emphasis upon getting the right man for the job. [More…]

• I believe and the Opposition believes that members of the Commission, particularly the Chairman, should be independent because if the wool position deteriorates further a lot of blame will be put on the Commission and the bone will be pointed at certain people. [More…]

• For that reason, if the Chairman is a man who is directly concerned with managerial or policy making responsibility of a major wool broking or buying firm it is certain that the woolgrowers and others will tend to put the blame on him, just as a lot of woolgrowers and people have put the blame on wool buyers and brokers today. [More…]

• We have a man who has a proven reputation in the field of marketing but who nevertheless is of vital importance with respect to the policy making and managerial decisions of a broking firm. [More…]

• Therefore, I believe and the Opposition believes that it would not be in the best interests of the Commission to have members - particularly a chairman - who are very closely associated with a board of directors, or act as chairman of directors, with policy making responsibilities of wool brokers or wool buyers in Australia or overseas. [More…]

• However, I do not think that such a man would be appointed to the Commission. [More…]

• It would be foolish to appoint to the Commission a man holding a managerial office in a wool buying and wool broking business. [More…]

• Will a man bid on behalf of the Commission, will the reserve price be known to the auctioneer, and when it is not reached will the wool he knocked down to the Commission? [More…]

• The tremendous influence of the middle man in the industry is illustrated in my following remarks. [More…]

• The wool passes through the processors and the manufacturers and comes out at the other end in coloured knitting wool which is sold at the outrageous price of $5.75 a lb. [More…]

• That situation is indicative of how the manufacturers and processors batten on the wool grower and keep him flattened out like a snake. [More…]

• Firstly, I congratulate the Chairman of the Committee. [More…]

• He and I are of different political persuasions, and we do not agree on some of the suggestions made in the report, but I have never seen a man work harder at solving, within the limited terms of reference of the Committee, the problems we had to endeavour to solve. [More…]

• Last but by no means least we had the assistance of Mr Chapman, who has been a dedicated servant to the Committee. [More…]

• With due deference to my friends and colleagues on both sides of the chamber and to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, I feel that at some stage of this fascinating debate some comments must be made on behalf of the professionals. [More…]

• I can well understand why honourable members should find it encumbent upon them to rise to speak on behalf of what my honourable and gallant friend from Bradfield (Mr Turner) described as the common man. [More…]

• He talked in terms of the intrusion of modern technological developments upon the common man. [More…]

• It is utterly wrong to say that Avalon is the worst possible place because the fact of the matter is that from the flying man’s point of view it is the best place. [More…]

• We will find many hundreds of people who want to reside close to airports. [More…]

• In 100 years time it may be that the same type of problem that is existent now at Avalon, and which is manifest in Sydney, will also exist in New South Wales at Dubbo and people will be standing in this House repeating the same arguments as we have heard today. [More…]

• We must face the fact that we cannot have advancement and the improvement of the technical services that are vital in a growing economy like Australia’s economy in 1970 without some burden resting upon the shoulders of the average man. [More…]

• lt is, I think, an eternal verity that the average man in Australia wants to see his country advance. [More…]

• Let me illustrate this to the honourable gentleman and to you, Mr Speaker, by saying that when the emerging nations that are arising throughout the world, those in the great continents of Asia and Africa, are developing, the very first thing they establish is an international airline. [More…]

• I could not imagine a better man to be put on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education as representing the Government side of the House than the honourable member for Denison and I am sure that as his experience here develops he will be able to give to the Council a special degree of information, advice and counsel thai would be valuable to them. [More…]

• The whole question of the development of colleges of advanced education must be integrated with the wellbeing of the staffs who man them. [More…]

• In the days when a man’s wage for a week was 1 we had’ 500m taken out of the Golden Mile. [More…]

• This has been the Western Australian attitude and it has been the attitude of a great many of the States. [More…]

• There are many education systems in the world - in Scotland and elsewhere - which will give a man promotion in the position where he is without translating him to another position, if he has a genius for a particular job. [More…]

• 1 want to draw attention to the fact that there have been fluctuations in rural industries over many years. [More…]

• I believe that the man has not been born who can accurately forecast world markets in almost any field. [More…]

• Now, Mr Askin is not a man who is in touch at all with the rural scene. [More…]

• I am always glad when a man has eaten well. [More…]

• Where the New South Wales Government and Public Service are involved obviously the Director of the Board and the servants associated with it cannot invite a man in, sit him down, listen to his needs and say: ‘I am terribly sorry. [More…]

• This is a question - I do not say this offensively - which clearly is calculated to gain some political advantage from a situation which I concede is troublesome to many Queensland sugar growers. [More…]

• It does, of course, appear to everyone to be a regrettable thing if a man, having grown a crop of cane, has to destroy some of it. [More…]

• I will not go into the fees, books and stationery, but living costs for a girl arts student living away from home were $1,247 a year ago and it is about the same for a man living away from home. [More…]

• It is true that this Garden Island is a paradise for man. [More…]

• I support the recommendation made by the Public Works Committee to the Parliament, but may the base be used only as a deterent to an enemy and never be used in human conflict. [More…]

• The Minister has not told us how many of these people there are. [More…]

• So not only are we disrupting the man’s personal life, we are affecting his family, the work he does, his career and the society in which he is starting to play an active part. [More…]

• It must be a strange and odd experience for a man of 26, now married with a home of his own, launched on a career and probably getting his foot somewhere up the ladder of the Public Service, the teaching service and so on, to go off to Puckapunyal. [More…]

• This has had the consequence that if a man does not perform his service up to the age of 26 years he will come into the position where he will not need to render service because he will have an indefinite deferment. [More…]

• Having decided to do that, which 1 think is proper - and in a moment I will give, honourable members a breakdown of the sort of people who are affected - we found this completely inequitable situation with the young man who had registered and, having registered and applied for a student deferment, had obtained a student deferment. [More…]

• It was quite inequitable for the man who had concealed himself to have his obligation to serve evaporate, whereas the man who had complied all the way through, who had obtained a student deferment, had to go into the Army when he reached 27 years of age. [More…]

• The first reason is that a man may take on a course of longer than normal duration. [More…]

• An example is a young man who undertakes a science course and during the course transfers to a medicine course. [More…]

• We believe that it is not good enough to rely on the discretion of public servants, who are in some prosecuting section somewhere, not to charge again a man who has already been charged once because of some feeling that they may or may not have as to whether he has been sufficiently prejudiced or whether they consider the case serious enough or not serious enough to warrant a second prosecution. [More…]

• Surely nobody, not even the most vicious opponent of a man who breaks the law, would want to see him again charged because this Bill is to be retrospective in its application. [More…]

• John McEwen has served longer as a member and as a Minister than any other man in the Parliament. [More…]

• I have found John McEwen to be an extremely hard fighter for the causes in which he believes; to be a man never devoid of strong arguments to advance in favour of the causes in which he believes but a man governed by reason and a man above all who when once an arrangement or an agreement had been reached could be trusted implicity to keep that arrangement or that agreement no matter what the circumstances might be. [More…]

• This is a high tribute to pay to a man. [More…]

• It must bring back some very fond memories, some bad memories and at the same time a feeling of achievement of having lived through a period of depression and 2 world wars, to an age when man has reached the moon. [More…]

• With due respect to the Deputy Prime Minister, I do not think he lost many nights sleep over worrying about what he said or did in the Parliament. [More…]

• When I heard him on television a while back saying: ‘I am a mild man’ and when I heard his speech here a day or so later against the Leader of the Opposition, I thought somebody had got the script mixed up. [More…]

• He has built a reputation for himself as an international negotiator and a man who has tried to organise the world in the better distribution of food products. [More…]

• John McEwen is known as a strong, influential man. [More…]

• In his period of office all of us have learned a great deal about how to manage the country. [More…]

• As a personal man he had a great capacity to win friends. [More…]

• There were no telephones, radio or anything of that kind and someone said: ‘There is only 1 man who can do it, a fellow by the name of Rowan.’ [More…]

• or a lot of other fool questions that men ask sometimes for he was a man of action. [More…]

• I refer to the things that he has said and done in this House and been responsible for, such as, as the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said, the Japanese Trade Agreement which has had an effect on the lives of every man, woman and child in this community. [More…]

• It was entitled ‘Odd Man Out’. [More…]

• I thought that it truly described the right honourable member - he was a very odd man to me. [More…]

• This means that he has been a very lucky man - lucky because the Party to which he belongs and the parties which he has supported have won 9 successive elections. [More…]

• We think of the right honourable member for Murray (Mr McEwen) in 3 ways: Firstly as the Leader of the Australian Country Party, secondly as a statesman and thirdly as a man. [More…]

• The other thing that I particularly wanted to say is that those of us who think of John McEwen think of him as a man. [More…]

• He is a bonny fighter, as the honourable member for Grayndler has said, but he is a man of conviction and a man of compassion. [More…]

• Behind every man there is a woman. [More…]

• He leaves here with the woman who has been with him for many years, for a good part of his parliamentary life. [More…]

• I am most grateful to the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) for the manner in which he has spoken. [More…]

• He is a bonny fighter himself and we have exchanged many verbal blows in all the years we have been in this place. [More…]

• And many years later when my wife, who was a stenographer in the Crown Law Department in Adelaide, came to Canberra Gough Whitlam’s father was her boss. [More…]

• On many occasions I have been to the home of the Whitlams senior. [More…]

• I have been unrestrained, as was my duty and as I conceived it to be, in hitting out at the Leader of the Opposition across the table in this place as the occasion required but I have always had a little notch in the back of my mind remembering that I was unfortunately hitting at the son of a man whom I had very greatly respected. [More…]

• Fred Whitlam was a man who enjoyed enormous respect. [More…]

• I am an extraordinarily lucky person to be able to say that not only have I known but I have worked as a Cabinet Minister with Mr Joe Lyons who was himself a great man; with Menzies, whom we all know was and is a great man; with Harold Holt who was a charming man and a very, very solid citizen and Prime Minister. [More…]

• But to have worked with Sir Earle Page in his earlier years was to work with a man who would bear comparison with any man in the public life of Australia. [More…]

• Many will remember Artie Fadden as a great man, a great parliamentarian and a great Leader of the Country Party. [More…]

• He had only one man in his whole Cabinet who had been a Minister before and he had to take up the responsibilities in an hour of black crisis. [More…]

• Chifley was a great man too and a great man to his party. [More…]

• Chifley, although not so articulate, was certainly a very powerful man. [More…]

• Another leader of the Labor Party was Arthur Calwell, who is a man to be relied upon implicitly and who has followed the flag of the Labor Party with absolute devotion. [More…]

• I do not propose to ruminate on those other than to say that in my view I am a very, very lucky man to have had the opportunities that I have had. [More…]

• In the course of this long life one makes many friends. [More…]

• I have many friends in my own Party and in the Party of our coalition partner. [More…]

• I have been extraordinarily fortunate in having the benefit of Sir Alan Westerman, at present the head of my Department, and before him Sir John Crawford. [More…]

• I pay this tribute to those men and to the many other officers who have been my advisers through the years. [More…]

• May I offer a spot of advice to Ministers and those who may become Ministers: Whenever a man comes into my room for the first time to offer me advice I say: ‘If you do not tell me that I am wrong when you think I am wrong, you are no good to me as an adviser. [More…]

• (This does not include clothing allowance, marriage/separation allowance and living out allowance which in the case ofa married man represents $14.91 per week and $10.50 tor a single man.) [More…]

• He was a self-made, man, a completely competent man, who reached the zenith of accomplishment in his profession. [More…]

• He was a man whose presence was always felt. [More…]

• He was a stately man who held himself erect with shoulders , back. [More…]

• His great chin expressed the determination that made him a famous man, I will always recall one occasion when he attended a parliamentary function. [More…]

• During my time as a senator, 1 came to know him well and personally as a dedicated Labor man and a man of integrity, high principles and, above all, great humanity. [More…]

• Jim was that sort of man. [More…]

• Whilst he was a dedicated Labor man and an excellent Parliamentarian, he also had the capacity of making great friends with people no matter what their political beliefs might be. [More…]

• It is true, as the Prime Minister has said, that Jim Ormonde was a man of great humanity, high principles and full of humanism. [More…]

• He was a man who has been properly described as having the rich red human qualities. [More…]

• In such cases a man receives an on-the-spot fine. [More…]

• If a man knows that he is guilty of having exceeded the speed limit or having done something that the traffic laws say he should not do then within a certain time - I think it is 28 days - he pays the fine and that is the finish of it. [More…]

• But universities cannot be run on a one man, one vote basis without participation of all members on all issues. [More…]

• No criminal prosecution or disciplinary proceedings have been taken against any police officer in connection with the case of Mr Tabarang Marum and his subsequent transfer to Finschhafen for the sittings of the Supreme Court under the mistaken impression that he was a man committed for trial before that Court Mr Tambaron Qwate An inquiry was undertaken and its conclusions were given independent consideration. [More…]

• 1532 (Hansard, 13th October 1970, page 2065), justifying the fixed-term appointment of Commonwealth statutory officers such as the Public Service Arbitrator, the Commissioner and Second Commissioner of Taxation and the Chair-‘ man of the Tariff Board, will he state why (a) Presidential members of the Commission must be appointed for life and (b) Commissioners and Conciliators must be appointed until they reach 65 years of age. [More…]

• lt is a recognized right and duty of man to labour for the betterment of his country. [More…]

• This man had the serious disadvantage of not being able to speak our language. [More…]

• That man had trouble in communication. [More…]

• There was a man who obviously could have been assisted in his communication had he had the advantage of being able to study the English language. [More…]

• They said they thought the man said that they could repay the balance at $30 a month and that they would have a period much longer than 3 years in which to pay it. [More…]

• This man took them to the bank and he withdrew their money from the bank. [More…]

• He caused resentment amongst the most conservative Australians who said that this man did not speak for our people, did not speak even for the Government and, I am sure, did not speak for the Minister for Immigration who sits at the table. [More…]

• A young man who arrived from Venezuela was proficient to matriculation standard in all subjects, including Spanish and Italian. [More…]

• The essential task of Commonwealth mapping organisations is to determine the latitude, longitude and height in relation to mean sea level of the natural surface of the Australian continent, of man made features located thereon, of the continental shelf offshore and of the seaward aids to navigation. [More…]

• Nevertheless, because the activities are so important and because I have had more than a peripheral association with some of them over past years I would like to take this opportunity to refer to what 1 believe to be the considerable importance of this form of activity, an importance which I think is not recognised by the man in the street. [More…]

• It is not paid to the defendant policeman; it is paid into Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• Policeman have more equality than citizens. [More…]

• To threaten a man with gaol when he has broken no law is a stupid law, and the sentence of 40 days hard labour for failure to pay a $80 fine is a stupid law. [More…]

• This is not to be taken that the Court has paid no attention to it, but in brief the inference is this, that when some distance travelling from west to east on the northern boundary of the King Street/George Street intersection he was pushed with no small degree of force back on to the curb by a man whom he says is the defendant, Constable Girardi When he again set off in the same direction about the middle of George Street he was roughly seized by the Constable and later on he was heavily pushed in the back by the Constable and he says that on each of these occasions he was able to identify his assailant as the defendant Constable and to some extent, some limited extent, he is corroborated by a Mr Anderson. [More…]

• He says a Constable violently, sufficient to say, collided with the Informant with some force. [More…]

• Is it a fact that more than 50 per cent of the total man days lost in Australia arise from non-wage disputes. [More…]

• and (2) Causes of industrial disputes (involving stoppage of work of 10 man days or more) are published by the Commonwealth Statistician. [More…]

• A scheme which would provide civilian service as an alternative for all national service registrants could be construed as “man power” control, in which case there would not be a constitutional basts for it at the present time, and would probably not be acceptable under the ILO Conventions.’ [More…]

• He will be a worry to his comrades and to his commanding officer who has to accept the added responsibility if anything happens to this young man. [More…]

• 1 am led to believe that if this young man had suffered from tinia, severe acne, dermatitis, asthma or any other allergic condition he would not be sent away. [More…]

• This is an appalling state of affairs, lt makes me wonder how many cases involving people in similar circumstances have not been reported. [More…]

• How many casualties have suffered further because of Army disregard? [More…]

• It is bad enough for the Army to interfere with the best years of this young man’s life and to cause anxiety to his mother and family, but to deliberately rua the risk of placing his life in further medical danger is callous and inexcusable. [More…]

• I was a very young man in those days. [More…]

• Rural construction is a term used by many but there is very little to it. [More…]

• Tt did not deal as thoroughly as one would expect with the problems of the man on the land - the areas of aggregation, what can happen to family groups, and so on. [More…]

• At no stage in Australia’s history have decisions been so overwhelmingly determined by one man. [More…]

• Leave a pittance of self respect for the poor man. [More…]

• In 1970 2.3 million man days were lost by strikes. [More…]

• Fortytwo per cent of people within the Fremantle City Council area pay more than half their income in rent. [More…]

• Homes rented at much more so that the man on $90 a week was actually in straitened circumstances, and totally deprived of the opportunity to save to buy land or buy a home. [More…]

• For far too long the voice of the rural industries is the only one that has been raised in respect ot tariffs and it was refreshing to hear a man of the honourable member’s quality discuss quite objectively and sensibly the problem that an unwise tariff policy poses for our cost structure. [More…]

• Most of us are inordinately proudI know I am - of the performance of the Australian iron and steel industry. [More…]

• A man would be silly to deny the fact that wage determinations have some effect on inflation. [More…]

• The theory of constant shares has been spelt out in many places, and it is not common to us. [More…]

• The man who suffers the most is the wage earner. [More…]

• In the last 5 years pre-tax average weekly earnings increased by 37.36 per cent; after tax they increased by 32.10 per cent for a man supporting a wife and 2 children. [More…]

• There have been more strikes and more man hours lost in the last few years in this country than ever before in its history and the only thing which can be blamed is the inflationary economic condition of this country. [More…]

• I never thought I would live to hear the day when a man would make such an assertion. [More…]

• When 1 asked the man why he felt this way he pointed out that the rate of increase in wages in some sectors of the economy was not giving the people he serviced as postmaster a fair opportunity and a fair slice of the national cake. [More…]

• That man lives very close to the electorate of the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull). [More…]

• Today they resurrected the Minister for Foreign Affairs from the grave and brought him in to support the policies foisted on this Government not by the present Treasurer or the former Treasurer but by the one man band that is the Prime Minister. [More…]

• During the recess we saw once again the New Year’s Honours List.I am one who is totally opposed to the sorts of values that this annual performance represents in our society. [More…]

• As I went through the list it was quite clear that those overwhelmingly represented were people who had dedicated their whole lives to the services of humanity by earning as many quids for themselves in the shortest possible time. [More…]

• I noticed that while a prominent newspaper proprietor whose main distinction in life had been to pour money out like a madman churning it off a counterfeit press in an abortive attempt to win a sailing race, another man, a community doctor in the field of public health services was able to rate only a mention in dispatches in the Honours List. [More…]

• There were many other people who were also-rans, and missed out on the top titles, whose contributions to this community have been invaluable and who have been dedicated and selfless. [More…]

• It is a completely hollow and counterfeit value judgment on the part of the Government to always be obsessed with the fact that if a man makes a lot of money he clearly has an A priority right to appear at the top of the New Year’s honours list. [More…]

• On that basis the gentleman who operated the Rural Bank in New South Wales would have a very high place on the honours list. [More…]

• I might add that it is most difficult to make an unqualified comparison between a man’s civilian pay and his position in the Army. [More…]

• Additionally, a national serviceman contributes to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund which provides him with a gratuity on discharge and insurance against the risks of invalidity or death. [More…]

• We have already discussed the question of efficiency in the industry and 1 think that all sides of the Parliament are agreed that it is a highly efficient industry in terms of productivity per man hour and in terms of the price of the finished product on world markets. [More…]

• It has been almost unique in proving that the white man can produce in the tropics a product under labour intensive conditions which are, of course, being phased out with the great technical innovations in the industry. [More…]

• But there seem to be some technical difficulties and one man from the Australian Broadcasting Commission whom I questioned on the subject said that if we strengthened the power at Renmark we would have to strengthen the power of a lot of other stations. [More…]

• I must say that to the statement reported in almost the same language in at least five of this morning’s newspapers and attributed to the honourable member for Maribyrnong my first reaction was sadness or sorrow, because I had felt that a gentleman who had won a seat in this House and has been renowned for some liberal thinking, a man for whom I have a personal affection, would not be capable of making such a silly and stupid statement. [More…]

• In the same paragraph this assertion is backed by the case history of far too many men. [More…]

• Tt says of a not untypical single man after a fortnight’s unemployment, that is, the first fourteen days he must weather without any social service assistance: [More…]

• As one man said, ‘It’s them places that draw a man down. [More…]

• This man is not an honest man. [More…]

• He is, of course, an honourable man. [More…]

• I challenge any man on the Government side to vote against that motion. [More…]

• All I can say about the speech of the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is that it was a disgraceful performance. [More…]

• The Minister actually blamed the Australian Labor Party for the present inflationary situation because it has supported the unions in their demands for increased wages. [More…]

• After all, this is the man who is supposed to put the case of the pensioners, and of all the people who are in need in Australia, to the Government. [More…]

• I believe that our present Prime Minister is a man who is dedicated to the welfare of the Australian people, perhaps more than any other Prime Minister Australia has had. [More…]

• Many of us on this side would like to see a great deal more done, but it is not of much use raising pensions when people are deliberately eroding the purchasing power of pensions. [More…]

• Those who suffer most from the erosion of purchasing power are the superannuitants, pensioners and people on small wages, particularly the family man. [More…]

• It is the Leader of the Opposition and his managing director, Mr Hawke. [More…]

• We have to take into consideration also that food values and the cost of many things are much lower in Australia than they are in other countries. [More…]

• To buy a suit a man has to work 33 hours in Melbourne, 13 hours in New York and 200 hours in Moscow. [More…]

• We want lo see a better deal for pensioners, but we first want to see that exploiters of the purchasing power of pensions are curbed, because it is not of much use increasing pensions unless we can make the purchasing power of the pensioners, the superannuitant and the man on low wages more effective. [More…]

• I know that the Minister is an extremely sympathetic and keen man. [More…]

• In March 1962. the rate was $8.25 for a single person, and $14.25 for a married man, including a wife’s allowance of $6, and the permissible income was $4. [More…]

• Let me take this opportunity, while I am mentioning the unemployment and sickness benefit, to refer to the way in which the Government administers the Department of .Social Services and the inhuman way in which the Department is used against some people. [More…]

• Surely the Department of Social Services, which has had the man’s history for the past 2 years, is in a better position to determine the reasons that forced him to commit this offence. [More…]

• This man and his family are decent citizens in the community. [More…]

• They had an unblemished record for many years prior to this offence. [More…]

• The unemployment benefit does not cover a working man’s bills for rent, electricity and travelling expenses in looking for a job, let alone for food. [More…]

• That is the way in which this Government takes a so-called humane look at the people about whom we are talking today. [More…]

• Pursuit of these ends will, I believe, add to the quality of man in Australia. [More…]

• One man’s meat, as they say, is another man’s poison, a fact now recognised by the American judiciary, which must rule with wearisome frequency on obscenity. [More…]

• The child realises that the strong man on the side of the law and order has solved the problem by bashing somebody, but he has not seen violence or been subjected to the feeling of repugnance by witnessing the violence. [More…]

• Nazi Germany ls the classic example, a story so well known that to repeat it would be tedious. [More…]

• The censorship imposed by the Soviet Union on the great novelists of the day is an historical fact of great sadness to all who are interested in the propagation of man’s artistic and creative ability and freedom. [More…]

• The creative spirit and genius of’ man cannot and should not be inhibited, restrained or controlled by a monolithic state big brother. [More…]

• I do not believe that because we differ with a man’s politics we should not congratulate him when he does something good or something that is to the benefit of the country. [More…]

• contains a scene which depicts a young woman performing cunnilingus on her sister while at the same time a man has intercourse with the young woman by entering her from behind. [More…]

• It is intolerable that a man. [More…]

• If there is a job to be done the private member is the best man to do it and if he works hard - and I know most do as does any Minister who is on the receiving end of their representations and questions - he will do a thorough job. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman was fair enough, kind enough and courageous enough to say in answer to an interjection from me that he did agree that these things were evil. [More…]

• The mind of any business man would boggle if he saw that sort of figure on his sales graph. [More…]

• But the Minister for Defence, a very powerful and important man in this country, had nothing to say about the future. [More…]

• He was a man with an immense breadth of mind, a great sense of compassion and a great sense of perception. [More…]

• Irrespective of which side of politics one falls down on, it is clear that he always commanded respect. [More…]

• There have not been many members for Moreton and I understand it is the popular view that the present member has been there too long. [More…]

• There was a young man - a school teacher as I recall it - who was interested in youth movements and keen to get the youngsters in the town of Cobar alert and interested in current matters. [More…]

• I touch upon that issue because I think it is a pity Jo see a man as great as Sir John McEwen leave this place only to be attacked by some of his former colleagues in the Country Party. [More…]

• They once looked upon him as a very great man, but now they attack him like jackals. [More…]

• Yet it is well known that if a man wants to keep his family in a reasonable state and wants to sec his children educated the best contribution he can make is to send his wife out to work, and that is what is happening across the nation at the present lime. [More…]

• A man in my electorate whose home has been seized and whose livelihood has been destroyed seems to me to.be, with his wife and young family, the victim of monstrous official oppression. [More…]

• This man is Mr Vern Home and the home is ‘Edrom Lodge’, an historic mansion of 100 squares at Eden, on the shores of Twofold Bay. [More…]

• I know it must seem incredible that a man can have his home seized and his business destroyed in an instant by official edict without any warning, without any notice, without any explanation, without any negotiations, without any offer of purchase and without any payment being made. [More…]

• A man with a wife and 5 children, with’ a permissible income of S6 a week, would be entitled to a benefit of S39.50 a week, but if that man works for one or two days at the meat works his wages would still be less than S39.50. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Social Services to consider whether or not, depending on the number of days a man works, the unemployment benefit payable to him might not be sufficient to increase his income to the amount of benefit to which he would have been entitled had he been unemployed. [More…]

• The quality and quantity of water available involve the life of every man, woman and child in the nation and decide the conditions of health and happiness in which they live in every town and village. [More…]

• The availability of water also decides the beauty of the life of many of these places. [More…]

• The scheme put forward by the Barwon-Darling Water Users Association should be fully investigated, lt is based on a proposition put forward many years ago by Dr Bradfield, an eminent civil engineer, when he conceived the idea of diverting eastern waters to the west. [More…]

• The Walgett Water Users Association claims that the capacity of the Clarence River gorge dam is greater than any other man made dam in the world. [More…]

• I think we all watched the last journey of man to the moon. [More…]

• However, I do not think it was generally understood that, in the previous journey of man to the moon which almost ended in disaster, if it had not been for the facilities in Australia the journey probably would have been a complete disaster, resulting in the loss of the lives of the people in the space craft. [More…]

• The real issue is that this terrible action could be committed on man by man. [More…]

• If the Americans commit this crime against man, I say that President Nixon and his Republican administration are mad. [More…]

• Every time I rise to talk on this subject I will brand him as a mad man. [More…]

• 1 will so brand any man who sniggers and smiles at the thought of anyone using nuclear weapons, whether they be used to poison the atmosphere or clean out an area where military action is taking place. [More…]

• Therefore, no man in his proper senses would deny that defence is our No. [More…]

• The point 1 want to make is that in British law there is a tradition built up over many years, that where a man has an allegation made against him of such a nature that he ought to deny it and fails to take the appropriate action to deny it then there is case law - law which has been established recently in the High Court of Australia in the Woon case. [More…]

• 1 do not believe we are serving the best interests of this Parliament if we do not immediately have this man called to the Bar of the [More…]

• Now we are asked to treat this man seriously and to ask him why he said what he said. [More…]

• If you summon this man here to ask why he said something or other you -are elevating him to a degree of importance he does not deserve. [More…]

• But I would point out that there’ are human factors to be taken into consideration. [More…]

• There are many things in connection with the effects of floods whose actual value is very hard to establish. [More…]

• It is passible to value the loss of fixed assets in homes and furniture, but not the intangibles such as the inconvenience caused, the loss of man hours in so many directions and the effect on education when children are not able to attend school. [More…]

• 1 say quite objectively that if we go too far on the question of cost benefits and try to analyse all these things in’ minute detail many projects of this kind for’ the good of the community would never ‘be undertaken. [More…]

• This man told me about a fellow coming down the Hunter River under the Morpeth bridge in a little canoe. [More…]

• The canoe turned upsidedown and the man swam towards a willow tree and climbed up. [More…]

• This is an honourable organisation led by Professor Cyril Renwick, a man of admirable and sterling qualities, an Australian of a rich, evenly balanced character. [More…]

• The new Prime Minister’s response to these allegations has been to put the former Prime Minister into the post vacated by his accuser; to substitute the man about whom the allegations are made for the man who made the allegations. [More…]

• Are the Army and the whole question of authority over the Army to be made a question of personal and partisan one-upmanship? [More…]

• Is he, in his present state of mind, in his present situation, the man to examine objectively the role of the Army in Vietnam? [More…]

• The allegation of the honourable member for Wannon was that the former Prime Minister broke the chain of command - was insensitive, to put it at its lowest, to proper civilian authority. [More…]

• Yet while these most serious charges are unresolved the man against whom they art- made has been made Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In the face of allegations such as that by the man who had prime responsibility, how can it be borne that the new Minister for Defence should go to Vietnam? [More…]

• He justified them all; a good party, man, he says; the chief rationaliser of those policies. [More…]

• But the former Prime Minister was not the man to drag the Liberal Party screaming into the last third of the 20th Century. [More…]

• The Packer Press had started a couple of days before: They put on a command performance - a television show - wilh Alan Reid as the hatchet man and Bob Baudino and Peter Samuel putting the boots in. [More…]

• To fill his place the Press proprietors and the Establishment have nominated a man whose ability and application no-one doubts but whose style, rhetoric and attitudes are part of the 50s. [More…]

• As we know,, the Leader of the Opposition, a man who is supposed to uphold the law of this country and to support the decisions made in this House, advocated to young national servicemen that they should commit an act of military treachery. [More…]

• Sir, do you believe that a man who can make advocacy of this kind is suitable to become the leader of a government? [More…]

• Again I leave you, Sir, with this question: Does any person in this House believe that this man is one in whom the people of this country could repose their confidence? [More…]

• If I may use the words of our policy, we are dedicated to political liberty and the freedom and dignity of man; safe from external aggression and playing our part in a world security order which maintains the necessary force to defend the peace; looking primarily to the encouragement of individual initiative and enterprise as the dynamic force of progress; to make just provision for the aged, the invalid, the widowed, the sick, the unemployed and the children. [More…]

• This is the force which demands government of the people by administrators heavily emphasising the interests of business and the investor, for the advancement of business and the wealthy. [More…]

• The factor which made for the destruction of the former Prime Minister more than any other factor was that he was not a safe man from the point of view of the stock exchange, business, Press proprietor, power complex. [More…]

• Ever since he attained power in the Liberal Party and Packer’s man Alan Reid wrote the book against his attainment of power he has been a Packer target. [More…]

• Nor is that legitimate power exercised by setting out to build up an individual by glamourising him and romancing about him. [More…]

• So long as the politician is broadly in sympathy with the same great stock exchange manoeuvres and mineral exploitation considerations as the Press proprietors themselves, the Press proprietors have nothing critical to say. [More…]

• He was odd man out. [More…]

• Certainly he spoke with all the feeling of a man who knows what he is saying, and I can understand him doing so, he being Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• One can see a man who would be dominated by Mr Hawke and by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trades halls of Australia. [More…]

• He came back a humbled man, forced now to bow to left wing forces in the Labor movement. [More…]

• Could we really expect his government to exercise restraint against the wild demands of these militant unions? [More…]

• How do we bring stability to a country like Australia when we have to contend with the conduct of a man like Mr Hawke of the Australian Council of Trade Unions who is trying to bring about conditions in this country that will destroy our development and destroy the possibility of people in this country being encouraged to spend their money to assist our development. [More…]

• This man is encouraged and allowed to go free by the Labor Party. [More…]

• I am not saying anything derogatory about any other man in this place, but 1 venture to suggest that the Prime Minister we have elected is a man of outstanding capacity who is capable of guiding the economic affairs of this country. [More…]

• He is a man who has learned politics in the nard field of politics and who has the experience to handle the Government of this time. [More…]

• He is imbued with a dedication to the development of Australia and a man who can be trusted to carry the affairs of this country to the final goal of developing a great nation. [More…]

• I am proud to serve under a man of this capacity, and I think that the people of Australia are equally proud. [More…]

• I suspect that he still has their confidence because one of the most moving sights I have ever witnessed and one of the most touching things I have seen - I hope that such treachery will never produce a repetition - was the former Prime Minister, the great, strong, tough and courageous man that he is, a giant amongst pygmies if ever there was one, announcing to the Parliament in a way that only a John Grey Gorton could do that ‘my Party has stabbed me in the back and sacked me and it has appointed this political pygmy from Sydney to take my place.’ [More…]

• But on this side of the House what exactly is it which gives supporters of the Government the confidence to say that they have the continuing mandate of the people? [More…]

• Secondly, there is maintenance of experience which, if one makes an assessment man for man of the Opposition front bench and man for man of the Government front bench, obviously gives the Government members far greater collective administrative, managerial and professional experience both inside and outside government than members of the Opposition. [More…]

• Members of the Oppo:sition speak not from the point of view of responsibility to an electorate alone, but through a chain of command which normally ensures that the trade union movement, or an organisation, has their prime allegiance and their electorate comes very much down the line. [More…]

• This evening I wish to examine in some detail the performance over the years of the former holder of the External Affairs portfolio - the present holder of the Foreign Affairs portfolio - and the man who through the intrigues of powerful outside interests and the devisiveness of the Liberal Party has finally scrambled to the position of Prime Minister of our nation. [More…]

• If there was ever a man who was out of his depth in foreign affairs it is this man who by default leads this Government and regrettably this country of ours. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting we were considering in detail the pathetic performance over the years in the field of foreign policy of the man who through the intrigue of powerful outside interests and the chronic divisions within the Liberal Party has finally scrambled to the position of Prime Minister of this nation. [More…]

• His lamentable performance today gives us no hope that we have a confident hand at the helm of this nation of ours. [More…]

• This new Leader of the Liberal Party is the man who, in the last 3 or 4 days, has been appearing in the mass media and saying that he will introduce Cabinet government in Australia, which had been destroyed by the deposed Prime Minister. [More…]

• I challenge the right of the Liberal Party to have made this change in the Prime Ministership of Australia- The Liberal Party has the right to change its leader - I do not take that away from it - but, as a party of 46 in a House of 125 members and as a part of a coalition government of 66 members, the Liberals do not have the right to transfer a mandate gained by one leader to any other leader after a revolt within the ranks of their party - a revolt carried on the casting vote of the person being overthrown and then only after the supreme cowardice of all members of the Liberal Party had been shown in a secret ballot. [More…]

• The members of the Liberal Party, who make up part of the coalition Government, did not have the courage to stand up in their own Party room and vote out the man they wanted to vote- out. [More…]

• He was not the type of man to be the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• Already today the Leader of the Labor Party has spoken about the new Prime Minister’s belief that the basic wage was sufficient to keep a man, his wife and 2 or more children. [More…]

• But any man who can command a majority in the House of Representatives, as the Prime Minister can, is constitutionally and morally entitled to lead the country and would be wrong if he shed that responsibility which he gets as a result of his majority. [More…]

• No government and no man merits censure for assuring the Chief of an armed Service that if false charges against that Service appear in print they will be denied. [More…]

• I did not relish the thought of possibly having to stand up in this House and say: ‘There has been a riot out of control in Rabaul and many people have been killed. [More…]

• It is the same old team we have had in the past but we have a new front man. [More…]

• Rather ironically the honourable member for Wannon is one man to whom he probably owed more than any other man for his initial elevation to the position of Prime Minister. [More…]

• The ship’s crew was removed satisfactorily apart from one man who was slightly injured. [More…]

• I preface my question, which I direct to the Prime Minister, by saying that in recent days he has gone to great pains to build an image of himself as a man of the Cabinet, as one who believes that when a Cabinet decision is taken, that decision will be backed to the hilt. [More…]

• I have tried to make 2 points clear: Firstly that I am a party man and secondly that I believe in Cabinet making decisions. [More…]

• Even the man in the street asks who is going to pay, and he is not the fool that I think sometimes the Leader of the Opposition and many other speakers from that side of the House take him to be. [More…]

• To provide adequate training and to provide buildings and equipment poses a tremendous problem when we realise that so many more children than formerly are going on to higher education. [More…]

• Many children decided over the past few years that they wanted to go on. [More…]

• I believe that the demands may not be as heavy as we first thought. [More…]

• This Government is determined, as the former Prime Minister promised, to do all it can to bring up to date as quickly as humanly possible the fulfilment of the needs of the young people in this growing and developing community. [More…]

• Education means fitting a man to play his part in his chosen life work, whatever that may be, or training him in skills for any other occupation. [More…]

• Any man with common sense must know that a large stockpile which moves slowly requires not only large storages but also far more sophisticated storages. [More…]

• I do not know why he has not been appointedto the Ministry long ago because he is an experienced man in rural industries and he has a very wide knowledge of the wheat industry, which is the subject of the Bill we are discussing tonight. [More…]

• He spoke on this Bill but he took a different line altogether from that which would be taken by a man representing primary industries. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to inform the House whether it is a fact that as a result of a recent reduction in tariff on man made fibres, dumping prices at which acrylics are available in Australia are having an adverse effect on the competitive price of Australian processed wool and in turn having an adverse effect on the Australian wool processing industry. [More…]

• If this is a fact will the Minister undertake to have a further look at the level of tariff on acrylics and man made fibres in order that the competitive situation of the Australian industry can be maintained? [More…]

• These people talk in terms of a high tariff here being of assistance to the manufacturers of man made fibres and enabling them to command a bigger part of the market. [More…]

• If we lower the tariff protection on man made fibres we only allow more overseas products to come on to the market and so in turn compete with wool. [More…]

• I find it incredible that the Australian Wool Board and the International Wool Secretariat could endorse a policy which deliberately reduces the amount of wool available 10 textile manufacturers throughout the world. [More…]

• lt must be clear to everyone that the future of wool will depend heavily upon its capacity to compete in a fiercely competitive market with man-made fibres, if wool fails to do this its future will be tied to small, selective markets which concentrate on highly priced commodities for an exclusive clientele, lt will be analagous to the demand for fillet steak relative to the more popular and lower priced cuts which collectively yield the highest return from a carcass. [More…]

• To withdraw wool from the cutthroat markets of the world at a time when these markets are exposed to gluts the over-production of all fibres - man made and natural - is playing right into the hands of the synthetics manufacturers, who are quickly filling the vacuum left by the reduction in the supply of wool on the world market. [More…]

• Not for the first time I find myself speaking after that poor man’s Al Jolson, the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby). [More…]

• This is like kicking a man when he is down. [More…]

• If I recollect correctly, the then Attorney-General said in his statement that the Chairman of the Commission would be a person with the status of a Supreme Court judge. [More…]

• We applauded that because it would ensure that presumably there would be a man of quality in charge of the law reform commission. [More…]

• I can understand that the [honourable gentleman would not wish honourable members of this House to inquire into the efficiency of State police forces in apprehending offenders. [More…]

• He was the third man. [More…]

• Is it any wonder too that last year 15 senior constables - 2i times as many as in the previous year - resigned from the force? [More…]

• There will be a Director, who will be the main man. [More…]

• It was well known that an official of the council concerned suddenly blossomed into a wealthy man. [More…]

• He was convicted of a crime which he committed with a man aged 23. [More…]

• This was her son’s first crime but the man aged 23 was a known criminal. [More…]

• Her son was sentenced to 4 years gaol and he is now, she has found, still in the same gaol as the man who got him into trouble. [More…]

• Recently, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, there were approximately 40 robberies committed in an identical manner. [More…]

• The Department said that it was convinced that the convicted man had committed an 40 robberies, because after his arrest that type of robbery had ceased. [More…]

• The second is The Honest Politician’s Guide to Crime Control’ by Norman Morris and Gordon Hawkins. [More…]

• But the gem of them all, one to which I shall make some reference before I exhaust my time, is ‘All Manner of People’ by Mr A. E. Debenham, a highly respected man who formerly was a magistrate at one of the Sydney metropolitan children’s courts. [More…]

• Take a young man who may be 19 or 20 years of age who has been brought up in an environment in which his family has given him every access to a motor car and wealth. [More…]

• Nevertheless the young man gets into the car and does not realise that he has in hands something which is in effect a potentially lethal weapon. [More…]

• The next time one sees the young man and his parents is in court One has to go through the agony of talking to the patents of the young man who may be lacing a manslaughter charge. [More…]

• ls society to say in that instance where the young man has all of his normal cerebral processes: Well, we will try to correct you without imposing sanctions on you’. [More…]

• I am talking about a specific case in which there is complete normality and where the young man involved has been given every opportunity. [More…]

• He said: ‘This man is quite dangerous’. [More…]

• The accused had sought to kill another man with a heavy rasp at night time. [More…]

• He said: ‘I was out killing another man that evening’. [More…]

• I told him that if I had been retained by this man I would have sought to raise the plea that he was incapable of pleading to the crime. [More…]

• I think it is wrong to ask a jury of 12 people whether such a man is medically fit to plead to the crime with which he is charged. [More…]

• This man suffered from a form of mental abnormality. [More…]

• The judge found 2 doctors to examine him and the man was put away until he was capable of standing trial. [More…]

• If we are to prevent crime on a United States scale from occurring amongst the original Australians, we must make an all out effort to help them to achieve a stake in the system the same as the white man. [More…]

• The same instrumentalities will be charged with the responsibility and the pevention and detection of crime will remain with the man or woman engaged on the job. [More…]

• To any of the hip group the words ‘my senses have been stripped’ in Bob Dylan’s song “The Tambourine Man’ are an obvious drug reference. [More…]

• Mr Bartlett, a man of tremendous experience, said: [More…]

• If we are to appoint people who have not had some sort of training or contact with the liberal arts and humanities there is a very real possibility we will get people with closed minds who will perpetuate the mistakes of the past - the good old practical man - and frankly at this stage in our civilisation the good old practical man is not good enough. [More…]

• This is not to say that because a man has had only this standard of education we should automatically exclude him as one who has not the necessary qualities to be a flexible, tolerant, understanding and perceptive policeman. [More…]

• I do not understand why the Ministers representing their various States in the negotiations on the composition of the Institute so readily agreed to allow the Commonwealth Government to take over 3 of the 6 positions of management and to give the Commonwealth the casting vote. [More…]

• I am a humane man who would like to see ali crimes solved and I do not subscribe to a drug society. [More…]

• I ask the honourable member for Lyne: Is it non-violent to banish a man to the wilderness or to detain him without trial indefinitely? [More…]

• Is is non-violent to deny a human being the right to vote, the right to free choice of employment or the rights to equal wages, equal justice, education, health and social welfare, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, equal participation in cultural activities, freedom to choose his own spouse, the right to strike, freedom of movement, of religion, of political views, and the hundred other rights enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]

• One maxim that is always good in most facets of life is to always give the other man credit for having as much common sense as yourself. [More…]

• It financed Chichester’s trip around the world, but I would be a very surprised man if that resulted in the sale of an extra bale of wool. [More…]

• If anybody could convince me that that would result in the sale of one bale of wool or one yard of cloth I would be a very surprised man. [More…]

• We want the Wool Secretariat and the other bodies involved in promoting the sale of wool to get the manufacturers to go in for blends. [More…]

• As we all know, wool makes the greatest cloth in the world and there is not one synthetic or man-made fibre which would not benefit from the addition of wool to its texture. [More…]

• For some unknown reason the International Wool Secretariat, which is the promoter of the sale of wool throughout the world, has neglected this blend aspect and still wants to sell wool in its manufactured form. [More…]

• He is a qualified man. [More…]

• lt is important to know that these remarks have been confirmed by Dr Cummins, the Director-General of Public Health for New South Wales who today is attributed with having said that readings many times higher than the safety level are in evidence in regard to mercury at Botany Bay. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Has Mr Dunshea, the Chairman of Dunlops, yet contacted you or do you expect him to do so, concerning the rigging of prices for the man in the street, which is known as retail price maintenance? [More…]

• I do not think that my hopes will be as short-lived as the hopes of the honourable member were when he came back from Cambodia and said that the operations there were equivalent to the operations of the Germans in Belgium. [More…]

• First, it should be remembered that if strikes, which are largely due to the operations of the left wing trade union movement supported by Mr Hawke, cause a loss of well over 2 million man days a year, this must affect productivity and it must therefore affect the capacity to pay wages and the standard of living of all but the very strong sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• One was Roger Dean, a kindly, benevolent gentleman certainly, but a man with as much drive and initiative as a stuffed dodo. [More…]

• Would anyone suggest for a moment that he is a man lacking in ability, intensity or dedication? [More…]

• Then I said ‘He is a man who, no doubt, could earn a good income in any walk of life’. [More…]

• He can take any one he wants and any old time it can go right into the back of the man who has replaced him. [More…]

• We all know that he is a retiring man, is never in any intrigue and did not ever want the job. [More…]

• The present Leader of the Country Party was one who said that he would walk out of the Ministry with the then Deputy Prime Minister if the Liberal Party was to support the man who now leads this nation in the position of Prime Minister. [More…]

• Scattered all over the world in all kinds of jobs are ex-Ministers who disappeared, and ‘the man who must smile the most at this is His Excellency the Governor-General who does not know who is going to turn up from day to day as Leader of the Liberal Party, but he knows he should have had the job himself. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has been exposed in many ways in the Press about the contribution he will make to the high society columns and things of that nature. [More…]

• But when a man makes statements like this they must be answered or people throughout the nation would think they were true. [More…]

• He is a man of high intellect and good education, a man dedicated to the proposition of representing the people. [More…]

• Apparently the company stated that the reason for the dismissal was that it was dissatisfied with the attitude and performance of that particular employee over the last year. [More…]

• The employee was apparently taken by surprise as were the other inspectors as this man had not been given any warning or reprimand over the last year. [More…]

• A man is dismissed for spurious reasons, clearly an act of provocation. [More…]

• One of the best lawyers this country has ever produced, that is the present Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, once said that a very good lawyer is not always a very good draftsman. [More…]

• When a man of such distinction in the law readily admits that drafting is something that is very often outside the capacity of the very best practising lawyer, we begin to understand the special training and expertise which is required to do the job. [More…]

• What is the position of the man whom the Liberal Party has seen fit, somewhat belatedly, to elect as its Prime Minister? [More…]

• This is purely party politics from a party man who says that members of the Liberal [More…]

• The victims are human lives, and nobody can justify it. [More…]

• What I rose this afternoon to say is that when that young man faces the court on Tuesday morning or Tuesday afternoon he will have been put there by the members of this Government. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned I will do everything in my power, short of violence I suppose, or any real breach of the law, to prevent an act of violence being perpetrated against that young man in his being dragged off to Pentridge gaol or the minefields of Vietnam. [More…]

• I give notice that as far as this young man is concerned and as far as I am concerned, because he is one of my constitutents, the gloves are off. [More…]

• Imagine the situation of a man standing for public office. [More…]

• There could well be a situation in which a man has decided to contest a public office. [More…]

• A prosecution could be launched against him many years after the event. [More…]

• These factors ought to be considered in a humanitarian way. [More…]

• No humanitarianism is shown in this clause at all. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister is a pretty capable man. [More…]

• A man who can market 18 pigs per sow per year is financially better off than one who can market only 12. [More…]

• The arrogance and stupidity of this man! [More…]

• Is he not aware that for years shit, human excreta, has been washed on Sydney’s major beaches both north and south of the harbour due to inadequate treatment? [More…]

• Many Sydney beaches have had to be closed to human habitation. [More…]

• I speak not only as a member of this Federal House but as a member of the human race. [More…]

• We have in our capsule many other species who are fellow travellers. [More…]

• Each man in spaceship earth produces waste of natural origin, but in addition he adds millions of tons of all sorts of man-made products to the oceans and the atmosphere, which he still regards as cesspools for his waste. [More…]

• The people to a man became concerned about the urgency of the problem. [More…]

• I strongly doubt whether one of the most junior Ministers in the Government will have the authority, the capacity and indeed the experience sensibly and sensitively to integrate into the activities of so many other departments which have a responsibility about these matters but which for far too long have been the subject of neglect under the present structure. [More…]

• It is, of course, an inevitable consequence of increasing technological development and rising standards of living that man is more and more modifying his environment. [More…]

• In 1946 unemployment and sickness benefits for a man and his wife were 35.3 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• Again, we find that the level of sickness benefit for a man with a wife and 2 children is about $21 a week below the poverty line struck by the Melbourne survey. [More…]

• Outside this chamber I find him a very personable young man. [More…]

• He put on this type of performance in this chamber last night while the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) was making his second reading speech. [More…]

• A man and his wife who are both pensioners may each receive an income and still retain their rights to pensions. [More…]

• I remember vividly driving up to a big home in the electorate of Wills where a man was cleaning a Mercedes Benz in the drive. [More…]

• In those circumstances where the man dies of injuries or illness which cannot be proved to be the result of his war service then his wife does not receive a war widow’s pension. [More…]

• On the other hand, if the man were to die as a result of injuries or illness suffered during his war service his wife would receive a far greater pension than the civilian widow and the pension would not be subjected to a means test. [More…]

• A woman came into my office quite recently. [More…]

• As a result of the worry she has incurred the woman is suffering from ulcers. [More…]

• Surely the worst enemy of pensioners, people on superannuation, salaried people on fixed incomes and people on lower incomes is the man or organisation which continues to force inflation upon this community. [More…]

• This applies particularly to the family man in the lower income group and to the exporter, be’ he in the primary or the secondary field; If we price our primary and secondary exporting industries out of business there can be no other result but rising unemployment. [More…]

• He is a man of great ability in this field, but so far he has not been able to supply facts and figures to those of us on the Government Members Social Services Committee to show that it would be possible or feasible to establish a national superannuation fund. [More…]

• If a man is killed at work or as a result of a car accident he may be covered by workers compensation in the former case or third party insurance in the latter. [More…]

• There are many forms of insurance, especially for those who are in receipt of a low wage, by which provision can be made for a family in the event of a tragic happening. [More…]

• But as they stand now, it is in the option, the caprice, of one man to say there shall be no questions without notice on any day. [More…]

• Do honourable members want one man for the rest of his days as Prime Minister, until the next elections for this House, to cut off questions without notice 45 minutes after the House sits? [More…]

• They either have this one man control of the whole House or they stand up for their rights. [More…]

• I repeat that the Leader pf the Opposition is really the man who takes ; up all the time during question time on his side of the House. [More…]

• Tens of thousands of people in the rural constituencies needing a voice in the State and national Parliaments have been hit by falling wool prices, wheat quotas and contracting overseas markets, demands for higher wages and Labor’s policy of supporting Mr Hawke’s demands for a 35- hour week. [More…]

• It waits until a man is down and then puts in the boot. [More…]

• Productivity is output related to what is used up in man hours, machine time, materials and so forth. [More…]

• I do not recall any Government spokesman making any statement a few years ago when locomotive enginemen, because of the changed technology of their industry, more than doubled their output per man but had their relative margin for skill halved by a decision of the Commission in a case in which the Commonwealth Railways was a respondent. [More…]

• I do not recall any Government spokesman saying: These men have increased their productivity, they have increased their worth, so their wage level should at least be maintained at what it was previously.’ [More…]

• No Government spokesman stood up and said that. [More…]

• I repeat again, because this is something that the Australian community has to recognise: The only way in which the wage and salary earner can receive a bigger share is to get a bigger economic cake to cut up, and the way to do this is to increase the productivity of the worker, and of management. [More…]

• 1 agree with what the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) said, that when one refers to the slice which the wage and salary earner receives one includes the member of parliament, the High Court judge and the man who sweeps the street. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition went on very cleverly and artfully, because he is an artful man - perhaps an artful dodger. [More…]

• I realise that the honourable member for Shortland is a relatively quiet man, but noone here would doubt his sincerity. [More…]

• The honourable member for Shortland (Mr Griffiths) - God bless him, he is one of the few surviving members of the old grass roots Labor Party - is a man upon whom one could rely and who would honestly fight for these underprivileged people. [More…]

• Take for example an elderly man or woman who has to seek specialist medical attention. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), the Labor Party shadow Minister for Social Services and a man whom I regard as one of the most sensitive human beings with whom I have had the good fortune to serve, highlighted the issue of the failure of the Government to include in ils pension increase any of the increase in productivity- the productivity that is so lovingly urged on all workers to struggle for. [More…]

• It seems to me that the present legislation is a little bit unfair to the woman who has finished rearing her family at the age of, say, 50 or 54. [More…]

• It seems wrong to expect such a woman, to repeat exactly what I said previously, to go out at that age and find a job for the first time in her life. [More…]

• First, surely a man who wants to go out and work without losing his pension rights should be allowed to do so. [More…]

• Surely in many cases it is good occupational therapy. [More…]

• If a man were offered all he wanted on the condition that he did not do a thing for himself, does anyone really believe that he could accept it for more than a very short period? [More…]

• By comparison, if the man can be paroled it may cost three or four hours of a parole officer’s lime each week at a cost of about $30, including all administrative costs. [More…]

• The first relates to a man who 6 years ago was medically examined for national service and adjudged medically unfit and so informed and who has now been submitted to a further medical examination at the age of 26 years and is about to be put into the Army. [More…]

• The third matter - if I have time to mention it - relates to the need for the abolition of retail price maintenance, as shown by the experience of a businessman in Goulburn. [More…]

• The first matter, Mr Speaker, relates to a man whose name 1 will not mention but which I have given to the staff of the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch). [More…]

• This young man arrived in Australia at the beginning of January 1965. [More…]

• As I understand the situation, this young man had every reason to believe thai he had been rejected from military service ‘for medical reasons. [More…]

• This young man was savaged by a bull about 7 or 8 years ago. [More…]

• 1 have brought these facts to the attention of the House and the Minister because I feel sure that upon review it would not be thought proper to call this young man into the Army now, 6 years after he was informed that he was medically unfit. [More…]

• He is the man who keeps the purse, he is the head of the household, and it is very unfair that the wife should have to be dragged into court. [More…]

• I will read portions of a let ter I received from the man concerned. [More…]

• The third matter I wish to raise involves a Mr dive Flack, a businessman of Goulburn, who runs an electrical and furniture store. [More…]

• Mr Flack is a man who is content with a modest profit. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) who represents in this place the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) can give me some explanation why Service personnel have to wait 16 weeks longer than everyone else, particularly people in private industry, to receive the increases that are granted by the Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• A married man in this category receives a marriage allowance of $12.95 a week. [More…]

• Of course the single man receives his board and from that one can work out whatever rate one likes. [More…]

• This means that the married man receives $74.32 a week and the single man $62.37 plus his board. [More…]

• I also want to refer to the classification of leading aircraftsman - radio technical. [More…]

• A married serviceman with this classification would receive a base rate of $80.71 a week and a single man would receive $67.76 a week. [More…]

• I should like to draw attention once again to the category of LAC - radio technical who receives a base rate as a married man of 80.71 a week. [More…]

• If a man working in private industry has 2 to 3 ratings he .will receive an additional S3. [More…]

• I want to emphasise that most of the men working for the private airline industry are entitled to a rating of 7 or more: This means that their weekly wage would be $99.5 as against the paltry $80.71 received by a married serviceman who is doing the same work and has the same responsibility. [More…]

• The single serviceman would receive $67.76. [More…]

• Therefore a man in private industry would have to be employed by an airline for only 3 years in order to receive total increments of $6 a week. [More…]

• A serviceman would have to be a member of the Royal Australian Air Force for at least 20 years before he received that increment. [More…]

• A man in private industry who works overtime gets time and a half for the first 4 hours and double time thereafter. [More…]

• 1 repeat that the man in private industry gets penalty rates for the extra time spent working overtime, but the man in the Services gets time ofl’ provided he works at least 8 hours in any one week on top of that, because of the shortage of labour and so on in the Services today, the man in the Services must take the time off in lieu within 28 days of accumulating it and if he does not take it off within the 28 days he loses it altogether. [More…]

• The man’s taxable income is$2,087 and the cost of the unit is $357. [More…]

• The answer to the last part of the honourable gentleman’s question is that the Government is in no position to know of the increase in the incidence of drug taking in Australia. [More…]

• The background to the answer to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question is that in 1969 the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence on which all States are represented looked at a decision made in 1968 by the House of Lords. [More…]

• Not being a legal man, I cannot comment .on whether this relates to onus of proof. [More…]

• When the former Minister for Defence made his resignation speech in this House he did not once mention the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) and yet the Minister for the Army was obviously the man whom Brigadier-General Daly had to defend. [More…]

• Perhaps there was a clash of personalities; perhaps it was a question of a strong man against one a bit younger; or perhaps it was an ambitious man trying to defeat another. [More…]

• If a man becomes Minister for Defence he perhaps has a chance of becoming Prime Minister. [More…]

• But what about the eccentricity of a man or the problems of one individual in society? [More…]

• There are numerous ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen who are receiving their full pension entitlement but who certainly are not abusing their rights as this man suggests. [More…]

• Surely no man in this House who is aquainted with people who have Parkinson’s disease would prevent me from telling those people that this wonderful drug is available. [More…]

• I support this young man of great moral courage. [More…]

• 1 found him to be a young man of sound attitudes and firm convictions. [More…]

• One cannot help but admire the courage of this man in challenging the whole Establishment. [More…]

• Imagine this young man,- standing against the Establishment, against power and privilege in this country. [More…]

• As 1 told a Sydney university gathering last week, I have asked myself a thousand times: Uren, would you have had the courage, when you were the same age- as this young man, to stand up against the Establishment and say that you would not go. [More…]

• When a young man of the calibre of Geoff Mullins has the courage to stand up against the Establishment, I stand in this Parliament and give him my complete moral, physical, financial and every other support. [More…]

• This young man is a science graduate of the University of New. [More…]

• That is an indication of the way in which this young man was being treated. [More…]

• I hope that the Government is proud that it is trying to crush this young man. [More…]

• Any honourable member on the Government side who met this young man would be impressed by his balance and soundness and would be proud that he is a fellow Australian who has the moral courage to stand up for his principles. [More…]

• Sergeant Smith is a married man and the question of compassion arises in regard to his next of kin. [More…]

• However, one would be less than humane and less than human if one were not cognisant of the strains thai would be imposed on the family, in view of the circumstances put forward by the honourable member for Swan in regard to the other members of the family apart from the soldiers wife. [More…]

• As to the second part of the honourable gentleman’s question, the point here is clear. [More…]

• We decided that in order to meet this priority the Government would increase the maximum rate pension by $1 for a man and wife and by 50c in the case of a single individual. [More…]

• As I recall it - this is off the cuff and I would need to check the figures - the number of man hours lost by waterside workers in all Australian ports during 1969-70 was in excess of 1 million. [More…]

• He puts himself forward as a man who knows what is best for the people of the A.C.T. [More…]

• Anyone who has lived in Canberra for many years will say that in the old days when the system worked well, before it was ruined, it worked that way. [More…]

• That would enable young couples with limited resources to be in the same position as a rich man. [More…]

• These young people could compete with the rich man by getting the land virtually free. [More…]

• What went wrong - the Minister has touched on this although he did not give the real reasons for it - was that during the 1950s, starting in about 1958, the demand exceeded the supply. [More…]

• Obviously, this would be more than the average man could bear. [More…]

• What the Opposition desires is a return to the original intentions of the Act, which are that all land should be the property of all the people, that the Government should receive an annual rental for the use of this land, that no unearned increment should accrue to any private individual and that a man building a house or any other premises should not be required to make any capital outlay on his land, so that all his savings and borrowings can be invested in improvements. [More…]

• It means that the little man is squeezed out. [More…]

• The obnoxious system of premiums came in in the first place only because insufficient land was released to cope with the demand. [More…]

• There must be an adequate supply of land, otherwise even a true site rental could be an imposition on the little man. [More…]

• It might be argued that releasing this land would put an inflationary demand upon the building industry. [More…]

• I mention these aspects because I have taken the trouble to question the public as to their views on the subject and on this sudden apparent propaganda barrage on a matter which tries to hide the real causes of inflation, the mismanagement of finance by government, the iniquitous drain-off of workers’ wages in high rents brought on largely by government-initiated high interest rates, and land and home prices inflated by uncontrolled speculation. [More…]

• So the average person is caught up in the vicious circle of unrealistically high prices, which have no relation to actual production costs or the value of the article provided, which put the products beyond the reach of the average man unless hire purchase with its usurious interest rates is utilised. [More…]

• Let us look at comment by Professor Fritz Machlup of Princeton University who said that many Australians have recently come to suspect that their living standards, relative to those in other advanced countries, have been declining’. [More…]

• This comment is by a man who is currently Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University, United States of America. [More…]

• Productivity, on the other hand, is a ratio of production to units of man hours used or units of man years or units of capital or any other unit of input. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Shipping and Transport: How many Australian shipping companies have indicated that they will install Omega navigation receivers in their ships? [More…]

• What personnel from the Department of Shipping and Transport will be needed to man an Omega transmitting station? [More…]

• It is quite ridiculous to suggest that this man, who has been working so actively and consistently in the interests of both the Australian people and the Australian wheat growers, should try to do something which would deny access to what has become a very significant market. [More…]

• Do supporters of the Government think that it was the action of a wise man to talk and behave like th. [More…]

• The tragedy of the China situation is that despite questioning in this Parliament, despite fears by the industry, and despite a revolt against the Minister in circles of his own Party he has persisted in an attitude of arrogance quite unreal and unacceptable in a man who is supposed to be Australia’s first salesman. [More…]

• What kind of a man would the Minister for Trade and Industry be if when he was first interviewed he said: ‘I am a member of the Government andI stand with the Government policy on Red China,’ but at his next interview he said: ‘Well, it does not apply to wheat. [More…]

• In terms of history it seems only the other day that people’s work, family and government were all inextricably bound up, when a man in a real sense ‘did his own thing’. [More…]

• It may be that a reason why today many people are so embarrassingly pleased when a member of parliament does something for them is because they see government as so distant from them. [More…]

• The curious thing is that the very feature of technological society which can alienate man from his government can, if given the right twist and emphasis, serve to unite men to one another and to their governments. [More…]

• In all of this, those of us in government must understand the ideas, purposes and ideals - or lack of them - of those who work in the great bureaucracies, of the dropout, of the local councillor, of the businessman and of the student. [More…]

• It seems that it must be repeated again and again that education and qualifications are made for man and not man for education and qualifications. [More…]

• The McMahon Government does not appear to understand that some young Australians may consider that all this is immoral and that they may want to assemble in a group of three persons in such a manner as would allow an antagonistic and authoritarian magistrate to have a reasonable apprehension of violence to persons or to property. [More…]

• It makes no attempt to understand why a young man is willing to go to gaol for 2 years rather than have anything to do with it. [More…]

• If it does not merely remain a dead letter, as has so much of the earlier repressive legislation of governments like the McMahon Government, it will cause disorder, lt will cause disorder because there are sufficient people, although they are not many in Australia, who feel strongly enough about injustice not to be intimidated or silenced by law of this kind. [More…]

• Now that the man involved has unfortunately been assassinated everyone applauds what he was trying to do. [More…]

• Again in America in 1966, in the case of Bond versus Floyd, a coloured man was convicted of a crime of protesting against the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Honourable members cannot deny the fact that a man should be entitled to say what he thinks he should get for a fair day’s work. [More…]

• No person with any sympathy, sensitivity or understanding could do anything else but approve of it and be sorry that we have inflicted this upon this young man. [More…]

• I believe that no writ has been commissioned by anyone which authorises the honourable member for Boothby, his Party and his Government to deprive a man of his freedom or his life as is happening under the National Service Act. [More…]

• The South Australian Government in my view would be wholly entitled to release this young man from prison altogether and say to the Commonwealth: ‘Come and show cause that in fact this is a just and proper exercise of Commonwealth power’. [More…]

• But does not the honourable member understand what the Government is doing to the young people of Australia or what is happening to every young man born between 1946 and 1951? [More…]

• What can the people dp if they cannot get the honourable member for Boothby or the young man from Chisholm, who ought to be in Vietnam if he were dinkum to come out and answer for it in public. [More…]

• Do not tell me that the police are not unduly rough on many occasions. [More…]

• We saw on television during the Moratorium Campaign in Sydney that one young man gave a Nazi salute to the police. [More…]

• It is not my kind of language, but why can one say: ‘You are a mug Prime Minister,’ and get away with it if one cannot say such a thing to a policeman? [More…]

• Then he said to this young man: ‘On the first charge you are fined 100. [More…]

• Immediately the sentence was pronounced, instead of one policeman walking over and saying: ‘Come this way, lad’, 4 of them bore down upon him as if he were the culprit in some violent crime. [More…]

• The next thing he was being dragged from the court with one policeman holding each arm and one holding each leg. [More…]

• Peter Gavin, who is a very quiet, peaceful young man was hailed into court. [More…]

• I believe that we ought not to pass in this House any legislation which confers upon a single man, whether it be a judge, a magistrate or a justice of the peace, the right to gaol another. [More…]

• My office is close to Pentridge Gaol and I see many instances of people who have been taken into court and who have obviously received a very poor trial indeed or people who have been picked up by the police, arrested and gaoled by a magistrate in a most unjust manner. [More…]

• There are still many things which should demand our attention. [More…]

• Again I would like to mention one or two of the words of the former AttorneyGeneral, the man whose baby this Bill is. [More…]

• The policeman who gives evidence usually says that he was in plain clothes. [More…]

• He then says: ‘I said to this man: “I am a constable in the New South Wales Police Force. [More…]

• The policeman would go on to give evidence on oath - I emphasise the fact that the evidence is given on oath - in these terms: ‘The defendant said to me: “You are nothing but a f - c - copper”. [More…]

• an industrial dispute and 1 man had given an affidavit on a previous occasion supporting a claim that the company was guilty of a lock-out during February of this year. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman may laugh but I wonder how he would feel if he was called a Fascist pig; if he was a man who had served his country and all it stands for in the sense of a democracy. [More…]

• The third factor in drawing attention to the distinction between the two situations is, I understand, that after a discussion with the Regional Director of my office in Melbourne the honourable gentleman agreed to leave, and he did so in a peaceful manner. [More…]

• You are the last man in this House to talk about abusing anything. [More…]

• I have a friend in Adelaide, a young English migrant who came to Australia many years ago. [More…]

• He is typical of the ordinary, above average working man who can be found in scores and scores of industries today in Australia. [More…]

• Many of them are in those jobs because opportunities were not available for them to do anything different. [More…]

• I will use as an illustration the case of a married man in Port Augusta because I know the South Australian geography better. [More…]

• What will happen to a man employed at the Port Augusta railway workshops who is thrown out of work because of automation or some change in technology and who has to go to Adelaide, more than 200 miles away, to be retrained? [More…]

• How on earth is this man going to carry out his marital duties if he is not permitted some reimbursement for fares? [More…]

• Probably the man will have to starve because man does not live by bread alone. [More…]

• More manhours are lost each year over disputes not involving wages than over wage disputes, and the majority of non-wage disputes relate to managerial policy. [More…]

• Close behind the number of man hours lost in that way is the number lost through demarcation disputes and the refusal of people to join unions. [More…]

• The Advisory Committee on Vehicle Performance - a national body - is drawing up regulations on road standards. [More…]

• Now I come to the subject mentioned by the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) - the man behind the wheel; the driver. [More…]

• I do not know how we cure this, short of an education campaign and improved public awareness of what plain bad manners contribute to road fatalities. [More…]

• Then, once the 12 months has passed the man who has committed the offence in not providing the correct information goes scot free. [More…]

• The man who puts in false information is subject to a fine of $200 and, under the Bill as it stands, if the authorities find out about it within 5 years they can charge him. [More…]

• It is only hanging over the heads of those people who know that they have done wrong in not providing the information, not the man who has a clear conscience because he has put in the information that is desired or required under the Bill for the good of the dried fruits industry. [More…]

• But if a man deliberately - it has to be deliberately because the Bill uses the words ‘false or misleading in a material particular’- provides false or misleading information, it will be hanging over his head because he will say to himself: ‘I committed this offence. [More…]

• But I am not prepared to support one year and the proposition that when that year is over the man who has not given the right information goes scot free and, perhaps, breaks up the whole of this research scheme which will mean so much to the dried fruit growers, most of whom reside in the electorate of Mallee. [More…]

• The whole idea of this clause is to protect the man who undertakes his obligations and duty under this scheme to his fellow primary producers. [More…]

• His wife and family possibly would then have the onerous task of appearing in court to defend the deceased man who had committed an offence. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills said that the little man does not have a chance. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) said that the police are usually telling lies and that they regard their obligation to prove a case as a game; they give evidence irrespective of whether they believe it is true. [More…]

• I would say that probably a better formulation of the rule would be in more general terms and say that while a man remains in the Public Service he should not speak publicly about policies. [More…]

• The tragedy of this debate, Mr Speaker, is that this Government has taken law and order, the dream of every civilised man through all of history, and reduced it, along with all other good intentions, to the squalid level of a political slogan, one that it picked up at, of all places, an impromptu cricket match at a suburban front door. [More…]

• The truth of the matter, Mr Speaker, is that this Government is so concerned with the dissent within its ranks, is so embarrassed by its close association with the Fascist policies of the racist governments of southern Africa, so confused by the shambles of its administration - as manifested in the Fill fiasco, the plight of our pensioners and the depression of rural Australia - and so terrified at the prospect of running out of Communists that it has become paranoically pre-occupied with its own survival. [More…]

• That argument does not wash with a young man who has found that the job the Government has set itself is to clutter up the streets in Vietnam. [More…]

• I am sure that the man who wrote that was not the man who wrote the editorial underneath it or he would have seen the inconsistency in those two points of view. [More…]

• When I used the term ‘grandstanding’ this morning I meant it because this man appears to have made himself the king of the kids. [More…]

• He appears to be the wonder man of the hippie group, and for the period until those in that group grow up they look at him with adoring eyes. [More…]

• Batman (Mr Garrick) because he read his speech with some care. [More…]

• I think his knowledge is not too good because, as I understand it, the man who fired the shot was arrested at the time and was, I think, found medically unfit and was given treatment. [More…]

• The honourable member for Batman then raised the matter concerning the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]

• I agree emphatically with what the honourable member for Batman said. [More…]

• I do not think this should be allowed, and it has concerned me that no member of the Labor Party over the last 18 months has raised this matter, inquired into it or appears to have made any protest that nothing has been done to bring this man to trial or at least to apprehend him when, I understand, he did not appear on the date fixed to hear the serious charges raised against him. [More…]

• 1 think it is incredible to find the honourable member for Batman today raising this question, but never a word has been said in the past. [More…]

• I would like to support what the honourable member for Batman has said, and I will support him to the full strength of my ability to see that this man is brought to justice. [More…]

• It seems significant, however, that this debate on law and order was introduced during Easter week, which commemorated the life, work and teaching of a leading dissenter, a Man who stood out against racism, violence and discrimination against individuals. [More…]

• He was a man who challenged the Establishment, who called upon large and small assemblies to dissent, and who was finally dealt with by the Establishment in a way which was similar in many respects to that envisaged by this legislation against similar demonstrators and dissenters. [More…]

• One wonders how He would fare today under this legislation when attempting to follow the basic concepts which He preached to assemblies and demonstrators so many years ago. [More…]

• Those who do not agree with the politics of the honourable member for Lalor have described him to me as a man of great courage. [More…]

• I believe that, as a result of the gallant and brave actions of some women in Victoria in going to gaol in protest against the destroying of human life and in the hope that others might live, there will be more demonstrations by the mothers of our nation against our involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• The women of Australia have woken up to the evil of conscripting their sons to serve in Vietnam and will not allow themselves to be used as the producers of gun fodder and to be reduced virtually to receptacles for man’s bloody lust. [More…]

• lt needs a practical man with a sound instinct for justice who does his task honestly, firmly and good-humouredly. [More…]

• It is good that an Australian is able to go overseas as part of a deputation led by a man of such stature and one who is held in such high regard. [More…]

• It seems to me that in this Parliament the Speaker is traditionally a Party man. [More…]

• These human qualities are very hard to find in any one man. [More…]

• I do not suppose there is any one man who possesses all the most desirable human qualities, and I think some of the things that have been said about you today have been untrue, unfair and unjust. [More…]

• It could be said that the first Aboriginal bark shelter was a polluting influence or that the first white man’s homestead - or would it be the first 2 homesteads, the first 4, the first 1,000 or the first 1,000,000- is an example of pollution. [More…]

• Natural laws are being assailed continually by modern man. [More…]

• We demand it. [More…]

• Everyone of us here demands pollution of some kind, especially when our own self-interest or individual interest is at stake, even if it is driving a motor car with one person in it into the city day by day. [More…]

• But society has been stirred, and thank goodness it has been stirred, to re-think the great problems of pollution as it is developing and threatening man today. [More…]

• Why bring a man back to court time and again and put him to the expense of obtaining legal representation and getting adjournments while he has to argue whether the particulars are adequate? [More…]

• It then refers to a man who, to all appearances, is the very essence of placidity. [More…]

• I know of the case of one man in my State - if what happened in this instance applied to Commonwealth premises it would be entirely in line with the provisions of this Bill - who was silly enough, if that is the way we look at it, or decent enough, if that is the way we look at it, to reply to a letter published in a local newspaper. [More…]

• This man had had a lifetime plying the seas as the captain of vessels engaged in commercial shipping ventures. [More…]

• That man still is subjected to intimidation. [More…]

• The Attorney-General (Mr N. H. Bowen), who is sitting at the table, is a man of some distinction in the law. [More…]

• This young man is a science graduate who can make a contribution to our society, yet we gaol him for 2 years because he opposed the immoral war in Vietnam. [More…]

• The young man Geoffrey Mullen is at present in Berrima gaol. [More…]

• The superintendent of that gaol said that if there was a demonstration outside the Berrima gaol against the gaoling of this young man he would be transferred to another prison. [More…]

• I say here and now that if anything happens to Mullen this Government, this Deputy Speaker and every man on the Government side will stand condemned and will be responsible because it is this Government that committed the young man to that gaol. [More…]

• To suggest that we could introduce a police state is a suggestion which could be made only by a man who has never heard of a writ of habeas corpus. [More…]

• Notwithstanding what the honourable member for Lalor suggests it is impossible to introduce a police state in this country because we do have protection of the rights of personal freedom emanating from wrongful detention. [More…]

• It will protect a man’s neighbour against physical violence and against damage to his property. [More…]

• The courts are dealing with this every day, determining what is the standard of a reasonable and, in some instances, a prudent man. [More…]

• I believe that a prison sentence of no matter what length is a completely different quality of punishment from a fine or anything else and we should not, in our judicial system, tolerate the imprisonment of one man by another. [More…]

• My friend, the member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby), is probably better qualified to do that, but, as I have pointed out on many occasions, from the evidence that I and my friends have seen of judgments in the lower courts we must not allow to continue a system wherein one man can, on his own unqualified judgment, send another person to prison. [More…]

• In other words, what is taken as the essential element is the state of a man’s mind. [More…]

• If a man hits another person on the nose it is an offence as long as he intends doing it. [More…]

• However, he is not punished for what another man thinks. [More…]

• He is not even required to be a policeman. [More…]

• It will be left to the decision of a single man - a magistrate. [More…]

• In other words, they were critical of what this Government does time and time again and has done consistently since it came to power many, many years ago by not having jury trials and by creating more and more offences, making them summary offences and putting them into the hands of the courts of petty sessions to be tried by a single magistrate, be he a good man or a bad man but a human being just the same. [More…]

• There is authority of the highest kind saying it should not be done unless the offence is a serious offence because no man, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) said, should be deprived of his liberty unless 12 good men and true - his peers, if you like - check every possibility, bring with them the wisdom of the streets, say yea or nay and give him the benefit of the doubt. [More…]

• It creates an offence, the essence of which is the state of another man’s mind. [More…]

• Even in the civil law, as the Attorney-General (Mr N. H. Bowen) knows, the civil courts are reluctant to give damages for nervous shock - for the state of another man’s mind - and yet here he enacts a criminal statute with a penalty of $150 or 3 months or. [More…]

• The second point I would like to make in relation to this clause is that I do not think we should give to one man - a magistrate - power to determine the guilt of a person- for a crime punishable by imprisonment for 12 months. [More…]

• I do not believe that any human being in Australia - perhaps it would be all right in some recognised police state - should be placed in a position where he can be tried by one man and sentenced by the same man for up to 12 months. [More…]

• I thought he was a man of substance. [More…]

• He made the point tonight that honourable members on this side of the House are opposed to this clause of the Bill and demand that an individual ought to have further rights in regard to a charge and the right to be tried by his peers. [More…]

• If the honourable member wants a particular example one could think of many. [More…]

• One could take the case of a man who is stone deaf. [More…]

• What about the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes) who was the man who fathered this Bill and who is now disclaiming all paternity? [More…]

• Mr Chairman, I think that you were a little cavalier in the way in which you put the last clause. [More…]

• I will not surrender my right to speak in this place and I will not place my imprimateur on the right of one man to imprison another, no matter how lucid the explanations of the honourable member for Moreton might be. [More…]

• When it comes to my Department’s notice that a man docs not appear to have registered or bas not registered at the proper time the matter is investigated to ensure that national service obligations are not being avoided. [More…]

• In many instances the man is nut required to register; he is in the Permanent Forces or has arrived in Australia after the registration date of his age-group. [More…]

• However, the Department estimates that currently some 10,000 ‘investigations’ of such cases may occur annually; the nature of the investigations varies greatly, ranging from a routine but not necessarily readily obtainable check, for example, of a man’s birfhdate, to cases involving extended police enquiries. [More…]

• When a man is called for medical examination to determine his fitness for Army service, he is asked to advise the Registrar before the due date if for any reason he will be unable to attend so that another date can be arranged. [More…]

• Otherwise no man is called up while any doubt exists regarding his eligibility for exemption or his fitness for service. [More…]

• If so, does the Act or any other Act, make provision for any action to be taken against counsel who with full knowledge of these facts, becomes party to securing an agreement from the husband by fraudulent means and under duress, by which the husband is required to make a property settlement to his adulterous wife and to pay her maintenance while she is the de facto wife of another man. [More…]

• No man is passed fit for service until the Board’s classification of fitness has been confirmed by the Reviewing Medical Authority in the State concerned. [More…]

• It will be evident that the time lapse between a man’s medical examination and notification whether or not he is fit for service may vary considerably. [More…]

• Where there is likely to be undue delay in advising a man how he stands, the Department endeavours to keep him informed of the progress of events. [More…]

• Recently I made a very close survey of what is happening in the Kerang area, at the invitation of an enthusiast, a man who is dedicated to maintaining the ibis population. [More…]

• She has not lived with him since, nor has she since lived with any other man in a de facto relationship. [More…]

• A widow’s pension is payable to a woman, as a dependent female, only if she has lived- with a man to whom she is not legally married, on a bona fide and permanent domestic basis for a period of at least 3 years immediately prior to his death. [More…]

• In other words, any chance that that man had to hand on to his children even a box of matches as a result of his labours during his working life is thrown overboard. [More…]

• Also I want to speak of events leading up to the tragic situation where fighting is at present taking place between Government forces and the Awami League led by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. [More…]

• It is indeed sad that the people of East Pakistan are again experiencing death an destruction, not as an act of God but this time man made. [More…]

• It is inadequate when we consider that when a man in Asia wishes to buy products from Australia and wants to quote c.i.f ., which means that everything is organised and a consolidated quote is given to him, very often he cannot get such a quote and he is given a f.o.b. [More…]

• It is the height of absurdity for the Government in this situation to have its foreign policy on a subject that concerns the peace of the whole world decided by one little man leading a carpet bagging government on the island of Taiwan. [More…]

• There is a difference between a government, sponsored, policy of discrimination, segregation, oppression and cruelty based on the colour of a man’s skin and discrimination against a man’s political views. [More…]

• If one were to ask the man in the street what he thought apartheid was, he would probably reply that he thought it meant the blacks and whites had to use separate toilets and that there was segregated sport and so on. [More…]

• What would our Returned Services League clubs and ex-servicemen say if they knew how many of the governing Nationalist members were formerly members of the South African Nazi Party and that the Prime Minister, Mr Vorster, was interned during the war for his Nazi activities? [More…]

• History will show that this opportunist of a Prime Minister is not half the man his predecessor was. [More…]

• In South Africa, a man’s race is all important. [More…]

• The land reserved for each white man is 27 times that set aside for each non-white. [More…]

• A white man has 58 .times a better chance of matriculating than an African. [More…]

• The average wage for a white man in the mining industry is 16 times that of the African. [More…]

• The non-whites are subject to daily humiliation and degradation by discriminatory laws administered with a ruthlessness unequalled since the days of Nazi Germany. [More…]

• South Africa is a bitter reminder to the coloured peoples of the world of what they have suffered at the hands of the white man. [More…]

• It is a test case, confronting mankind with a choice: discrimination or brotherhood. [More…]

• But can any man remain indifferent and apathetic as to the future? [More…]

• Dare any man wash his hands of this sordid mess, and just say: There’s nothing I can do’. [More…]

• It is from numberless diverse acts of courage that human history is shaped. [More…]

• Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or. [More…]

• Thirdly, you would bring hope and joy to a considerable number of people - black, coloured and white - in South Africa: People who dare to believe in the equality of man, and act on that belief. [More…]

• You couldn’t have one man doing both those jobs - Immigration and Interior. [More…]

• This is something that no man of my standing in this Parliament can tolerate. [More…]

• People may say of me: ‘You are an old man and the generation gap has caught up with you’. [More…]

• Many young people are aware of these things, but a lot of people are not. [More…]

• One of their younger colleagues calls them “the counter lunch left,” because they spend a lot of their time at the bar murmuring about the need to man the barricades. [More…]

• The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Mclvor) is a man with a long and distinguished record in this Parliament and almost a teetotaller. [More…]

• As for myself, I take an occasional drink, but not too many. [More…]

• If sitting amongst them is a craven cur like the man who wrote this article, I ask you. [More…]

• I believe that this man should be ferreted out I believe that a man who would write this article is in the scoundrel class; he would do anything; he would sell his wares for 30 pieces of silver. [More…]

• Also I shall quote from the newspaper one or two passages in regard to what the professor said about the great ibis rookeries in the Kerang district First of all, the man was Professor Parratt He described the rookeries as one of the greatest tourist attractions in the world. [More…]

• It is on record th 2,1 one young man, who was a conscientious objector, I understand, said that if a foreign foe invaded this country and one of its troops was about to molest his mother he would take no action to combat that attack. [More…]

• The United Kingdom Government was guilty of appealing to the lower elements in many instances not only in Britain but in the international scene. [More…]

• The speaker said that when he was a young man he was visiting Madame Tussaud’s waxworks. [More…]

• Unfortunately in the British Labour Party at the moment there are many boneless wonders. [More…]

• I think it is a terrible thing that a man who has apparently been the guest of the South African Government should speak as he did. [More…]

• He is a married man with children. [More…]

• This man happens to rent a house in Canberra. [More…]

• How do we expect a man to exist, let alone to live, on a normal pay of approximately $104 a fortnight? [More…]

• I spoke to one man who told me that he did not even get to sleep, and he had to be back at work at 8.30 a.m. [More…]

• Having said this, I cannot under any circumstances alter my attitude and that is the unalterable Australian claim that a man must stick with his mates. [More…]

• If I recall the facts correctly, I might generally summarise the matter which the honourable gentleman has brought before the House by stating that last year there were approximately 2,700 strikes involving the loss of 2.4 million man days and involving also a loss of $30m to Australian wage earners. [More…]

• I believe that this will be seen not only as a comment on the strike to which the honourable gentleman refers but also as a general observation on the degree of growing disputation on the industrial scene. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the House to the fact that the former Leader of the Country Party, the Bight Honourable John McEwen, probably did more than any other man to try to bring about . [More…]

• an international trading approach to many of our commodities. [More…]

• He had said, in effect: ‘Yes, the old man has gone. [More…]

• He is a man of complete integrity. [More…]

• The other example I want to give to the Committee concerns something that happened not so long ago when a printer and publisher in a capital city decided to install machinery for manufacturing stationery for digital computers. [More…]

• In England he found that most firms were using European machines but one man had evolved his own, built it and used it. [More…]

• If that happens the difference between the $46.20 paid by the Government - or whatever the amount is going to be - and the man’s average normal weekly earnings should be made up by the employer. [More…]

• The last two savings are not ones which can be measured in cost but only in the value of man’s health and of man’s survival. [More…]

• If a man has been trained in one occupation in an industry and he lives in a house in a certain district and if that industry falls through, he has not got the mobility of the decision to invest, which is just a monetary flash if you like. [More…]

• The concepts of technical efficiency and managerial skill in Australia leave very much to be desired. [More…]

• There is a need for more training in business management. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say, as was very thoroughly explored, if not said in the same words by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), that technical education in the history of Australian education has been a very decided poor relation. [More…]

• But there certainly remains a situation which I think is of vital consequence to this country; that is, a situation wherein the untrained man has probably never been at a greater disadvantage. [More…]

• As one who has spent many voluntary man hours serving on technical, high school and university councils in the last 15 years I feel that I have some experience from which to speak. [More…]

• Have we not heard the story of that great radical man of the right who formerly sat on the back bench - the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth)? [More…]

• He was a man who worried about red hordes coming down from the north and was an advocate for greatly increased defence expenditure. [More…]

• As spokesman for the Opposition on urban affairs and housing, 1 have respect for the people of the country. [More…]

• Unfortunately, for the Australian Labor Party its spokesman condemns the Party out of his own mouth because ail the things of which he complained were initiated and developed by a Labor government in New South Wales. [More…]

• That is Socialism and if anyone wants to know about it I am the man to see because I have lived with it and fought against it since 1951. [More…]

• One should like firstly to deal with the question of the cost-price squeeze, a matter which is affecting every man, woman and child in this country. [More…]

• It affects those who are unable to obtain pensions, superannuitants, those who are receiving assistance in many forms, pensioners and families. [More…]

• Under the National Health Act, a man who earns the minimum wage or below is entitled to certain benefits. [More…]

• This man, a young qualified tradesman was just through his apprenticeship and was working on the night shift. [More…]

• However, the young man improperly took a tin of fruit juice after 1 1 o’clock at night. [More…]

• Apparently the Board says: ‘Not only will we sack a man but also we will seek the penalty of a criminal conviction’. [More…]

• I stress that this was a case of a young man who was sacked for allegedly stealing a tin of fruit juice at a time when he could not get refreshments for himself. [More…]

• young man sought to obtain employment with TransAustralia Airlines. [More…]

• If we have this sort of control by the .Board of Directors is it any wonder that there might be some disquiet as to whether Qantas is being managed in every sense from the point of view of getting the goodwill of all employees. [More…]

• That incident alone taught me to be a patient man. [More…]

• In Canada it is not only a fact that they try to make the Budget papers that come before parliamentarians more meaningful, so that there are more than 10 parliamentarians out of 185 - I think I am being optimistic in saying 10 out of 185 - who understand the papers; they also make an attempt to see that the man in the street understands what they are doing with the taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• A great many people in my State would like to know why a person such as Professor Medlin, who is in receipt of the top level of salary mentioned in the Bill, should seek voluntrily to lead dissentient groups. [More…]

• On many occasions I have debated with Professor Medlin on television and radio and, personally, I am quite fond of him. [More…]

• But I do not think it is right that a man having a responsibility, as I understand his position, to teach people - which is his occupation in life - should do things contrary to this and take off at will for periods of a week or two at a time to join such things as moratoriums. [More…]

• But what concerns me is the attitude in this day and age of taking action against such a man under such circumstances because he is morally opposed to something because of conscience. [More…]

• The young man is opposed to the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• Because he is a political prisoner, we want this young man to be released from gaol before this Parliament reassembles for the Budget session. [More…]

• Why should one young man be locked up for this offence? [More…]

• In addition, this young man suffers certain restrictions. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical sub stances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• First of all he argues that to become involved at the Federal level more directly and more forcibly in the needs of public hospital services is to nationalise those services, and then having put up the straw man, and set about demolishing it, he moved on to some rather questionable casuistic reasoning. [More…]

• Did it happen because he was one man facing a great phalanx of people in a Service department? [More…]

• Was it because he was one person alone and had so many other functions to perform? [More…]

• But as the Leader of the Opposition stated, there is plenty of scope to amalgamate some of the portfolios and in that way we could save considerable expense in the appointment of an additional Minister and avoid the appointment of another man to what we think is already an overloaded Ministry. [More…]

• Mr Cameron, like yourself, Mr Speaker, was a very distinguished personality and a very able and just man. [More…]

• Is it sensible - indeed is it practical - to entrust to the responsibility of one man all these various, diverse and sensitive activities with the large amount of money that is involved? [More…]

• It can be readily seen from the figures I have quoted this afternoon that to propose that all these tasks be placed on the shoulders of one man is an extraordinary presumption of Homeric strength and an Everestian intellectual capacity. [More…]

• He says that he is a team man; possibly the team he belongs to is not the one that operates in this House. [More…]

• The test is whether he holds office, because a man may profit from the holding of office under the Crown without receiving money. [More…]

• Here is a man who not so many weeks ago sat before the television cameras. [More…]

• One would have thought, if one was ignorant or innocent, call it what you like, that this man may have had some credibility in view of what he had to say on television. [More…]

• I think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, whom I know to be a fair and reasonable man, will admit that we discussed this and agreed to bring forward these Bills because the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) indicated that he wanted them brought forward and, in the special circumstances, intimated that he would require only a certain amount of lime. [More…]

• Some of the basic recommendations of the Conference provide for permanent employment in major ports, a pensions scheme for regular employees in all permanent and continuous ports and arrangements to cope with redundancy. [More…]

• The old system of casual labour was dispensed with and one of permanency, in which a man worked for the same employer every week, was substituted. [More…]

• Under the present system a man receives his wages, his sick leave, his holiday pay and his annual leave from his employer. [More…]

• Previously a man would work for an employer one week and would work for another the next week, the next shift or the next day. [More…]

• I know of one case in which a man would have had to work for the next 18 months for about $16 a week. [More…]

• Let me quote 2 or 3 more figures in terms of years, gross man hours worked and man hours lost through unauthorised stoppages. [More…]

• In 1955-56 the total man hours worked in the country was 38.8 million. [More…]

• The total man hours lost through unauthorised stoppages was 3.35 million, or 8.6 per cent of the total man hours worked. [More…]

• The situation has improved since those dastardly days, because in 1960-61 we had reached the point where 30.27 million man hours were worked and 1.19 million man hours were lost, which came down to 3.9 per cent of the total man hours worked. [More…]

• In 1964-65, to move ahead another 5 years or so, there were 31.8 million man hours worked and 1.19 million man hours lost through unauthorised stoppages, which represented 3.7 per cent of that year’s labour. [More…]

• One would imagine that with the implementation of permanency and the reduction of casual labour from 1969 onwards everything in the garden would be rosy, despite the problems at the port of Newcastle or anywhere else. [More…]

• One finds, however, that whilst 28.15 million man hours were worked 1.07 million man hours were lost, or 3.8 per cent of the total. [More…]

• The real issue was the white man’s law of land taking. [More…]

• In Gazelle the problem is the legacy of the sovereign acts by which successively the Germans, then the custodian of enemy property, and then Australians gained hold of native land. [More…]

• In my field of professional interest - education - 1 think it is fairly obvious that Mr To Liman has become a Minister in the sense in which we use the term. [More…]

• In a parliamentary system we impose a tremendous burden upon a man who becomes a Minister. [More…]

• One man has the right to farm the land, another to take timber off it and another to hunt over it. [More…]

• The majority of its inhabitants perhaps want to go slowly, but the situation demands close co-operation between the 2 governments at all levels, with a greater sympathy for and a greater understanding and a much wider and more intimate knowledge of the people up there by Australians generally. [More…]

• They have an interesting thing to say about the former German possessions in the Gazelle Peninsula which were passed on to Australia by conquest through the Custodian of Expropriated Property. [More…]

• ‘We certainly believe’, said one of their leaders, ‘in a fair deal for the white man. [More…]

• All sorts of traditional things come to a man. [More…]

• But see a man in Port Moresby who is really only on the wages of $7 a week and one will get, as has been pointed out, the rising incidence of tuberculosis, the shanty dwellings and all of those things. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XX11/ A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits ‘ the use in international armed conflict of any chemical “agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed foi their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• The question of dealing with management policy has caused more lost time than most other issues. [More…]

• In 1969 about 750,000 man hours were lost over disputes concerning the penal provisions. [More…]

• Fewer than 600,000 hours were lost over wage claims and some 500,000 man hours, were lost over the question of management policy. [More…]

• But the law as it now stands, according to the High Court, does not permit Arbitration Commissioners or the Arbitration Commission to settle any dispute that relates to management policy. [More…]

• There is a man who knows his job and who has done bis best to make the Act work. [More…]

• In that time, how many members of the Labor Party have got up and said their piece? [More…]

• One man to whom I refer is Cyril Chambers who was the Minister for the Army. [More…]

• He was a good Minister and an excellent man. [More…]

• He said that every man in this House is interested in this vital legislation. [More…]

• We know that there has been a drought in Queensland for many years. [More…]

• The Bureau of Agricultural Economics has advised me that there is one man employed or working in this industry for every 1,000 dry sheep equivalent. [More…]

• Some of the most efficient people in the industry by their own labour can probably run 5,000 dry sheep equivalent, so if there is one man or one owner in this industry for every 1,000 dry sheep equivalent this would point to an over-supply of labour within the industry, indicating some of the great problems that will arise and which are arising with the restructuring of the industry at the present time. [More…]

• I do not know of any modern industry in the world that tries to operate without some form of forecast of future price trends or without some form of forecast of future demand. [More…]

• It has brought in this measure at a time when thousands of farmers with assets on paper have no equity left, and when a man with a property valued at $100,000 in theory is called upon to pay rates and taxes on it and yet is not making 1 per cent on his capital and if he tried to sell his so-called assets there would be no buyers. [More…]

• In practical terms it means that a man who is not making 1 per cent return at the moment is to be asked to pay 6i per cent. [More…]

• The man has paid rates and taxes on this figure; he has gone broke on this figure; but the Government then reserves the right to come in and say: ‘This figure is false. [More…]

• What does that mean when the man has been running sheep and selling at prices less than for rabbits? [More…]

• Incidentally, that man is a constituent of the honourable member for Kalgoorlie. [More…]

• A 5-man UFGA deputation saw Mr Tonkin earlier this week, Mr Legge said. [More…]

• If his record is half as good as the man he follows I think he will be well pleased with it. [More…]

• The approach adopted in all cases recognises that men liable for national service have rights as well as obligations which are to be respected and in replying every effort is made to answer any questions and to explain carefully the man’s individual position. [More…]

• Obviously no man who it appears has not met his obligations should escape prosecution if on investigation it is found that proceedings are warranted. [More…]

• That is all very well, but a man in his 50s finds it very difficult to obtain a job. [More…]

• It is not just a matter of the man on the land, the business people in the town, the railway men, the council workers, the fencers or the other people who are involved in this, because it is the whole nation that is involved. [More…]

• What damages can be claimed by a man - or a company - who has been denied any supply at all from the manufacturer of the goods that he seeks to obtain and retail? [More…]

• In cases such as that a man’s damages cannot be assessed, and the Government well knows it. [More…]

• I do not want to be disrespectful to Mr Bannerman, who is a most estimable Australian and a very wonderful man, but all those who follow Mr Bannerman may not be of the same kidney. [More…]

• There is no protection for the man who brings the supplier before the tribunal and argues the case on its merits and succeeds. [More…]

• I join with the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) in condemning the tactics of the Government in expecting the Opposition to debate this measure today - not the next day of sitting but this day, because the next sitting is only a few hours off. [More…]

• The Leader of the House (Mr Swartz) looks a kindly and lovable man but he has developed into a real tyrant almost overnight. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Fremantle has said, he has surpassed the infamous conduct of his predecessors. [More…]

• The best way in’’ which to bring this Government to its senses would be for the unions concerned to declare this kind of conduct black- and to state- that no man or woman would work ‘for the Parliament without a specified- time1 for rest. [More…]

• It was Dr Maureen Brunt of the Monash University who said - and I compliment her on this - that every form of restrictive practice known to the ingenuity of man is in operation in the Australian economy. [More…]

• A further comment of Mr Bannerman’s is. [More…]

• The objective of the manufacturer is to produce good products as well as he can and then get them into the hands of the public as cheaply as he can. [More…]

• No manufacturer wants his distributors to get more profit than is necessary. [More…]

• He is the man with the ideas who is coming out, developing something and putting it on the market. [More…]

• The lower the price at which he can get it on to the market in the retail shop the more potential customers he has, provided that he can create a demand. [More…]

• Demand for so many products is created through national advertising. [More…]

• I am not much concerned about the cheap goods from the cheap stores such as Coles and Woolworths which, incidentally, have done more damage to manufacturing than anything we have bad inflicted on this community for many years. [More…]

• The orderliness cannot be produced by some man - a hidden man, if honourable members like, or a faceless man - who is an essential feature of the system as it exists today. [More…]

• in the problem, as can be seen when it is examined, the question of why a man is in business. [More…]

• One starts with the proposition that any businessman is in the world from the point of view of making a profit. [More…]

• Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIVA (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• 1 am a Party man from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet and 1 will want the fullest consultation with the Ministry and with the Party before I make any decisions or fill in any precise details. [More…]

• If he had been man enough, he would have admitted 3 days ago that it would be impossible for this House to deal with all of the legislation it has before it effectively and in the way in which the Australian people expect the legislation to be considered. [More…]

• Under the South Australian Act, a married man who receives $65 or less a week will obtain compensation on a no loss of earnings basis. [More…]

• Injury arising from accident demands an attack on three fronts. [More…]

• No compensation procedure can ever be allowed to take charge of the efforts being made to restore a man to health and gainful employment. [More…]

• It has reduced the incidence from 50.2 per 1 million man hours to 3.4 per 1 million man hours, a total reduction of 93 per cent. [More…]

• It fixes a rate of $35 for an unmarried man. [More…]

• $43.50 for a married man and $48.50 for a married man with one child, plus another $5 for each additional child, or the employee’s average weekly earnings, whichever is the lesser; whereas under the Opposition’s amendment the weekly compensation payment to a person who is totally incapacitated is equal to the full earnings, whether he is married or single. [More…]

• Let us take the case of a married man with one child. [More…]

• He is a married man with a child to maintain, house payments to keep up, medical benefit subscriptions to pay and all the ordinary expenses to meet. [More…]

• I have had it put to me that a situation could arise where a man working for the Commonwealth railways could be away from his home station and could die at the foreign station. [More…]

• No-one can blame the poor widow if a man is so distressed as to commit suicide. [More…]

• After all, it is the man who is sitting at the table of the House who really has to co-ordinate the activities of others and to bring down the final result. [More…]

• This loss of earnings can be a tremendous setback to a young married man who has commitments for furniture and his home. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hindmarsh referred to the sad occurrence of a man being killed away from his home town. [More…]

• The maximum limit on incapacity payments under South Australian legislation is $12,000, or $15,000 if totally and permanently incapacitated. [More…]

• For a married man the upper limit under South Australian legislation is $65, irrespective of the number of children he has. [More…]

• Under the Commonwealth legislation a man and wife with 4 children receive $63.50, with 5 children they receive $68.50, and then there is a progressive increase for other children. [More…]

• I know of many of these cases. [More…]

• If the Services accept a man and he afterwards suffers from a condition, whether it is congenital or not, he should be compensated. [More…]

• In one case a man had served in the Air Force for quite a number of years and was eventually discharged as suffering from epilepsy. [More…]

• This man had been accepted by the Air Force, had served regularly and then had fainting turns. [More…]

• This man suffered a great deal. [More…]

• I refer to the case of a young man who was knocked down by a semitrailer in New Guinea. [More…]

• That may be fair enough, but I believe, as a Parliament man, that when amounts of as much as $60m are spent there should be far more scrutiny on the part of the Parliament. [More…]

• The new chairman of directors of SPC, Mr John Cornish, in his report recently stated how SPC’S performance had improved. [More…]

• Sir John McEwen, the former honourable member for Murray, who I believe was a great man, a great Australian and the greatest supporter of the fruit industry, if not of all rural industries, that Australia has seen was instrumental to a large extent in the salvage operation for SPC. [More…]

• When it come to tax concessions, of course, if you allow a deduction of $300 for education and a man is a 50c in the $1 taxpayer, he is given an educational endowment of $150 for his child. [More…]

• A 50c in the $1 man gets back $100 for his child; a lc in the $1 man gets back $2 for his child. [More…]

• The present incumbent’s predecessor, a conservative man in very many respects, nevertheless came under criticism in his party because he did not launch enough prosecutions. [More…]

• He was politically wise enough to realise that a prosecution which is successful can martyr a man and a prosecution which is not successful can hallow a cause. [More…]

• This young man is a very fine type of young man - in fact, the very best type of young Australian. [More…]

• He has taken some part in public affairs and is a very level and well balanced young man. [More…]

• These are the observations of a very level-headed, intelligent young man, who is without any bee in his bonnet and without any axe to grind whatsoever. [More…]

• The humble petition of 10 electors of the Commonwealth of Australia respectfully showeth: 1. that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid ‘or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic’ effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 192S, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• revising its interpretation of the Geneya Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• The first is that this is not strictly a no confidence motion, nor in fact has the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) accepted it as such, it would have been futile to move a no confidence motion because the many Ministers who have been displaced by the right honourable gentleman have all stated that they will not vote in favour of a no confidence motion. [More…]

• He knew that no honourable man could come forward and refute his answer. [More…]

• We have this extraordinary situation where the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the third man in the governmental heirarchy, the Minister for Defence, the previous Prime Minister, a man who was better known than his colleagues in our region, has been summarily dismissed although the article which he was writing, asserted to be in breach of Cabinet solidarity and unity, was in the Prime Minister’s hands at 4.30 the afternoon before it was made available to the public. [More…]

• It was not appropriate to speak to the right honourable gentleman. [More…]

• A man who is ever ready to resort to the telephone did not use that magic instrument for 6 days to speak to his deputy. [More…]

• Those of us who know him know very well that he is almost the last man in this House who would walk out of a post, who would talk out of turn or out of spleen or out of a sense of vindictiveness but he does know, as we all know, 2 facts about his dismissal as Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• The first is that for several days before his dismissal the Prime Minister was trying to condition the Press - not just the journalists upstairs but their proprietors and editors in Sydney and Melbourne - to the view that the honourable member for Wentworth was a sick man and consequently unable adequately to fulfil his duties. [More…]

• The help sought was how to pour a bucket on him; There are around this country dozens of men- great Liberal supporters - who have been appalled by the spectacle of a man in this top position so demeaning himself and his position-. [More…]

• This is the device of a man and a party with nothing to offer and a great deal to be ashamed of. [More…]

• This is the device of a man and a party with nothing to offer and a great deal to be ashamed of. [More…]

• This is the man who incited young men inducted for national service ro refuse to serve in Vietnam when it was their duty to do so. [More…]

• This is the man who approved the attempt by some unions to interfere with the legitimate trade of this country. [More…]

• This is the man who gave tacit support to the left wing unions and the professional dissenters during the recent rugby tour. [More…]

• This is the man who went tq China to play party politics with wheat and finished up by being a total advocate for the policy of a foreign power - the greatest Communist power in Asia. [More…]

• We did so because we thought social justice demanded a rise to offset the sharp increase in living costs which was causing unexpected hardship. [More…]

• So many of these activities bear on the quality of life which must be of increasing concern to everyone in Australia. [More…]

• This is the end objective of all our efforts, because the quality of life is just about everything that belongs to and relates to man. [More…]

• We must not forget that the number of man days lost by individual disputes has gone up 2i times in the last 3 years. [More…]

• His performance is written into the record for all to read and for history to see. [More…]

• As a result of some cocktail gossip with a foreign representative in China, he caused more havoc than any man could have caused either in Australia or in any other part of the world. [More…]

• He would be a most unusual man if be did- not. [More…]

• The man for whom I feel sorry in all this is the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• Here are a man and a party who have failed time and time again to win acceptance of their policies; to win the confidence of the Australian people. [More…]

• Can one wonder that the Country Party said: ‘We will not serve under a man who is so distrusted, a man who will betray Cabinet secrets, a man who is prepared to go to Max Newton and give him information that money could not buy from anybody else’? [More…]

• That may not be nattering to Sir Frank Packer but it is certainly not libellous because it is true, and now that he has become the de facto Prime Minister of Australia it is in the public interest that everybody who is ruled by this man should be able to see the real character of the non-elected dictator of the Liberal Party and of the Australian people. [More…]

• If he loses his preselection everybody will know that it was lost as a consequence of the inordinate pressure and power that this man Packer has over the Liberal Party. [More…]

• He at least was not one who was prepared to emulate his Prime Minister, who as Minister for the Navy took a post as the admiral’s gentleman on the eastern seaboard and was thus able to dictate his requirements to the admiral. [More…]

• The next man for the axe - perhaps it will not be in this order - is the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock). [More…]

• The next man is the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) and after him my good friend the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) although I hope I am wrong in saying this because he certainly does not deserve to be dismissed. [More…]

• Here you have this sordid intrigue of a Prime Minister going to one of his Ministers - perhaps this is the price of his appointment to the Cabinet - and saying Your duly now is to remove the man who used to be the Prime Minister of this country’ - a man who fought for this country in a way the present Prime Minister did not. [More…]

• They have plotted and planned the defeat of this man over a period of months. [More…]

• I congratulate the honourable member for Hindmarsh most warmly On his performance. [More…]

• I think it was one of the best George Arliss performances J have seen but I am distressed beyond measure to find that he is in such a state of acute distraction. [More…]

• The honourable member has many remarkable accomplishments but for my part I would excuse myself from numbering amongst them that he is genuine in his endeavour to isolate the truth. [More…]

• That is a world of reality but are we- expected to go through life nursing hatreds and believing that we can build constructively and positively by saying: There goes that man, I wish him in hell.’ [More…]

• The Richardson Committee of 1959 considered that, “The salaries of a member should be fixed at an amount which is not so low as to deter a man of good attainments and ability who has no private income from entering or remaining in Parliament’. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That Honourable Members urge upon (he Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• One cannot calculate the cost of training a specialist and of his accumulated experience; but, on the simplest level, to train an infantry man before he can join his unit costs $4,000. [More…]

• I am grateful for every sweetheart, for every sister, for every father, for every brother and for every young man who does not have to go to this bottomless pit of human suffering known as Vietnam, because it is to this war, it is to this hell, that we have been sending our young men.. What we have to examine is the cost of our experience, of our experiment in Vietnam, of our insurance policy, in Vietnam, to see whether it was worth the deaths of nearly 500 young Australians. [More…]

• They would not man the barricades with me outside Parliament House or walk with me in any of the demonstrations that were held throughout Australia against Marshal Ky. Who supports Marshal Ky today? [More…]

• I have racial pride, but so has every man, whatever the colour of his skin - yellow, black, brown or white. [More…]

• A man who is not proud of his race is not proud at all. [More…]

• 1 have been very happy to find that so many people have made the observation in recent times that we ought to get out of Vietnam. [More…]

• There is, finally, a naxalite type of movement led by Mukhtiar and the one man who threatens every Chinese strategy in Pakistan is Mujibah Rahman because he could form, with the consent of the overwhelming majority of people in East Pakistan, and enough to be a majority in both Pakistani, a government which would be really independent. [More…]

• I have always taken the view about political assassinations - when people have tried to justify to me Irish gunmen and so on - that it is no more respectable to murder a man because you disagree with his politics than it is to murder an old woman because you want her purse. [More…]

• Many of us who know this man’s experience, his dedication and his understanding of the problems of the Indian sub-continent are looking forwarding to his contribution which I understand will be made in the debate on the statement given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]

• The Minister demonstrated that he is so inexpert and so ignorant of the trade union movement and of the employee’s side of the industrial scene that he fails to appreciate that Broken Hill would have the least number of man hours lost through illegal strikes, political stoppages and all these things which be and past Ministers have been so happy to relate to the House. [More…]

• For example, a man will be depicted wearing shorts as distinct from long trousers as in the United Nations system. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares (hat the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare- chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• The serviceman in future can expect to be paid at least at an equivalent rate to his civilian counterpart of the same age. [More…]

• A skilled man who is called up and opts for an alternative form of service ought to be paid for his skill and used in the work for which he is trained. [More…]

• For example, a tradesman would be paid award rates, or a doctor according to equivalent civilian salary scales. [More…]

• Certainly a young man who opts for a civilian alternative would not be expected to benefit financially from his status. [More…]

• Obviously this is the statement of a man of most intense feelings of conscience against a particular war. [More…]

• From my understanding of this young man, one can place complete an absolute reliance upon the statement of Charles Martin made to the Adelaide ‘Advertiser’ and which I have just quoted to the House, that his conscientious objection is based on a particular war, the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• Obviously this is a statement of a man of most intense feelings of conscience against that war. [More…]

• No young man would commit himself voluntarily to 2 years in an Adelaide gaol unless it were in response to demands of conscience which could not be compromised. [More…]

• The other man in gaol is Geoffrey Mullins of Sydney, who was gaoled in March this year, again for refusing to comply with the Act because of a deeply held objection to the Vietnam war. [More…]

• This requires that the alternative involve interruption of a man’s life and livelihood as in the case of a man enlisting in the Army; a rate of pay such that men undertaking civilian work are not advantaged as against those undertaking military service; and an obligation for service which has regard to the duration of military service required. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman will just contain himself for a moment, I shall come to that if he gives me the opportunity. [More…]

• Last year, of the 19 cases finalised - the honourable gentleman might listen to this point because it is a matter pertinent to his perspective - 10 men after their failure to report subsequently applied for and were granted by the courts exemption as conscientious objectors and are therefore not liable for any service, civilian or military. [More…]

• One man was granted 5 months temporary deferment by the courts on the grounds of exceptional hardship. [More…]

• I think it is also due to the provisions which the Government has made for men who conscientiously object to military service, including the reference provisions introduced in August last year, and the firm, but I believe sympathetic, administration of the scheme by officers of my Department so that no man is unaware of his obligations or his rights and no man is forced to act without due regard to the consequences and in a manner which on reflection he might regret. [More…]

• They are basically 3 questions of fact: Is the man liable for service? [More…]

• The second major aspect of the Bill is that it proposes that men who object to participation in a particular war should be eligible for exemption from the liability to render military service, that is, that we should provide for the recognition of selective service as a means of relieving a man from the liability to undertake compulsory service. [More…]

• I would have thought with the greatest respect - the honourable gentleman knows that I have this respect for him - that frankly further discussion of this aspect would be unnecessary. [More…]

• It may be subject to change with the vagaries of a war to which a man objects. [More…]

• If the position of either man has significantly changed for example in the light of any announcement recently made by the Government, then that is a position which, of course, I’ would wish to discuss with my colleague the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• The young man who last drew the marble out of the barrel in Melbourne was Ron Clarke who was breaking world records at 27 and 28 years of age. [More…]

• He is one of the fastest runners in Australia - just the man you need on occasions. [More…]

• He is the third man to hold that position in 5 months. [More…]

• A man whose political career was gravely damaged when he as Foreign Minister and as a predecessor in that portfolio of the present Prime Minister made an unexceptionable statement calling for realism about fears of Soviet activities in the Indian Ocean, must have found it ironic that I should hear this comment in that place and in his company. [More…]

• Our opening an Embassy in Taiwan In 1966 to the so-called Republic of China, after resisting pressures to do so for 16 years, an off-the-curT decision made, without consulting the Department of External Affairs or, apparently, the Minister for External Affairs, by the Prime Minister of the day, himself an amiable man whom no one could dislike but who knew almost nothing about foreign affairs, was as foolish as it was naive. [More…]

• He is a very fine man. [More…]

• What an incredible thing to do by a man who seriously puts himself forward as an alternative Prime Minister. [More…]

• It was written by a man called Ernst Henri. [More…]

• It takes some trouble to find articles which this gentleman has written. [More…]

• He is a man who has been reading and writing about and visiting China over many years. [More…]

• The man is a disgrace to Australia. [More…]

• A man who stabs his own Leader in the back for his own personal hopes and ambitions is one who certainly does not win honour from the Australian people. [More…]

• In conclusion I should like to read some words from a man who has had experience in the Ministry to show how they expose the Government’s position. [More…]

• Here is a man whose price is very low indeed. [More…]

• This man sits on when he has just heard, in one unambiguous sentence - and I will not quote it all - the epitome of what Chou, Mao and Lin Piao and other Chinese Communists have been spelling out at length for decades, namely, that they, China, not the United States, Japan or anyone else, are going to dominate the East, including Korea, Taiwan, IndoChina, Thailand and the Philippines. [More…]

• He is in there with the great man. [More…]

• Could this man ever again enjoy the confidence of the Philippines or of Thailand? [More…]

• Chairman Mao has spoken, and the Leader of the Opposition is ‘deeply impressed’. [More…]

• Let me quote from a voice which the Leader of the Opposition must have forgotten, a man with one of the most distinguished and knowledgeable backgrounds on China of the wartime and immediate postwar period, a man who went with Mr Attlee as interpreter when the British Labour Party sent a mission to China in 1954. [More…]

• I hope that the people listening to the broadcast of these proceedings have registered their strong disgust at the contribution this afternoon by a man of great intellectual capacity. [More…]

• He is a man who in personal and private conversation I have found to have intellectual gifts beyond the average. [More…]

• This was a chaotic and distressing situation which should reach the heart of the most steely man. [More…]

• The net effect of the proposed new arrangements is that, in lieu of the present single member of the board who is both representative of the Commonwealth Government and the board chairman, there shall be 2 members, one of whom is the representative of the Commonwealth Government but who is not chairman and the other of whom is a member and chair man of the board but is not the representative of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• It is no exaggeration to say that there are many in the Australian Labor Party who would rather go down to defeat than win with the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• He is a man who understands and loves the Australian Labor Party from the grass roots up. [More…]

• There is neither private judgment for the individual Labor member of Parliament nor certainly private judgment for the man who should be given the proper power to judge how he should lead the Opposition. [More…]

• As Mr George Crawford, the man who represents the Socialist left in Victoria, who was the president of the Labor Party in Victoria and who is today the chairman of the Labor Party in Victoria said, at all times the Party must remain dominant over its members of Parliament who should be there to represent it in a way that the Party sees fit. [More…]

• What more could the man have done? [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that one man is elected leader and to him, as with Allah, all wisdom is attributed. [More…]

• I suggest that no man in Australia has that sort of wisdom. [More…]

• This Parliament should look very seriously at the situation where a man who holds the ideas, and has professed those ideas in this Parliament, that the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) holds, is now in a position of authority in this Parliament. [More…]

• There is no person in this Parliament, and I doubt whether there are many people in Australia, holding the extreme ideas that this man holds, and for these ideas he is rewarded. [More…]

• on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon ‘he Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• Within hours after Cabinet had ratified the agreed price, thus confirming the accuracy of the leak, the Press reported this Cabinet decision and the Prime Minister’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ proudly, but blatantly, named him as the man in Cabinet who, in the words of the editor ‘had sensibly limited the subsidy to one year’. [More…]

• We might as well close up the place if we are to ride rough shod over the Constitution and the Standing Orders, and allow one man to become virtual dictator of Australia. [More…]

• If the Parliament in its foolishness decides to allow this man this further rope with which to hang democracy in Australia, I hope that as a last bastion of democracy you, Mr Speaker, the senior member and officer of the Parliament, will stand up and say, as your predecessor Archie Cameron stood up and said: ‘You will go no further in this matter.’ [More…]

• The assistance that will be given to a man who has 1,000 or 2,000 head of sheep, will be virtually nil. [More…]

• He was described as the ‘abominable no man’, because he had been trained by his Minister to say ‘No’. [More…]

• He is only a tiny little ineffectual man who knows that he can maintain control only while he is able to appoint enough lackeys and yes men to prop up his numbers inside the Party room. [More…]

• But the people of this country and the Parliament ought not to be concerned about propping up some ineffectual, tiny, funny little man who poses as Prime Minister. [More…]

• We know that many honourable members on the Government back benches, including the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner), the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess), the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) and the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes), refused to support the proposal now before the House unless there was a general debate on it. [More…]

• 1 am not a legal man, but 1 listened carefully to the honourable member for Berowra. [More…]

• It is most unusual for the Prime Minister to use the legal opinion of a man whose opinion he does not respect and whom he sacked and kicked out of the Ministry. [More…]

• This is known by every Press man in the Press Gallery. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) is not a small man in any sense, certainly not in my opinion, and I rather regret that to some degree he has joined the honourable member for Hindmarsh in this level of debate. [More…]

• Again I ask the question: Could any sane man object to this procedure? [More…]

• The only other thing I wish to say is that the rather patronising reference to no sane or honest man saying that there was any difficulty about the Standing Orders which would have to be amended following the appointment of Assistant Ministers could be a reflection on you, Mr Speaker, because you gave us some inkling of the complexity of these changes. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare- chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• During the calendar year ended December 1970 2.4 million man days were lost as a result of industrial disputes, involving a direct loss to the Austraiian wage earner of $30m in wages. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman has mentioned, of course the community at large and I have no doubt the great majority of Australian trade unionists are heartily sick and tired of strikes of all descriptions, particularly political strikes involving, as they do, the manipulation of the workers of this country by a small group of trade union leaders for their own peculiar political purposes. [More…]

• Of course, the Communists and the Socialist Left are adept at this type of manipulation over workers who want nothing more- (Opposition members interjecting). [More…]

• If the honourable member for Dawson had managed to develop a momentum on that occasion, as he has managed to do on this wheat deal, we would not have had an international sugar agreement. [More…]

• This example demonstrates the heights of irresponsibility to which this man will go in order to gain some political kudos; exactly the same situation has arisen on this occasion. [More…]

• He is a nice man at heart, and it is true that he has a doctorate of philosophy of more than usual magnificence. [More…]

• The police would not identify this policeman. [More…]

• The Minister knows that I am not a vindictive man and yet I was able to select this policeman who assaulted me. [More…]

• The last point that I want to make is that I think that a law which threatens a man with gaol when he has broken no law is a stupid law and a sentence of 40 days hard labour for failure to pay a fine of $80 is a stupid sentence. [More…]

• A person was manipulated into paying the fine. [More…]

• Surely even the Minister for Foreign Affairs would say that to put a man in gaol for 1 day for every $2 of maintenance or fine not paid is a stupid law. [More…]

• It isn’t easy to stand up to a man of Mr Chou’s intellectual capacity and stature when you are a guest in his country wanting to be as polite as possible. [More…]

• Would anyone deny that Mr Whitlam is a man of decorum and protocol? [More…]

• Of course he is a polite man in diplomatic exchanges. [More…]

• Why do not honourable members opposite give credit to a man who gave leadership? [More…]

• Present were members of our embassies in Tokyo and Manila. [More…]

• It is about time that we in the Australian Labor Party and honourable members in the Government ranks dealt with foreign affairs in a rational manner. [More…]

• Of course, we know the propaganda which was put out showing an Australian soldier drawing a rickshaw and a Chinese man with an Australian girl. [More…]

• He is a man of stature in the Chinese Government. [More…]

• It will be a move in the right direction for so many people in the world. [More…]

• Apart from agreeing that Taiwan and its population of 14-odd million people live in just another Chinese province, the man aspiring to be Prime Minister of Australia gave away in advance during the great kowtow every bargaining counter that Australia would have had in future negotiations with China. [More…]

• He is reported to have ended his meeting with the Australian Labor Party’s Leader by saying: ‘You are a very young man’. [More…]

• Our opening an Embassy in Taiwan in 1966 to the so-called Republic of China, after resisting pressures to do so for 16 years, an off-the-cuff decision made, without consulting the Department of External Affairs or, apparently, iiic Minister for External Affairs, by the Prime Minister of the day, himself an amiable man whom no one could dislike but who knew almost nothing about foreign affairs, was as foolish as it was naive.’ [More…]

• It is one of the most widely reviewed, widely read books on diplomacy in this country and the only man who denies its accuracy is the Prime Minister; and he does it under privilege. [More…]

• Unfortunately the Government has simply paid lip service to conventional criticism of racialism while putting the full force of its executive arms at the disposal of the ‘white man’s club’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s speech was the speech of a man who knew that he had been caught out by the initiatives taken by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• It was the speech of a man who thought that the only way by which he could justify bis own inaction was to try deliberately to distort the actions of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• But the selective silence of members of the Opposition has rightfully given the Australian public and the world many opportunities to judge where their sympathies actually lie. [More…]

• But the question is: How do we acquire and mamtain that elusive dream of man? [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• I confess to being a single man, but I do not consider that to be a crime. [More…]

• He is a married man. [More…]

• The equivalent of an ordinary working man’s day is wasted in flying through the skies to get to and from Canberra. [More…]

• And to the man in the street - not learned in the jargon of economics - that is what inflation means: It costs him more for everything. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, who interjects in this vulpine fashion, is the man who as Treasurer urged the States to impose receipts duty. [More…]

• I think I heard the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), the senior man in the Ministry still remaining in the chamber, interjecting at this stage. [More…]

• It perpetuates and extends the system of tax deduction where a man on $3,000 a year must spend $4 to get $1 back, whereas a man on $30,000 a year receives back $2 for every $3 he spends. [More…]

• The argument that Mr Hawke and the Leader of the Opposition now go in tandem has been justified, because it has been said that the former gentleman helped in settling one or two industrial disputes. [More…]

• I would suggest that one swallow does not make a summer, and the influence of the said gentleman cannot explain away nearly 4 million man days of work lost within the last 2 years. [More…]

• Yet these men run in tandem in so many other ways. [More…]

• While what he says is true, and while there is a case to be made for holding down the increasing prices of land as they affect every man’s budgetary position, he still does not understand, he begs the question or makes invalid comparisons, because the basis of what he is talking about is the sort of thing the honourable member for Reid talks about - the block of land in the centre of a city is now a great deal dearer than it was 20 years ago. [More…]

• Woe betide the man who finds himself in a situation caused by the Government’s interest rate hike. [More…]

• This has influenced many lenders not to renew mortgages on rural land but to call up the money and put it into purely speculative development in city areas. [More…]

• First, I want to draw attention to the fact that in this House tonight we saw the man who grovels to Chou En-lai grovelling to his master. [More…]

• This is the man who would sell his country down the drain. [More…]

• This is the man who aspires to become Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• This is the man who supports the policy of the Opposition which has done more to increase costs for the farmer and the producing community than has anything else. [More…]

• This is the man who weeps tears of blood for people in the country yet he has opposed every rural organisation. [More…]

• Unquestionably the greatest challenge facing the Government is the need to assert its right and to get on with its mandate to govern. [More…]

• It is the boasted policy of the extreme left and the Communists, many of whom control the largest industrial unions in this country - I am not calling them Communists, because they profess that they are Communists - to destroy a democratic society by promoting strikes, unemployment, hunger and misery. [More…]

• Many of our tariffs have not been reviewed for over 20 years. [More…]

• The prevalence of over-award payments in industry is a clear indication of the over protection of many industries. [More…]

• Big business, with its heavy over-award payments, is every bit as much to blame as is Mr Hawke because it gives very little resistance to demands for the exorbitant wage rises, lt says: ‘It is easier to put up our prices. [More…]

• So the purchasing power of the people in the community - the pensioner, the superannuitant, the man with a large family - is decreased. [More…]

• Every wage rise is making the working man progressively worse off. [More…]

• If they spent some of their time talking to trade union officials and members they would find that they are human beings who are just looking for a better way of life. [More…]

• Perhaps if honourable members opposite spent some time in the industrial courts listening to the evidence presented when the learned men grant wage rises they might understand some of the problems facing the ordinary man. [More…]

• They are not even aware that decisions are made and carried out at the direction of properly constituted congresses and executives, and that one man acts as a spokesman only no matter how able he may be. [More…]

• That situation will have been brought on by this Government which alone is responsible for the mismanagement. [More…]

• The ordinary man in the street has been brought to such a position where he must campaign for more money to enable them to exist. [More…]

• The Government knows full well that the ordinary man will not be able to absorb these increased costs. [More…]

• The Budget is a vacant, unimaginative document designed to extract more money from the people who can offer the least resistance to the demand. [More…]

• In the fields of social services and education the average man is prepared happily to make some sacrifices. [More…]

• These non-competitive industries are like this Government which holds the ordinary working man and the social service pensioner to ransom. [More…]

• I am sure every man of conscience in this place will feel the frustration that the honourable member has felt in this battle he is waging. [More…]

• South Australia, who are not full time members, and at the same time met a visiting church man from the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh, who was the chairman of the parole board in Scotland. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare- chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• This is the man who weeps tears of blood for people in the country yet he has opposed every rural organisation … the Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the Australian Meat Board, the Australian Wool Commission and all the other woolgrower and farmer organisations. [More…]

• I am a country man. [More…]

• Other problems to be overcome are the manufacturers of consumer goods and others who, through their advertisements, build up the myth of the perfect woman, having got her man and become a glamourous mum with 4 healthy kids. [More…]

• The Government stands condemned for its attitude to pensioners and to the little man. [More…]

• The steepness of this increase certainly strikes at the whole community, and in particular the lower paid family man. [More…]

• To those families with fewer than 2 children it is not just another increased charge but a 100 per cent increase in a charge, an increase that the Government is asking the lower paid family man to bear. [More…]

• The increased charges also will hit the man in the street pretty heavily. [More…]

• Many people thought that this was a big step forward and no doubt it was at that time. [More…]

• Another matter which I know has been raised on many occasions is the possibility of people being allowed to claim as a taxation deduction their fare to and from work. [More…]

• 1 was approached by a man who was practically paralysed from the waist down. [More…]

• This man was 16262/71- ft- (23) on the lowest possible income at the workshop. [More…]

• Regrettably the greatest pollutant is man himself, and not only in his efforts to sustain himself. [More…]

• I have referred this case to the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) seeking his intervention for a reduction of the $700 which the Commonwealth Taxation Branch claims my constituent owes. [More…]

• I have placed before the Minister for Air a proposal that this sum be deducted in instalments from his compensation payments which I think is little to ask in view of this man’s mental health. [More…]

• He has indicated that if the necessary statutory authority is forwarded to him consideration will be given to making deductions from the man’s compensation payments. [More…]

• This man is only 40 years of age, yet since 19S9 he has lived through a lifetime of pain and suffering. [More…]

• I ask the House: Can some means be found to assist my constituent in a humane way? [More…]

• Those are the views of the top man in the Employers Federations. [More…]

• It would be foolish to suggest that there is any other meaning in Mr Polites’ remarks than that he, his Australian Council of Employer Federations and the people whom they represent, are in fact demanding of the Government that if any democracy exists in this country it should be replaced by complete dictatorship, in the hands of the Liberal Party and the Australian Council of Employer Federations in order to halt the progress which unions are making in obtaining a fairer share of profits from increased production brought about by the efforts of their members. [More…]

• I do nol mind if a man gets $1,000 a week as long as there is someone who will pay the price of the finished commodity. [More…]

• The boss is always the bad man in the piece. [More…]

• 1 said earlier that there was a reasonable way of comparing average weekly earnings over many years in terms of the consumer price index, so 1 will quote a few figures for the benefit of honourable members opposite who say: ‘We must get more of this drug SFN, something for nothing’. [More…]

• Tawney went on to say that the working man realises that well-being must be attained not as the result of personal advancement, but as a result of collective effort. [More…]

• The quintessence of Liberal philosophy - or perhaps we should skip the use of euphemism and say that the Government’s rationale for the exploitation of man by man - has been revealed in every Budget it has brought down since 1949. [More…]

• There was a time not long past when people would not believe that so many were poverty stricken. [More…]

• In Victoria, if a man earns much less than $80 a week, he cannot buy a house from the State Housing Commission. [More…]

• To break this vicious chain, the less privileged are exhorted to exercise restraint and to hope that their hard work will be rewarded when productivity has increased and the iron laws of competition and supply and demand, acting independently of man, will bring prices down. [More…]

• While the people without power, the people whose faces reflect the many aspects of poverty, are urged to exercise restraint, and are castigated if they demand wage justice, the Government and the big corporations gain more revenue for the one and increased profits for the other. [More…]

• It is not news to us that for every man, woman and child in Australia 1 in 7 or 13 per cent of our population is receiving a pension of one sort or another. [More…]

• The little man on the land will not be helped. [More…]

• The big man who is grazing cattle who is in no real state of crisis does not need it so much. [More…]

• Tonight I wish to raise a matter which 1 consider to be of great significance to many people in Australia. [More…]

• One young man, who is now 21 years of age, has been in the Navy for 3 years. [More…]

• This young man’s father, who is an ex- naval man, is now not enjoying the best of health - mainly due to war service - and he is finding the management of his business affairs becoming very difficult. [More…]

• In the same vein I also mention the case of another young man who will be 18 years of age in November of this year. [More…]

• But the facts are that this young man is still in the Navy, bound to a life which he has come to loathe, and he is determined to use any method or device to obtain his release. [More…]

• One of the suggestions in that document is very similar to that put forward by the honourable member for Burke, namely, that after a man joins the Service and has been trained for a particular calling or category he should be required to serve for a period equal to that for which he was trained plus one year and that he should be able to obtain a discharge after that period upon giving a year’s notice. [More…]

• I am hopeful that we will be able to look at this suggestion in the very near future because there are many reasons, other than the ones that have been raised tonight, as to why it is undesirable to keep people on in the Service when they are thoroughly disgruntled. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare- chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1923, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• In 1967 some 700,000 man days were lost; in 1968, 1 million man days were lost; in 1969, 2 million man days were lost and last year, 1970, some 2.4 million man days were lost. [More…]

• It is done by the man who, on behalf of the Government parties, conducts the affairs of this House. [More…]

• As a matter of principle, the man who drafts the law should be even more important than the man who interprets it. [More…]

• I am well aware of the demands which are made on the Commonwealth’s draftsmen not only by the Government but also by the Opposition. [More…]

• The time spent by members in Parliament is time given to the nation’s legislation which affects every man woman and child from Cape York to Hobart, from Sydney to Perth and from Brisbane to Geraldton. [More…]

• Next month I will have been in this place for 25 years and I can look back over many Prime Ministers and even to the time when the Chifley Labor Government was in office. [More…]

• No budget can meet the multitudinous demands that people put on the Government of the day. [More…]

• I have heard many reasons advanced in the Parliament for this inflation. [More…]

• I think one that contributed very much to inflation was the excess of demand which was created by too rapid progress in development. [More…]

• I think that the Government’s Budget of 12 months ago was a contributing factor to that excess demand. [More…]

• If the Government could plan 3 or 4 years ahead, when an excess of demand was created the 12 months programme envisaged in a Budget could be extended to, say, 14 months. [More…]

• This would ease the demand. [More…]

• The man who has to pay for the erection of a house finds that there is an excessive demand for building material, a shortage of labour in the industry and that he has to pay overtime rates to get sufficient men to construct his house. [More…]

• Employees would be retained to undertake the construction tasks and this would ease the pressure of demand. [More…]

• One of the reasons for inflation is the excessive demand created because our progress has been too rapid. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 192S, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effect on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• Indeed, anybody who could have foreseen 8 years ago what has happened to the wool industry in the last 12 months or 18 months would be a miracle man. [More…]

• During the parliamentary recess I represented the Parliament and my Party on a parliamentary working committee on the environment at Bonn, Germany. [More…]

• We are now becoming aware, perhaps just in time, although there seems to be some doubt in regard to the McMahon Government, that we are now face to face with the greatest problem man has ever faced, that of his own survival. [More…]

• I am not referring to his self-destruction by the bomb’ for we have been concerned about that for some time, but 2 other Bs which have joined ‘the bomb’ to threaten the survival of man. [More…]

• It took one million years for man to reach the present population. [More…]

• I question whether we can afford to continue to plunder and exploit our planet in the manner in which we are doing. [More…]

• It does not matter if man’s value system - and I even include the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who is at the table - is Communist, Fascist, Conservative, Liberal or Socialist, he faces a global crisis based on the fact that his population increase, his squandering of natural resources, his control of food production, his accelerated urbanisation and his release of a wide variety of toxic substances into the environment are directing him on a collision course with disaster. [More…]

• Scientists predicted over a century and a half ago that man would face famine because of the different ways by which man’s population increased and his food production increased. [More…]

• The obvious ways by which man’s population could be limited were wars, lack of food and infectious disease. [More…]

• Forrester says that to ensure man’s survival as we know him we must immediately, on a global scale, undertake the following steps now: Firstly, a reduction of 30 per cent in the birthrate; secondly, a reduction of 50 per cent in pollution generation; thirdly, a reduction of 75 per cent in our rate of use of natural resources; fourthly, a reduction of 40 per cent in capital investment generation; and fifthly, a reduction of food production by 20 per cent. [More…]

• Let us plan rational new cities of human dimensions and high quality. [More…]

• Many of the semiarid areas should never have been grazed, and there are many parts of our inland which have been ecologically ruined by man’s activity. [More…]

• Let us use our considerable research potential to work on many of the immense problems facing us in the area. [More…]

• In the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation we already have a large research organisation which is capable of attacking many of these problems and which, because of the present state of rural industry, is now engaged in finding a new direction for itself. [More…]

• These problems include such areas as resource recycling and substitution, population controls, better ecosys.tems management, better urban planning and design and problems within man himself such as the roots of disruptive human behaviour and racism. [More…]

• Many of our largest problems are social as well as physical, psychological and biological. [More…]

• On the other hand there are many demands upon the Federal government. [More…]

• There is pressure for increased welfare benefits, social service benefits, repatriation benefits, assistance to the family man and assistance to the States. [More…]

• Retarding our economy, retarding our progress and greatly adding to the fires of inflation is the matter of industrial disputes that have resulted in an increasing number of man days lost over the last 2 or 3 years. [More…]

• In 1968 1 million man days were lost through industrial disputes. [More…]

• In 1969 2 million man days were lost. [More…]

• In 1970 2.4 million man days were lost. [More…]

• It is poetic justice indeed that the man who first raised the question of trade practices and rackets was there as the Chief Justice of Australia to make sure that economic justice would be done for the people. [More…]

• It has been said by Dr Maureen Brunt that in Australia today there is every restrictive device and practice known to the ingenuity of man and the most this Government will do in the proudly announced amendments that it will make to the restrictive Trade Practices Act will be to tinker with it in such a way that there will be the minimum of relief in the maximum of time. [More…]

• It is the little man who is entitled to assistance. [More…]

• In many cases, that assistance will have to go further in the form of a modified moratorium for them but, of course, that will be another and quite distinct issue. [More…]

• In other words, the average family man who would suffer about a $90 a year increase as a result of the impact of this Budget if he is unlucky enough to be going into a Housing Commission home today, with an average cost of the house and land of about $10,000, will be paying another $100 a year in interest or a total of $190 a year as a result of this Budget. [More…]

• To a man with a net taxable income of $2,000 a year this deduction is worth $63 a year. [More…]

• To a man with a net taxable income of $10,000 a year it is worth $159 a year. [More…]

• I defy any man on the Government side to say where in this Budget the Government has given one solitary cent to this great area of need. [More…]

• Here one must have some sympathy for the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) - a man who has displayed some humanitarian instincts in this area but whose efforts have been thwarted by the Liberal juggernaut. [More…]

• There is hardly an area within the ambit of the activities of this Department which will not affect every man. [More…]

• woman and child in this country. [More…]

• The man who now wears the shoes of Prime Minister and who in March of this year was speaking of the rights of Parliament, before a month had passed was causing Bills to be rushed through this House and the Parliament to sit at all hours and into the morning so that he might close down the Parliament as soon as possible. [More…]

• The Social Services Act defines a widow as including a dependent female and a ‘dependent female’ means a woman who, for not less than 3 years immediately prior to the death of a man, (in this part referred to .as the man in respect of whom she was a dependent female), was wholly or mainly maintained, .by him and, although not legally married te him, lived with him as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis. [More…]

• Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• The Leader of the House, a man of great economy in terms of parliamentary time, has made sure that we suspend next week without having a discussion of this sort. [More…]

• He is a man who commands a great deal of respect in Labour circles, although certainly I myself would not share a number of the views which he has set forth: But this is what he said about recent experience in the United Kingdom and his comments bear repetition in Australia: [More…]

• And this may be one of the reasons why the nation’s rate of productivity growth has been lagging for many years and reached a dismal low of only 1 per cent in 1970-71. [More…]

• I will not quote statistics of man days lost as a result of industrial disputes. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Statistician’s figures on man days lost due to disputes relate solely to the establishment in which the strike takes place. [More…]

• In the period from 1961 to 1970 concessional deductions for a man’s spouse, his first child and subsequent children have each been increased by $26. [More…]

• Presumably, deductions are allowed to the family man to ensure that his tax burden in relation to that of a single man is not too onerous. [More…]

• If the deductions are adequate then the family man’s tax burden over a period of time will not be increasing at a faster rate than the rest of the community’s. [More…]

• Over the same period the tax paid by a married man with no children has increased by 1 1 6 per cent. [More…]

• In fact it aggravated the difference in treatment between the single man and the family man. [More…]

• Last year the average wage earner with no dependents would have received about $35 more a year as a result of the increases in that Budget, but when this is compared with the average wage earner with a wife and 2 children it shows, in the comparison of figures that I have taken out, that the additional amount he would have received over the 12 months would have been only $20, which is $15 less than the single man’s increase for the 12 months period. [More…]

• This year the 21 per cent increase in personal tax once again adversely burdens the family man. [More…]

• As a result of this policy, the more dependents a man has the greater his tax burden becomes. [More…]

• The family man continues to be burdened in an unfair manner. [More…]

• As usual the Government then proceeds to overcome the ill, in this case mild inflation, at the expense of the working man, the chronically sick aged and those aged most in need. [More…]

• Australia does not now enjoy a sellers market for many of its minerals including coal and iron ore. We are beginning to catch up with demand. [More…]

• But there will be a consistent demand for these minerals which will give Australia a tremendous income. [More…]

• We have the position today where one man is taking on not the employers, not the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, but the people of Australia. [More…]

• I do not know the man. [More…]

• The people who are advertising cigarettes on television are not selling cigarette smoke; they are selling sophistication and a man of the world, sportsman picture, lt is not a bit of good the Government saying that this should not be counted. [More…]

• If other people, particularly the Opposition, sections of the trade union movement and the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, were content to follow our lead I would be a very happy man because I know that the Budget’s objectives would be achieved. [More…]

• Whatever a man may say or do up to the stage at which he is called up, the real test is surely whether or not he reports for service at the time of call-up. [More…]

• These included cases where prosecution proceedings had been approved or commenced, including where warrants had been issued for the man’s arrest, and conscientious objector cases awaiting hearing. [More…]

• If we take the case of unemployment and sickness benefits for a man with a spouse and 2 children on short term benefits he is more than $21.50 below the poverty level. [More…]

• In the case of the child deductibility allowance, where there is a family of a man, his wife and 3 children, and he receives a salary of $2,700 a year, he will gain a tax saving of about $99; whereas the man with a salary of $16,000 a year will gain a saving of $406 on his tax payment. [More…]

• The man on the comparatively low income of $2,700 will receive a benefit equivalent to $2 a week but the man on $16,000 a year will benefit by $8 a week. [More…]

• However, he was the man who, in 1963, promised that he would eliminate the means test. [More…]

• Then, as he had said on many occasions before and has said subsequently, he said: [More…]

• This leaves the man’s integrity in a seriously questioned light. [More…]

• His promises, as he then was, were mighty; his performances, as he is now, are nothing. [More…]

• Man as he is is incomplete and no doubt has to be completed in our time. [More…]

• As to the suggestions that we should abolish or reduce some of the taxation concessions I wonder whether the honourable member for Perth realises that most of these concessions were introduced to assist the family man, particularly the man with a large family who is on a low income. [More…]

• I deplore and express disgust at the attack made by the chief spokesman for the Opposition upon a man who is trying his utmost to do a really worthwhile job for the pensioners. [More…]

• The Government was forced into this action by a judgment brought down in the Commonwealth Industrial Court by Judge DrakeBrockman. [More…]

• In 1941 the federal basic wage was based on an amount deemed to be sufficient for a man, his wife and 3 children. [More…]

• The judge in his wisdom said that he considered the basic wage was sufficient only for a man, wife and one child. [More…]

• When he was appointed to the Ministry we on this side of the House thought that for once a Liberal Prime Minister - there have been so many since that time that I do not know who it was at that time - had picked the right man for the job. [More…]

• A man who leaves his job at $40, $50 or $60 a week and who is unemployed for any length of time gets the princely sum of $10. [More…]

• In 1949 a man, with a wife and 2 children, on the minimum wage paid $1.60 a year in income tax. [More…]

• A man with the same family, who is on the minimum wage now, pays $2.85 per week or $148.20 a year in income tax. [More…]

• He pays more income tax in a week now than a man in similar circumstances in 1949 paid in a year. [More…]

• He is known as the ‘populate and perish’ man. [More…]

• A married man without children pays $4.15 a week in income tax. [More…]

• After all, when one feels a wind blowing, in respect of social services one does not have to be a weather man to know which way the wind is likely to blow. [More…]

• No matter how much he may seek to evade these things; no matter how much he may seek to avoid these things, the Australian working man is concerned about the adoption of strange policies which have been pursued by the Opposition. [More…]

• It is a sad commentary on our achievements when a man has to spend up to 20 per cent of his waking hours travelling to and from work, when weather forecasts include the level of eye irritation likely from exposure to the atmosphere, when traffic police can spend only minutes on traffic duty and children are not allowed to play outside because of atmospheric pollution, when the individual becomes depersonalised and lashes out with all sorts of anti-social behaviour, when the city becomes just too big for the good of the people living in it. [More…]

• I want to address the House tonight on a matter which I consider to be of the utmost importance to every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• Is he suggesting that we should be all issued with the old .303 rifles and go out and, as I have heard the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) put it before, man the Australian coastline with about a 100-mile distance between each troop? [More…]

• The Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Shipping and Transport have expressed in writing to the Panamanian Government, with which the ship was registered, and to the American Bureau of Shipping their concern in the matter. [More…]

• How many other ships travelling under Panamanian registration are in the same condition? [More…]

• How many other ships receive clearance certificates from the American Bureau of Shipping, which is a classification society authorised to act on behalf of the Government of Panama, when the vessels are in an unseaworthy condition? [More…]

• This is an international scandal and it is up to the Australian authorities to ensure that this type of incident cannot again occur and not to leave the burden of responsibility to the seamen to refuse to man such ships or to waterside labour to lose its income by taking industrial action to prevent the loading of such vessels. [More…]

• If someone took a risk on behalf of some shipowner, this should be revealed not as a matter of retribution but as a preventive against such incidents in future not only to guarantee the safety of those who man the ships but also to protect those who travel as passengers in these and other ships. [More…]

• No doubt this House will be informed of the replies to our official protests to the Panamanian Government and the American Bureau of Shipping and an inquiry will be instituted into the standard of qualifications and other relevant information regarding the circumstances of those who certificated the vessel as fit to leave the Australian port. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• It is recognised that a married man will have a home elsewhere. [More…]

• A week or so ago another young man was imprisoned for 2 years under the National Service Act. [More…]

• What right has he to play God with another man’s life and freedom? [More…]

• Never before or since the first great conflict of World War I has man been called upon to endure the terrors, hardship, confusion, frustration, pain, filth and vermin-infested environment which were endured by the men who fought in that great holocaust. [More…]

• The Second World War was fought in a different manner but nevertheless the men had to suffer much hardship and privation, and the civilian population was more involved than it had been in the First World War. [More…]

• Of course, he got his TPI pension immediately but because the onus of proof was on him and the man’s inability to express himself and to organise the evidence he had at his disposal to prove that he had been gassed in the field, tie had not obtained the pension earlier. [More…]

• Although a man may not have been affected immediately because of his exposure to it, after an effuction of time he may have suffered considerably and then not enjoyed the life that he should have enjoyed but for this unfortunate experience of war during 1917-18. [More…]

• If ever there was a man desirous of doing the right thing by his fellow ex-serviceman it is the present Minister and I trust that he will be able further to increase these pensions and do much more for our returned servicemen while ever he holds the portfolio. [More…]

• Of those 2 members of the Liberal Party, the first to speak was the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) who is an exserviceman of the First World War and, I think, of the Second World War. [More…]

• The other member of the Liberal Party who is listed to speak is a man whose endorsement as a Liberal candidate has been taken from him by the Liberal Party organisation. [More…]

• I believe that totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners should be getting a lot more. [More…]

• I believe there is an irrefutable case for the contention that these payments, which are purely for compensation, have no bearing whatsoever on a man’s earning capacity. [More…]

• He receives compensation because his earning capacity is limited by something that has happened, but many of these fellows are still able to earn just as much money. [More…]

• If an ex-serviceman is disqualified by the means test, he does not get the service pension, ff a TPI pensioner has quite a reasonable income, as so many of them have, there is no suggestion that his pension should be reduced because he happens to be in more fortunate circumstances than others; but some TPI pensioners are simply not able to work. [More…]

• Great play was made on the amount of the pension for the totally and permanently incapacitated. [More…]

• If we take this into consideration, for the single man the net TPI rate is $42.50 and the net minimum wage is $41.05. [More…]

• According to my figures, the TPI rate paid to a married man with 2 children is about $6 a week more than the minimum wage. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• Is he aware that this man has ‘ lived in Australia for many years and has served in the Australian armed forces against Australia’s enemies? [More…]

• Does he know that this man’s wife is a naturalised Australian and that his children are Australians by birth? [More…]

• As no reason for refusal to naturalise Nick Karajas has been given and as his only disadvantage is his inability to vote in all elections, will the Minister reconsider his decision to refuse this man Australian citizenship? [More…]

• An aged person - that is, a resident of Australia aged 65 or more, if a. man, and 60 or more, if a woman - will pay no tax for the current year if his or her own taxable income does not exceed $1,326, and may pay reduced tax if the taxable income is more than $1,326 but not more than $2,286. [More…]

• Months and years have gone by and honourable members will understand why many people in my electorate are becoming extremely agitated because the provision of these stations is not yet in sight. [More…]

• However, every man to his own responsibilities. [More…]

• He is a public spirited man. [More…]

• Any man who can put forward tonight or at any other time something that will solve these two is not only the greatest man in Australia today but the greatest man in this century, because he will have the method for combating inflation and rising prices for primary products. [More…]

• It is in relation to an important section of my electorate in which there is to be a switch over from a permanent post office at Abermain to a non-official post office. [More…]

• The residents of this area will need to travel 2 miles to 3 miles to use postal note facilities of the type that they are able to use now and have been able to use for many years at Stanford Merthyr. [More…]

• I do hope that the Postmaster-General, who is accepted as a courteous man by members of the Opposition, will look at the contemplated closure of the Stanford Merthyr Post Office. [More…]

• As many honourable members would know, a post office is limited to a certain allocation in respect of postal notes. [More…]

• I do hope that the Postmaster-General will have a look at this matter and will try to obviate the need for the closure of this post office at which a good service for so many years has been maintained by these good Post Office people. [More…]

• Since electronic devices have been connected to assess telephone accounts I, and I guess many other members of this Parliament, have had complaints from constituents about the unreasonable increases in telephone accounts. [More…]

• I was very impressed with the sincerity of 2 of my constituents who complained to me about their telephone account - a man and wife with no children. [More…]

• Had he been employed by private enterprise he may have been reprimanded for breaching his contract or a fine may even have been imposed. [More…]

• I do not believe that private enterprise would have dismissed a man of his talents who has been so well received by the audience of ‘Four Corners’. [More…]

• He revealed himself as a man tied to the past with absolutely no vision for the future. [More…]

• If he had been an honest man he would have said to his own people: ‘The time for confrontation is past; you must go to the negotiating table*. [More…]

• But we did not hear a word from him because, whether well intentioned or not, we havehere a frightened man who does not dare stand up to the forces which he himself has helped to call into being. [More…]

• Despite’ the millions of dollars which this Government provides for rural industries in this Budget, such as $40m for rural reconstruction and $10m through the Development Bank for farm build up, the long term credit arrangements for the man on the land are not solved. [More…]

• It was equal to any that a white man would receive in Australia. [More…]

• Noone could ever accuse South Africans of being guilty of the crimes against humanity of which the Russians or the Communist Chinese have been guilty. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the Australian people fear the power that this man has taken unto himself? [More…]

• There is no doubt that the result of the introduction of one man one vote in South Africa would result in immediate black rule for that country and many fear that this would be followed by inter-racial slaughter and inter-tribal slaughter, such as has happened in the Congo, Biafra and other African countries. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to say to the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) who is interjecting - he is a wealthy man, interested only in profit and not interested in the worker - that 1,360 shares have been virtually given to a present shareholder on the basis that he was a shareholder in 1960. [More…]

• It requires many and varied processes to bring it to a satisfactory level in the end product. [More…]

• It is quite unlike man made fibres in this regard. [More…]

• Rather it had its beginnings within the auction sale room where a slackening in demand for all wool weakened competition for the better types available. [More…]

• Growers can hardly be blamed for following this trend by compensating for their lower returns with higher stocking rates from more average types of sheep, and short-cut methods of flock management. [More…]

• Government given any consideration to the family man with a chronically ill child. [More…]

• Common justice demanded that special cases should have been given some concession. [More…]

• Through the whole of this address, the knowledgeable man who gave it, Mr A. J. [More…]

• White, seemed very clearly to lay the blame for lack of productivity where it really exists: This is in lack of organisation by the managers and not by the workers. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are mesmerised by the magnitude of figures and frequently they have cited the fact that 2 million man days are lost each year as a result of strikes. [More…]

• Two million man days were lost last yea/ through strikes. [More…]

• We have an estimated work force of Si million people and that means that each working day 5i million man days of work are performed. [More…]

• If you really want to see figures of gigantic proportions you can multiply 5 million by 250, which is approximately the number of working days in a year, and you will obtain the number of man hours available each year. [More…]

• But rather than go through that arithmetical exercise suffice to say that 2 million man days represents about 3 hours work per worker per year. [More…]

• With 75,000 people unemployed, we are losing 75,000 man days each day so that in less than 5 weeks 2 million man days - this seems to mesmerise honourable members on the other side - in production has been lost. [More…]

• By multiplying 14,000 people by 250, representing the working days in a year, we get a loss of 3 J million man days a year lost because of industrial accidents. [More…]

• That is half as many man days again as are lost through strikes. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable members that many disputes and many man hours are lost to production, if you like, because men refuse to work in unsafe conditions. [More…]

• I think he shares with many members of the Parliament resentment that he read in a book that none of us has read and published in the United States of America by a man of whom we have never heard, about an installation in Australia about which we know very little. [More…]

• 60,000 acres have no-one outside the family left working on them, while others of more than 100,000 acres in extent have perhaps one man only. [More…]

• The Army can move in with the necessary manpower; the Department has the spray and equipment; the Pasture Protection Boards have the supply lines; and a command has been set up to co-ordinate the attack. [More…]

• I think honourable members will agree that a man with any moral spunk in him at all must be reduced to a feeling, in real Australian language, that he is a bludger on his wife. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid talked about a learned gentleman in the United States who has written a book. [More…]

• One could quote statements made in the Australian Press, half of them woolly minded and half of them so wide of the mark that it does not matter, but the honourable member proclaims that anyone who agrees with his viewpoint must necessarily be right and must be a man of distinction. [More…]

• I do not know whether the honourable gentleman saw the ‘Four Corners’ programme at the weekend. [More…]

• However, it is important not to allow any misrepresentation of a man in this House, even by his colleagues. [More…]

• It will be remembered that the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) said that no Labor man in this House had supported the Cuban revolution. [More…]

• Once again I have to remind the House that it is a matter of grave concern to me that a man without any economic knowledge at all can be asking questions of this kind when they were answered emphatically and clearly yesterday. [More…]

• I have pointed out - and now I want to use an adjective that my colleague the Treasurer has used before - that what we were trying to do, and what we have succeeded in doing, was to ensure that potential demand did not become actual demand. [More…]

• I want this to be known to the honourable gentleman because clearly he has not understood the proposition put by the Treasurer and supported by myself. [More…]

• Is the right honourable gentleman aware that the unemployment benefit for a man with a dependent wife and one child is only 22 per cent of average weekly earnings? [More…]

• Further, is he aware that the unemployment benefit for a single man is only 11.3 per cent of average weekly earnings? [More…]

• With a substantial rise in unemployment expected because of the Government’s budgetary policies, will the Prime Minister consider an immediate increase in the present benefits of $10 for a single man and $19.50 for a man with a dependent wife and one child? [More…]

• If ever a well informed Labor man had a raw deal, it was the honourable member for Dawson. [More…]

• The trouble that I experience in my mind about the system of concessional deductions, especially in relation to education expenses, is that that form of deduction does introduce into what should be as far as possible a progressive system of taxation a regressive element for the reason that the advantage of the concessional deduction is far greater for the man on a high income than it is for a man on a low income. [More…]

• There is an essential inequity in the present system and what I would propose is not the total abolition of the concessional deduction for education expenses; rather would I propose that there be introduced into the law a provision whereby the taxpayer is given the option of claiming a rebate of tax in respect of education expenses incurred by him up to a certain amount of money so that with 2 options open to taxpayers the man on the high income can opt to take the concessional deduction and so save himself tax. [More…]

• In the case of the man on $30,000 a year he would save approximately $260. [More…]

• A man on a low income should be allowed to claim, say, a rebate of tax in respect of education expenses to a sum of S200 or S250. [More…]

• Perhaps that man was not at the top of the tree but he had the best brains in the Department, yet we have to put up here with some idiotic decision made by people who do not represent the people in the area. [More…]

• Apart from the great qualities of the honourable member for St George and his magnificent intellectual approach to the great problems of this country, one thing which helped him to win his electorate was that the electors knew they had a man who would fight against aircraft noise and the disabilities people suffer under it. [More…]

• As for the former member for St George, Mr Bosman, it was terribly sad that he took a flight with Air Japan or some other airline on the eve of the election because this issue in electorates is a vital one and it is one which no government can discard. [More…]

• Here we have a man who leads li million people and rules 19 million people and talks about the rights of minorities. [More…]

• This is the man who was interned during the war for his Nazi sympathies. [More…]

• That should concern the honourable member for Deakin (Mr Jarman). [More…]

• What a hide this man has to talk about the people I have mentioned as riff-raff. [More…]

• I wonder how many of our friends on the other side will go home and tell their RSL branches how sympathetic they are to a man like Mr Vorster. [More…]

• The second matter on which the Prime Minister misrepresented me was in a reference to M. Etienne Manach, the distinguished French Ambassador to Peking - a man who more than any other Ecropean diplomat is acquainted with affairs in the Far East and has been ever since the Geneva Conference which he attended. [More…]

• This man is totally incompetent. [More…]

• That statement was made by a responsible and senior member of the Government back benches; a man who, I might say, is a senior spokesman on the wool industry. [More…]

• The young man’s counter reaction may manifest itself in protest, and it is then that society groups itself as though for civil war - the establishment versus the youth - without either side understanding or trying to understand each other’s position. [More…]

• The young are questioning many of the institutions which have created these results. [More…]

• The young today are asking the same question asked of old, ‘For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world, if he loses his own soul’. [More…]

• It gave me no pleasure to attend the University of Queensland a couple of months ago as an invited guest and to be confronted with placards calling for students to ‘strike now’ and ‘close the campus’ and to witness a well attended meeting by students being addressed by a senator of this Parliament, a man who I understand does not possess a university degree, calling on these young idealistic, altruistic students to go on strike at a time when the majority of them should have been using that precious time to study for examinations at the end of the second term. [More…]

• We need to reinterpret the vision of progress in a way that will make it attainable and a source of human happiness and fulfilment. [More…]

• Citizens, individually, in all areas of human endeavour must be involved. [More…]

• Would that another phrase should catch the imagination of the man in the street so that he might involve himself in the problems of the nation. [More…]

• Or is it that man is, after all, an island unto himself? [More…]

• It is estimated that the Budget will add $1.57 weekly to the average man’s cost of living. [More…]

• This means that a man earning $80 a week will pay another $18.50 a year in income tax, It will now cost 7c to post a letter, which is an increase of 17 per cent. [More…]

• In other words, there are more than 2 people available for every job vacancy .The honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) and the Leader of the Opposition by way of questions have pointed out that the number of man hours lost through unemployment over the last few months is greater in terms of production than the man hours lost through strikes. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition has said, a man on $3,000 a year will have to spend $4 to get a $1 reduction in his tax whereas a man on $30,000 a year will get a tax reduction of $2 for every $3 he spends on educating his children. [More…]

• At one time a man’s wage would keep his family in reasonable comfort. [More…]

• The first comment that I want to make is that 1 am rather surprised that the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb) should refer to prominent identities being backbench members when he himself and so many distinguished members of his Party, including the honourable members for Macquarie (Mr Luchetti) and Cunningham (Mr Connor), were themselves dumped from the Opposition front bench. [More…]

• We are fearful that this could happen to a man whom we all like very much - the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly). [More…]

• Against this background of disaster in one of our rural areas there are great difficulties in many other sections. [More…]

• We have $6m less for the dairy industry, the tapering off of the cotton bounty and greater or lesser difficulties in many other rural sectors. [More…]

• Television and radio licence fees were raised, again hitting in a special manner country people who may, in many cases, receive only one Australian Broadcasting Commission radio station and view one national ABC telecast, frequently both subject to interference because of storms or distance. [More…]

• Not only do farmers and graziers have to carry this extra burden with vehicles, implements and equipment which are operating almost continuously, but the family man, the worker, the garage proprietor and contractors also have to drive long distances over bad roads for normal travelling and overland on vacation. [More…]

• It is such that the only man in their ranks who in any way genuinely understands rural problems recently cried out almost in anguish that the performance and decisions at the recent Launceston conference were such that it would be difficult for the Australian Labor Party members in marginal rural seats to bold them at the next election. [More…]

• They are the honourable members for Cook (Mr Dobie), Wimmera (Mr King), Cowper (Mr Robinson), Corangamite (Mr Street), Senator Marriott and above all else the honourable member for Boothby (Mr Macleay), the revolutionary republican Rhodesian Mounted Rifles man. [More…]

• Nor was he an ambitious man. [More…]

• A strong-willed man, he is inclined to be abrasive to subordinates who disagree with him and to be petulant if he does not get his own way. [More…]

• He is a long way from you when he talks to you - but the most outstanding impression he gives is that of a man wilh no sense of humour and a lack of warmth in human relationships. [More…]

• What a remark to make about a man he has put in the Ministry and, one would have thought, admired. [More…]

• What a come-down it must be for this great man to think that this has been laid at his door by his former leader. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is a man of considerable ability - charming in a strange kind of waydevious in political intrigue. [More…]

• A man devoted to physical fitness. [More…]

• He is also a man of great ambition but devoid of performance. [More…]

• Any Prime Minister who does not take action in regard to these matters should neither command nor will he command the respect of Australian people and should not be trusted with the Prime Ministership of this country. [More…]

• This is out of the mouth of a man whom the former Prime Minister thought was good enough to be the Minister for Foreign Affairs of this country. [More…]

• My distinguished friend, the Treasurer (Mr Snedden), a man of considerable ability and achievement, was opposed by the long talking but rather quiet member for Darling Downs (Mr Swartz) for the position of Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Supporters of Mr Swartz are pushing the line that the Party needs a quiet, loyal uncontroversial man like him to help rebuild unity for the next elections. [More…]

• Does it help the dairy man who is not exactly in an affluent position, in spite of some Government subventions, at this time? [More…]

• I hope that people from time to time can say they have some understanding, but I am getting very fed up with those people who are quite prepared to put the industry in which they are involved to the wall without any thought of the implications of these wage demands. [More…]

• At least that man tried to do something to reduce the effects of the means test. [More…]

• Recently I heard a man who was once the Leader of the Opposition say T stand for Fortress Australia’. [More…]

• There was a young man I knew in Melbourne during the Second World War who said to me just after I had enlisted to go away T am not going to the war’. [More…]

• I could quote many such things that have been said. [More…]

• The great Roman Empire was one of them and the great Grecian Empire was another. [More…]

• What decent man in Australia could stand for that sort of talk? [More…]

• In every man, even though he be evil to some degree, there is always some spark of decency. [More…]

• It is my belief that every person in a responsible position - and the only man whom I have heard refer to this was the former honourable member for Scullin, Mr Peters - whether he toe a parliamentarian, a judge or some other person in a position of trust where he is susceptible to graft, should have to declare his assets to the nation. [More…]

• What impertinence on the part of our Prime Minister, representing a country of 1 2i million people, to speak in that way to a man representing a quarter of the world’s population. [More…]

• For a long while I have regarded him as a man of integrity. [More…]

• He, a man of integrity, needs the Minister for Primary Industry in his electorate. [More…]

• One appreciates that the man on the land has made a great contribution to Australia’s economy over the years. [More…]

• However it is true that if one examines annual reports of the Taxation Office it can be seen that many graziers default in compiling their taxation returns. [More…]

• Evidence given to a 5-man Senate committee of inquiry on education reveals, amongst other things, that 9,000 to 12,000 new teachers are available each year but that the resignation rate from within the ranks of practising teachers alone is between 14,000 and 19,000 annually. [More…]

• In the main, teachers are leaving the profession because of the inducement of higher salaries in other professions and because promotion by seniority is something with which many are disgruntled. [More…]

• I know that the Postmaster-General is not the kind of man who goes into these things suddenly. [More…]

• It is all right to say that the changes are in accordance with the latest management techniques and so on, but there has been no reference to the human problems which will confront those who may be affected. [More…]

• 1 am hoping that the Postmaster-General will give us some indication that a man who is compulsorily transferred and must sell his assets and thereby suffers a loss will be compensated. [More…]

• Many of them would have put their wives’ savings into the purchase of houses and the development of the blocks. [More…]

• The great pity about all this is that the honourable member for Reid - bless his soul, you know he is a very conscientious man - beieves what- he is saying, but he does not understand anything about it. [More…]

• The national serviceman has been the finest type of serviceman this country has ever had. [More…]

• Tha regular serviceman has accepted him. [More…]

• Can the Deputy Leader of the Opposition tell me how in his man’s army he is going to have gold rifles and gold spurs and everything except any force that could meet any situation? [More…]

• I have a case before me at the moment of a young man who has recently commenced operating a one-man business. [More…]

• There are also people in the community who have objections to killing their fellow men, and the requirements which exist at this time for establishing conscientious objection are not only that a person must object to killing his fellow man but also that he must object to defending his country in any circumstances. [More…]

• It is quite possible and understandable that a young man would defend his mother, for instance, if she was attacked and would defend his country if he felt it was in dire danger but would not be . [More…]

• prepared to take the same types of actions to maim and kill his fellow man in defence of political judgments with which he may or may not agree. [More…]

• A very small number of conscientious objectors are serving terms of imprisonment because they happened to disagree with a political policy to the extent that they were not prepared to comply with what is a fairly restrictive and demanding law which applies to only a very small section of the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately a lot of people in the legal profession appear to have the old colonial attitude that a term in the Army will make a man out of a person. [More…]

• Where the predisposition of the court is to judge that a man is trying to avoid his responsibilities, or where the court fails to accept the fact that there are people who disagree with a point of view, a conscientious objector is in a totally hopeless position. [More…]

• However, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) has admitted on previous occasions that it takes at least 6 months to train a man adequately and, at the present voluntary rate of engagement in the Australian armed services, it would take approximately 12 years to reach the number in the Army which our defence advisers consider essential for the adequate defence of this country. [More…]

• But no young man was even given the opportunity to volunteer to serve in Vietnam. [More…]

• Every man in this House wants to see Australia well defended. [More…]

• What we do say is that there are great iniquities and great injustices in the system of national service in which young people are obliged to serve whether or not they agree that this is an efficient way to use Australia’s manpower. [More…]

• That is comparable to asking a man to answer yes or no to the question: Have you stopped beating your wife? [More…]

• Industrial action - we are told that industrial disputes cost us 2i million man days a year when there are 5i million man days worked each day - more and better immigration and the size of the armed forces always appear as numbers and statistics, but never are any background information and reasonably accurate reports by qualified inquirers given as to what the expected requirements are or will be. [More…]

• The whole question whether we have one man in our Army or 28,000 is, I think, quite academic. [More…]

• When asked how many Australian troops we had the honourable member said we had 28,000. [More…]

• I put this to the Minister and the Minister replied that it would depend on how many vacancies the Army had. [More…]

• It is all very well to quote statistics but the man who objects is more than a statistic. [More…]

• It affects politicians in that its success breeds a greater arrogance and concomitantly a lesser regard for what might be regarded as the inalienable freedom of any man. [More…]

• You are no more important to them than any young man. [More…]

• Many, many times in this Parliament 1 have heard the honourable member for Bass, who is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and many others appealing to the Government and quoting these young men as asking to have some alternative to military service. [More…]

• If so, perhaps we should cast some doubts on the remarks that have been issuing from the other side of the chamber that service in the Army makes a man of you, that it gives you an insight into real life. [More…]

• It is somewhat of an honour for me to be given the opportunity to follow a former AttorneyGeneral and a man who is sometimes referred to as the leading Queen’s Counsel of the New South Wales Bar. [More…]

• The honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes) is referred to by honourable member’s on this side of the House as the batsman from Berowra. [More…]

• These incidents should touch the conscience of every man interested in public or national affairs in any nation. [More…]

• What history will say about that man will be something that probably he will not be able to read. [More…]

• When a common man seeks an increase he is said to be holding the country to ransom, but when the hierarchy or the establishment seeks an increase it is said that a most gracious message is received. [More…]

• He is the man who turns the key. [More…]

• The Government does not want men to have the freedom that they demand. [More…]

• If a man has to introduce a little bit of human kindness he must say ‘Sorry’. [More…]

• Indeed we have been lectured and treated to pontification, exceeded only by that of the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess), by a gentleman who is known as the chameleon from Kennedy because he is a man who has moved from the extreme left of politics to the extreme right. [More…]

• It is a reasoned and well informed argument by a man who was a professional sailor. [More…]

• I refer honourable members opposite to both those authorities, one a former Prime Minister and Minister for Defence and the other a former professional serviceman. [More…]

• Methods and materials used must be consistent with man’s nature as a rational being. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XX1VA (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid .or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• A strong risk element will remain until the last man is shipped aboard off Vung Tau. [More…]

• Those of us who have taken an interest in this young man who comes from Strathalbyn in South Australia know that his behaviour has been absolutely exemplary and he would therefore be entitled to a one-third remission. [More…]

• Yet in spite of the fact that the AttroneyGeneral has agreed that a letter from me dated 23rd August could be looked upon as an application to the GovernorGeneral for this young man to be released from gaol and in spite of the fact that it would seem from the Attorney-General’s reply to me that this matter was put before the Governor-General with the recommendation of the Government not to release him, Charles Martin is still in gaol. [More…]

• I would like to place on record that statement of a young man who served his time in gaol under this Act. [More…]

• The first man committed was Brian Ross. [More…]

• If the Committee will bear with me, there is very little more, and the point is that I want to put succinctly the case of one young man involved with this very Act. [More…]

• I believe that if we are to see the justice of the amendment moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard), it is right that the House for once should listen to the words of a young man affected by this legislation, to listen to the protests of one man who has been forced, against his will, into the situation which this amendment seeks to correct. [More…]

• In the case of one man in South Australia - Charles Martin - this means that he would be eligible for release upon the date of commencement of the legislation. [More…]

• He has decided that the sentence of this young man should not be remitted to provide for his release prior to commencement of the operation of the amending legislation. [More…]

• However, if immediately’ means upon commencement of the operation of the legislation, of course that will be the case in respect of one man - Charles Martin. [More…]

• After about two or three months at Newnes prison farm ‘it became obvious that this man (Mullen) was unable to relate to other Inmates in this institution.’ [More…]

• I state - and I want the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) to take note of this - that the statement made by the Minister for Justice, Mr Maddison, that it became obvious that this man Mullen was unable to relate to other inmates in the institution and that he was in danger of suffering physical violence is categorically false. [More…]

• This young man should remain at Newnes prison farm which is a more appropriate place for him to serve a sentence if he has to serve it. [More…]

• Newnes is a prison farm where there are at least appropriate conditions for the young man to do his post graduate studies. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) set out the principles of the case. [More…]

• Mullen is a man of strong character and I hope that the Minister reads the comments made by the honourable member for Prospect here tonight. [More…]

• Mullen is a man of courage and I ask that he be given consideration because young men in circumstances such as these should not be persecuted in any way. [More…]

• There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that there is no possible chance of a man who has genuine conscientious beliefs, be they religious or otherwise, being required to serve in the Army. [More…]

• Furthermore, one would think that the Labor Party would endeavour to protect a man from having to subscribe to a political party of which he is diametrically opposed. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it is a very simple Bill which seeks to reduce the term of service of a national serviceman from 2 years to 18 months and to reduce the strength of the Regular Army to 40,000. [More…]

• I was not inclined to speak in this debate but last night I listened to the fallacious statements of many Government members, and I have just listened to a few from the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin). [More…]

• After 7 years this is what we are left with - one man manipulating the constitution of the South Vietnamese nation and the Supreme Court of South Vietnam. [More…]

• What does the present Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), the man to whom the former Prime Minister referred as being pedestrian, say? [More…]

• A man is putting his life on the line whether he is in a jungle, underneath the sea, up in the air or in a desert. [More…]

• For the honourable member to say that he objects to a war on the ground that it is a ghastly war shows a complete lack of understanding of the serviceman’s approach. [More…]

• Is it possible to train a modern day soldier from a rookie to a front line man in 6 months? [More…]

• There is often little likeness between the man who goes into national service and the one that comes out, either in stature or in outlook. [More…]

• From this training Australia would have many thousands of capable reservists. [More…]

• From this initial training would come all the volunteers necessary to man the 3 armed Services and even the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]

• This would do away with the ballot system which places an undue burden on certain sections of our young people today and would provide volunteers to man the 3 armed Services. [More…]

• The very least the Government can do is to release them immediately because if any man is prepared to serve 2 years in gaol, in my book he is a fair and sincere conscientious objector against this conflict and docs not deserve to have any penalty imposed on him. [More…]

• As I mentioned in this Parliament recently, the manner in which the Government is changing Ministers is rather like a hurdy-gurdy. [More…]

• The average man serving in the armed forces would not have time to know who is his Minister before that Minister was replaced. [More…]

• We could have every able bodied man conscripted tomorrow into the Australian Army but it would not make our defence potential one skerrick better unless it was backed by an industrial complex which is necessary to carry out a proper defensive role. [More…]

• In particular, I want to express my attitude in regard to the case of one young man. [More…]

• The Government wants to keep this young man in gaol. [More…]

• Even now I ask honourable members opposite to show some sense of decency and to treat this young man, Geoffrey Mullen, with some human compassion and transfer him from Cooma gaol to Newnes, as requested by his mother. [More…]

• In their efforts to fill the vacuum that is Opposition policy on this important aspect of national defence, Labor Party speakers, to a man, have accepted the need - to use their own words - for an adequate Army as part of our defence capability. [More…]

• Is it another example of the fiasco in Victoria of recent days involving the President of the State branch of the ALP - that man of continuing episodic interest - and others with him in their support for those dissident elements which wish to challenge one of the basic premises of any community, the maintenance of law and order? [More…]

• I believe that Australians generally will agree that a certain amount of military training will not hurt any young man. [More…]

• Many a person has said to me when their sons have been in the services that the training has made a man of them and that they came out a lot better men than when they went in. [More…]

• Any man who has been in such places as Europe, and Malaya and who has seen what happens when war comes into a country will not want it to come into this country. [More…]

• I know- and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) knows - that democracy and especially freedom are the greatest things that man can achieve. [More…]

• When our flag flutters in the breeze wc know that no man can can stand beneath its folds without becoming and remaining free. [More…]

• If a young man has had 18 months military training he can help to defend his country. [More…]

• Everybody should know, unless he is completely ignorant of army tactics, that even 10 years afterwards if a man has had 18 months military training it stands him in good stead. [More…]

• The honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) is in many ways a gentle man. [More…]

• In this way I might see myself, and be seen, as a morale young man who takes gaol and suffering upon himself to forge a way to a better Australia. [More…]

• And .to my mind, conscription is an unreasonable interference in any man’s life. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee made reference to people who have said to him: ‘Yes, my son is a better man as a result of having to do national service and serve in the Army’. [More…]

• How right those protests were when now we learn there is strong evidence that this man Ky, who was hosted by the Government was playing a leading role in drug trafficking in South East Asia. [More…]

• That alone, hosting a man of Ky’s type, should make honourable members opposite hide their heads in shame forever. [More…]

• The honourable member said that even the honourable member for Mallee admitted that the least educated man makes the best soldier. [More…]

• It does not matter to the Government that conscription destroys a young man’s future; it does not matter that quite often it deprives a young man of early family . [More…]

• life with his wife and children’; and it does not matter that it can destroy the opportunities of a man for the rest of his life. [More…]

• It is a doubtful proposition to suggest that polishing another man’s boots is morale building or character building. [More…]

• I suggest that there is nothing more totalitarian in any country than to deprive a man of his liberties and his rights as a citizen of the nation by forcing him against his will and his conscience to serve in any armed force. [More…]

• Retraining of those persons who are deficient in education at the time when they seek to enlist in the Army could provide the Army with a substantial proportion of its required manpower on a longer term basis than would be provided by the continuation of this Act. [More…]

• I think there have been some cases in which a magistrate has granted conscientious objection on the basis of a young man’s application for conscientious objection to the Vietnam war. [More…]

• He said much the same thing about another man, currently in prison on account of his refusal to render service and honourable members may be interested to know that despite that the Government’s position has also been made clear to this other man - Geoffrey Mullen - there is no indication that he regards himself as able to serve. [More…]

• I ask: Would this be the case with the system proposed in the amendment and would it not amount to a virtual denial of natural justice if a man was not enabled to have the witnesses he wanted properly heard in person? [More…]

• None of that was done here because the Government says: ‘Irrespective of whether you are a good fellow, a bad fellow, a man with a long criminal record, a first offender, or you were acting under the .most pressing influences resulting from hardship, you will get 2 years’. [More…]

• They are the people who have to consider these matters and consider what is happening to this young man of impressionable years. [More…]

• At present there is serving a sentence in the Bunbury gaol within my electorate a man who was a lecturer in economics at the university. [More…]

• A man who has a very important part to play in society will languish in gaol for 2 years, during which time the university is to be robbed of his talents, his time and his abilities. [More…]

• The situation exists at present where prisoners in State prisons who have been indicted for larceny, rape, embezzlement or even murder are entitled to be paroled - they are even entitled to have a non-parole period set - but a man who is gaoled under the provisions of the National Service Act simply because he has exercised his conscience is not entitled to this right. [More…]

• There is an old Indian saying that there are 2 tribunals in which a man stands in judgment. [More…]

• I would like an answer from the Minister tonight as to how he can differentiate between a man in Martin’s position and a man serving a sentence for a criminal offence. [More…]

• Then any young man who refused to obey the law of the land in this respect - whether it was for conscientious reasons or for some other reason - could expect to have applied to him the parole provisions which operate in the State in which he is convicted. [More…]

• On the farm there is, I suppose, a level of efficiency on a per man basis and a per acre basis second to none. [More…]

• If a beef exporter goes to the saleyards at, say, Newmarket, Cannon Hill or Homebush in Sydney and buys fat stock, the amounts charged by the auctioneering firms usually are deducted from the amount paid to the man who has sold the stock and sometimes this levy is included. [More…]

• Therefore we have to be very careful that the amount of levy is not deducted from this man’s account sales for the simple reason that the stock never get to the abattoirs. [More…]

• One of the great demands is for baby beef. [More…]

• All these are problems that face the cattle man who sells his stock in the markets of Australia. [More…]

• There are many more cattle about at the present time and certainly the beef industry is expanding. [More…]

• As has been said on so many occasions, a person cannot breed cattle and fatten them overnight. [More…]

• They are in demand now and are increasing very much in numbers throughout Victoria in the places with which I am acquainted. [More…]

• The butcher there has a good business and is a good man in the trade. [More…]

• Even a man from the city ought to know better than that. [More…]

• Quite candidly, a man who is inefficient in the breeding and fattening of stock should not be in the game at all. [More…]

• I do so because of the importance to the Australian farmer of maintaining and indeed increasing his efficiency and his output per man and per acre. [More…]

• The man who works theland and knows the property is the man who can best judge what is required. [More…]

• In fact, a man named Mr P. Vaughan at Sea Lake in Victoria had a certificate for 200 acres. [More…]

• The Director-General quoted this man as his authority when saying that the runway at Kingsford-Smith airport is satisfactory and suitable for landing 747 jets. [More…]

• I accept that the man is fully endorsed in relation to the 747 aircraft. [More…]

• I believe it is being installed in Nepal, Fiji and Manila but at this point of time and at the time of the accident it was installed only in Australia. [More…]

• Furthermore, if everyone in civil aviation in Australia is so well informed on the T-VASI system and its use by 747 pilots, can the Minister explain why the day after Sir Donald’s attack on Captain McDonald an urgent and secret film session was held in the Qantas route qualification film theatre at Mascot at 2 p.m. so that the Department of Civil Aviation could give Qantas managerial and senior training pilots their first look at a film demonstrating the different methods of using the T-VASI approach slope guidance for 747 aircraft? [More…]

• Whilst Qantas has now accepted the T-VASI system it did not always accept it and I would like to quote an extract from the Qantas ‘Flight Crew Instruction Manual’ and the ‘Flight Crew Training Manual’ under the heading Visual Approach Slope Indicator’. [More…]

• This gentleman joined the Royal Australian Air Force in March 1962. [More…]

• He is a married man. [More…]

• Another gentleman in my electorate who sat for the Queensland Senior Public examinations and matriculated in 1966 went on to accept a cadetship with Qantas. [More…]

• That man is one of thousands in the electorate of Kingsford-Smith, St George, Barton and Grayndler. [More…]

• The amazing thing about aircraft noise and airports generally is that a local council can put a man out of business if he creates a bit of noise in his backyard in a residential suburb. [More…]

• The present situation is that a man is on one board and he knows a fellow on another board. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 192S, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• The question of whether a man is participating or concerned in a strike is always a difficult question of fact. [More…]

• Tomorrow’s tasks will require higher skills and better management than in the past. [More…]

• If we cannot match the large nations in capital and invention, we can at least be our own managers; indeed such a requirement is essential. [More…]

• This is true of the nation and of the man. [More…]

• As in so many matters we are unlikely to achieve complete equality. [More…]

• Perhaps of even more importance than equipping students to meet future technological change is the need to enable man to live with man. [More…]

• We ought to strive harder than ever before to achieve what no generation has yet achieved: A community composed of men and women for whom human values are more important than material advantage; a community for whom the interrelationship of man with man has become the most important concern; a community in which tolerance and understanding reign and prejudice is abandoned. [More…]

• Only when such communities inhabit a nation and when such nations engulf the world will the shadows and fears of present or potential tyrannies be permanently consigned to the past. [More…]

• It is only in the Territories that a man or a woman can receive teacher education in the same way as he or she can have any other form of tertiary education. [More…]

• A matter which is a worry to many people in Australia, especially the family man, is the cost of health services. [More…]

• In many other areas where an amount of money is made available each year by the Commonwealth and also, I believe, by the States it is a fact of life that the object is to assist those people in the greatest need. [More…]

• If we apply these sorts of standards to these people and increasingly demand that they meet a high standard in the provision of these services, at a time when we are improving the provision of services or expanding’ the provision of services given by the public and non-profit making sector, I am confident that we will practically eliminate these people who have latched on to this system not out of any sense of dedication or commitment to their own fellow man but purely because it has been a good money .making operation. [More…]

• I refer to the search for the crew of the 7- man vessel ‘One and All’ missing off the east coast of Australia, ls the Minister in a position to confirm or deny that the vessel sailed without seaworthy certification by the Queensland Department of Harbours and Marine? [More…]

• In fact, during the season of which he spoke man hours lost on the Port Adelaide waterfront as a percentage of the man hours worked was a mere 1.8 per cent. [More…]

• The sincerity I want is that when a man is reading his speech, it should be recognised that he is doing so. [More…]

• The committee should consist of no more than 12 members, in proportion to the strength of the Parties in the House, with the chairman of the committee, the odd man, being the Minister in charge of the proposed legislation. [More…]

• But the man to whom we have to look for the duration of the debates on the matters listed on the notice paper, the man who exercises the authority on the business of the House, is the honourable member for Darling Downs, who is also the Minister for National Development. [More…]

• I am not quite confident of what the real answer is but I know that the present isolation of the executive direction of this nation inside the one-man ministerial system is totally inadequate and that reliance Upon the system to produce legislation has become irrelevant. [More…]

• Some time ago the gentleman concerned applied to join the provident fund which is provided for employees of Government organisations. [More…]

• While the Minister indicated that he regretted that this man would lose provident fund contributions for that period it was unavoidable. [More…]

• Is it a fact that you have received, or have you received, complaints from the Australian Labor Party suggesting that because a man has served with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation he is unacceptable to the Labor Party? [More…]

• Will the right honourable gentle man cause investigations to be made with a view to ascertaining what percentage of trade commissioners representing Australia speak the language of the country in which they are stationed? [More…]

• Although I have been critical of that important aspect of the terms of reference which denies a qualified person the right to assess pension rates and the extent to which their values have been eroded - if it can be successfully argued that they have been eroded, and I believe it can - I think it is competent for a man of the calibre of Mr Justice Toose, with the evidence that will be placed before him, to be able to recommend to the Government what he believes ought to be the schedules of repatriation benefits and how those schedules should be applied. [More…]

• The Department of the Interior will grant a loan to a financially eligible woman who is looking after children or providing a home for her aged parents. [More…]

• However, it will not give a loan to a single woman or man, although there have been certain exceptions to this rule. [More…]

• In practice, banks and other agencies that provide housing finance habitually require a woman, whatever her age or financial circumstances, to have the backing of a guarantor. [More…]

• When questioned the lending agency will say that this is because a woman may get married or become pregnant and then will find it difficult to meet her repayments. [More…]

• The woman’s denial - and some women have pointed out the biological impossibility of their becoming pregnant - produces no change in the demand for a guarantor. [More…]

• It is difficult to estimate the anger and humiliation of a comfortably off independent woman who has to ask her son, brother or some other man to guarantee her loan. [More…]

• I think we certainly do not want to hasten towards the average man working for the large corporation or, indeed, possessing a large corporation but I do see the fact that if one can juggle income tax as against death duties - whether they be State succession duties or Federal death duties or, thirdly, some alternative tax - then I believe that we can get more equity into the total field of taxation than we probably have today. [More…]

• These 2 tins were sent to me by a cattle man in the electorate of Kennedy, as a matter of fact. [More…]

• I know of a man who was manufacturing pet foods. [More…]

• The firm with which he was dealing laughed at him and said: ‘You cannot get a ton of powdered milk that has been manufactured in Australia. [More…]

• Certain things happened, and it was said: Then curs took courage and tore the great man’s body from the tomb, from hallowed ground. [More…]

• It is generally accepted that if one can prove that a certain thing a man has said is incorrect then one must cast a doubt on everything he says. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Sturt has a spark of manhood in his makeup he will get up an apologise for this. [More…]

• Then a new man comes into this chamber who does not know the circumstances and is prepared to make a statement, that he should know is untrue, about a great statesman. [More…]

• In the few minutes I have left I would like to refer to the honourable member for Darling (Mr Fitzpatrick) who said that certain people in this House, it appears, do not realise the very desperate straits that many primary producers are in. [More…]

• I have said before, and I say again, that any man who can stop inflation and raise the price of primary products at this stage would be not only the greatest man in Australia today but the greatest man in the world this century. [More…]

• The primary producer is the man who will fight to the last for his future. [More…]

• The Government is giving financial assistance in many ways to primary industry. [More…]

• I have had to put up with his arguments for a very long time, but one of the things that I cannot stand is someone who makes a plea on the grounds that he is the only man in Australia who can be right. [More…]

• There were manufacturers who, after the First World War- which had brought them into existence so we would be able to do our best to protect this country - were suffering because people like me were importing goods. [More…]

• It provides employment for many people in country and rural centres. [More…]

• I venture to say that he would be the last man in this House who would like to see that factory in Lismore close down as a result of the free trade policy advocated by 2 Government members opposite. [More…]

• That factory at Lismore provides employment for many people as well as for school leavers in that district. [More…]

• I rise with some diffidence because having listened to speeches by so many experts on tariffs I am one of the confused members of the community as, apparently, there is so little agreement on the subject. [More…]

• But it seemed to me that I should try to speak for the average man outside who might be listening to the debate and might be absolutely confused by all the complexities of the argument because there are some things that appear a little bewildering and even overwhelming and not without some conflict actually as to the needs for tariffs. [More…]

• 1 have no doubt that we do need tariffs in Australia in many areas and at various levels. [More…]

• I think that for many years the public has been fed up to the hack teeth with the way in which the ordinary consumer will go into a shop on the day after the Budget has been presented and pay an extra 4c or Se for a packet of cigarettes knowing full well that the man who owns the shop did not pay the additional excise on those cigarettes. [More…]

• The Government has been asked questions about this matter on many occasions, and quite rightly it replies: ‘We cannot police every little shop’. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2063 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solidemployed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2063 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• that honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• What shall it profit a man, one might ask, that he gain a long education through a prolonged adolescence and lose his adaptability, his usefulness, his idealism and his happiness? [More…]

• At the same time I have received a notification from the Public Service Board of a special request by the Department of Health for the provision of 45 extra positions for nurses and other supplementary people in order to man the hospital. [More…]

• The Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) who is sitting at the table, is not an ungenerous man. [More…]

• He is a man who can have regard for humanity. [More…]

• It wants to make common cause on this and extract an assurance from the representatives of Australia that we will give to the people of Pakistan - this great mass of suffering humanity - the consideration which ought to be characteristic of the hearts of Australians. [More…]

• It seems to me that this is a highly essential service which ought to be available to the general practitioner who, as far as we can see into the future, will be the most important man in the medical team - I stress the word ‘team’ - which provides public health services in the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) made some sneering remarks about the present Minister for Health, Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson. [More…]

• He was for many years the Chairman of the Ryde District Hospital, which is renowned as one of the most efficient hospitals in Australia. [More…]

• Anyone who knows Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson knows of his humanity, his sympathy and his desire to assist his fellow man. [More…]

• In the aged group, the majority are females because the life expectancy of a woman is 74 years compared with 68 for a man. [More…]

• A recent New South Wales study of chronic illness suggests that about 4 per cent of the population over 65 years of age are in need of help from others in many of the acts of daily living, 11 per cent are prevented from getting about alone for shopping or visiting the doctor, 15 per cent of women are handicapped in their ability to do housework, and 57 per cent of both sexes suffer from one or more chronic illnesses. [More…]

• The aged man seems to be particularly prone to chronic illnesses and to be in need of assistance in the home. [More…]

• Of those who do have children, many of course will not live in close proximity to their children, who may be hundreds of miles away. [More…]

• However, if it is assumed, for argument’s sake, that there is some deterrent effect on the patient, it is more likely to be the poor man than the rich man who will be deterred. [More…]

• The poor man may be deterred from obtaining some medication that he really needs. [More…]

• Meanwhile the rich man will not be deterred even if his medical need is less. [More…]

• The man in charge of the station told us that research had progressed to such an extent that fish were coming back into the Thames because the disposal of effluent into that famous river had been prevented. [More…]

• Man its pretty important. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the absolute size of the human race is now so large that it is perhaps the single most important factor we have to consider in discussing man’s future … [More…]

• It is unmistakably clear that the lime has come for humanity to take a careful look at its resources, its ideals, and its numbers, and try to make some serious judgments about optimum population size, both for individual countries and for the world as a whole. [More…]

• This earth is no different from a space ship, lt is simply larger, but it still depends on the sun for its energy as a man-made space ship does, and the basic resource that it takes with it. [More…]

• I made some inquiries of my own and was told by other service station proprietors with whom I am on reasonable terms that they, too, were being put under pressure - persuasion might be a better word, although it has been described as standover tactics by at least one man to whom I spoke. [More…]

• In thelast sentence of his personal explanation he said that the owner of Napperby station, Mr Shepherd, is the campaign manager for a Country Party candidate. [More…]

• His whole explanation was giving the lead to this sentence, and this is why I am on my feet defending a man who is thousands of miles from here and who cannot defend himself. [More…]

• According to a Northern Territory newspaper, a Dr Dick Klugman, who I take it is the honourable member for Prospect, will go to Alice Springs on Friday, 15 th October, to assist an Australian Labor Party candidate at this election who is standing for a local country electorate. [More…]

• I am defending the man whom the honourable member attacked and who cannot answer the honourable member. [More…]

• Mr Shepherd is not the campaign manager for the local Country Party candidate. [More…]

• Let me deal with some more facts relevant to this insidious attack on a man who cannot answer it in this House. [More…]

• When this happened, the manager of the station contacted the Flying Doctor base and an aircraft arrived within 2 hours. [More…]

• No dispute has existed between the manager and the Government authority concerning the bore being put down in that area. [More…]

• The old provision for boards of reference caused more disputes and still continues to cause more disputes and more lost man hours than any other aspect of industry. [More…]

• I would prevail upon him, having regard to the particular state of that industry at the moment, measured in terms of the number of men required on the waterfront today and the number which may be required in the future, to ensure that his Government does not interfere with the rights of the trade union and the employer to negotiate in a right and proper manner for the interests of the people and the humans in the industry and the interests, of course, of the whole community. [More…]

• that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; 29 that the World Health Organisation Report (January 1970) confirms the above definition of chemical agents of warfare; [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Govermment the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibition laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• We on this side of the House regard him as a man who should have received approval for what he did rather than be severely criticised. [More…]

• If a man gets it only if he is poor - one way a man becomes poor is to stay in the put) - then 1 say that it is a direct encouragement to the bad farmer. [More…]

• Secondly, the formula means that the man with the lowest return will receive the least. [More…]

• Fourthly, to compound these errors, although the scheme is designed to help the struggling man on the land, the Government will pay the money not to the grower but to the broker. [More…]

• In effect, the Minister said: ‘This is the man who is depressing the market’. [More…]

• When there is a breakdown of machinery and a man has to ring in to get a part sent out, he has to pay 86c. [More…]

• The smaller man who in many cases is said to be the person who needs the help most is not assisted to the extent he should be. [More…]

• But the facts of the situation are that the big man and the small man are in the same sort of trouble. [More…]

• This is one of the most useful pieces of legislation that this Government has brought forward for many, many years. [More…]

• Finance that would be available to the practical man would not be available at all if a moratorium were introduced. [More…]

• I believe that the statement made by the honourable member for Dawson suggesting a moratorium has done more to tighten bank credit in many areas where the country is sound and where people are efficient, than any other single factor. [More…]

• It is also extremely niggardly to expect a man who has to go off the land, to start a new life on $1,000, because this again is part of the scheme. [More…]

• Technically it is a loan but in fact it is designed to enable a man to leave the land if he cannot profitably carry on his farm. [More…]

• However, we can use one measure of economic activity for which data can be obtained to compare the man-made fibre and wool-growing industries. [More…]

• The average man, and he represents about 90 per cent of the market in the purchase of suits, cannot afford this type of luxury. [More…]

• I am not talking about the owner or the manager; I am talking about the man in the big retail stores and in the small stores. [More…]

• The man serving the customer will say: *You can throw the synthetic one into the washing machine’. [More…]

• will allow manufacturers to use a little bit of synthetics with woo] and still receive the imprimatur of a type of Woolmark. [More…]

• I went and spoke to a number of manufacturers. [More…]

• I spoke to a manufacturer about the problems which he has to face. [More…]

• He said: ‘I am a wool man’. [More…]

• I might say that most of Australia’s manufacturers are extremely loyal. [More…]

• As I said before, this man is absolutely the personification of the didgeridoo. [More…]

• Why in the name of fortune does this other honourable gentleman not follow what is obviously his natural occupation, that of a clown? [More…]

• In fact, one man can handle the load of wool which is banded together and which can be put into any size lots that one wants. [More…]

• Why is it that someone who says he supports the industry and the battlers, the workers and the producers does not demand from the super bale a greater return to the grower? [More…]

• Is it because of the fact that honourable members opposite only hoodwink the grower and take for granted this man who has been their backstop and consider him as part and parcel of their own properties? [More…]

• However, they have regard for the broker and the big or giant middle man, the parasite on those in the industry, as being more important. [More…]

• To illustrate my point I will refer to a cattle station at Haasts Bluff which is run by a European who is an expert cattle man. [More…]

• This man runs the station as a business enterprise and he is making a profit. [More…]

• The man runs this place with the help of the Aboriginals who own it and will benefit from its successful operation. [More…]

• The man in charge will not benefit. [More…]

• Within the last 20 to 25 years the progress in industry and communications and the increase in the number of city dwellers have created a situation in which man has to take a quick, serious look at the environmental problems which he has created and is still creating and which have certainly been to bis own detriment. [More…]

• He has then to transfer it to the regional controller in Sydney who has then to make arrangements to get a man to the office in Sydney. [More…]

• It had a crew of 7 - 6 men and a young woman of 21 years of age or thereabouts. [More…]

• Only 2 of the crew were experienced, apparently one man who held a mate’s certificate and another who had some years experience at sea as an able seaman. [More…]

• A company representative took the insurance assessor to the hospital to interview the injured man and offered to show him in the Facility’s town office an item of furniture identical to the one which was claimed to be a factor in the injury. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIVA (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants. [More…]

• That Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• As to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I was then thinking about the severity of the increase in the registrant for employment figures in actual registrations and I did imply that there might be a change in the severity of the increase in these figures, not than there would be. [More…]

• What the man in the street wants to know is the actual number of registrants. [More…]

• That number is 63,679, which is not an abnormal figure for the month in which we are considering it unless there are strong inflationary pressures and the labour demand is exceedingly high. [More…]

• This matter has suddenly become a popular bandwagon which a great many people are endeavouring to get on. [More…]

• I recall one day when I was out with another man assisting in the construction of contour banks. [More…]

• Some are most unsophisticated situations, they vary from the highly edu- .cated Aboriginals in the southern part of my electorate to those in the north west Aboriginal reserve who do not have a great deal of contact with the white man. [More…]

• into my brain is the fact that the Interim Council which was charged with the responsibility of making recommendations on this specific matter voted 8 to 4 in favour of Mr Laurie Thomas, a well known man in the field of art criticism and before that Director of at least the Queensland Art Gallery and, if my memory serves me correctly, of the Western Australian Art Gallery. [More…]

• He is a man eminently qualified and with a great deal of practical background. [More…]

• Perhaps the Prime Minister tonight could have taken the opportunity to clear the air of assertions made by the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) in this House that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had been inaccurate and misleading in information he had supplied to the House - a squalid performance. [More…]

• I understand that the appointee was to have been Professor Toeplitz from the Lodz Film Training School in Poland who is at present temporarily on duty at the La Trobe University because of the generosity of Mr Ken Myer, who has supplied money to hold this man, one of the most eminent, if not the most eminent, in his field in the world, in the hope that the Prime Minister and the Government would be persuaded to make the appointment of this man. [More…]

• We should be speaking instead about a grant to be issued to and spent by their own Parliament and by their own departments in a manner totally decided upon by the voice of the local people. [More…]

• We in Australia would be speaking as Mr Arek spoke if the same decisions we are imposing on Papua New Guinea were being debated in the British House of Commons in relation to Australia, In defence of the perpetuation of these decisions we of course say that they are not ready and by some mysterious judgment of the wise man say that at some future, distant, undefined date they will be ready [More…]

• Further, when one considers that the Australian Government in 1969-70 spent $1,226 for every person in the Northern Territory and yet in the same year spent only $71 a person in Papua New Guinea one cannot wonder at the bitterness of the local people who see, rightly or wrongly, the white man enjoying a superior wage structure for the same work and winning positions in the Public Service ahead of local men. [More…]

• On a recent visit to New Guinea I was confronted at the front door of my abode by a fine strong healthy young man of approximately 30 years of . [More…]

• Fortunately he could not read the reference himself, but somewhere, sometime it will be read by a more literate friend and this man will become another potentially resentful citizen, as must a large number of these men who have been forced to take the only available work as servile servants with a backyard garage type building for accommodation. [More…]

• This man is treating these new recruits like animals. [More…]

• I thought that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) was the most ignorant man who ever went to the Territory, but I am beginning to wonder whether some of his supporters are not even more ignorant - and that is saying a great deal indeed. [More…]

• Only last week we had down here 5 Ministerial Members of the House of Assembly, every one of them an able man and every one of them proud of his country and grateful for what has been done. [More…]

• One of the great problems in Papua New Guinea is that there are so many ethnic groups. [More…]

• He is the man who spoke in the streets and very nearly caused riots and had to be walked off the streets by a District Commissioner because of his irresponsible statements and his encouragement of lawlessness by people who have yet so much to learn. [More…]

• Surely this display of arrogant racialism by the most senior Public Servant in the Territory can only do irreparable harm and I believe that the sooner the policies, which this man is helping to frame, are completely reviewed, the better it will be for Australia, the people of the Territory and our relations with them. [More…]

• I have a great respect for the Minister - not as a Minister but because of the sort of man that he is. [More…]

• This man is a native of Fiji. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member that until a few years ago in many parts of Papua New Guinea a man would be born and would live his whole life in one place, never moving more than about 5 or 6 miles from it because if he did he would be murdered in another tribal area. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the offer by the South Australian Branch of the Seamen’s Union of Australia to man ships without pay to transport relief aid to that country? [More…]

• Is the Government prepared to accept this generous humane offer, and if so, will the Government approach the Australian National Line and other Australian shipping companies to see whether they will make ships available free of charge for that purpose? [More…]

• As to the offer of the South Australian branch of the Seamen’s Union to man ships free of charge for the carriage of supplies to the affected area, I understand that such a telegram has been sent to my colleague the Minister for Customs and Excise. [More…]

• I think it is a very generous offer and it reflects the humanitarian feeling that is in the Australian people, extending throughout the whole spectrum of political belief, and I welcome it. [More…]

• Let us pay tribute to a man who knew banking and who was prepared to apply Labor principles to banking. [More…]

• At the beginning of my remarks on this Bill I drew attention to the exploitation of the average man and woman in Australia who buys on hire purchase. [More…]

• It is interesting to record - and I think 1 have done so in this House previously - that the man who first started this scheme was an engineer named C. Y. O’Connor. [More…]

• But pressure was brought to bear by people who were saying to this man: ‘You cannot do it; you are crazy if you try’. [More…]

• This is a crisis of human factors, as the Minister rightly reminds us, but Australian assistance in the previous crisis in Pakistan - the crisis which was caused by the tidal wave disaster - was tardy and ungenerous. [More…]

• If we tend to flinch from giving aid in this crisis because we think it may be a continuing development - if there is a continuing situation in East Pakistan that will produce more refugees - still we have to look back with disappointment at the Australian reaction to the disaster which was not man made and which was not continuing in East Pakistan. [More…]

• For many years the honourable member was a high executive officer of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]

• I do not suppose that there would be any other man in any other Parliament in Australia who would know anywhere near as much as the honourable member for Sturt knows and understands about the stevedoring industry. [More…]

• It is the thinking of the trade union movement - and it should be the thinking of the Government also - that the days are gone when an employer can just say that a man has reached his cut-off point at a certain age even though he has not reached the age where he could receive social service benefits, and therefore is relegated to an industrial scrapheap. [More…]

• But they have not gone for the manual worker, the casual worker, the semiskilled and the skilled worker. [More…]

• I do not think that particular method was ever put into practice but it could well have been put into practice if there had been prior consultation and it had been approached on the basis that after all industrial relations involve human relationships^ - between one man and another and one man and his mates. [More…]

• They were then suspended for a number of days If any other man went on strike for a day in the port concerned, that particular day did not count in the suspension. [More…]

• I suggest to the Minister in all sincerity that in the next few weeks the Government will need to pay some regard to this industry in the interests not only of industrial relationships but also of humanity for the men who have served a lifetime in the industry. [More…]

• He might want to say: ‘Well, why should not I go before a judge and say, “look, the accused had the opportunity to cross-examine this man before a magistrate - what harm can come from it”?’ [More…]

• Under the Act a serviceman virtually has no security and it is extremely difficult for a man, unless he has the full amount of the deposit, which can be considerable with a loan of $9,000, to be able to get a second mortgage. [More…]

• I think special arrangements should be made whereby an ex-serviceman can insure a second mortgage loan through the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation. [More…]

• The Government has introduced many important schemes. [More…]

• We should be aiming to build in Australia a home ownership community in which every man will have the opportunity of owning his own home. [More…]

• He is very much a family man, and a person in this situation has a necessity for housing at its best. [More…]

• Without shelter man perishes rather quickly. [More…]

• During that time it laid down the guidelines for so many things that this present Liberal-Country Party Government has followed. [More…]

• We have heard the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) who is an extremely wealthy man. [More…]

• This is the man who cries in his tea cup about the people who are struggling in this country to obtain houses and to meet the interest burden. [More…]

• The Australian community, and especially the working man, is the target. [More…]

• From overseas experience, as well as from our own history, we know that to alter this important aspect of Australian community life poses a very real threat to the security of the Australian people, especially of the Australian working man. [More…]

• The first of them is this: The Government has been tardy in the extreme in the matter of reuniting families, ft took it 20 years to agree to provide assisted passages to enable a man to bring his wife and children to this country. [More…]

• I did not refer to anybody, Mr Deputy Chairman. [More…]

• He is a man who represents rather a disappearing race in the federal Australian Labor Party today. [More…]

• He is a man who personifies honesty, sincerity and dignity. [More…]

• I remember the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) not very long ago referring to any man who did not have a university degree as being little better than a peasant. [More…]

• This has been his general attitude, and perhaps that is the reason why he dumped the peasant from Grayndler as Labor’s spokesman on immigration matters. [More…]

• Today we have many policies on immigration. [More…]

• I remember how inept this man was in a campaign in Hume when he brought pop singers to play to the peasants in Hume, as he put it, and got the biggest drubbing he has ever received in his life. [More…]

• Here again, in an attempt to gain political popularity he has fallen down on his face again because the Australian people do not want his immigration policy or the policy of so many others who have expressed variations of Labor’s policy. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Chairman, this evening for the second time in 2 weeks we have seen the public humiliation of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• The man whom he repudiated as the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Immigration, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly), has come into this Committee with the support of quite a number of his colleagues, led for the Opposition in this debate and moved the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]

• I come now to a man who is not a member of the Federal Parliament but who is influential in Labor’s policy making in these areas. [More…]

• He is a new leftist, a man of very liberal ideas in a number of matters which I will not seek to identify in total here. [More…]

• Let my friend the honourable member for Denison whom I would have thought ought to have been a Liberal man with his background and so on answer this question for ne: We bring to Australia people from all ever Europe. [More…]

• Of course, on this issue there are deep divisions between the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), and it was those divisions which led to the dismissal as shadow Minister for Immigration of the honourable member for Grayndler, a man who has been described by his leader in this Parliament as one of the best informed men on immigration. [More…]

• During 22 years in the Parliament, Mr McMahon has won recognition as a vigorous, forthright man with the determination and the ability to get things done. [More…]

• The minute the Prime Minister disappears, in walks his arch enemy, the man who deprived him of the Prime Ministership in 1968. [More…]

• I can see it headlined in the New York ‘Times’, the Washington ‘Post’, the London ‘Times’, and the Manchester ‘Guardian’ that the Prime Minister of Australia has actually been re-elected. [More…]

• I notice he is an economist and I understand that he was a top man in that field; that is one of his qualifications. [More…]

• We are told that he is a man in a hurry. [More…]

• However, it is nice to know about the man who leads the nation. [More…]

• It states that he is qualified in economics; a man in a hurry. [More…]

• A further deduction of $500 should be allowed for his wife, so that a married man would pay no income tax unless his income exceeded $1,000. [More…]

• It also means that when a man does increase his earnings by individual effort he is able to keep for himself and his family a fairly big proportion of this increase without the state taking an undue proportion of it away from him. [More…]

• Early last year this had become fairly evident to many people, lt became generally realised that one of the many frustrating effects of inflation was that as soon as wage and salary earners obtained greater rewards they were automatically carried into a higher tax bracket and thus a large proportion of their personal gains was swallowed up by the tax gatherer. [More…]

• Take the new education concession, which in this Budget has gone from $300 to $400 per child: For a man on a taxable income of $20,000 this is worth to him $266 in rough terms. [More…]

• To a man with an income of $3,500 it means about $107. [More…]

• Things are being done by this Government which, if they were done in orthodox accountancy, would have a man on trial for falsification of accounts. [More…]

• The fiddles are on, and whilst the Government is quite prepared to pursue the little man - perhaps it might have justification in odd cases for doing so - it is letting the big fish get through the net. [More…]

• It takes the form that, in respect of component parts, the corporations can charge their Australian subsidiary exactly what the traffic will bear in respect of cars or machinery manufactured in this country. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) mentioned, at the same time as the Government is skinning the little man we find miserable deficiencies in respect of concessions for dependants and medical expenses. [More…]

• Let us take the case of a professional man with a net taxable income of $9,500 a year. [More…]

• In the time that remains to me 1 want to raise one other matter that for many years has been the source of. [More…]

• I am referring to the question of a permissible deduction for fares in respect of travel to and from a man’s place of employment. [More…]

• In a case in England it was pointed out that in those days the average professional man or the average tradesman lived at or near the place of his employment, but today with the urban sprawl- this applies to the major capital cities and it applies with even more force within my own constituency because it is a long narrow-gutted area on a coastal plain - the low wags earner is driven out to the low cost land which is on the outermost extremities, on the periphery, of every metropolis. [More…]

• The man least able to pay is forced to travel the longest distance and to pay the highest fares. [More…]

• If a man chose lo live at a distance from his place of business because it was more convenient, pleasant or healthy for himself, that was a matter entirely within his own discretion, and was not in any respect connected with the earning of his income. [More…]

• The reason for these thoughts being in the minds of people is a direct result of the present taxation system which causes a disproportionate amount of each additional dollar earned going directly to the tax man. [More…]

• Of course when there are 2 children in each family, or 3 or 4, then the man with a higher income gets an even greater advantage. [More…]

• The percentage of income paid in taxation today, while perhaps not as high as in some other countries, is higher than in many others and we should be asking the question: ‘Where has the money gone?’ [More…]

• There should be some form of appraisal whereby the man in the street is able to deduce - at least have sufficient information given to him to allow him to think for himself - whether he should make an assessment as to where his money is going. [More…]

• It is estimated that the Budget has added more than $2 weekly to the average family man’s cost of living. [More…]

• Think of the absurdity, Mr Deputy Chairman. [More…]

• If you want to have an argument with a man you do not go out and say: ‘I want to argue with 13,000 men’. [More…]

• High Court which said that there is no power within the Commonwealth Constitution to deal with managerial policy. [More…]

• Yet, more than 50 per cent of the industrial disputes and man-days lost are as a consequence of managerial policy or disputes arising therefrom. [More…]

• As Mr Justice Dixon said, a man would need remarkable foresight, when he lodged his original log of claims, to be able to see in 10 years time that there was going to be a demarcation dispute in one of the factories in one of the States and unless one can do that then one is out of court. [More…]

• It is being used to cover up for the many weaknesses of this Government and to place the blame on the trade unions. [More…]

• The Treasury publication ‘The Australian Economy 1971’ gives some indication of what is happening to the man forced to rely on wage rates alone. [More…]

• This may not be the best example but it does give a fair indication of what is happening to the man forced to work at wage rates. [More…]

• With all due respect to the Minister and the honourable member for Wentworth, I do not think that there would be very many people in Australia who would seek their opinion on industrial relations before that of this great man. [More…]

• The things which are levelled against a person who works long and hard, as is generally known, in the direction of improving labour relations or the lot of tha working man, as he is sometimes called, are a great pity. [More…]

• It has been one of direct criticism and direct provocation of the working man - the family man. [More…]

• Government speakers have constantly attacked loyal citizens, many of whom have adopted this country as their new home and many of whom who have defended this country as loyal servicemen, and housewives who, because of inflation, have had to go to work and, because they arc workers, have joined the appropriate organisations which represent them in advocating improved working conditions and which are more commonly known as trade unions. [More…]

• There is no immediate demand. [More…]

• With this Government’s constant rattling of the war drums in its determination to confront the trade union movement, to force strikes upon the family man who can ill afford them, it is in an atmosphere of extreme despair that some of the building workers in Western Australia are considering a strike meeting next week in an attempt to determine what action they can take, such as the banning of overtime or voluntary short time. [More…]

• For the Government to foreshadow to this Parliament a Bill relating to industrial relations and to present the estimates of the Department of Labour and National Service for consideration without offering a solution to these problems is beyond the comprehension of the ordinary man in the street, lt is to be hoped that the Minister will offer some assurances to the people concerned, will indicate his intention to offer some answer to the employment situation and will commence to offer some solutions in the area of the administration of conciliation of which honourable members opposite speak so much. [More…]

• One thing that seems to preoccupy honourable members on the Government side is adding up the number of man-days lost through industrial stoppages. [More…]

• There was quite a fad some weeks ago for Government supporters to speak of 2 million man-days being lost last year through industrial action. [More…]

• This disappointment was coupled with a realisation that 4.5 million man-days are worked each day and the fact that 2 million man-days were lost each year seemed somewhat insignificant by comparison. [More…]

• Stoppages of only 10 man days or more are listed, and they are listed under 4 headings: Wages, hours and leave’; ‘Physical working conditions and managerial policy’; ‘Trade unionism’; and ‘Other’. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals’ or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• If a man, reversing an earlier decision to stay here, makes a decision to return to his homeland, it is not in our province to prevent him from doing so. [More…]

• The man responsible not just for this humiliation of a Prime Minister but for the humiliation of Australia is the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It is his duty so to manage the administration of his Department that he is fully informed on proposals of such significance. [More…]

• This is the manner in which affairs are conducted by a Government whose present Leader pledged on the day he became Prime Minister that he was above all a ‘Cabinet man’. [More…]

• Here we have the Prime Minister - thi leader of this great nation, the man about whom a 3-page document was issued the other day telling of his administrative capacity and efficiency - on the very door step of the White House, with the President of the United States waiting to receive him and his own Cabinet has had a document for 30 days but nobody has bothered to tell him about it Mr Nixon will be delighted to know, will he not, that the man’ who seeks to tell him what this Government will do in the Pacific with the assistance of its great ally did not even know what was happening in his own Cabinet. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is only the man running the country. [More…]

• He is a young man whom I admire. [More…]

• He is the youngest man to occupy the post since Stanley Melbourne Bruce. [More…]

• Nor was he an ambitious man.’ [More…]

• No doubt he is a nice man personally, but his competence to administer the affairs of this country as Minister for Defence is in doubt. [More…]

• It is not prepared to send one man to Malaysia or to any of the other countries in South East Asia under the 5-power agreement. [More…]

• The man who is Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs should not say things like that. [More…]

• No-one can deny that it is the kind of people who make up the diplomatic service - one of them graces this House - who are effective in the man to man relationships and the diplomacy of the 1970s. [More…]

• When the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) rose in the debate with his customary humour he sought to maintain this mundane and irresponsible performance of his colleagues. [More…]

• I recall that the honourable member for Wills, himself a man of some military experience, made the comment that Australia would not send any troops to help other people if Labor was in office. [More…]

• Any man in this place would be proud to call him his personal friend. [More…]

• As I said earlier in this debate, there was a time when the leaders of the Labor Party - and many of the people who are sitting opposite are aware of this fact - were aware of the terror of government. [More…]

• They should understand the judgments that led that man to the conclusions that he announced to the world. [More…]

• I should now like to deal with the other matter raised in my amendment, ‘the effectiveness of Qantas management in relation to crew retrenchment, migrant carriage contracts, charters, and fares’. [More…]

• Many of them left good jobs to take up positions with Qantas. [More…]

• I refer to the case of a man who first applied- [More…]

• Another case concerns a man who was a captain with East-West Airlines. [More…]

• Another case concerns a young man who received a distinction in his third year of medicine at the University of Sydney. [More…]

• It is the least we can do to help these people because I have never known a captain of the quality, the standard and the character of those to whom I refer who derived any pleasure from putting a young man out of a job. [More…]

• I make these remarks because I believe that in the final analysis the profitability of any organisation depends on how the consumer - the man who buys the ticket and travels with an airline - reacts not only to the service he receives in the air but also to the service he receives on the ground. [More…]

• I suppose the acme of the ambition of any young man who wants to be a commercial pilot is to become a trainee pilot with Qantas. [More…]

• But what a dreadful thing it is for that young man when he suddenly finds that he has been stood down. [More…]

• Many of them which come here are also flying American aircraft to so-called Communist countries and are pretty versatile and viable because they are able to spread their service throughout the world. [More…]

• Maybe Sir Roland Wilson is a brilliant man but he has so many things to do and is involved in so many companies that one wonders whether he can devote maximum attention to this company. [More…]

• Sir John McEwen said that Mr Connellan was a wonderful man whose airline made only a pittance out of the subsidised operation. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to pay a tribute to the work of the first Mayor of Darwin, Alderman Richardson, who has just resigned. [More…]

• He is a very sick man. [More…]

• I was disappointed that the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) referred to one of the great pioneers of aviation in the Northern Territory, Mr Eddie Connellan, in the way that he did. [More…]

• This man pioneered the air services in the Territory and certainly played a great part in its development. [More…]

• I want to state the following in regard to that matter: Some time ago a man went to see the ‘Advertiser’ with a request for payment in return for a story about film in his possession of a secret rocket firing at Womera. [More…]

• The ‘Advertiser’ representatives assigned to interview the man were incredulous, so they asked to see the film. [More…]

• The man produced, for inspection, approximately 40 feet of film with images of a rocket firing on the film and claimed that he had 1 ,200 feet of film showing a complete rocket firing sequence, which he said was in Melbourne. [More…]

• The man who had given the film to the ‘Advertiser’ was interviewed again, but most of what he said was considered by the Advertiser’ to be untrue because, they believed, he was trying to protect his contacts. [More…]

• The Minister was asked the meaning of the cryptic message which had been relayed to him and he advised Colquhoun that it meant that the Commonwealth Police expected to arrest a man that night in connection with the film missing from Woomera. [More…]

• It has been reliably reported to me that the sum of $100 was paid to the man who had given the story and film to the Advertiser’. [More…]

• That night the Commonwealth Police arrested a man, later named as Trevor Wayne Kotz of Parkside, and charged him with receiving film belonging to the Weapons Research Establishment, knowing it to have been stolen. [More…]

• In the search they recovered a couple of pieces of film which contained images of a rocket firing similar to that on the film which a man had earlier shown the ‘Advertiser’. [More…]

• The answer given by the Minister for Supply to my question regarding the prosecution of a man in connection with the disappearance of secret rocket firings film from Woomera clearly indicates that the Government in general and the Minister in particular are concerned only with covering up serious breaches in Australia’s security arrangements. [More…]

• In his reply to my question, the Minister on the one hand admitted in part that in fact film with images of a secret rocket firing film at Woomera was recovered by the Commonwealth Police from the home of a man charged in Adelaide Magistrates Court. [More…]

• It has already been pointed out in this place that the number of man hours lost through unemployment is greater in terms of production than is the number of man hours lost through strikes. [More…]

• The facts are that 2i million man days were lost last year through strikes. [More…]

• This is equivalent to over 15 million man days lost through unemployment - about 6 times the loss due to strikes, lt is admitted by the Government that unemployment will worsen. [More…]

• It appears to me that the mental attitude of Government supporters today is that because as they drive along the highways and do not see a man with a swag on his back, corks around his hat and a billy-can swinging from his swag, the economy is good. [More…]

• When we have the situation of a family man being thrown out of employment that is bad enough. [More…]

• Should a man be tried like this? [More…]

• There is the old audi alteram partem rule of hear the other side but without reflecting on any legislature there has been a recent case where part of a legislature did in fact pass a motion relating to a man’s position without hearing him. [More…]

• Before a man is to be condemned he should be heard. [More…]

• Again 1 would suggest that if in denning the privileges of this House we can bring ourselves, or lurch ourselves, towards taking that decision it should be expressed in explicit terms that if a man is to appear before the Committee he should have the opportunity of being represented by counsel. [More…]

• I am not surprised that having sought to track this man down those concerned virtually are convinced that the person does not exist, that someone was writing in under a pseudonym. [More…]

• What surprises me is that the editor of the ‘Australian’ apparently knows so little about the Parliament that he could accept a letter from someone who turns out to be a non-existent person who says he knows a man who says from lobbying around Parliament that $10,000 is a pretty low bribe to offer. [More…]

• A two-thirds vote of the total number of members of the House is required to agree to the setting up of a 7- man committee of the House to choose the nominated member or members. [More…]

• The Government does not provide anything for children who are over 16 years of age when a man has been sacked. [More…]

• To honour an undertaking is the basis of morality in the community and the basis of proper dealings between man and man, community and community, government and electors as well as government and management of industry. [More…]

• These are the words of a man whom we must all admire for his dedication, Mr E. M. Jackson, the executive secretary of the Victorian Irrigation Research and Promotion Organisation, to which the honourable member for Murray belongs and which I help in some small way to promote. [More…]

• As the Chairman of the River Murray Commission he is the man whom we want to see. [More…]

• Many years ago a great Australian and a great Labor man wrote a poem called ‘A Word From Texas Jack’. [More…]

• It is high time that we had a man of stature - indeed of calibre, as the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• A man at the head of the wool industry should be devoting his full time to this problem. [More…]

• The man who is Prime Minister of Australia is administering a Department which, according to the estimates, has $28. [More…]

• I do not believe it is decent or dignified that one man can sit and shuffle people like a deck of cards. [More…]

• Adelaide, South Australia indicating what an independent Press we have in Australia, there appeared an article about a meeting called by a man named Mr Buff. [More…]

• For example, I think a young man joins the Navy because he is interested in ships. [More…]

• A young man is not interested in this, and one of the difficulties that I feel at liberty to say that I would see in the establishment of any joint defence college is that we would get precisely the young man who goes from school at an impressionable age with all the enthusiasm in the world and who is interested in a particular Service. [More…]

• So I would say that whereas the emphasis should be and must be upon joint operations in every possible respect and upon understanding the climate in which the various Services work, please do not be susceptible to the proposition that we can put the one uniform on the man and he can be an Air Force man today and a naval officer tomorrow. [More…]

• Over the years man seems to have developed a conditioned reflex of settling differences by bloodshed. [More…]

• My point is that it is quite unfair that when an increase is made in Repatriation compensation for war disabilities, or social service pensions rise so that the Service pension increases, many of the recipients do not get any increase. [More…]

• The Minister pointed out quite recently the basis on which one can compare the benefits received by totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners in this country with what is received by people in similar circumstances in other countries. [More…]

• This for a single man, is equivalent to the residue from a taxable income of $48.30. [More…]

• In these circumstances we congratulate ourselves on the fact that we are providing more for the TPI pensioner than is received by a single man on the minimum wage. [More…]

• I am particularly honoured to have the Minister for Social Services sitting opposite because he is a man who had made m;<ny promises to the electorate. [More…]

• After nearly 20 years of promises to the Australian community that he was the man to eliminate the means test - and justifying his argument on the basis which I have already mentioned - we find that, when he was projected into the situation where the Minister can take constructive action to eliminate the means test, he has failed, and failed sadly. [More…]

• So that is the great achievement of this man who has spoken so frequently of how he would strive to improve the benefits benefits for pensioners. [More…]

• The Minister is a man with practical experience and ability. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on assuming office made a declaration that in fact he was to be a Cabinet man and he has reinforced that statement from time to time. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is seeking to have honourable members, the nation and - it appears - the entire world, believe that he is a Cabinet man. [More…]

• The Labor man was defeated in the local elections. [More…]

• Many of them were trained to speak Swahili before going to Africa. [More…]

• They said: ‘They will pick you up and give you a lift in their trucks and that is something no white man would ever do’. [More…]

• I was amazed that one man was expected to cope with all those problems and also to develop Australian trade for the whole of Africa. [More…]

• I would suggest with great respect that the thousands of people who want to demonstrate their concern from the point of view of the little man are not in a position to go into the pastoral business, the shipping business or the meat processing business. [More…]

• No doubt the policy of the ALP man differed from the Labor Party policy of the honourable member for Prospect, so he probably ignored him. [More…]

• For example, if a man receives $49 a fortnight in superannuation is the age pension rate then $46 a fortnight, making a total of $95 from both sources? [More…]

• In the strike in which he played a prominent part as a young man of about 23 years of age, he was instrumental in having the wages of the Fijian workers raised by about $3 or $4 a week. [More…]

• AsI said a little while ago in answer to an interjection I referred to him as a reasonably sincere man who would stick to his view. [More…]

• One can quote, for instance, the Labor Party’s spokesman outside this House - a man who had a large following, particularly in the intellectual circles of Australia. [More…]

• The medical fund to which my constituent belongs allows a maximum benefit of 60c a treatment for a maximum of 30 physiotherapy treatments - a total benefit of $18 - yet the man received a bill for over $150 for physiotherapy which was declared to be essential by the specialist who had performed the operation. [More…]

• This man is only a normal working man who is perhaps in the middle income bracket, but he had to find over $130 for the physiotherapy treatment for his daughter. [More…]

• The injury to his daughter’s hand has cost this man over $320, yet the honourable member for Bennelong neglected to make any criticism at all of the national health scheme that be and his Government have fostered. [More…]

• Despite our affluent society, more people are seeking the assistance of the medical profession and people are taking more drugs than ever before in the history of man. [More…]

• A Labor government would get the money from the working man, the wage earner, in this country. [More…]

• I understand that if a woman has a baby in hospital and then has post-operative visits to the doctor, the fees paid for those visits are not refundable. [More…]

• I know of a man’s wife who went into hospital to have an eye operation. [More…]

• When we look at these rules we see that they make no express provision, nor can they, for those matters which I have mentioned, because in the 1890s and 1900 these matters were not within the knowledge of man. [More…]

• I would like honourable members to reflect upon the thought that a man without privacy is a man without dignity. [More…]

• Man today is becoming swamped by the proliferation of the very technology he has created. [More…]

• In recent years under the Act we have seen the Pentridge case in North Queensland where the Government sat by while somebody who had taped alleged conversations was allowed to present that evidence in court and as a result a man was convicted. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen), who is the Attorney-General’s representative in this chamber and a very cautious and clever man, is in the chamber and obviously will answer this point later. [More…]

• Is there anyone in Australia who thinks that a poor man in our country can get justice in the same way as a rich man? [More…]

• It is not paid to the defendant policeman; it is paid into Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• To threaten a man wilh gaol when he has broken no law is a stupid law, and the sentence of 40 days hard labour for failure to pay a $80 fine is a stupid law. [More…]

• The report I earlier referred to and which is set out in the Law Journal questions whether a man should be sent to gaol at all for failure to pay a fine. [More…]

• Recently the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party determined that the policy of our Party will be that no man will be sent to gaol unless he breaks a law or commits a crime. [More…]

• We will not send a man to gaol when he has broken no law or committed no crime. [More…]

• All I did in my own case was to charge a policeman who had assaulted me. [More…]

• This occurred despite the fact that I was able to select the policeman out of 5 or 6 plainclothes policemen in the court. [More…]

• The New South Wales Police Department would not identify the policeman, but I was able to identify him when he was wearing plain clothes. [More…]

• Apparently through some magic on my part I was able to pick out this man - who had never seen me before in his life - from five or six others in the court. [More…]

• I was surprised to learn the other day that the Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia could not help a man finance a feeder service. [More…]

• Many of these things have to be looked at. [More…]

• They have many such disadvantages. [More…]

• For instance, how will a man who finds himself right on the site be compensated? [More…]

• As to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question, what I said related to the figures for October, and I think there was a pleasant surprise. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman was not pleasantly surprised because there was a neutral position then I am afraid he is past the stage when he can have satisfaction one way or the other. [More…]

• As to the balance of the honourable gentleman’s question, I think I should give 2 answers. [More…]

• We have on the front bench of the Government a man fully capable and able to answer these questions if they are directed to him. [More…]

• No man or newspaper makes my decisions for me, and like my friend, the Minister for Customs and Excise, I resent the allegation in the article and claim it to be completely untrue. [More…]

• The Government’s proposal will mean that the man of the house will spend more on his tobacco than previously and the rest of the household will consume less of other items. [More…]

• This works out at $2,000 for every man employed in the industry. [More…]

• As an example I instance the recent Special Advisory Report on woven manmade fabrics. [More…]

• It was quite obvious from looking at the figures that the reason why the production of woven man-made fabrics had fallen in Australia was that people were buying garments of knitted man-made fibres. [More…]

• It was obvious that the demand had switched from woven man-made fibre fabrics to knitted man-made fibre fabrics. [More…]

• This man, who is Chairman of the Tariff Board, was asked to give some explanation of the difference between the type of tariff that Australia has and the tariffs that are used overseas. [More…]

• The situation is ridiculous when a man who is injured in a road accident, lies in a coma for 9 months and eventually dies, is not listed as a road toll statistic. [More…]

• I think that if we are able to stop this practice this man will have every reason to feel very satisfied that he has played a very real part in saving this country many, many millions of dollars. [More…]

• The man who thinks he cannot get into an accident at all is far too confident. [More…]

• That the honourable member for Dawson could come into this chamber and have the monstrous gall to criticise the activities of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) in face of the fact that he himself has no rural policy whatsoever to offer to Australian farmers shows the hide of the man. [More…]

• The approach of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is that there are not man Soviet vessels in the Indian Ocean, and that the Prime Minister has been seeking to throw a scare into the Australian people. [More…]

• In London last month Sir Edward Ashmore, the British Navy’s Commander-in-Chief and a senior commander in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, said that the Russian naval build-up in the Indian Ocean was a most disturbing factor. [More…]

• Then in Canberra this month Air Chief-Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, Britain’s retiring CommanderinChief in the Far East, indicated that the Soviet naval presence in the Indian Ocean was comparable with that formerly in the Mediterranean. [More…]

• A coronial inquiry is to be held into the death of a man involved in a road accident in Campbell on 27th September 1971 and it would be improper for me to comment. [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical ^lbstances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• that Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by, that Protocol. [More…]

• I refer to the widespread public concern about the fact that a young man sought by Commonwealth Police in relation to his refusal to comply with the requirements of the National Service Act appeared last week on a current affairs programme presented by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• The man who is in charge and has been for many years, Alex Ramsay, commented publicly on these proposals immediately he heard them. [More…]

• There are people coming in daily to plead for assistance to obtain a home for a man. [More…]

• So many housing schemes and so many benefits have been formulated and are available as a result of legislation introduced by this Government that most young people just do not know what is available to them. [More…]

• It may be said that housing is being provided at a very rapid rate in these centres, perhaps more specifically by the companies themselves but frequently by arrangement between the companies and the State Government, but there are still many people who require housing. [More…]

• I support the amendment moved by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), lt is readily apparent that this Bill expresses without inhibition the Government’s cavalier attitude towards the human housing needs of what ‘he Minister for Housing (Mr Kevin Cairns) describes as persons of low or moderate means. [More…]

• These latter believed that man’s nature is not only immutable but also such that the naked and unshamed pursuit of private profit is the mechanism which brings about social evolution and historical change. [More…]

• So while engaging in the unbridled pursuit of private profit, they are sometimes benevolent enough to regret the socially necessary hardships that the pursuit of private profit imposes on so many of our people. [More…]

• In the inner suburban areas which are part of my electorate are uninteresting land masses which nature has left unadorned, but also which man in his buildings has made, if not beautiful to the trained eye, at least exciting and entertaining to those who enjoy novelty and variety. [More…]

• There are a mixture of these, with factories of various sorts and sizes, of churches with a gothic touch, and others displaying a Norman style, while a few are modern, and shops whose purposes and styles are as varied and seemingly unconnected as its houses, gives the community a vitality that 1 regret is being undermined by uncertainty about the future. [More…]

• The manner in which assistance would be granted is such that the policy would be a profligate rich man’s dream,’yet the Opposition has proposed this pol-‘ icy. [More…]

• He lost all his fringe benefits which, of course, to a man of his age are worth well in excess of $2.10 per week.In other words, as a result of the increase in his State superannuation to overcome the increased cost of living, this man is worse off than ever because of the action of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• This man has not been narrowly excluded from benefits; he has been deprived of benefits. [More…]

• This man’s superannuation payments were increased from $30.33 a fortnight to $38.40 a fortnight. [More…]

• As a result of the increase in Commonwealth superannuation this man’s wife’s pension was reduced by $5 a fortnight and his service pension was reduced by $5 a fortnight. [More…]

• As a result of the increase of $8 a fortnight in his Commonwealth superannuation, this man and his wife loses $10 a fortnight, so he is $2 worse off than he was before he received the increase in his Commonwealth superannuation. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibitsthe use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That Honourable Members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• If these are the guide lines administered by the Commonweath employment offices - 1 doubt that they are - is it not a system of discrimination against the unqualified man seeking employment? [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister assure the House that as Prime Minister he will not allow any extension of the Act without contemplation of the fact that a man without privacy is a man without anything? [More…]

• In a conversation with a wine man, he said: What is the effect of this new wine excise?’ [More…]

• The wine man said: ‘Very bad, especially on lower priced wines’. [More…]

• The wine man replied: Yes’. [More…]

• This was the percentage rate of the tax which was placed upon cheap wine, the wine that the ordinary working man has to drink. [More…]

• The only wine that the ordinary working man can afford to consume usually is flagon wine. [More…]

• According to the honourable member for Riverina, the ordinary man still has to pay; 1 think, 25 per cent. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the wine industry, the growers to a man, and the consumers of wine all want this vicious tax to be lifted. [More…]

• It is only fair to let a man bursting with knowledge on this subject express his views in this Parliament. [More…]

• You know, Mr Speaker, that 1 always accept your kindly rebukes in the spirit in which they are given, and I accept the one on this occasion also because I know from long experience that in your position you are not a man to be argued with. [More…]

• As we know the governments there change as often as a man changes his shirt. [More…]

• I am not a sarcastic man. [More…]

• Surely the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin), who is a great war horse, a great man for blood and guts in war, a great supporter of the Vietnam war and the sending of our boys overseas, should vote with the Opposition. [More…]

• In other words, on a loan of $9,000 an ex-serviceman is receiving a gift of approximately $360 a year or $7 a week. [More…]

• In other words, it is a repatriation benefit for the man who has served his country as a soldier and it must be looked at in that light. [More…]

• For instance, an exserviceman cannot get a loan if he already owns a home. [More…]

• I am not surprised that the man cannot understand what it is all about. [More…]

• He is a young man under 50 who has had ample opportunities to prove his patriotism in the last few years. [More…]

• There is no way of evaluating what the young man who spent 2 years in the Army and 12 months in Vietnam may have lost and what it may have cost him. [More…]

• There is no way of evaluating what it has cost the man who spent 5 or 6 years in the Services in the last war or 4 or 5 years in the trenches in the First World War, physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. [More…]

• If I. may engage in this aside, Mr Chair-, man. [More…]

• If a man has gone to Vietnam 3 times in ‘Sydney’ 1 think he should have an entitlement and I will not withdraw from that position at all. [More…]

• It reminds me of the time when Mr Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who was later Lord Bruce, made a speech in which he said that he was the only man who could be the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• and (2) Deferments for studies or training are granted subject to completion of the qualification sought in good time to enable a man to undertake the service for which he is liable. [More…]

• Continuation of deferment is considered in relation to progress a man makes with his course. [More…]

• If a man does not meet the standards required for service and will not be called up there is no purpose in him taking his case for exemption through the courts. [More…]

• The release of those who have fulfilled their revised obligation, in the former case by discharge from the Army and in the latter by the grant of indefinite deferment of their national service liability, has been handled as expeditiously as possible bearing in mind the requirements for enabling legislation, to maintain equity among the men affected, and the necessity to obtain verification that a man’s individual obligation has been satisfactorily completed. [More…]

• This afternoon, we are offering an opportunity to this Committee to provide a further facility to the serving man. [More…]

• After two years’ service in the Regular Army or six years in the CMF or, if invalided out earlier, a man or woman should be entitled to a War Service Home loan. [More…]

• For too long we have limited the Commonwealth’s repatriation or veterans’ legislation to circumstances which are not likely to occur in our lifetimes, in the First World War it was the only procedure, in the Second World War it was by far the usual procedure for a man to enlist for the duration and to serve overseas. [More…]

• We cannot lump all the schools together, but it ought to be within the wit of man and the administrative skills of the Commonwealth to examine each school to see whether a library is needed at a school and how much need be done with respect to it. [More…]

• Today is in so many ways a different era even from the one in which I was born which is a little over half a century ago but in terms of education and social change that is not a very long time. [More…]

• The young man and the young woman who start work now at the age of 20 or thereabouts will, by the time they are 35 or 40, be working probably only 30 hours a week. [More…]

• As my colleague, the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Davies), will illustrate to the House, there are a lot of very unsavoury aspects about the behaviour up to the present time of many war service land settlement provisions, these arc matters that should be brought out into the open and from which we have to learn because we should not make the same mistakes again. [More…]

• The determination of the farm size was based on an area which would allow a man, his wife and family to live comfortably once the development period was over and took into account his ability to meet his repayments. [More…]

• In fact the performance of the war service land settlement scheme will provide evidence for a government, whether a Liberal-Country Party government or a Labor Party government, so that it can decide whether to embark on similar types of schemes in the future. [More…]

• One ponders whether the precondition that lack of capital should be no bar to successful application has applied properly to some settlers with just as much capacity as perhaps the man next door. [More…]

• There are too many difficulties involved in administration from this end and in joint administration. [More…]

• The Department has been extraordinarily lucky over the years in having such a man doing most of the field work. [More…]

• The case concerns a young serviceman returned from Vietnam who is an experienced tobacco grower. [More…]

• The young returned serviceman applied for assistance and his eligiblity was established. [More…]

• I was told that the property tendered by the young man as collaterial or equity was worth only about $6,000, or the same amount as the loan he had requested. [More…]

• I got in touch with a man named Collins, a tobacco grower, and he told me that the lad was an experienced tobacco grower and that the property offered as collateral was a good one. [More…]

• This sort of thing went on for about 9 months before the young man received a definite knock back from the Authority. [More…]

• If it is good enough for private enterprise to finance a serviceman who has played his part in Vietnam, surely to goodness the Government should accept the collaterial offered as adequate to justify the loan for which he has applied. [More…]

• The loan could be switched over from the private financier to the Government and the young man would then pay a lower interest rate. [More…]

• The young man concerned is very energetic. [More…]

• The farmer who owns the property concerned has already guaranteed that if he sells the property a condition of the sale will be that the young man is to remain a share farmer on it. [More…]

• It has taken a long time to get a decision and the young man concerned had to go in to debt. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister and the Department will have another look at this and see whether they can relieve this man of his burden. [More…]

• It has been asserted that the Budget was designed to depress demand. [More…]

• True, it was an essential element of the Budget to avoid excess demand, but it is not true that the Budget strategy was to depress demand. [More…]

• Inflation imposes great social burdens on the family man, the low income earner and those on fixed incomes while our rural producers and our manufacturing exporters selling on world markets know the economic problems of inflation. [More…]

• We are in a man-made recession and the men who have made that recession are members of the McMahon Government. [More…]

• Recessions are man made. [More…]

• A comparison is sometimes made between the loss of man days through strikes and the loss through unemployment. [More…]

• The effects of industrial disputes on the community are not simply measurable on the basis of the loss of man days. [More…]

• Unemployment is wasteful, it makes for human suffering, and we are totally opposed to it. [More…]

• Fourthly, we appreciate the need for alertness in economic management and a flexible economic policy. [More…]

• Finally, an easing in wage push forces - indeed in all income demands - is essential to the long term health and stability of the economy. [More…]

• The hard truth - any working man will tell you this - is that wages are chasing prices. [More…]

• It seeks to use unemployment as a club to condition and to belt down the working man. [More…]

• For many years we have had an adverse balance of trade on current account, and the Government’s strategy last year was to take out of circulation in the domestic surplus some $630m. [More…]

• The last man who ought to be tittering is the Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]

• Let him go and examine his own political and economic conscience and decide what he is doing for the benefit of the small man in rural industry. [More…]

• But have we heard one word about industrial disputes from the Opposition or from Mr Hawke, who has a halo around his head at the moment as a man who can stop all strikes? [More…]

• Is he settling all strikes when in September this year, as compared with the same period last year, about 3 times as many working days had been lost through disputes. [More…]

• What great benefit does a man get if his wages are increased now by some arbitration award and, therefore, his new income attracts a higher rate of taxation if at the same time he is faced with a rise in the price of everything he has to buy? [More…]

• But if we are to make the most of those opportunities, and if we are to see that the ordinary people of Australia - the man and woman in the street- get .the benefits of making use of those opportunities, then we must combat the root cause of our troubles today which is inflation. [More…]

• In previous times it was simpler and inflation could be put down to demand inflation, that is, to people calling for more goods than could be produced, and because they called for more goods than could be produced the prices of those goods rose. [More…]

• That was demand inflation and, therefore, one adopted the classic method of raising taxes or interest rates or increasing unspent Government surpluses in order to damp down that demand inflation. [More…]

• Our problems do not stem from demand inflation but rather - I come back to it - from cost inflation. [More…]

• and in realising the great opportunities which lie before us, if we still have inside our country, as we have, pensioners, those on superannuation, those on fixed incomes of all kinds, lower paid members of the community, those struggling in rural areas against higher costs and lower returns, those seeking to develop export markets in manufactured goods - all those people feeling and knowing only too well that however strong our economy may be and however bright our future prospects are. [More…]

• The Australian economy will still be controlled, thanks to this new measure, by every restrictive device known to the ingenuity of man. [More…]

• The Government has been brazenly indifferent over a period of 3 years to Commissioner Bannerman’s repeated warnings until the bombshell of the concrete pipes judgment. [More…]

• Whilst I have said that the ultimate touchstone of invalidity of a practice is its antipathy to the public interest, I do not think every breach of legislation in this field should brand the business man a criminal. [More…]

• The business man is now to be branded as a criminal. [More…]

• But whatever Act we bring into this House, be assured that the aptitude of man is such that if a business man desires to take advantage of the law it is almost impossible to prepare an Act through which he cannot drive a horse and buggy. [More…]

• In about 1960, as a result of an increasing demand by economists, publicists, politicians, investors and other people who had a social conscience, the Australian Government began to think that it had to do something in the field of restrictive trade practices. [More…]

• These proposals were prepared in an exhaustive manner by one of the best legal brains the country has produced - Sir Garfield Barwick, now Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. [More…]

• At the time he produced his proposals he was a man who had already had a great deal of political, experience. [More…]

• But the Government could not get away from those proposals because they had already excited enough attention and the demands for their implementation were snowballing. [More…]

• House of a single country where a commissioner or a man exercising similar jurisdiction has the right to call parties in, to literally cajole them, to reason with them for what appears on the face of it to be a breach of an Act of Parliament, to remonstrate with them and, if possible, to get them to see the error of their ways and, without the slightest penalty and without the slightest admonition, to allow them to continue wilh their restrictive practices by agreeing to abandon the agreement as between parties and doing it as individuals, again in secret collusion. [More…]

• There is a very famous man who lived worked, wrote and spoke 2 centuries ago. [More…]

• In 1961 the raw material in a man’s woollen suit represented 8 per cent of the cost of the finished product. [More…]

• In 1968 - this is a Japanese assessment - the raw material in a man’s woollen suit represented 5.7 per cent of the finished product. [More…]

• Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants; [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed on their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down by that Protocol. [More…]

• Some years ago in this Parliament I offered my services to the Crown to act as a Crown witness in a prosecution against a man who had written scurrilous articles about members of Parliament. [More…]

• The then Attorney-General, Sir Garfield Barwick, instituted successful proceedings against the man who was ultimately sentenced to 12 months hard labour. [More…]

• That man was put in his right place. [More…]

• I have received a letter from a man named Peter Hauff who has had many years of experience in the wool industry. [More…]

• I believe that if we had a man travelling around the world he would be able to find out what markets were available for Australian goods. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee by calling is an auctioneer, and not a very good one, I understand, but he made in the depression years, 1 believe, a small fortune by being the fastest man with the gavel in the west. [More…]

• He is said to have been the fastest man with the hammer and sold as many farms as possible to the city slickers who stood before him. [More…]

• Senator Cotton, who has a background of business experience, is a man who is prepared to step forward and take a risk [More…]

• We have found families sleeping on the floor, the man of the family without employment or money for fares to go and look for a position. [More…]

• One man was a journalist yet he became a labourer on S47 a week. [More…]

• This businessman is denied family assistance in his business, the child is denied a happier future in Western Australia, and the slow learning children’s group in Western Australia, which has made excellent steps forward in educating these people, misses the opportunity of giving this child an education which would be perhaps better than it could receive in the country where it is now. [More…]

• T instance the case of a lady who was refused permission to come here to marry a gentleman who wished to sponsor her and a child. [More…]

• This lonely man who has worked to bring tip a family here and whose wife is- deceased must suffer . [More…]

• Until recently the principal management of these companies was in the hands of Australians. [More…]

• But one of the situations that have developed as a result of some of our immigration policies is that a man can come here from America, take up a position in Australia with one of these companies and replace Australians. [More…]

• The person who has come here and taken over the job - I quote this from a newspaper; 1 am not moving into private areas - is Mr R. R. Marmor, who has been appointed to the newly created Adelaide-based position of project development manager for Delhi International Oil Corporation. [More…]

• The position that had been held by an Australian, a man whom I have known for a long while, was abolished. [More…]

• Above all, he is a man with a very great social conscience. [More…]

• Fiji, like many parts of the British Commonwealth, has a redoubtable tradition of litigation. [More…]

• Above all, many of the civil and industrial disputes in our new partner in the Commonwealth will have racial overtones. [More…]

• In these circumstances it is fortunate indeed that Mr Justice Nimmo is a man who will be unspoiled by and indifferent to any colonial residues. [More…]

• All persons appearing before him or appealing to him can have the utmost confidence, as people in a variety of jurisdictions in Australia have had over many years, that he will not only dispense justice but also see that everybody knows that it is being dispensed. [More…]

• This officer is a competent and dedicated man, but it is not appropriate that he should be regarded as providing health services. [More…]

• The Queensland legislation has set up a system of Aboriginal councils but of course, on these reserves, most of the permanent residents are employees of the Department of Abor.iginal and Island Affairs. [More…]

• For example, in Woorabinda, which our Committee visited, the president of the council was the hygiene man and the secretary was the fellow who drove the school bus. [More…]

• But we have a Minister for Housing in this place a man who handles or mishandles war service homes. [More…]

• Tt seemed to me that here was a simple solution to the problems being experienced in many areas which we have continuously overlooked. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite use all their power to pursue any young man who evades national service. [More…]

• Even in Australia great difficulty is experienced in getting across to the man in the field the findings of o.ir scientists and our officers in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Agriculture Departments, but there is a far greater need for such a service in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• If I say that a man by the name of Yuwi, a member of the Select Committee on Constitutional Development, opposed the Committee’s report I am right. [More…]

• Talk to To Liman and Tammur together and see whether they would not agree. [More…]

• However in that speech 2 months ago I went on to mention Mr Daniel Kunert who is a man of the New Guinea Lutheran Mission-Missouri Synod. [More…]

• For that reason I say that the responsibility for proving a case lies with the Commonwealth and it is only right that any man charged with committing an offence should have the opportunity to prove his innocence within 12 months and not, as this clause proposes, within a maximum period of 3 years. [More…]

• I have tried to make 2 points clear: Firstly that 1 am a party man and secondly that I believe in C:,binet making decisions. [More…]

• The captain of the ‘Red Crusader’ was a man of wit named Wood. [More…]

• It is not enough to simply abdicate responsibility and say: ‘Oh, something prepared by someone else outside this House was made by an eminent man; we will accept it automatically’. [More…]

• I know of one man whom I respect greatly who within the last few months, as a result of a discussion and one might say a confrontation on this matter, set about reading up on the subject. [More…]

• The time lost in industrial disputes in the first 9 months of this year, 2.6 million man days, exceeds the total for the whole of 1970. [More…]

• The effects of industrial disputes on the community are not simply measurable by the loss of man days. [More…]

• In many countries where the alternative of collective bargaining operates the industrial situation is far worse than in Australia. [More…]

• Statistics compiled from International Labour Organisation sources indicate that for the 5 years 1965 to 1969 the average annual number of man-days lo-,t per 1,000 employees in the mining, manufacturing, construction and transport industries in Australia was 456, compared with 1,556 for Canada, 1,232 for the United States and 1,574 for Italy. [More…]

• For example, the number of man-days lost in 1970 was at least 30 per cent higher in the United States, about 60 per cent higher in the United Kingdom and 100 per cent higher in New Zealand than in the previous year. [More…]

• It is this failure to understand the position of the working man that is preventing the Government from distinguishing between cause and effect. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) does not seem to realise that demands for increased wages are really caused by rising prices. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the number of man days lost because people are not prepared to see accumulated sick leave go down the drain is now quite astronomical. [More…]

• The refusal to seek the advice of a man with so much background in this field invites only one conclusion, that is that the Government’s only interest in industrial affairs is in finding a way to create an industrial confrontation, to cause a breakdown in industrial relations, in the hope that this will create the right climate for a fictitious political campaign on the issue of industrial law and order. [More…]

• Will anyone deny that the real causes of current industrial unrest are rising prices and the intolerable rate of taxation that falls upon the family man? [More…]

• The last quarter’s average weekly wage of $89 would not pay for the last dinner that the Prime Minister had at Chequers’, much less pay for the food, clothing, school books, fares, medical expenses, house rent and hire purchase payments that the average family man has to find every day of the week, each week of the year. [More…]

• But always remember that this figure that the Statistician uses includes all overtime and supplements and is arrived at after lumping all of the under $50-a-week bracket of employees in with company managers, cabinet ministers, judges, top public servants, business executives and even the Prime Minister on his ‘paltry’ $800 a week salary. [More…]

• He says nothing about inflation associated with restrictive trade practices, excessive profits, crippling taxation and exorbitant interest charged and the many other things for which the working man is not responsible. [More…]

• Dr Ian Sharp, the Industrial Registrar, and perhaps the most knowledgeable man this country has produced in the field of industrial relations, recently told an industrial seminar at Armidale that he was convinced that strikes are rarely inspired by union secretaries, but are nearly always the result of pressures from the mcn at the work site. [More…]

• Does it not realise that the existing rules of the Bus Employees Union allow members to demand a vote of all members whenever it is asked for? [More…]

• Does it not realise that, in fact, this is exactly what happened on 29th November when, in response to a petition of only a handful of members for a vote in order to test the wishes of the rest of the union, the unions members voted 3,440 to 12 in, favour of refusing to operate one-man buses. [More…]

• It is a truism that the working man will get from arbitration only what he is strong enough to take anyway. [More…]

• Of course the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission will have regard to the economic consequences but how is anyone to prove whether it has done so or not because a statement by the Commission to the effect that it has done so becomes conclusive evidence of the fact and there is no way by which the Government can countermand it. [More…]

• The Government cannot go to the High Court to get an order for mandamus because the High Court would have to be exercising arbitral powers in the definition of economic matters before it could grant the order. [More…]

• There is a need for wages whether a man is working or not. [More…]

• The hire purchase companies still demand their weekly instalments. [More…]

• The grocer, the baker, the butcher and the milkman must be paid; and, unless payment is forthcoming, there will be no food for the employee’s family. [More…]

• How can the rights of man be properly respected in a society which tolerates this kind of attitude to labour? [More…]

• I repeat that the right to strike is the first right of a free man. [More…]

• The Minister’s own father engaged in strikes time after time because he believed that when a man had imposed upon him conditions that were insufferable he should have the right to strike. [More…]

• A man’s right over his own body is surely a basic human right. [More…]

• The right to withdraw his labour is the one thing that distinguishes the free man from the slave. [More…]

• In terms of production, the increase alone represents a loss of 15 million man days compared with an estimated 3 million man days that will be lost through strike action this year. [More…]

• Last year 4 million man days were lost on this account. [More…]

• From 1950 to 1967 BHP’s accident frequency rate reduced from 50.2 per one million man hours worked to a mere 3.4, a total reduction of 93 per cent. [More…]

• Towards this end a Federal Labor government will act to establish mandatory occupational safety and health provisions applicable (o all employees who constitutionally can be brought within Commonwealth jurisdiction, and will assist the States to do the same in areas of State jurisdiction. [More…]

• If the Arbitration Commission could be prevailed upon to include these requirements in Federal awards, and given an efficient inspectorate acting in co-operation with trade union officials to police and enforce such awards, the safety standards of many States would be upgraded so as to drastically reduce the present high accident rate in Australian industry. [More…]

• 1 have already said that it is estimated that nearly 4 million man-days of production is now lost through accidents and disease. [More…]

• The Minister’s speech completely ignores the industrial safety of employees, as though the loss of 400 lives and 4 million man-days every year has nothing whatever to do with industrial relations. [More…]

• The forgotten man of industrial relations, Sir Richard Kirby, the President of the Arbitration Commission, said in his annual report, tabled in this House only last week: [More…]

• It is said that because of industrial action Australian lost 810 man-hours for every 1,000 workers over a full 12-month period. [More…]

• The United States lost 1,390 manhours for every 1,000 workers, Canada lost 2,550 man-hours for every 1,000 workers and Italy, which the Minister forgot to mention altogether, lost 4,400 man-hours for every 1,000 workers. [More…]

• The Minister admits that there has been a worse record in other parts of the world in order to make a case for retaining the existing strike penalties, but conveniently forgets, when he puts the next record on the gramophone to tell the people listening how badly the workers of Australia are behaving and that they are losing too much time, that the total number of man-hours lost in Australia last year averaged only four-fifths of one day per person. [More…]

• We do not allow pacifists to opt out of paying any taxation that goes towards defence; or allow single people and childless couples to opt out of paying taxation used to finance child endowment and education; or permit a man who is healthy to opt out of paying taxation to meet the cost of the health scheme. [More…]

• A fair division demands that labour receive something more than a living wage that is merely enough to enable a man to maintain a wife and family. [More…]

• This man could not stand the fact that he was losing thousands of dollars each year as a result of the attitude or the non-attitude of the Government. [More…]

• In the subsequent 6 months to 31st December 1971, only 1 man refused to comply and was sentenced to imprisonment. [More…]

• That the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2603 XXIV A (December 1969) declares that the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Australia has ratified, prohibits the use in international armed conflict of any chemical agents of warfare - chemical substances whether gaseous, liquid or solid - employed for their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants: [More…]

• That honourable members urge upon the Government the desirability of revising its interpretation of the Geneva Protocol, and declaring that it regards all chemical substances employed for their toxic effects on man, animals or plants as being included in the prohibitions laid down, by that Protocol. [More…]

• Here we have objectionable position where, if a man introduces a person to the habit of drug taking and sells that person 10 Pethedine tablets, he cannot be treated as a pusher. [More…]

• Such a man of the world as he is has a profound understanding of these matters. [More…]

• When officers arrived at the home they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. [More…]

• The interesting point is that the officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man. [More…]

• Here is a man of status - Dr Ribush. [More…]

• a young man of 30 - who claims that he knows of 20 or 30 doctors who are smoking marihuana. [More…]

• The fellow who sits back, who would not even soil himself and who would never reveal his identity, is the man who should be subjected to capital punishment, because he is responsible for the slow destruction of the lives pf so many young people. [More…]

• I repeat that Mr Big, the man who sits in the background and who reaps the profits, should be subject to capital punishment or if the maximum penalty is life imprisonment he should be put away for life. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) has left the chamber but so much for that particular article he quoted because the very man who was reported to have made the claim - the President-elect of the American Medical Association - has quite specifically repudiated it. [More…]

• I could not reject the submission that more treatment should be made available to people and, to use the word of the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) who expressed the views of a country man, are ‘hooked’. [More…]

• I wonder whether or not various State governments - perhaps some members of the Parliament may be able to give a run down on exactly what the State governments have done in this field - look at this as a matter which does not hold many votes and therefore they let the ball pass through to the keeper. [More…]

• They will wait until the day when there are so many addicts around and a great public outcry arises for the establishment of certain hospitals and centres at which these people can be cared for and, if possible, restored to health. [More…]

• For example, it is said that it is a man’s drink or cigarette; it is international; and it is sophisticated. [More…]

• Contrary to the cherished beliefs, perhaps, of some old soldiers of earlier wars and earlier times, the Australian Army does change, and has been at some pains to ensure that its procedures and man management methods are both modern and enlightened. [More…]

• Such interests as sporting and social activities, post graduate studies, and family pressures, to name some of the more obvious, are all competing to some degree for the spare time of the sort of young man we wish to attract. [More…]

• Development of the qualities of leadership flows on into all the fields of acceptance of responsibility, decision making and man management. [More…]

• Perhaps every man should declare his interest. [More…]

• I took a stand in this House similar to the stand that I am taking on this case on another case many years ago. [More…]

• In consideration of the article the man, Alan Reid, never entered my thoughts. [More…]

• Now let me explain the advice and the direction given to members of the Committee by the Chairman prior to discussing and ratifying the report. [More…]

• Firstly, the Chairman informed the Committee that he must read every paragraph of the report. [More…]

• Having read the paragraph the Chairman then moved: [More…]

• Sir Frank Packer is a powerful man and he will go after issues in which he believes. [More…]

• We have to face that man who says: ‘To hell with Parliament. [More…]

• A man was charged with cattle stealing. [More…]

• • Yes’, the foreman replied. [More…]

• The foreman of the jury said: ‘Not guilty, provided he hands the cattle back*. [More…]

• The Foreman said; ‘Not Guilty and he need not hand the cattle back’. [More…]

• Even if the journalist concerned, Mr Reid, were willing to rely upon a person like the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) alone, I think he would be vulnerable to pretty serious criticism because, if a journalist with a by-line that goes all over Australia is the kind of man who conducts his work by relying on people like the honourable member for Mitchell and sees fit to check with nobody else, then he is seriously at fault. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman will know, or should know, we have in this country an Arbitration Commission which has the function of determining minimum and award wages. [More…]

• These avenues are all open to the unions so that they can represent the best interests of the working man. [More…]

• But I think the honourable gentleman, having the interests of the lower paid workers at heart, would know that these days, with the great power of the big unions, particularly unions like the Amalgamated Engineering Union - [More…]

• One of the saddest things in Australia is that whenever one goes to the country one finds in the local newspapers a report of a farewell party for some teenager or man or woman in his or her early 20s who is leaving for the city, by which is meant the State capital. [More…]

• It is a strange thing that a man who is the Deputy Leader of an Opposition does not keep up to date with events and know what is happening. [More…]

• Honourable members who sit behind me and other honourable members who represent rural areas are delighted because, after all, no Country Party man in a State Parliament or the Federal Parliament represents a city or metropolitan constituency. [More…]

• Many people are attracted to the cities by the bright lights. [More…]

• I know of many people who are attracted to cities because of the better amenities offered by them. [More…]

• Many a man in the country says that he has to get work for his boys and girls somewhere and that be will go to a city because of the greater opportunities offered there. [More…]

• Most cities are what we call spoon fed and the country has had to battle for itself over many many years. [More…]

• To be unemployed is one of the most distressing things that can happen to a man, especially if he has a family. [More…]

• I know that big machinery has caused a lot of unemployment in the past in rural areas because not so many people are required. [More…]

• I heard recently of a man who was talking about how much he liked the country. [More…]

• It is the vote that first of all puts a man into Parliament and afterwards, when he gets into Parliament, he soon finds out that the vote determines whether he will get something implemented. [More…]

• Before the previous speaker, the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe), leaves the chamber let me remind him that there sits a man who served in the New South Wales State Parliament under Premier Askin for years, and has said on 3 occasions in this chamber during the course of his speech that, because of representations contained in a letter that Premier Askin wrote to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), the Premier is nothing more than a liar. [More…]

• Let me ask the honourable gentleman whether he is aware of the fact that in the last few days a colliery has closed down in his very electorate. [More…]

• Let me also remind the honourable gentleman- [More…]

• What does he expect men such as the man who walks into the chamber now, the Prime Minister, to do? [More…]

• Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each State a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the other independent schools, to make a grant to them which may be calculated on a per capita basis and for them to be given the right to spend the money according to need. [More…]

• Is it to the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), that sensitive gentleman who resides in another place? [More…]

• fs it to the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), a radical and sensitive man so close to the contemporary trends in our society? [More…]

• The communication of ideas through the medium of television and film is the most comprehen sive means of communication available to man. [More…]

• T would like to quote from an article written by Phillip Adams in a well known national newspaper recently commenting on the views expressed by the man who took his place when he resigned from the Interim Council, namely, Hector Crawford. [More…]

• I had the privilege of meeting Lon Nol, and anybody who has met him - and I think that the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) has met him - will know that he is a man who lives in a modest little house. [More…]

• He is not a corrupt man; he is a patriot. [More…]

• He is trying, sick man as he is, to preserve what is left of what was once a great empire. [More…]

• Therefore, as Southern Cross is to have a station at some time in 1973, if I remember correctly, and as it is 70 miles from Merredin it could well mean that the area between a few miles west of Southern Cross and a few miles east of Merredin would be no man’s land. [More…]

• Mr Turner joined the staff of the House as a young man in Melbourne in 1924 and early in his career was Speaker’s Secretary, having served Speakers Watt, Groom and Makin in that capacity. [More…]

• He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen in 1965. [More…]

• In an intensely political institution he is a man who earns and receives the respect, the confidence and the trust of every honourable member. [More…]

• We envied this debonair, discreet young man from the staff of the Parliament who won her. [More…]

• No man is irreplaceable, as Mr Turner would be the first to admit. [More…]

• He is a most unobtrusive man. [More…]

• Add to this a personal good humour and an innate friendliness and we have Alan Turner the professional and Alan Turner the man. [More…]

• I do not want to repeat many of the things that have been said by other speakers regarding Mr Turner’s capacity and ability. [More…]

• We appreciate also that it has been said, and said truly, that no man can make a contribution that is accepted and remarked upon by all unless he has been supported by a wife who gives him support in every sphere and in every way. [More…]

• 1 think that there is always something sad or sentimental at a time when a man’s career is ending, and this must be a somewhat sad moment for Mr Turner. [More…]

• I think that the greatest things he will remember from his service in this Parliament - I hope he does - are the tributes paid to him tonight for the record of service which he has given, a record which is appreciated by those of us who are here now and by many who possibly are no longer wilh us. [More…]

• Here we have a government which is telling the man getting $50, $60 or $70 a week that he has to be content to accept that wage and no more and telling the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that it cannot increase the minimum national wage of $47 a week because the country cannot afford it, while at the same time he is recommending increases in salaries amounting to several thousand dollars a year. [More…]

• The Government has no right to stand up in this place and fix salaries as high as $29,000 a year for certain statutory officers and certain other people employed by the Commonwealth who are indicated in this Bill, with increases ranging as high as $6,000 a year or $120 a week, and then have the check to tell the Arbitral on Commission that the ordinary family man has to try to maintain a wife and family on a miserable $47 a week. [More…]

• How can I when there are people on $50 or $60 a week trying to maintain a family while this man is on $800 a week and telling others to restrain themselves and keep down their wage demands, lt is an absolute disgrace. [More…]

• What the Government needs is to have compassion for the man on the small income and do what it can as a government to adopt policies which will benefit him. [More…]

• So the Government will pursue its policy of economic management directed towards arresting the inflationary pressures. [More…]

• We have just listened to a remarkable speech from the Treasurer (Mr Snedden), the man who lectures on wage restraint and arbitration. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition thought that the man who preaches wage restraint would have given up that $5,550 and struggled along on his $29,100. [More…]

• I now refer to the Chairman of Committees, a man well known and favourably regarded by all of us. [More…]

• If I can make one personal comment - I do not like making too many on an occasion such as this - on many of the occasions when I have felt that help was desirable, I found that instead of having to go to him, he was only too happy to come to me and I have been able to publish what he felt was not only in my interest but in the best interests of the Parliament as well. [More…]

• Many people provide the services in the Parliament. [More…]

• He is a man who never complains, no matter what is asked of him. [More…]

• He was a most courteous and attentive man. [More…]

• In more recent years, since it has been my responsibility to approach him on a great number of occasions, I have always found him to be a man who was helpful, considerate and courteous. [More…]

• In this gentle season when men remember they are brothers I want to make a request that we give special consideration to that young man, Geoffrey Mullen who is at present in Emu Plains. [More…]

• Geoff Mullen is a young man who has defied the National Service Act. [More…]

• I am asking the Government to give special consideration to releasing him by Christmans. [More…]

• I do this because he is a man of great moral courage. [More…]

• Geoffrey Mullen is a young man who defied the National Service Act. [More…]

• He has been in many gaols in the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• This man was supposed to be looking after the interests of the Aborigines but he did not consult them because they were before the court. [More…]

• No man can be always right, but I want to assure the [More…]

• How many man hours were lost to the Commonwealth Railways due to industrial accidents during the same period. [More…]

• Here we see that the de facto leader of the Labor Party - not the Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party but the man who can make his opinions known - believes differently from the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I stress that we rely very much upon the advice of our representative on the spot who is an extremely able man and who acts in concert with the authorities. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Country Party, the spokesman for the man on the land, gave the rest of the picture. [More…]

• It has been the Government, more than any other factor, which has increased taxation and has increased the need for increased wages by increasing indirect taxation upon everything that the working man must buy. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Minister or any spokesman for the Government would be the last to speak about double crossing of anyone or any organisation anywhere. [More…]

• This man here - the Minister for Social Services - who is a minion of the former Prime Minister, comes out in direct conflict with the Prime Minister’s statement and says he wants some sort of restraint on wages and policies in a way which draws a public rebuke from the Prime Minister. [More…]

• That man should be the last to be critical of anyone or any organisation outside. [More…]

• To many individuals, the possession of money connotes more than the realistic, practical use that the rational man ascribes to it; it symbolises not only economic, but social and emotional, security. [More…]

• After the increases which the Minister is proposing, a man with a wife and 2 children will be receiving an unemployment benefit rate which is 30 per cent or more than $14.50 a week below the poverty line. [More…]

• There is no supplementary assistance for rent in the case of a single man who goes on to unemployment benefit nor is there any increase in the wife’s allowance or the children’s allowance. [More…]

• When one considers that according to the annua] report of the Department of Social Services a survey conducted in selected areas in February 1971 shows that 60 per cent of the unemployed then had been unemployed for more than one month and if one allows for the worsening of the situation today, one gets some appreciation of just how disastrous the situation is for many unfortunate people. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council in July 1968 prepared a sort of minimum budget for the food intake - the protein and calorie intake - of a man, his wife and 2 children where the male head of the family was involved in fairly demanding physical work, such as a skilled labourer. [More…]

• After paying rent - very few people would be able to obtain accommodation for anything under $1.5 a week - a man would have about $1 a week on which to live and to pay for education, transport, chasing jobs and meeting mortgages which people inevitably have in the modern society in which we live. [More…]

• Here we are, at a time when the poverty line, which was recently set by the Melbourne University Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, is $50 a week, and even with the increase provided under this Bill, confronting a man, wife and 2 children with the task of living on $34 a week plus the little extra they get in child endowment. [More…]

• Yet a man and a wife are asked to do this on $25 a week, and a man with a wife and 2 children is asked to do it on $34 a week. [More…]

• Many would have been only too glad to sell those goods to them. [More…]

• These days scholarships are not nearly adequate to keep a young man or a young lass, so students have to get vacation employment to keep them going during the 12 months ahead or the part of it during which they are carrying out their academic studies. [More…]

• Many students who are not on scholarships depend upon earning money during the 3 months vacation to pay their way through university, a college of advanced education or some other institute during the rest of the year. [More…]

• Many of them have been bitterly disappointed and thoroughly demoralised by the inflictions made upon them by the Government. [More…]

• Another situation arose about a month and a half before Christmas when lots of youngsters who had sat for their Higher School Certificate were leaving school and applying for jobs, but no job was available for many of them. [More…]

• I had experience of the sad case of a young man who had finished a course at an agricultural college, applied for a job but could not get it. [More…]

• I have tried to indicate the woeful costs to the community at large, but in my view they are nothing compared with the sadness and demoralisation of many of our young people and not so young people. [More…]

• Unemployment is a tragedy in any circumstances, particularly for the man who is out of work and more particularly, I suggest, for the family man who has a wife and little kiddies. [More…]

• He gets some benefit, but circumstances become tragic when a man falls out of work. [More…]

• In a sense a man can lose his self respect. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) expressed the view of a man who was a very prominent member of the Labor Party only a very few years ago. [More…]

• There always will be some unemployed, not because there are not jobs for them in many cases but because unfortunately they are not able to do some of the work or accept positions or retain jobs that are available. [More…]

• I believe that the people are awake to Mr Hawke, the big man who is going to fix it. [More…]

• There is not one country thai is not in a confused economic condition at the present time, although the world has just experienced the most prosperous period in the history of man. [More…]

• This is the man who is perhaps one of the wealthiest men in the Parliament, if not in Australia, with his great chain of real estate agencies and enormous business ramifications. [More…]

• This wealthy man talks with such gratification about the proposal that we should give an adult male person, a dignified Australian, a paltry amount of $17 a week. [More…]

• Does it not cause every listener, every proud family man and worker in this country to wince at the fact that there are people who prevail at the level of Government in Australia today who dare to countenance the idea that this is uplifting or dignifying to Australian manhood? [More…]

• There have been high unemployment figures for many years. [More…]

• Over many years we have moved amendments seeking higher amounts to be paid. [More…]

• In addition, it has arrogantly, indifferently and inhumanly rejected the overtures of all the compassionate organisations. [More…]

• Here is a man who made all the promises about what he was going to do to lift the standard of social service* and to eliminate the means test. [More…]

• What right has an overseas concern to come here and use Australian resources, Australian money and Australian manpower and when there is some shift in the economic breeze decide that it might suit their short term purposes to have large scale unemployment? [More…]

• If a man takes a job with a firm iri Japan, for example, he knows he has a job for life. [More…]

• I am not one who wants to see a low wage rate, but unless wage rises are kept within the scope of the increase in the gross national product any wage rises will not be beneficial to the working man. [More…]

• I believe that provided common sense approaches are made in 2 major areas of our national economy - provided that wages are kept within the rate of increase in the gross national product, and provided that the profits of those people conducting businesses and manufacturing enterprises throughout Australia are kept within reasonable limits, and I do not mind saying that - we can keep unemployment down at least to a tolerable level, if there is such a thing, or to the level at which we have been able to hold it in Australia over many years. [More…]

• In 1946 the unemployment benefit paid to a man and his wife was 35.3 per cent of the average male wage. [More…]

• Many people, especially migrants, went into the area with rosy hopes for the future. [More…]

• When a man puts his life savings into an area he does not want to leave that area. [More…]

• Nothing is done for the working man who is thrown out of work in a country area and has to spend thousands of dollars to get a home in a capital city. [More…]

• How can a man on about $60 a week find $9,000 or $10,000? [More…]

• I would be very surprised if any working man could find an extra $10,000. [More…]

• How many weeks can a man expect to live decently with a drop in income of $40 a week? [More…]

• There is io long term unemployment benefit and for the 27 per cent in the Geelong district and the 17 per cent in the Melbourne district who receive unemployment benefits it is practically a permanent income. [More…]

• Any person who suggests that a man with 2 children can live for a long period on $34 a week without that family suffering severe hardship and deprivation and without destruction of a man’s confidence in himself and his will is a fool. [More…]

• I believe it is one of the most damaging things to a human being to say to a person: ‘You will not be employed because no-one wants to employ you. [More…]

• Minister finds it difficult to say that it is confidential because he said that another man had helped him to draft it, that it was Government business and that it has had as wide a distribution as possible. [More…]

• 1 would of course, except the honourable member for McKellar (Mr Wentworth who is the only man on the Government side who has been interested in Aboriginal affairs for a long time. [More…]

• Not too many of his colleagues join him even now. [More…]

• The right honourable member for Fisher (Sir Charles Adermann), who is a great man, a fine statesman and a former Minister for Primary Industry, made these points at Tarampa the other day: [More…]

• However, I suppose that in the circumstances, with a man as famous, as tremendously powerful and, at that particular time, as good a man as the late Archbishop Mannix was, I would do the same again. [More…]

• The man who brought these other men to power by his own great force has today left the Parliament unheralded and unsung, and not one member on the Government side has bothered to say that he wishes the Prime Minister a happy birthday. [More…]

• Tn 1963 a similar move prevented the flooding of the Grand Canyon by a manmade lake. [More…]

• In 1972 it already seems inconceivable that man could have ever considered flooding such a treasure which belongs not only to the people of Arizona and the people of the United States of America but also to the people of the whole world. [More…]

• Let us preserve this area of unique culture for mankind for all time. [More…]

• One might have thought that the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) would have handed the address that evidently was supplied to him to one of the honourable members from Tasmania. [More…]

• Today 1 want to speak more especially abou: servicemen, whether they be permanent servicemen or national servicemen. [More…]

• Malaysia, Singapore or am other place to which the Services may demand that they go. [More…]

• 1 am very determined and straightforward in stating that a man who is prepared to go anywhere to assist in this country’s defence should not be disadvantaged. [More…]

• The man I have presently in mind, a wonderful high school teacher, was prepared to go to Vietnam. [More…]

• Malaysia, Singapore or anywhere else that the Service demanded that he should go. [More…]

• This young man was riding his motor cycle when an indigenous driver in a semi-trailer made a right hand turn without giving any indications and the rear wheels of the semi-trailer ian over this excellent young man. [More…]

• I say that it is up to the Government to ensure that this man is compensated. [More…]

• members of the permanent forces or natonal servicemen, in this way. [More…]

• This man has had to go to specialists and have a special operation for his injuries. [More…]

• Next I want to refer to servicemen who are received into the Army as medically fit but some of whom within a short space of time meet with a slight injury fromslipping in the bath or because another serviceman has pulled a chair from under them and they have suffered a spinal injury. [More…]

• But for his being employed by a wonderful organisation, a bank, which has stuck to him through thick and thin I do not know what one young man. [More…]

• This man slipped in the bath at Puckapunyal only a month after he had enlisted. [More…]

• Whether a complaint is congenital or not, once the Services accept a man as medically fit and because of an accident a man has a pre-existing condition aggravated he should receive Commonwealth workers compensation or repatriation benefits. [More…]

• I mention the case of a man who had served for quite some time in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• Because of his discharge he had to take a much more menial job than his qualifications otherwise would have secured for him, but immediaately the would-be employer found out, he had doubts and this man had to work digging trenches for the Water Board. [More…]

• Last week a young man came to see me. [More…]

• This 20-year-old man, married with his wife expecting their second child and living in a garage in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, suddenly was faced with a bill for $70. [More…]

• The young man did not have $100 with which to pay the lawyer so I made inquiries on his behalf. [More…]

• Of course, that is a relic of federalism, the thing about which we hear so many kind words said. [More…]

• Fortunately, I believe that the young man’s case is to be settled. [More…]

• Eventually he will be given time to pay his lawyer, although I believe the lawyer has reduced his fee out of kindness to the young man. [More…]

• That young man should have had the advice and, indeed, the assistance he needed. [More…]

• I and many others never felt that the amount of money that was made available was sufficient to cope with the task which confronted governments in reorganising so man;, of our primary producers. [More…]

• If we are to deal with decentralisation and correct the imbalance of our population the basic principle must be to maintain as many people as possible in the areas where they are now. [More…]

• This man was a member of the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, an infantry unit. [More…]

• He applied for a war service homes grant, which is his right as an exserviceman, at an interest rate of about 3% per cent. [More…]

• This man’s application for a war service homes grant was rejected on the ground that he does not own a viable property. [More…]

• lt shows the discrimination that exists between a rural ex-serviceman and one who lives in a town or city. [More…]

• B. Lucas, the Assistant Deputy Director of War Service Homes, set out in a letter to the exserviceman what in effect the Act states. [More…]

• In 1947 a man and wife received as unemployment benefit 34 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• When the proposed increase is granted the unemployment benefit for a man and wife will equal 27.8 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• In 1947 a man with a wife and child received as unemployment benefit 33.8 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• In many areas there are 4 applicants for each job. [More…]

• We have heard about the number of man hours lost as a result of strikes but the facts are that the number of man hours lost through unemployment have a greater effect on production than do the man hours lost through strikes. [More…]

• Today the working man has a belter home. [More…]

• The unemployment has been brought about deliberately - not by the Government but by a few extreme left wing leaders who are misleading many honourable members on the other side of the House. [More…]

• There is nothing more demoralising than to see a man with a wife and family who is unemployed and looking for work. [More…]

• Many of them cheer every time more people go out of work. [More…]

• I have said repeatedly that inflation bears hardest on the average wage earner, the pensioner, the man on a fixed income and particularly the superannuitant who through thrift and sheer hard work sought to provide for his old age. [More…]

• Every farmer knows that the more money you can pay the working man the better. [More…]

• Every businessman and every manufacturer knows that the wage earner has the greatest purchasing power in this country. [More…]

• A 35-hour working week, as advocated by many honourable members opposite, would increase costs tremendously, ft has been estimated that it would increase costs in city areas by 12 per cent and in country areas by at least 20 per cent. [More…]

• Again it would be the working man, the wage earner, who would be the loser. [More…]

• I believe that instead of handing out unemployment relief as a permanent cure we ought to look more seriously at providing major work programmes during this temporary period, lt is perhaps degrading to ask a man to do things such as clean the gutters in the streets when this can be done more efficiently by a machine. [More…]

• It is far better to start some major developmental work and give a man a decent self respecting job in which he can earn good money. [More…]

• Enough has been said about steel prices in the last couple of days to make any reasonable man sick. [More…]

• Should we not have another steel industry to compete against this giant monopoly which markets the basic commodities that we require to enable us to provide a decent standard of living for every man, woman and child who wants to work and who has a right to work? [More…]

• Today, at a time when we are told average wages are $90 a week, this Government expects a man to live on $17 a week. [More…]

• In spite of all the arrant nonsense we read in the Press from these clever chaps who write about subsidies, Dr Victor Kurian, who is the Chairman of the Indian Milk Board said: ‘I don’t want to deal with Europe; I want to deal with Australia and New Zealand’. [More…]

• He said: ‘Because you have more cows per man than any other country in the world’. [More…]

• Mr Kurian is the chairman of a cooperative in one of the Indian States. [More…]

• In the Common Market countries the average herd per man is 25, 28 or 30. [More…]

• In New Zealand the average herd per man is nearly 100. [More…]

• In Australia the average is 100 cows, but in the Murray-Goulburn Valley area the average would be 75 cows per man. [More…]

• I have here a book written by a man named Vondra on the cheese industry in Australia. [More…]

• He writes that some very fine South Australian cheese makers have now moved into the manufacture of the more profitable 40 lb export [More…]

• The rural industries arc so complicated that a man would be pretty good who understood the whole field. [More…]

• For God’s sake let us take the advice of the industry, lt said ro us some years ago: ‘Cut down Australian cheddar manufactures by 10,000 tons a year. [More…]

• In al’ of the advertising and selling, Australia’s contribution was mentioned, lt might be said, as I have heard it said in some instances, that the average man in the street in these countries which have vast populations perhaps does not have a great appreciation of these gifts or contributions to his country, hut I believe that in certain quarters and in the long term in many areas it does get through to these people that [More…]

• As for anybody on the other side of the House accusing the Government of denigrating the dairy industry and destroying its confidence, I would have thought that the man who has done most in this regard is their own shining star, Mr Hawke. [More…]

• How many man days were lost on account of (a) strikes, (b) unemployment and (c) industrial accident or disease in each of thelast 10 years. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s phraseology alone would indicate that his understanding of Chinese psychology and politics was still in the realms of Fu Man Chu and Charlie Chan. [More…]

• I think it is the obvious one when one reads the answer and one which any sensible or reasonable man would make. [More…]

• The one question that the Opposition is asking this afternoon is whether, on the basis of the evidence that it has given, we can trust that man. [More…]

• While that is so, he is trying to drag down the reputation of a man called Kibel. [More…]

• I am sure that many honourable members will recall with dismay the sneer and the smear cast on the commercial practices of a friend of one of the gentlemen sitting on the ministerial bench. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is the man who was so genuine in his protestations against the racism of the Vorster regime that he could act only either in anticipation of a question that he knew the Opposition would fire or after it. [More…]

• Here we have a man who prides himself on having had experience as Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• The basic point which the Opposition makes this afternoon is that here we have a man who does not tell the truth in this Parliament, a man who on 2 occasions has been caught out and who, in particular in this South African case, has even condemned himself with his own words because the statement that he has made in reply to a question upon notice is that no such letter was ever sent. [More…]

• It involves poverty standards for the great majority of those 89,659 people, many of them young. [More…]

• It means that by one blow from this kind of economic policy, many people have lost any opportunity they had of making economic and social progress, lt means that many thousands of them have been living of $10 or less a head of income. [More…]

• We are told that 2,400,000 man days were lost last year - a big increase and, they say, a fantastic loss of production. [More…]

• Here is a man who can learn - Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore. [More…]

• The conjunction of those 2 events unfortunately tends to mean that the debate will not be conducted - as perhaps it has not been conducted - with that degree of objectivity that the circumstances in which we presently find ourselves demand. [More…]

• I will probably be regarded as wrong by many who sit on these benches with me, but if I am wrong I am wrong wilh firm conviction. [More…]

• Their nannies are said, by history, to have told children, when they were fractious: If you do not watch out that terrible man Boney will come and eat you up’. [More…]

• One comparison of costs that has been supplied to me by GAF source puts the charge per man hour at $7.50 for the [More…]

• As I have said, much merit is contained in this last amendment which is proposed because if a man is defamed it is very difficult for him to obtain sufficient evidence to assist him to protect his good name. [More…]

• a man’s good name is his most valued possession. [More…]

• If a man’s name is mentioned, he should be able to get only that portion in which his name is mentioned within 7 days of application. [More…]

• I congratulate the Postmaster-General, whose portfolio covers many realms of great activity and expansion. [More…]

• Ocker went on to say that he is a man of great civic pride. [More…]

• He works on the local council garbage truck, and in this vocation he has also collected and buried many dead cats and dogs. [More…]

• The list reads: Charles Adermann, William Aston, Howard Beale, John Cramer, Charles Davidson, Alex Downer, Arthur Fadden, Allan Fairhall, Josiah Francis, Paul Hasluck - no man is more overworked than His Excellency the Governor-General who has sworn in and sworn at more Ministers than any other Governor-General in the history of Australia - Eric Harrison, Alan Hulme, Wilfrid Kent Hughes, Phillip McBride, John McEwen, Robert Menzies, Hubert Opperman, Earle Page, Percy Spender, Winton Turnbull, Thomas White, Keith Wilson, and from the Senate, Kenneth Anderson, Walter Cooper, Magnus Cormack, Denham Henty. [More…]

• Are you aware, Mr Deputy Speaker, that this Parliament contains 5 knights in the House of Representatives - Charles Adermann, William Aston, John Cramer, Alan Hulme and Winton Turnbull - and 2 knights - Kenneth Anderson and Magnus Cormack - and Dame Nancy Buttfield in the Senate? [More…]

• The allocation of knighthoods is indeed discriminatory and in many instances is used as a political expedient. [More…]

• It is often used to gain support for the Liberal Party and Country Party from newspaper proprietors such as Sir Frank Packer who first sold his services to the Liberal-Country Party Government for a knighthood and has now emerged as the most powerful man in the Liberal Party. [More…]

• This man was employed at a Tooheys brewery. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the Report on Effects of 2,4,5-T and Related Herbicides on Man and the Environment from the Sub-committee on Energy, Natural resources and the Environment of the Committee on Commerce of the United States Senate, dated 17th and 18th June 1970, which recommends the immediate and publicised removal of this herbicide from the channels of commerce such as its use around the home, on bodies of water and on food. [More…]

• powders as giving a lift or as stimulants because of the risk of dependence on these artificial stimulants if they are not properly prescribed by a doctor and (b) tobacco or alcohol products as enjoyable, international, sophisticated, a man’s drink, or in association with fine scenery, luxury, pleasant company or robust models engaged in enjoying those products. [More…]

• My impression is that the average citizen would have a lower opinion of a person who shelters behind parliamentary membership and at the same time does not exercise military service than he would have of a young man who faces fully the consequences of the draft and the penalties that might be imposed upon him - and have been imposed on some persons - if he does not carry it out. [More…]

• I am not going to assume that this man has broken any law. [More…]

• The young man concerned in this matter regards draft dodging as an offence, and to his credit he is proud of it. [More…]

• It may be said that the Leader of the Opposition was not referring to the law in general but only to the particular case of the man in question, who has not yet appeared in court. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition asks us to believe that when he said draft dodging was not an offence in all the bald simplicity of that statement, he really meant not that at all but that one individual man is not guilty of draft dodging until he is convicted, then that stretches credibility to breaking point. [More…]

• And whether the man in question is guilty of an offence under section 51 of the National Service Act or not, the fact is that there is a warrant which has been issued for his arrest. [More…]

• The young man himself clearly believes that he has the support of the Leader of the Opposition in what he is doing. [More…]

• I told the Caucus that if I were asked by a man. [More…]

• Excise (Mr Chipp), a man who publicly has declared himself to be presently a fugitive from legal process for an alleged failure-1 emphasise the word ‘alleged’ - to obey a call-up notice under the National Service Act, He also has been convicted of 2 offences against that Act for each of which he has served a gaol sentence. [More…]

• In saying that, I am relying on what the gentleman concerned, Mr Johnston, has himself said on the public media. [More…]

• 1 say nothing as to whether or not this gentleman is guilty of the charge in connection with which he presently is being sought by the police. [More…]

• Honourable members will have had the opportunity from the transcript in the Parliamentary Library and from reports in various newspapers to see that the Press conference from which this one phrase has been taken covered many other aspects, such as conscription or recruitment for the armed forces. [More…]

• I want to make it quite plain that my colleagues and 1 resent the conduct of Senator Greenwood on this matter because he speaks constantly outside the House in the various media and sometimes in the House in such a way as to assume that a man who is charged with an offence is guilty of that offence. [More…]

• I do not keep a file on the honourable and learned gentleman and I did not read the statement, but in it he challenged me to take some particular course of action. [More…]

• It is remarkable that a man operating in the same building as I was for the whole of last week, a member of the same profession as I am, did not at least sei in touch with me; that he did not telephone me, call me or write to me. [More…]

• There need be no difficulty in this matter because the Commissioner went to the same law school as the honourable member for Berowra and I and for 30 years I have known the Commissioner and admired him as a lawyer, a sportsman, a policeman and a man. [More…]

• A man who has been a guest of the Southern Rhodesian regime does not, in my view, have much respect for the rules of law or the laws of this country. [More…]

• When a man stands in the dock this carries with it no presumption of guilt. [More…]

• The whole of the forces of the Crown are there and those forces can be used, but meanwhile the man is innocent. [More…]

• I appeal to the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• He is the only man I know of whom it can be said that his Achilles heel is in his mouth. [More…]

• The fact is that a young man, Barry Johnston, has been endorsed as Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Hotham. [More…]

• Undoubtedly, this man is entitled to nominate and, if selected, stand for political office on behalf of the Labor Party. [More…]

• Even the Attorny-General, a man who in principle should be the fount of justice and equity, has condemned an untried and unconvicted man as a criminal and a law breaker. [More…]

• It is the duty of the Attorney-General to find this young man and others sought under warrant, and put their guilt or innocence to the test in the courts. [More…]

• What he has done is to draw attention to the issues 1 referred to at the start of my speech - the attempts by the Government to label as a criminal a young man who has not been tried and has not been convicted. [More…]

• It is also a fact that many hundreds of young men find it impossible in their consciences to comply with this law in any way. [More…]

• Infringement of law for conscientious reasons has been one of the main forces motivating human progress. [More…]

• It can fairly be said that the first man to break a law for conscientious reasons was the first to get down out of the trees. [More…]

• We maintain and we support the contention of the Leader of the Opposition that until this young man has been apprehended under the laws of this country and until such time as he has been tried before the court he is not guilty. [More…]

• How does one judge the sincerity of a government that is prepared to prejudge a young man in our community because he holds a conscientious belief? [More…]

• The Government can prejudge this young man merely for its own political ends. [More…]

• The idea that there is something beyond man-made law is reflected in the Nuremberg judgments. [More…]

• I suggest that if one conducted a canvass in the street the average man in the street would agree that draft dodging is not a crime just as he would agree that a parking offence is not a crime A truck driver driving from Queanbeyan to Canberra may be charged - sometimes every week - with overloading his vehicle, but he does not regard that as a crime. [More…]

• 1 went out to Long Bay Gaol to see a young man out there called Madden who is charged with a similar kind of offence, of some breach of the National Service Act. [More…]

• It was only two or three nights ago, or last week, that one of the Ministers, during a debate, made a reference to the fact that the Labour Party wished for true blue-blooded, or red-blooded, socialism, and many members on the other side said: ‘Hear, hear!’ [More…]

• He is one man who recognises that two systems can work together. [More…]

• Goodness knows where the letters came from and what kind of a man it was that wrote them. [More…]

• We do not know whether he is a bright man as certain people in this House are said to be or whether his opinion on this subject of tariffs is sound, indifferent or poor. [More…]

• I represent one of the greatest primary producing electorates in Australia, therefore I -think that we must have a spokesman for primary industry. [More…]

• The man on the land - the primary producer - sells what he produces through his labour. [More…]

• What does the businessman do? [More…]

• His is a different kind of labour but he may be an efficient businessman and he sells the product of his brainwork. [More…]

• The man in primary industry may put in a crop of, say, wheat and he does not know whether he will get 12 bags to the acre, 5 bags to the acre or whether there will be a complete drought and he will get nothing. [More…]

• But in the case of a highly protected or even a reasonably protected secondary industry the people concerned know that they can manufacture whatever the article is and have every chance of selling it because of the protective tariff. [More…]

• The flow on means that secondary industry is protected from low standard of living countries with a low wage level that could manufacture many of the secondary industry goods that we manufacture and sell them in Australia to the detriment of our manufacturers. [More…]

• One point I want to make - and I have made it many times in this Parliament - is the great difficulty I have, and I am certain everyone else has, in really getting one’s teeth into the problem before the House, f have the gravest of suspicions that nobody here, including members of the Government, has the detail or the data to enable him to pass judgments on the actual items set out in the amendments in this Bill. [More…]

• I cannot imagine members of the Cabinet gathering round the table and discussing polyethy lene having, a density at 23 C of less man 0.941 gramme per millimetre and arriving, at the grave decision of $630 per ton or 90 per cent of SVD. [More…]

• Throughout history the rag trade has had a special place in industry because it is in this industry that the small man can start in a way that he cannot start in many other industries, such as the motor car industry, the steel industry and a whole range of other industries. [More…]

• A person can start clothing manufacturing in his own home. [More…]

• I know of one prominent manufacturer who today is a millionaire who, just prior to World War II, assisted by his wife, started sewing in his own home. [More…]

• Clothing manufacturing can be commenced with very little capital and this cannot be done in many other industries in a similar way. [More…]

• I want to build a case for the smaller manufacturer because the essence of the Tariff Board report seems to be that a small number of manufacturers produce the great bulk of woven shirts, and probably the same situation applies in the knitted shirt field. [More…]

• The smaller manufacturer provides a great service to the industry because he is not geared up for long-term production. [More…]

• In the clothing industry, manufacturers work 6 months, 9 months and 12 months ahead. [More…]

• People in the industry would now be manufacturing next summer’s goods. [More…]

• However, the small manufacturer - the little man with 20, 30 or 40 employees - is capable of providing a quick change in fashion and fashion is the essence of the clothing trade today. [More…]

• Someone gets a new idea - it could be see-through shirts - and in a matter of weeks there is a demand for see-through shirts. [More…]

• Only the small manufacturer is geared to this quick change. [More…]

• The big manufacturer cannot meet it. [More…]

• I believe the small manufacturer provides a very great service both to the retailer and to the consumer. [More…]

• He is able to give specialty manufacturing. [More…]

• I do not mean the specialty manufacturing I was talking about before involving the quick change of the label but he is able to make up to order what a retailer will require. [More…]

• A person with a thick neck, big body and funny waist can get specialty orders from a small manufacturer. [More…]

• He is geared to give this special service but a larger manufacturer cannot do it because of the type of production I was talking about. [More…]

• However careful one is about this, however one tries to ensure that any man thrown out of work is employed again promptly, there must always be discomfort and dislocation for many people. [More…]

• So many parts of the world are becoming selfsufficient in large areas of manufacture. [More…]

• If there is one thing modern man can do, it is making things. [More…]

• He can pour articles out of factories in increasing numbers without the need for human labour. [More…]

• Yet another fatal accident on the treacherous unsealed South Australian part of Eyre Highway has caused me to lodge a protest on behalf of those who can’t - those who have lost their lives through man’s apathy. [More…]

• Let me say this in this chamber: This Government is guilty of committing at least one man, of whom I know personally, to his death in Vietnam. [More…]

• I say that with all the bitterness that I can command. [More…]

• Many of the people upon whom Government members cast slurs have a greater sense of responsibility to the people whom they represent than any Government supporter could ever hope to have. [More…]

• The appointment of this man to the Ministry is an absolute national disgrace. [More…]

• After 5 or 6 weeks the Minister for the Army, a gracious young man as he then was. [More…]

• I know the young man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Sturt and the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) carry on here as if a young man had no choice in life other than to face being called up. [More…]

• The Courier-Mail’ of 29th July last referred to Mr Tom Burns, the man who scuttled the ALP ship. [More…]

• This man wrote to the [More…]

• The article was referring to another man in the Labor Party - the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• But all the higher features of the development of man over the last several hundred and probably couple of thousand of years have in fact emanated from concentrations of people in urban areas, ultimately in cities and finally, adding somewhat to our problems, in conurbations. [More…]

• But I have been, both then and since, very positive in saying that I will not accept a selection of least costly ventures in circumstances which will force hundreds and perhaps thousands of people into unemployment, as the man who came into my office yesterday has been forced into unemployment for 7 weeks on $17 a week. [More…]

• This means that the user of woven shirts has been paying about $1,000 for every man employed in the industry. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member for Lalor, who referred to a man who was out of work because of the alteration of this tariff, that it has not been altered. [More…]

• The queer thing is that the Australian man-made fibre industry is not making shirting material at all, and this is not surprising. [More…]

• Let me turn briefly to the Special Advisory Authority report on man-made fibre fabrics. [More…]

• That is excluding the man-made polyester shirtings which are now being let in because they are not competing with Australian shirting. [More…]

• Most of the demand had switched from woven to knitted fabrics, and yet the Special Advisory Authority said: ‘Let us put an extra duty on it.’ [More…]

• It just enabled the man-made fibre woven sector to increase its prices. [More…]

• Dr J. F. CAIRNS (Lalor)- by leave- I shall not take more than a couple of minutes, because I should like to refer now to what the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) said about the Special Advisory Authority’s report on man made fabrics. [More…]

• I emphasise that it certainly is detrimental to the man on the land and it is always detrimental to the progress of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• On many occasions the cut and thrust of the debate has transcended party lines, which is something that pleases me greatly. [More…]

• I have discussed personally with the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) the matter he raised before the suspension of the sitting and I hope that as a man of goodwill, he now believes that I followed my usual practice of not attacking personalities in this House, a practice of which I have never been guilty, and of which I was not guilty in this debate when I pointed out the Hansard report to him. [More…]

• I put one qualification to what the writer of that article had to say about the income levels that would be necessary to pay those fees and that is that I believe it is true that in a school like Geelong Grammar today many parents have to pay fees out of capital. [More…]

• Not a great many people can pay the fees out of income. [More…]

• One of the most interesting defences that ever was put up for Geelong Grammar - I do not know whether it was valid - was that when a man who once had attended that school was asked: ‘What did you get out of Geelong Grammar?’ [More…]

• In fact, who is the gentleman who is the Minister for Education and Science? [More…]

• If only I could do something a little bit stronger to get some sort of retribution for the children whom I represent and to whom that man is giving a second rate education. [More…]

• Mr Aubrey Jones is not the only man who has spoken about them. [More…]

• Is it to be a permanent feature of economic management or is it to be temporary? [More…]

• Here we are dealing with a very great human problem, of men with greatly reduced security of employment, and the Minister speaks of the situation in the language of the debating club. [More…]

• Let there be no mistake; there are great human problems here. [More…]

• Many tradesmen have lost their jobs and have been given jobs on the production line in the motor vehicle industry which means a reduction in pay of some $25 to $30 a week. [More…]

• When I made a statement on this matter a few weeks ago I mentioned the case of a Polish-born man who had gone from tradesman’s wages down to $49.50 a week. [More…]

• But his family budget was predicated on an income of tradesman’s wages. [More…]

• There must be many such cases. [More…]

• This is due to Government economic policy and not the car manufacturers, so surely the Government would feel a special responsibility to help these people. [More…]

• A man has virtually to be forced off his property to qualify. [More…]

• The offer of the payment of $46.20 a week to a man who has a wife and 2 children means that he would be receiving $4 below the poverty line of $50 in Melbourne. [More…]

• A man with a wife and 4 children would be $19 below the poverty line of $60 and a man with a wife and 6 children would be almost $30 below the poverty line of $75. [More…]

• The income offered would only force many children out of school. [More…]

• I have already said that anybody who has a heart at all would be sorry for the genuine man who is unemployed but our rate of unemployment is still the lowest in the civilised world. [More…]

• Unfortunately a great many are not doing just that and this has put up our costs. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) is concerned about the western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]

• I have no doubt that there will be a considerable problem in the recruitment of staff to man the project around the clock. [More…]

• It is only one year since the usurpation of the Prime Ministerial office by the right honourable gentleman from Lowe. [More…]

• His part, with Sir Frank Packer - the faceless man, I presume - the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and Mr Eric Robinson in lh.it usurpation earned him the title of ‘Tiberius with a Telephone’. [More…]

• It has completed one year in office and should therefore go to the people on its record to obtain a mandate. [More…]

• For instance, it is virtually impossible for a man who is working a left hand vertical drill machine on an assembly line, pulling down a lever hundreds of times a day, to feel any sense of fulfilment in or identity with the work that is going through the assembly line. [More…]

• I say this in respect of both sides of the House because one can get a headline about a man, a government, a party or whatever it may be, too freely today and when one reads the small print one finds that what the headline is endeavouring to portray is not always so. [More…]

• Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each Slate a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the. [More…]

• The troublethatI experience in my mind about the system of concessional deductions, especially in relation to education expenses, is that that form of deduction does introduce into what should be as far as possible a progressive system of taxation a regressive element for the reason that the advantage of the concessional deduction is far greater for the man on a high income than it is for a man on a low income.. . [More…]

• We might just as well say that special and additional assistance should be given to property owners if they have an especially high mortgage - that the man paying off a house worth $100,000 should receive assistance to the disadvantage of a man with a house worth $15,000. [More…]

• Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each State a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the other independent schools, to make a grant to them which may be calculated on a per capita basis and for them to be given the right to spend the money according to need. [More…]

• That man is not a politician, as are we. [More…]

• It is a pity that you were not the occupant of the chair the other night because the person to whom I referred, the spiritual hatchet man for the Liberal Party, could also have been called to order. [More…]

• In a 6 to 1 majority judgment written by a judge who was appointed specifically because he was thought to be hard on this line and in favour of retention of capital punishment, Mr Justice White, the court held that the death penalty was both cruel and unusual, that it was unnecessary to any legitimate goal of the State and that it was incompatible with the dignity of man and the judicial process. [More…]

• I refer to what he said in regard to Mr Rajaratnam’s point of view and I say falsus in uno falsus in omnibus - a man who has deliberately sought to mislead in one matter will, it can be imagined, seek to mislead in others as well. [More…]

• The honourable member was concerned also with utterly cheap sensation seeking and with an utterly below the belt use of abuse of the opinions of a high official of a friendly foreign country who, if he is hurt - and hurt he must be by what the honourable member has said - has no redress as a responsible and honourable man against the abuse of his opinions by the honourable member for St George. [More…]

• The whole Australian character is built on the idea that you give a man a fair go and a chance to put his point of view. [More…]

• He went on to categorise the Minister for External Territories (Mr Peacock), who holds one of the most onerous and responsible portfolios in this House, as a mere boy who could not be sent on the man’s job. [More…]

• So this man of great military distinction puts in the area a squadron or so of the Royal Australian Air Force and a battalion or so of Australian soldiers to stop the Chinese. [More…]

• Chairman of the Committee to which he belongs. [More…]

• He speaks as a man who reports accurately what he has heard. [More…]

• He speaks as a man who has spoken with and has been listened to by the highly placed in all these nations. [More…]

• What a dreadful statement from an able-bodied young man who has sat here for so long and has cheered all the other fellows when they were going away. [More…]

• They know that all the circumstances of the last 20 years have shown up the eccentricities of our policy; that our Vietnam policy on which we squandered so many lives and so much treasure did not mean a thing when it came to the crunch and the Americans were going home; that our China policy did not mean a thing when President Nixon changed his course. [More…]

• But another point that he makes - and there are many of them - is that all foreign powers should be excluded from the region. [More…]

• But we cannot bring neutrality by placing soldiers there, Then we build upon the affinities we have with so many of these countries, There is no future in such propositions as the South East Asia Treaty Organisation. [More…]

• Secondly, Australia’s operations in South East Asia must be based upon the fundamental proposition that man canand will be a peaceful animal given proper diplomatic encouragement. [More…]

• Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each State a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the other independent schools, to make a grant to them which may be calculated on a per capita basis and for them to be given the right to spend the money according to need. [More…]

• I can think back to not long ago when a very well respected and highly reputable man in this Parliament died. [More…]

• Only last weekend 1 was telephoned by spokesmen for 3 bodies - I shall not mention names - representing 3 separate religions, who were horrified at many remarks made by members of the Opposition last week. [More…]

• I will lay my bottom dollar - I am not a gambling man and this is not the right place for it - that none of the other honourable members I have mentioned has made his position plain to his electorate. [More…]

• I will go a stage further and say that the State Government of South Australia through its needs commission is adopting on purpose a direct method of trying to downgrade the importance and standard of every little Lutheran school, every little Roman Catholic school and every little Methodist school in that State. [More…]

• Let me assure the honourable gentleman and all members of the Opposition that I made it my business to make a very detailed research into the world standing of the Australian military forces generally. [More…]

• Let me say - and I do not qualify this statement one iota - that, man for man and in the particular environment in which the Australian Army operates, it is second to none in the whole of the world. [More…]

• Australia has benefited in the past from an inflow of overseas capital and it would be a brave man and, I think, a not very good economist who would suggest that we should have no inflow of overseas capital and should not benefit from the development which takes place as a result of it. [More…]

• As a man who professes to believe in decentralisation this is precisely what the Minister should agree to. [More…]

• The criticisms of the honourable member for Fremantle seemed to hinge fairly substantially, as I recall them, on the fact that we will have an excessive centralisation of power in the hands of one man or woman who, in fact, will operate this system. [More…]

• But we have gone to the other extreme of appointing a one-man bureaucracy to run the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]

• But here we are to have a one-man show, a one-man band. [More…]

• We are giving all this authority to one man. [More…]

• It will be a one-man bureaucracy. [More…]

• All this is’ entrusted to one man and there is to be no right of appeal from his decision. [More…]

• There are to be rights of appeal as far as promotions are concerned, but there is to be no right of appeal against this discretion which is to be ‘given to this one man. [More…]

• There is cause for suspicion from a reading of clause 16 of the Bill that the Commissioner - the one-man authority - will have the right to intrude into such fields as the determining of teaching rights and class sizes. [More…]

• We ought not to tolerate the creation of this single authority - and a single man at that - with such unchallenged power in the first exercise of it. [More…]

• The point has been made on several counts that we could not have a 3 -man commission because, after all, there will be only a couple of thousand teachers. [More…]

• I do not see that if there has been this considerable search throughout Australia for a satisfactory wage fixation system and none has yet been devised that one single man operating as the Commissioner is going to resolve the problem. [More…]

• It is laughable and ridiculous that a man should be considered guilty of misconduct if, having made and subscribed an oath of affirmation under sub-clause (2.) [More…]

• Indeed, looking through the correspondence received from the Australian Teachers Federation on 8th February and the matters which the Federation put to us, it is clear that that body wanted a 3-man commission and not a commissioner. [More…]

• The composition of the Appeals Board will include a teachers’ representative and a chairman appointed by the Minister. [More…]

• I would not regard this person as being a boss’s man. [More…]

• I repeat that the chairman would be nominated by the Minister and the member would be nominated by the Commissioner. [More…]

• It is quite possible that after the system has been operating for 2 or 3 years - tha honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) of course has pointed out that its operations will be in the hands of people more sensitive to these matters before very long - and a few teachers from Canberra have been sent reluctantly to Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory there will be a retreat from Canberra back into the New South Wales teaching service. [More…]

• There is a big difference in the attitude of the average family man of the 1960s and 1970s compared with that of 30 or 40 years ago. [More…]

• WhenI was aged 12 years I used to read ‘Magnet’ and ‘Gem’ in which there were always French and German masters who, being foreigners, were ipso facto quaint and funny. [More…]

• We are beginning to get many appointments of Japanese, Chinese and other nonBritish subjects to teach their languages. [More…]

• I do not presume that if this qualification were deleted the Commissioner would start appointing right and left the yellow peril, which is the term sometimes used in discussions on immigration policies; but he should, if he is an intelligent man, be able to select good non-British subjects as teachers. [More…]

• A man can be recruited from Pakistan as a British subject, just so long as he is described as a British subject, not by our legislation but by another nation’s legislation. [More…]

• This is a matter to be decided by a man who is responsible to the people of Australia - a Minister in the Government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Opposition feels that to say, as the honourable member for Mallee has said, that the only way to ensure that we do not get undesirable teachers is to use the terminology ‘British subject’ is to use a very imprecise instrument because, after all, the man who sold all of Britain’s submarine secrets was a British subject. [More…]

• I have seen a number of reports of a scheme such as that which has been outlined by the right honourable member for Fisher and I must say that from looking at this scheme it is quite clearly an economic and social abomination because it offends against every decent welfare principle appropriate to home ownership and housing that has been operative in Australia for many decades. [More…]

• 1 can only say that on this very quick analysis this kind- of proposal amounts to nothing more than a profligate rich man’s dream and the tragedy is that it is a scheme which has been proposed to attract support from young people. [More…]

• Jewish faith raises a matter concerning Jews he is accused of sectarianism or if a man of the Catholic faith raises a matter concerning Catholics he is accused of sectarianism. [More…]

• The regrettable thing is that although the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) answered the first part of the question correctly he then - of course, he is such a brilliant man at leading not only his own Party but also the nation to doom - had to go on and try to score off the Opposition. [More…]

• We want to expunge it completely from the record books and - I say this to the Prime Minister - it is about time we stopped manoeuvring and cleared the deck because there should be no reference or inference in the amendment moved by the Prime Minister that anybody in this Parliament has any anti-Semitic feelings whatever. [More…]

• There have been so many misconceptions and conclusions that have been demonstrably false in the past that only a very brave man would make any sort of prophecy. [More…]

• I can just imagine the situation where a man comes along in the morning and says: ‘I do not mind driving the tractor today, but I do not think I feel like doing any fencing’. [More…]

• -The last 12 minutes of the 20 minutes that were available to the Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Street) were taken up by that honourable gentleman telling us why he did not know anything about industrial relations. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman and, indeed, the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) were concerned about the matter of industrial relations which they have raised before the House, surely they would not have adopted the archaic 19th century approach which was adopted by the Assistant Minister. [More…]

• They would not be speaking in such strong terms, as did he, about the master-servant relationship and that when a man was told to drive a tractor and that man decided that fencing had priority over tractor driving, then that man was obviously wrong. [More…]

• We cannot do that if industry and management, either in the Public Service or in the private sector, do not have the machinery to deal with the various situations. [More…]

• We want to avoid the, problems that have arisen in Britain and the United States in recent times because of strikes which are very damaging not only to the general economy but also to every man, woman and child in the country. [More…]

• It is not true that this Party, this Government or its members are disinterested in the working man. [More…]

• There is a great deal of social legislation and social welfare legislation in the broader sense, among other things, which is enacted almost daily in this place for the benefit of the working man. [More…]

• Lest we think that we are talking only about the so-called working man in this context, let us remember that it is a Public Service Arbitration Bill and that we are not by any means talking about blue collar workers alone. [More…]

• We are talking about a considerable body of white collar workers who in days not very far distant were seen to have the same responsibility of a professional kind as people in this place would like to think they have and that people in many other places, including the oft-quoted professions such as the legal, medical and other professions, are thought to have. [More…]

• But the legislation shows, as I think the honourable member for Canning (Mr Hallett) said quite fully, a degree of responsibility and interest in the economy which I think falls short of any obvious intent to depress or repress the so-called working man. [More…]

• He is a humane enough man, but he talked about this matter as though he were talking about the employment of a stable useful, when what is involved is what happened in Victoria recently and what has been happening as far as the Post Office is concerned. [More…]

• At least one man was killed. [More…]

• I do not care if a man gets $1,000 a week or a day if he is worth it and if we remain competitive with overseas countries in the goods which are produced. [More…]

• There are inefficiencies and inadequacies in the Government’s management of this country. [More…]

• It made no attempt to change it until an ingenuous young policeman arrested a bus driver and said: ‘I will apply the law.’ [More…]

• The young policeman arrested a bus driver. [More…]

• The bus driver was dealt with as a man who had broken the law. [More…]

• I think that the Government should heed the voice of the many settlers who have come to Australia in the last 20 years and who say that the 20-year scheme is unacceptable and wrong and should be abandoned. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz), who is at the table, is not responsible for all the Government’s sins but I hope that he takes the message from half the Parliament to his colleagues that we would like one simple concept to be adopted, namely, that a man’s pension in our country should be his right and not a privilege. [More…]

• He is not interested in the small wool grower, the bona fide traditional family man who is growing wool. [More…]

• So far ahead - almost 20 years at the limit - it is not given to man to make predictions which can be stated as accurate; nor is it possible to suggest more than orders of probability or of intensity of threats against Australian interests. [More…]

• That is probably natural, because one of them is a Labor man and the other is a Liberal - and what a Liberal! [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide quoted the view of the present 2 airline system held by the manager of Trans-Australia Airlines. [More…]

• I wish only that every man and woman in Australia could read the Minister’s statement because it is a very good one. [More…]

• How many times does a country have to be invaded before it is entitled to fight for itself? [More…]

• The issue which now determined whether a man was a patriot or not was his willing ness to fight against the foreigners. [More…]

• I am putting these comments forward as a private citizen and not, I emphasise, as Chairman of the Public Works Committee. [More…]

• It will open up a tremendous area and if it is named as I suggest it will honour the services of a man whom Australia in general and the Northern Territory in particular has every right to honour. [More…]

• I draw special attention to the fact that it is only one man who is reported as saying that he would rather not have the road. [More…]

• I wanted to point out to the House the remarks of the honourable member for Hunter which show very clearly that he considers the Country Party should have its attention drawn to this man’s having said that he would rather not have the road under certain circumstances. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hunter drew attention to one man who said that he would rather have something else in preference to this road. [More…]

• The people in the Northern Territory - and this can be confirmed by a man who knows all about it, the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) - are hungry for more and more development, and the development of the Northern Territory, which we hear so much about and for which so much is being done, such as in the construction of beef roads, will greatly benefit Australia. [More…]

• A story has been told about a city man who, coming to a tram stop which was flooded, said in a disgruntled fashion: I will have to walk to the next stop’. [More…]

• By contrast, a country man coming to a flooded creek would say cheerfully, or at least resignedly: ‘It is only another 20 miles to get around it’. [More…]

• Indeed, I think it was Mr J. J. Ded man who moved for that in 1949, giving much the same, reasons as I am giving now. [More…]

• As I see it, the Commissioner will be a man with exceptional authority. [More…]

• The salaries that the Commissioner is prepared to offer to attract people to the Service will have a lot to do with the quality of people who will man that Service, the kind of promotional opportunities they will have and the kind of professional free dom that will be given to the teachers in that Service. [More…]

• However, I think the Government is seeking to put a very serious handicap not only on the efficiency of the Service but on the professional dignity of teachers who will man that Service by retaining Public Service Board control and relying on a single Commissioner. [More…]

• Let us assume that the position of deputy head teacher were advertised and a man who applied for that position did not get it because what was in the mind of the selection authority was whether he was capable of filling a superior position, for example, that of school inspector. [More…]

• A man may be an excellent headmaster and a poor school inspector but if the headmastership is to be awarded because the man chosen is one who may be promoted to a more senior counselling position in the education department, then those who apply for the position are being subjected to adverse considerations which they cannot reasonably anticipate. [More…]

• One of the great difficulties from which the Australian education system has suffered over so many years has been the very authoritarian way in which the inspectorate has been able to come along and make some kind of measurement of people. [More…]

• Of course, the Minister himself has been the victim of a very authoritarian system where one man makes ali the decisions. [More…]

• If it is accepted that the Commissioner is in a position to take a subjective view, as it has been called, of someone’s suitability or unsuitability at a particular time, it can be accepted that at that time the man may be inept or unbalanced or something of that nature and I certainly would not gainsay that particular point. [More…]

• Corning back to clause 34, let us again assume that the commissioner disagrees with the finding of the court because he has information of his own or brought to him from somewhere, information which has not been tested in any way, and the commisioner says: ‘I consider the man unfit’ - ‘morally unfit’ if you like or morally incapable of discharging his duties.’ [More…]

• It involves a man and his wife who have paid their fees religiously over the years. [More…]

• Why is he refusing to accept the requests, so many and so repeated, of the producers and their leaders? [More…]

• Perhaps as a Country Party man he would prefer to help the large business people. [More…]

• There are many more apiarists in the honey industry with more money invested than packers’ interests. [More…]

• It may be a small industry, but any industry in which a man is engaged is an important industry to him. [More…]

• To make profit by the exploitation of human weakness is a miserable way of doing business. [More…]

• Government can never completely protect every individual from himself or others, and too often man’s natural suspicion fades when what is or appears to be a bargain is dangled before him. [More…]

• Many bargain hunters have been foolish and trapped by trying to obtain cheap fares for overseas travel. [More…]

• The organisation had a subsidiary in Perth and another one in Fremantle. [More…]

• To this day that man is still receiving phone calls at 3 o’clock in the morning. [More…]

• incorporating Government decision that man not to be disqualified by reason only of refusal to undertake work available through strike or lock-out. [More…]

• If class or body of employees, its officers or committee authorise or sponsor a key man strike and members other than key men thrown out of work, no unemployment benefit for those other members. [More…]

• organisation disowns key man strike and orders key men back to work; [More…]

• Honourable members will see that this man is a communist who is trying to do the maximum damage to Australia and who is not telling the truth, namely, that all that is being done by this Government is in conformity with what was laid down by the preceding Labor Government. [More…]

• We would face the problem of the man whose eggs have been scrambled, oi, if you like, made into an omelette and who is then required to put the eggs back into the shells. [More…]

• In tone the White Paper is consistent enough to warrant the belief that the final draft is largely the work of one man. [More…]

• The United States Army has reached a plateau of organisation where only one man in 10 is a combat soldier. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the last report of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd records that during the last financial year the number of man hours lost at the com pany’s various plants due to employees being on strike or being laid off because of strikes by others totalled approximately 1,600,000, which is the equivalent of the number of hours that 800 men employed full time would work in a year? [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), who is not in the chamber at the present but who is a man not noted for his opposition to leftist causes, was himself forced to admit after a visit to Cambodia that that country was suffering invasion from North Vietnam. [More…]

• These statements have now been given the lie once and for all by one of his senior colleagues - a man who came within a few votes of defeating the Leader of the Opposition in a contest for the leadership of his Party. [More…]

• They have been given the lie by an unequivocal demand for the end of the US-Australian alliance. [More…]

• All that man could say was: ‘Kill, kill’. [More…]

• Just chase them and kill as many as you can’. [More…]

• I think I have been a man of policy and not a man of personalities. [More…]

• I certainly have tried to be a man of policy. [More…]

• In all my public life, during my Army service or at any other time I have never known a man like the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]

• He is the most honest, democratic, sincere and capable man that I have ever known. [More…]

• If there is any man for whom I would give my life it is the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]

• In many cases he went beyond Labor policy, but he showed courage of his convictions as he has today. [More…]

• He is a man who has always been against violence. [More…]

• He is a rational, cool man, always against violence. [More…]

• His whole life is dedicated to opposition to violence, and it is about time that this Parliament and this country accepted Jim Cairns for what he is, because he is a courageous man. [More…]

• The history books will prove that he was the man who led the struggle and led Australians against involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• He was the man who told the people of Australia of the dark history that we were writing in our history books of our involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• He is an honest man and is proud of his position. [More…]

• It has been an astonishing performance by the Opposition - I could say a completely phoney performance. [More…]

• This is a man who sits on the front bench of the Opposition. [More…]

• It is obvious that this man despises South Vietnam and her allies and is hoping for a Communist victory. [More…]

• Something like 3 million or 4 million man days have been lost in our community because of mistakes made months ago. [More…]

• This means that when the shift is completed in about a year, the Air Guard will man 20 of the 27 squadrons assigned to guard this country- [More…]

• It is no use saying to a man: We will help you paper your house’, when what he needs is to have a roof on the house. [More…]

• I think it is fairly accepted that a reasonable definition of pollution would be the addition by man of detectable amounts of deleterious substances to air, land and water. [More…]

• Unless grants can be applied to these purposes, the community will be faced with 2 problems: Firstly, a lack of facilities in the way of physical buildings for the training of appropriate doctors to man the health services and, secondly, a lack of appropriate buildings to accommodate sick persons. [More…]

• We have further demands, as will occur with any developing community, for further educational train ing of people in institutions that are not the normal education institutions. [More…]

• The arguments that the Commonwealth and State governments have about the provision of money for hospitals, facilities for training, road safety measures, measures against pollution, sewerage and all the rest that man wants from his environment nowadays, are 10 times worse in the field of local government and the finance that is channelled through the States to assist local government bodies. [More…]

• Responsibility must be accepted by the Commonwealth, and there must be a reassessment of the relationships between the Commonwealth and State governments and the nature of the grants and loans that are given if we are effectively to plan our community for the benefit of man and see that we all receive a reasonable share of the community wealth and enjoyment as we should. [More…]

• Any man who has served overseas and whose health may not be as good as it might be, whether because of a war caused disability or not, by virtue of the fact that he has served his country may receive a service pension at the age of 60 which takes the place of the age pension for which a person has to wait until he reaches the age of 65. [More…]

• As k ponder on what has happened I cannot help thinking, with great sadness, that the Father of the Year must be a troubled man at this stage because at home the family is arriving and in Canberra the family is leaving. [More…]

• In no other place than that lovely little island of Tasmania when one of the Lyons roared. [More…]

• He said that he had resigned from the Ministry in Tasmania because to be successful a coalition must be based on mutual trust, understanding and confidence between the parties involved. [More…]

• He said that these conditions had long ceased to exist in Tasmania. [More…]

• That is why the Tasmanian Government has been wrecked - incompetence by the Premier and Leader of the Liberal Party in that State and his dictatorial attitude. [More…]

• As Mr Lyons went on to say, a one-man band was ruling in Tasmania. [More…]

• As I have said, Mr Lyons said that the Tasmanian Government was a one-man band, and now that the Lyons have roared again, that Government may well disappear into political oblivion, as did a Labor government in this Parliament on a previous occasion when Lyons roared. [More…]

• A second minister resigned from the Tasmanian Government. [More…]

• He said: That will show real unity in the ranks of the Liberal Party in Tasmania’. [More…]

• I repeat that the Premier of Tasmania said: ‘We are united now in Tasmania’ after the Government had been wrecked and one of its ministers had resigned. [More…]

• He goes on to say that Mr Len Bosman should recapture Australia’s most marginal seat of St George and join his 23 other Government colleagues on the Government benches. [More…]

• For instance, the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King), who is the Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Primary Industry, was told in his electorate that he was not a suitable man, but the Liberals withdrew their candidate because Mr King could well be defeated. [More…]

• We cannot help but like the man. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, one man who came to see me only last week would have been entitled to receive supplementary assistance for the past 3 years if he had understood the form that has to be completed. [More…]

• If that had been done in the case to which I have referred the man would have received supplementary assistance for 3 years prior to the time when he actually received it. [More…]

• This is what the Minister described as a key man strike because if we take the drivers off the trains the trains cannot run. [More…]

• But I think we have a different situation where people in entirely different industries have been denied unemployment benefits although they are members of entirely different industries and in some cases are members of a union which was very marginally involved in the dispute and played no key role in the manufacture of power. [More…]

• With all due respect to the knowledge which the Minister for Shipping and Transport and the Minister for Trade and Industry have of farming, neither is quite the perfect man to occupy the position of Minister for Trade and Industry, responsible for secondary industry. [More…]

• In the 8 months since the last Budget something like 3.6 million man days have been lost through additional unemployment created by Government policy and that figure does not take into account the numbers who were unemployed in the same month the previous year. [More…]

• This does happen in many cases. [More…]

• Manufacturers can operate in the certain knowledge that prices can be increased because there is such a large area of tariff protection yet available for their industries. [More…]

• One can always tell a man who is dining out on an expense account by the enthusiasm with which he summons the waiter. [More…]

• Inflation destroys the little man. [More…]

• It enables the big man to get away with murder. [More…]

• It is the little man who pays for inflation. [More…]

• He is always such a sad man. [More…]

• Instead we get this mournful, unhappy approach to the subject - an approach that he seems to bring to many subjects. [More…]

• Likewise the committee appointed to review taxation will have a tremendous responsibility, and the best man one could hope to have on that committee is a person very skilled in the operation of the taxation laws, one of the operators of the present system. [More…]

• Any man who comes into this House and condemns a senior Minister for attending a meeting of this nature in some other part of the world does not really realise the situation that exists throughout the world today. [More…]

• This project has been delayed for 12 to 18 months, and the man primarily responsible for holding up the work is the honourable member for Dawson. [More…]

• The amendment proposed all manner of investigations into sites at Chowilla and Dartmouth to find out what should be done. [More…]

• I say without fear of contradiction that the honourable member for Dawson is the man who was responsible for the delay in construction of the Dartmouth dam. [More…]

• If he is accusing me of not telling the truth he is the first man in the Federal Parliament who has done so in the 26 years that I have been a member. [More…]

• I am pleased to address you on this subject, Mr Deputy Speaker, because I know you are a man of some influence. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee is a remarkable man. [More…]

• If he wants to go into political oblivion with that record behind him, he is not a difficult man to please; but I would have thought that he might well have been more proud had he thought that the country was flourishing, everybody was working and there was no necessity for the legislation which we are discussing today. [More…]

• When it came to voting for the wool bounty, or whatever we once had, a man with one bale, of wool had the same voting power as a man with 100 bales of wool. [More…]

• It will be recollected that those who cry about unemployment were responsible for literally thousands of man days being lost in Queensland during sporting tours last year, and it was only, for example, through the courage- [More…]

• The former honourable member for Franklin, Mr Falkinder, an able man if ever there was one, could do no better than Assistant Minister so he resigned. [More…]

• There is no particular wisdom that befalls a man just because he is a Minister, although such a man might have more resources at his disposal. [More…]

• But many more amendments ought to be accepted. [More…]

• There should be many more free votes on internal questions within Bills because there are a remarkable number of non-partisan matters which pass through this place about which the Ministry should not be so possessive. [More…]

• Indeed, the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) used to be known as the abominable no man. [More…]

• He was only a referee, as it were, between the claimant and the ultimate decision and nobody took very much notice of that decision if he thought he could get past it. [More…]

• To investigate the problems of preserving or improving man’s environment with particular reference to their economic and trade implications; [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is a man who aspires to be Prime Minister above all else. [More…]

• He is the man who has even called on our troops to mutiny. [More…]

• First of all, I should like to refer to a man whom I regard as my friend - the honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Luchetti). [More…]

• What about a leading aircraftsman or an able seaman? [More…]

• He is knowledgeable man and a distinguished man and no doubt he will come amongst these titled people. [More…]

• Any man proposed to be appointed as director of a film school, in my view, would not be a candidate if he were lacking in style. [More…]

• The situation of an unemployed man with a wife and 2 or 3 dependent children is in fact much more serious than the situation of many of these other people in that, with a meagre income and often with the sort of economic background related to work of so many of the people who find themselves unemployed, unemployment represents a monumental crisis because not only will he get a lesser return in benefits but also he will be involved in additional costs which the others would not have. [More…]

• Such a person has to be mobile because the Government demands that he approach so many employers every week, record their names and report - like little boys reporting to the school prefect - on them to the Government to prove that be has chased up work. [More…]

• The work is demanding as to the hours, the interruptions that occur and the complexities we are faced with in considering the matters that come to our attention, whether we are taking part in debate on legislation, trying to unravel a problem for a constituent, attending to party matters or going to speak to some organisation in our electorates or visiting an organisation in somebody else’s electorate, even in another State, to get some information. [More…]

• Whatever aspects we look at, if a man is conscientious - most people are if they are willing to make the effort to get into this place and sit for outrageous hours - he has a continual pressure on him to absorb information, correlate it and act on it efficiently. [More…]

• If we have excessively late sittings we are not in a position to deal with legislation in a fitting manner. [More…]

• That is the difference between the city man and the country man. [More…]

• The man who lives in Sydney is even better off. [More…]

• The honourable member for North Sydney, who just interjected, is the only man on the Government side of the chamber who has had the courage to vote with members of the Opposition, as he did last night, on a proposition put forward by a member of the Opposition. [More…]

• They have put up the scaffold and appointed the man who will spring the trap and they are prepared to succumb on the scafforld by not agreeing to alter sitting hours tonight. [More…]

• If the Government has seen fit to knight a man of his standing and position, who commands so much respect, I am quite sure that all honourable members should examine his suggestion that the House should adjourn at 10.30 at night. [More…]

• I attribute it, probably more than anything else, to the many long and tedious hours which I have spent in this Parliament. [More…]

• He said that when he first entered this Parliament as a comparatively young man he excelled during the all-night sittings; he loved being here all night; he loved nothing better than to debate a matter in the early hours of the morning. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Grayndler is a fair minded man but it is on record that he commented that the honourable member for North Sydney was not in the House very often. [More…]

• The test is whether he holds office, because a man may profit from the holding of office under the Crown without receiving money. [More…]

• The late A. G. Cameron was a man of great and high reputation. [More…]

• He was a man who insisted on the Government that appointed him fulfilling to the letter the constitutional requirements of the law. [More…]

• Does any member believe that a man appointed to the exalted position of Speaker of this [More…]

• This man is a moderate wage earner with a family and dependants. [More…]

• In it this organisation said that it was not prepared to give a refund to this man. [More…]

• I have never set myself up in this House as being a specialist on charter flight operations; I do not think that any man would do so. [More…]

• Travel House (Orange) Pty Ltd is a company which has been established for many years in the electorate of the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) and members of that company were really upset because they thought that I was referring to their company. [More…]

• Immediately after I had made my speech in this House a man in Brisbane came to me and said that Travel House of Australia owed him $700. [More…]

• He said: T have been there many times and I have had a fairly rough deal. [More…]

• I wonder what would have happened if this man had not gone to Melbourne, because the money had been the subject of dispute for some 4 or 5 months. [More…]

• I believe he is a courageous man who has the strength of his convictions. [More…]

• I certainly hope that his services will not be lost to the Commonwealth of Australia, even though he is no longer Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Not only have many of our fellow employees been retrenched, but others have been compelled to accept substantial cuts in salary and/or relocation in positions inconsistent with their previous training and experience. [More…]

• Sir, if you would enlighten us as to how a $3,000 per annum reduction in salary could be conducive of maintenance of high morale inthe case of a man with 27 years of loyal service to Qantas. [More…]

• consequently, that a man on this income supporting a wife and 6 children has a total income, including child endowment, of $16.35 a week below the updated poverty line when one applies the basic formula used in the 1966 poverty survey of Melbourne University? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the unemployment benefit plus child endowment for this man would provide him with nearly $4 a week more than he would earn under the Government sponsored relief programme as an unskilled worker - [More…]

• Racism is the ultimate violence because it begins and ends with the denial of a man’s basic humanity. [More…]

• Sir Robert Thompson, a man who has had considerable experience of Vietnam, tells of villages where the membership of the local home guard were ex-Vietcong to a man and are now loyal to the Government. [More…]

• Inflation has been brought within manageable limits. [More…]

• The bodies of a man, Ms wife and family lay where they had been burned to death. [More…]

• I believe they are both wrong and I believe tht the criminal operation of this Government has been to ignore the fact of humanity and ignore Australia’s duty to get into the international arena and force international forums to accept the responsibility to stop people killing one another. [More…]

• He is a man with a distinguished war service. [More…]

• I believe he is an honourable and truthful man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) is to follow me in this debate. [More…]

• Again he is an honourable man and I draw his attention and the attention of the House to a lecture that he gave on Labor ideology and the significance of the so-called similarity between Communist Party policy in Vietnam and the policy of the Labor Party at that time. [More…]

• Does the honourable member for Wills not know that many members on his side have recently been in the Soviet Union and are continuing to go to the Soviet Union? [More…]

• There may be important issues such as education, hospitals and social services, but the most basic important issue which every man, woman and child who has any concern for Australia has to consider is where do we go in the future? [More…]

• Of course, we in this House know that he is a man who is interested in economic progress and in bringing a measure of objectivity to the matters on which he speaks. [More…]

• The Country Party, who have so long complained to the farmer that the city interests are truly those which have bled the farmer white, now ally themselves with the Party representing those interests and pretending as they do that such a course is the only one open for the true benefit of the man on the land. [More…]

• Until Labor came to office in those years the farmer was as destitute as he is today under a Liberal-Tory Government, But Labor let the man on the land march proudly through Australia. [More…]

• The Labor Party gave the primary producer the opportunity to live as he should - as a human being with a good return for his products, a fair return to the worker, and in every way take his place in society not as a debtor but as a proud man adding his contribution to the welfare of this country. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) is a man who hardly ever ventures into country areas but who, in 1965, said that far too much money was being spent in the country. [More…]

• As a result of a statement made there by the Leader of the Opposition, to the effect that as so many people live in the cities we could not really spend any money in the country, the honourable member for Maranoa is now more assured than ever of a record majority at the next Federal election. [More…]

• When the man on the land is finding it difficult to pay his way, other people are finding it difficult to pay their way. [More…]

• All these organisations only give emphasis to the problems of the man on the land and the need to find finance to establish our rural industry on a proper and permanent basis. [More…]

• J have referred to the problem of the business people who are affected by the difficulties of the man on the land. [More…]

• These things are all right when expressed on paper but when it comes to the man on the land who pleads for financial assistance and who needs money to help him conduct his property, these remarks seem to have a very hollow ring indeed. [More…]

• I would like to think that there would be a closer liaison between this Government, the States and the man on the land to see that justice is done. [More…]

• New South Wales is to receive $36.8m; Victoria is to receive $25.4m; Queensland will receive $24.4m of which $6m relates to separate arrangements; South Australia will receive $ 13.8m; Western Australia will receive $ 16.8m and Tasmania will receive $13. [More…]

• There must be a full march ahead to acquisition for the control of this industry to protect it against overseas buyers and those who have manipulated the market in the past. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth Government now, after providing rural reconstruction assistance, fails to grip the nettle as it should and go along with the scheme of full and complete acquisition of the clip, and the control and’ protection of those who produce the golden fleece, I believe that the Government will be falling down in its duty to the man on the land who produces our wool clip. [More…]

• A man went along and said to one man working on the job: ‘What are you doing?’. [More…]

• The workman replied: ‘I am working for $90 a week’. [More…]

• He went along to a second man and said, ‘What are you doing?’ [More…]

• He went to a third man and asked him what he was doing. [More…]

• Are many of our people working just for the wages they receive? [More…]

• I find that throughout the country many people are touchy about anything to do with nationalism. [More…]

• Someone has said that an enthusiastic man has had a visitation of the Gods. [More…]

• In that genial glow the heart warms; faith and hope revive; energy takes command; mortal men become heroes; the impossible becomes possible; and the work of the world is done. [More…]

• He would be a good man to have in Singapore. [More…]

• After all, he is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• A man named Young had done some research. [More…]

• The Chief of Police in Hue, a man named Doan Cong Lap, supplied the following information to the research officers. [More…]

• But I would add that the ‘Australian’ evidently recognised the high qualities of this young man by conferring a knighthood on him. [More…]

• Secondly, we would have an additional advantage in that the Seamen’s Union and those people who man the ships would not so easily be able to bold the whole system to ransom. [More…]

• They will know exactly what is required of them; the owners of the vessels will know what is required of them, and so also will the men who are obliged to man these vessels in their operations. [More…]

• I understand that Australian crews were to man this ship, but there is a bit of a dispute over this question. [More…]

• I think that this question of shipping generally on the Australian coast involves not only our trading position but also the people who man the ships on the Australian coast. [More…]

• I think it should be our aim - it is the aim of honourable members on this side of the House - to ensure that Australian built ships, manned by Australian crews, operate on an equal basis with overseas ships that operate from the Australian coast. [More…]

• If a man is willing to work and do a fair day’s job he can earn high wages. [More…]

• An Australian able seaman receives $6,977, almost the same as does a United Kingdom master. [More…]

• He is a man who would seem to have strong views, as indeed any citizen is entitled to have, on the question of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]

• That man, whom the editorial writers of the ‘Northern Terirtory News’ described as a champion of Aboriginal causes, found himself fined $20 for each of a number of offences he was alleged to have committed by making public comments on Aboriginal land rights. [More…]

• In this way a fine young man who could have contributed a lot to the Public Service went into private practice. [More…]

• In point of fact, the selection of a person to serve on the Board is made not only from the standpoint of the industry from which he comes but also on the personal qualities of the man himself. [More…]

• Shylock had nothing on these giant breweries in our midst which are taking advantage of the ordinary working man’s love of a schooner, a middy or even a pint of beer. [More…]

• The man in the street is paying far too much for his glass of beer. [More…]

• An active Labor Government will see that he is no longer fleeced in this sphere, as he is in so many others. [More…]

• loss of man hours and earning capacity; and > [More…]

• The present honourable member for Shortland (Mr Griffith) is a man of undoubted integrity and honesty, and is one of the most respected members of this Parliament. [More…]

• One candidate, Mr Frank Donnelly, has won the last 2 of the 3 ballots by 2 votes and one vote respectively from Alderman Peter Morris. [More…]

• I have not contested as many elections as has my colleague and friend, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly), but I have that ambition, and my experience of the performance of the Commonwealth Electoral Office in Queensland over a number of years has been that it is excellent. [More…]

• He is a man of impeccable standing. [More…]

• On other occasions Mr Weiss has given rulings which may not have been as well received as they could have been by the Labor Party, but he has always been a man who has been completely impartial and fair, and he has demanded those qualities from officers under him. [More…]

• Electoral Office in Darwin, but the system is so denied of money and manpower that in these very large electorates the number of officers who are involved is insufficient to meet the requirements of the task. [More…]

• Boundaries have been gerrymandered against the Labor Party at State level in every State except Tasmania. [More…]

• The principle of equity between electorates, and the principle of one man one vote, one vote one value are principles which were dearly bought and which should be preserved. [More…]

• Our experience on this side of the House over many years has been that a well conducted and thoroughly impartial electoral system is absolutely vital to the Labor Party. [More…]

• The Labor Party, at present in Opposition but shortly to be the Government, will demonstrate its attitude to a fair and impartial electoral system by removing from the offices of the Commonwealth Electoral Office the embarrassment of a Country Party gerrymander, and honourable members will be able to judge our attitude next year in this place not only by our words but also by our actions. [More…]

• There is nothing trivial about this matter having been raised today in this manner. [More…]

• To listen to the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) - we all have the greatest affection for him and he is the funniest man in the House - one would think that this was a funny matter. [More…]

• In a recent interview on the television programme This Day Tonight’, the man who on at least 2 occasions was selected as the candidate for Shortland said: lt is coming to the stage where statutory declarations are not worth the paper they are written on. [More…]

• The interviewer then went on to ask about bribery and telephone tapping and the man who twice was selected as the Australian Labor Party candidate for Shortland said: [More…]

• What is particularly interesting is the way in which the Queensland Minister for Health, Mr D. Tooth, M.L.A., a rather quaint old man, has been running around Queensland saying: ‘We do not need the proposals of the Federal Labor Party on health insurance. [More…]

• He had managed to use information available to him as a Minister of the Crown to turn an investment of $4 into $720,000 with a holding of 1 million shares in Exoil NL. [More…]

• This showed the attitude of this man who leads the coalition in Queensland. [More…]

• I realise that the honourable member for Brisbane is a young man. [More…]

• I do not know how many millions of dollars have been lost to Queensland because the Queensland Labour government refused Commonwealth assistance. [More…]

• He is a man of the highest integrity and he has earned the support of all Queenslanders. [More…]

• If there were any doubt about the status of this man and his leadership let us look briefly at the results of 2 recent by-elections in Queensland. [More…]

• I am referring to the ordinary railwayman who found that the extra loading was not there any more and that there was no overtime for him when he and his family had taken on hire purchase and other commitments. [More…]

• I am referring to the tank sinker, the fencer and the small business man such as myself. [More…]

• Fortunately they had as a leader a man of integrity, courage and concern for the people, not policies, in Jo Petersen, whose leadership has been acclaimed from one end of this nation to the other and who had a group of Ministers on whom he could rely. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh) is ashamed of what he said about this man and Sir Gordon Chalk. [More…]

• It is all very well for the honourable member for Dawson to talk about what happened in Tasmania. [More…]

• I noticed tonight that the honourable member for Bowman in a most airy fairy manner suggested that come May we would see a change of government in Queensland. [More…]

• I am not a betting man, but my goodness, I would like to take a bet from the Opposition. [More…]

• I commend the Australian Broadcasting Commission for the special manner in which it drew attention to the fact that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) had arrived in Queensland. [More…]

• One is to bring up personalities because they are afraid that the Australian people will demand to examine their policies. [More…]

• When they start to compare policies they find, as the honourable member for Dawson, for whom I have the greatest respect, pointed out not so very long ago, that the rural policy of the Australian Labor Party is such that any Labor man who holds a marginal seat in rural areas will lose his seat at the next election. [More…]

• The dairy farmer has managed to keep abreast of increasing costs by increasing productivity per acre and per man and increasing his herd size. [More…]

• The Parliament would be remiss in its duty if it ignored the fact that the dairy industry’s supportive services - the freights, the handling and the marketing - are the areas where improvements in performance are needed. [More…]

• In 20 years farmers have, over a wide range of products, doubled their per man and per acre output and efficiency. [More…]

• It appears by the performance of the Australian Labor Party and by the association of many members of that Party with those of the Communist Party that this is now an offence within Australia. [More…]

• But it does to me appear to be suggested by the honourable member for Sturt, by Senator Murphy and by the honourable member for Lalor, as quoted in this article, to be an offence for any man in this Parliament to deal with any organisation that may be prepared to take some action against those of the Left and against Communist infiltrators and subverted in this country in order to do something to protect our children in our schools and universities. [More…]

• I have no comment to make relating to the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Loane, other than that the man has my complete respect. [More…]

• I regard him as a man of integrity and, much more, I think that his activities in the social services field deserve commendation rather than an attempt to drag them into political debate on the floor of this House. [More…]

• As to the second part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I have read the various objectives that are set out by the people concerned and I will ensure that each of those objectives is very carefully considered by my colleagues. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister noted statements by spokesmen, including the shadow Minister in this Parliament responsible for industrial affairs the honourable member for Hindmarsh, and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that it is impossible for a family of a man, wife and 2 children to live at a decent level on the new Federal minimum wage of $51.10? [More…]

• I have tremendous respect for the honourable member for St George, who is a very capable man and has served Australia very well. [More…]

• The honourable member for Werriwa 1 hope will be man enough to stand forward and be counted. [More…]

• It seems impossible to believe that any State Department man of consequence (from Dean Acheson down) still believes in Nationalist China. [More…]

• married man who has to support a wife, who is not working, and 2 children. [More…]

• At last loans are being made for terms which are appropriate to rural industries and conducive to efficiency in rural industries, some of them being for almost the whole working life of a man. [More…]

• The population of South Australia, including every man, woman and child, is just over one million. [More…]

• On my calculations, after a future Labor government controlled gerrymander, this would leave South Australia with a representation of 2 country seats and 10 urban seats. [More…]

• Clive is a middle-aged man with a small earning capacity who has always been in marginal poverty. [More…]

• He is unable to keep his mind on work when he is away from her and has sought help on many occasions from the church for small sums of money or for food parcels to tide him over periods of unemployment when he must nurse his wife. [More…]

• Families with 3 children in 1949 received in child endowment 11.5 per cent of the average man’s weekly earnings and now receive 4 per cent. [More…]

• These are the words of someone who is, in many respects, a critic of the Government. [More…]

• But they are the words of an honest man who is not trying to rubbish Australia. [More…]

• Many of these areas of poverty are surely man-made. [More…]

• The Opposition could not claim that it is not partly to blame for the increase in costs which always hits the pensioner, the superannuitant and the man on a low wage, particularly if he has a large family. [More…]

• It has been a serious attempt to improve the lot of those who really need assistance in this country where we should not have any widespread poverty but, as I have said, there always will be areas of poverty, often man-made. [More…]

• We have the incredible situation in which a man on unemployment or sickness benefits in the [More…]

• One does not need to be a weather man to know which way the wind is blowing. [More…]

• Acting merely as a politician, the Leader of the Opposition, knowing that concern about poverty has been expressed by a number of churchmen in Sydney, decided to cash in on the circumstances at his command whatever wind that concern might generate. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), who regards himself as the shadow Minister for Social Services and Health, tried to denigrate Australia’s performance in social services compared with that of the rest of the world. [More…]

• Mainly because of the compulsory secret strike ballot that was then ordered by the Bruce Government, that strike ended up being the longest strike in the history of the industry, and it resulted in the Prime Minister who ordered the imprisonment of the strike leader losing his blue ribbon conservative seat to the man whom he gaoled. [More…]

• Once again, however, I must make the point that no matter whether it be a full-time official or a job representative, the person who speaks for the union must not have the reputation of being a ‘boss’s man’. [More…]

• It may not be pleasant for a works’ manager to be informed of his own shortcomings, but surely this is preferable to making the discovery only after these have produced a crisis. [More…]

• The Judge said that no man becomes a criminal by refusing to accept work or by refusing to give work to men seeking work. [More…]

• Certainly it ought to be a basic, fundamental statement of human rights and of the position in which every human being ought to be able to see himself placed. [More…]

• Does he believe that it is in the public interest that prices should be allowed to gallop ahead of wages so that every man whose wife is not working must work regular overtime to make ends meet? [More…]

• Does a Commissioner pay more for his bread or his petrol or his beer than the tradesman pays? [More…]

• Are his children entitled to better medical attention, better schooling, better holidays or better recreational opportunities than those whose father is a tradesman? [More…]

• The Minister seeks to justify the retention of strike penalties by making reference to the 3 million man-days lost in 1971 through strikes. [More…]

• If the Minister is worried, as he ought to be, about lost production, why does he not turn his mind to reducing the 4 million man-days that are lost each year through avoidable industrial accidents and disease. [More…]

• If his Government is so concerned about lost production, how does he explain the fact that his Government is allowing the production loss of something like 19 million man-days through unemployment? [More…]

• Why, the Prime Minister would think nothing of spending a working man’s weekly wage in entertaining a friendly couple in one night. [More…]

• The ACTU claim for a $70 a week minimum wage was not an excessive figure for the maintenance of a man and his family. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister can devise a budget that will properly maintain a man, his wife and 2 children in food and clothing and to pay their educational expenses, transport expenses and house rent and so on on $70 a week, I will resign from the Parliament tomorrow. [More…]

• If Mr Hawke has to support diametrically opposed policies, according to what hat he happens to be wearing at the time, no wonder the ordinary man in the street is confused; no wonder the last vestige of credibility or even consistency has disappeared from ALP industrial relations policy. [More…]

• One would have thought that a man in his position as Assistant Minister would at least have confined his remarks to the Bill. [More…]

• He drew attention to the number of man days lost to industry due to stoppages. [More…]

• The number of man hours lost through unemployment was about 5 times that lost through industrial action. [More…]

• The basic concepts of conciliation and arbitration have not really changed over the many decades that this particular form of industrial relations has been in operation. [More…]

• Again, I believe it would do a great deal of service to the community if those honourable members opposite to a man were able to keep those basic principles in view when they are considering this particular field of interest and, sometimes, of conflict. [More…]

• I would not blame the average man on the factory floor who, by definition, is not exactly among the educated elite of this country and who is not in a position to be able to make his own decisions individually, sensibly and ably in the same way as the people who lead him are able to make them. [More…]

• Man Seeks Bass Seat’. [More…]

• There are many of them. [More…]

• It is nonsense to say that because the man referred to by the honourable member for Denison stood for Labor Party selection he should therefore never be able to appear on a current affairs programme under the auspices of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• I think the man has had a go, and I think it is time that he was sent. [More…]

• 1 have never known his successor, the man who ousted him, to deny that the promise was made. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has been committed to this proposition for many years. [More…]

• It is impossible to read any country newspaper outside the metropolitan areas without reading an account of a farewell party to a young man or woman going to what is often called ‘the city’ - by which is meant the capital city. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has used the argument that if a young man is old enough to fight and die for his country he is old enough to vote. [More…]

• These are just a few which one would hardly describe as advanced democratic nations, yet this reform is an established fact in those countries, lt is a tragic fact that Australia, which once proudly led the world by giving equal, democratic vote to every man and woman, now drags at the heels of some of the much less advanced nations of the world. [More…]

• I hope that every man under 21 years of age who is called up and called upon to fight for this country realises that the Minister does not think they are entitled to have a vote. [More…]

• As honourable members will appreciate, this is a reference to another Act which defines in more detail special service overseas and special areas and the substance of the provision for the legislation is that when a man is in the defence forces and is overseas in a theatre of war, if one may refer to it in that compendious way, he is entitled to be enrolled as a voter. [More…]

• A beautiful little piece of evidence that became available only overnight was the speech made by a man who is probably in as good position as anyone to speak on this matter. [More…]

• I refer to Mr Rattigan, the Chairman of the Tariff Board. [More…]

• In a speech to the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for Australia at a meeting held in Sydney Mr Rattigan, the Chairman of the Board, said: [More…]

• It creates a system of checks and balances with this man standing up against that man. [More…]

• I would like, if I may, very briefly to cite the opinion of a man for whom I have the greatest admiration and affection, the late Sir John Latham. [More…]

• Honourable gentleman may recall that between 1926 and 1929 he went through the great upheavals associated with arbitration and conciliation and the Marine Industries Act. [More…]

• No system of industrial relations yet devised by man is perfect but ours might well be described in the words used by Sir Winston Churchill when he spoke about democracy and said that it was the worst system imaginable, except for all the alternatives. [More…]

• The union brought all its tramway drivers on strike, but one man, who was a migrant, went back to work and for doing so was persecuted by the union. [More…]

• Again we are faced with a piece of political legislation aimed at the working man. [More…]

• They are supporting moves to manipulate figures to show a loss factor to avoid taxation payments on the real profits. [More…]

• There can be no doubts in anyone’s mind that this legislation is designed to control and suppress wage increases and to force wage fixing on the working man through the courts without introducing price or profit controls, lt is blatant politics at their worst. [More…]

• I am told that you can always tell a man who is dining out on an expense account by the enthusiasm with which he summons the waiter. [More…]

• I repeat that this was stated by the man who had the responsibility for trying to help Wilson keep the socialist machine running smoothly. [More…]

• It would destroy the small man. [More…]

• What concerns me is whether a man who holds 4 positions will be able to carry out the responsible position of Chairman of the Road Safety Committee. [More…]

• How can he be Chairman of 2 select committees, one already doing a job and the other appointed to do a job, a member of the Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, which meets at least once a week and sometimes twice a week, as well as holding the responsible position of Government Whip? [More…]

• As I have said, this is not a personal attack on the honourable member, but I desire to make sure that the Committee, which has just been appointed, will be able to function and will not be hamstrung and frustrated because of other responsibilities held by the Chairman of the Committee. [More…]

• I am proud to recall the memory of a man who sat in this House for many years. [More…]

• He was a very gentle man. [More…]

• I would be the first to agree that just because a man has a wig on his head it does not mean to say that he has any brains. [More…]

• Everything depends upon the man. [More…]

• I am not sure whether the honourable gentleman was agreeing with the comments of my colleague, the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]

• Probably the only man who was able to do this with any sort of equanimity at all died some thousands of years ago and his name was Solomon. [More…]

• Nor do I believe that there is any way in which the law can equip a man to sit down and consider a dispute. [More…]

• A lot more good would be done for the community if we were to take a man from the floor of the factory, if that were necessary, because of his experience in solving disputes at that level and give him authority to sit in judgment on these matters rather than select a man simply because he is a lawyer. [More…]

• If a man from the trade union movement is appointed a Deputy President, with his background in the trade union movement he will want to stand high in the eyes of the trade union movement. [More…]

• If a man with a degree in commerce or law is appointed a Deputy President, he will bring to the position the experience which he has gained in those fields. [More…]

• When I referred to this matter in my speech in the second reading debate I mentioned the man who would be appointed. [More…]

• I suppose one could paraphrase this expression by saying a senior person - a man of good reputation in the community. [More…]

• I have said before in this place that the mere fact that a person has been through university does not convince me as to his quality either as a man or to the quality of his cerebral processes. [More…]

• I can recall one man who had very little formal education but who could quote Shakespeare literally by the page. [More…]

• I can envisage many trade union officials, many of whom I know and count amongst my friends - I act for them professionally and they are people who have come up the hard way, after serving about 40 years in their positions - who in my view would qualify, but they do not hold a university degree. [More…]

• It would seem to me that if the Government is prepared to make the change and say ‘Well, we want presidential members other than lawyers’, it must be prepared to concede that there are people available who would be qualified in terms of broad industrial experience or, if you like, broad managerial experience. [More…]

• There are a lot of managers I know who did not go to a university but who have come up, as it were, right through the ranks. [More…]

• The Chifley Government appointed a practical miner, James Connell, as chairman of the Local Coal Reference Board. [More…]

• The respect in which he was held by all sections of mine workers, the fact that in civilian life he was a clean, decent living man with a deep knowledge of human beings, enabled him to do an excellent job as chairman of the Board and to solve many disputes that could ..have spread and become catastrophes in’ a country hungry for coal. [More…]

• My late father, who was known to many of the older members in this House, told me that James Connell gave a decision as chairman of the Local Coal Reference Board which was appealed against by the colliery owners. [More…]

• Despite this man’s ordinary formal education - or perhaps I: should say schooling - in the appeal to the High Court of Australia his decision was confirmed. [More…]

• I know that if I were in an aeroplane that was forced down in the Simpson Desert and, on the one hand, an illiterate Aborigine said to me, ‘There is a water hole over here’ and, on the other hand, the greatest navigator in the world pulled out his instruments and said, ‘No there is a water hole over there; come with me’, I know which one I would follow - the man with the education and not the man with the schooling. [More…]

• Can it be suggested that it would not be appropriate for the Deputy President to be a man of acute, high and long-standing experience within the trade union movement? [More…]

• A man who is already getting $11,800 a year now cannot say that he needs more money. [More…]

• A man who on that salary tries to get more money while people are being told that they have to be prepared to accept an increase of $2 a week - men who are still getting only a miserable $60 or $70 a week on which to live - in my opinion are being motivated by greed and not need, and we ought not to lend ourselves to this sort of thing. [More…]

• I am not talking about the ordinary street sweeper but the fitter and turner, the highest skilled man who has served his apprenticeship in order to be able to qualify. [More…]

• Twenty-five years ago the difference between the salary of a conciliation commissioner and that of a tradesman’s was $2,157. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that from now on the workers who appear before the commission and before these men who are to get this exorbitant increase compared with what they give other people, and who every time have refused the workers a decent increase, will remember my words that this is a pay-out to carry out the Government’s discreditable and villainous policy of wage fixation for the man on the low salary? [More…]

• What a generous statement from a man who would not take less than $1,000 a week to misrun the country in the way that he does today. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Chairman, you ask me to relate my remarks to clause 12. [More…]

• How am I not relating my remarks to the clause when I say that the commissioners to whom we are expected to grant salary increases of $4,400 a year think that an increase of only $2 a week is enough for the man on the minimum wage of $52 a week? [More…]

• What does a conciliation commissioner know about the wants and needs of a man earning $52 a week, if he is sitting back on $16,700 a year? [More…]

• The same court said in that case that $54 a week is sufficient for a man, his wife. [More…]

• The man on $67 a week was the one who needed the $19 and the man on $220 a week could have made do with the $6. [More…]

• Anybody who stands in this place and pretends that I said that there ought to be a freeze at any level at all is manufacturing, inventing or fabricating something that did not even happen. [More…]

• Being a numbers man from way backand the Minister is smiling so I presume he is some sort of a numbers man too - the name of the game will be to persuade people not to vote. [More…]

• Something like 2i million or 3 million man-days are lost in a year through industrial disputes. [More…]

• I understand that his Department does not even keep statistics on man-days that are lost through industrial incidents. [More…]

• Unemployment has cost this country 12 million man-days a year. [More…]

• But the extra 60,000 unemployed that the Minister and his Government have brought into the community have meant the loss of 12 million mandays a year, and there is no word about that from the Government. [More…]

• The time lost through industrial disputes in Australia is estimated generally at 2i million or 3 million man-days a year. [More…]

• The same gentleman wrote concerning the spectacle of a ship called the ‘Acropolis’ on her maiden voyage to Darwin taking 4 days to unload a cargo in Darwin which it took 4 hours to load at its home port. [More…]

• Let us face it; the only man who ever speaks on behalf of waterside workers in Darwin is a ticketed communist. [More…]

• How did this man happen to become the leader of this organisation? [More…]

• This man is on the waterfront in Darwin to upset and completely disrupt the loading and unloading of ships. [More…]

• This is why the Chairman of the Port Authority wrote the way he did. [More…]

• The point about the whole matter is that this man got on to the waterfront prior to the introduction of secret ballots, but the Labor Party would do away with secret ballots as soon as possible because it wants this sort of person on the waterfront. [More…]

• Captain Tom Milner, the Chairman of the Port Authority, has referred to the loss to the port of Darwin and to the waterside workers who are cutting their own throats; they are fooling themselves. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Port Authority stated: [More…]

• Apparently there might be the suggestion that he agrees with a large measure of the proposals - and I pay him credit for being a man for whom I can say I have the highest regard - but of course we recognise that he is subject to juntas outside this Parliament and these are something over which he has no real control. [More…]

• This attack was based on this man’s inside story, so called, of events which occurred at Labor’s parliamentary executive and caucus meetings last Wednesday in relation to the Softwood Forestry Agreements Bill. [More…]

• I think that if there were 2 parties to a dispute before a man who was both conciliator and arbitrator, there would be the risk of the parties holding back and refraining fom giving all their information to the man who wore the 2 hats. [More…]

• It will not work to practice, but the theory of the Bill is that everything must be done to assist the conciliatory processes and it would be an assistance to the conciliatory processes if concessions made in the course of a conference were kept from the man who ultimately would have to move in and arbitrate. [More…]

• Let us assume that the man was ill. [More…]

• Some people may say that a conciliation commissioner would not call the man in those circumstances. [More…]

• There is great virtue - I hope I have always tried to show it both here and elsewhere - in listening to the other man’s argument, no matter how much von may disagree with it. [More…]

• I think this matter comes back to the sentiment expressed by the metaphysical poet Donne when he said: ‘No man is an island entire unto himself. [More…]

• For example, in 1950 the average output a man/shift in the coal mines of New South Wales was about 2.8 tons. [More…]

• It is now broadly on the average of 10 tons a man/shift a day. [More…]

• We note that, but we intend at all costs that every section of industry today will be drawn into it just as effectively as when a man gets his hand caught in a chaff cutter. [More…]

• The number of vehicles on trains has been considerably increased and the average tonnages which are drawn per man hour have considerably increased. [More…]

• Even in a man’s unemployment benefit the family unit is means tested on the earnings of the wife. [More…]

• Justice not only needs to be done but needs to be done in such a way that every man, and woman in the community at large understands what is being done. [More…]

• Where else in the field cf human relations can one find so much legislative mumbo-jumbo and impediment to human understanding and friendship as is placed in the hands of people who create a career out of what has become the industrial battlefield. [More…]

• But to continue in the manner in which we are proceeding is a farce. [More…]

• The Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) is a man of immense goodwill and great indulgence in listening to argument on this point. [More…]

• Under proposed new section 28 there will be a layman, a conciliation commissioner, making the decision on what is public interest. [More…]

• Let me tell the honourable member for Moreton that the result of that case was that the ship went to sea and every man on board bar one lost his life. [More…]

• If any employer, manufacturer or any person who provides services in this community found that it was unprofitable to make these goods or provide these services and decided he no longer would remain in that sort of business no matter how much those goods and services were needed by the community, this Government would not take a stand anywhere at all to ensure that these goods or services were provided. [More…]

• But what happens when a working man or group of working men take a free decision not to provide their commodity or services - that is their labour. [More…]

• I know it was not at the behest of the Opposition’s chief spokesman on industrial matters, a man for whom I have very high regard. [More…]

• They happened to be a feature of the Labor administration and I recall that a great Labor Premier of New South Wales, the honourable J. Cahill, a man for whom presumably the Opposition would exercise a note of high regard, was a man who believed fundamentally in the need for sanctions. [More…]

• It would be better if we had a way to determine the sum on which a man, his wife and his children could live, as Mr Justice Higgins introduced in the Harvester award in the first national basic wage decision, and then a margin for skill. [More…]

• If the Government is seriously concerned about the number of man-days that are lost through disputes in this country it will have greater concern after this Bill is passed because there can be no question that a dispute which could be relatively and simply solved by the good offices of a conciliator will be dragged on and on as the Commission considers the national economy in the light of public interest. [More…]

• Already one honourable member on the Government side, a man learned in the law, has said to us how very very difficult it is even to define ‘the public interest’. [More…]

• It would be better in regard to industrial relations and it would be better in the interests of the unions themselves because there are too many small unions at the present time. [More…]

• If unions could amalgamate and there was a bigger body of unions of similar types they could have specialists, they could have an officer dealing with industrial matters and they could have a man dealing with compensation, apart from the administration of those matters which are very necessary. [More…]

• I ask either the Minister for Immigration or the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it a fact that a man described as a businessman well known in Croatian circles in Melbourne was in Canada recently when his Australian passport was seized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and he was issued with a document which allowed him only to return to Australia? [More…]

• If he is aware of the objection, will he say whether his Government was aware of it when this man left Australia and, if so, why he was allowed to proceed on his journey with an Australian passport? [More…]

• Is he aware of the financial burden characteristically placed on the male party in a broken marriage and which falls with particular severity on the working man who may be required to pay more than half his weekly wage, even to a wife who has deserted him? [More…]

• I said that Australia was determined to insist on its ability and right to participate in the consideration of the important international monetary issues which confront us all, for the international monetary arrangements under which we operate can be of quite critical importance to all Australians - the farmer, the businessman, the trader, the financier and ultimately the man in the street. [More…]

• I would think that these things are still very mystifying to the gentleman to whom reference is made in this statement - the man in the street. [More…]

• But the man in the street finds it a bit difficult to contemplate what those sorts of transactions have to do with the price of his daily bread. [More…]

• It is the suggestion that we allow our currencies to be vulnerable to speculation that in many ways could be one of the undoings of Western economies which. [More…]

• I submit, are under great challenge in many respects at the moment, both internally and externally, for a number of reasons on which I do not have time to elaborate now. [More…]

• That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. [More…]

• Open wires on poles are clearly vulnerable all along their route to both natural and man made hazards. [More…]

• As we all know, the employment situation in Australia is not as good as it has been in many years past - at least 10 years past. [More…]

• This indicates to me that Australia is breeding the, type of man who is not prepared to accept the responsibility to make a decision. [More…]

• If anyone thinks we are blind to these sorts of things or if anyone thinks that any man in Australia, whether a parliamentarian or someone else, is bigger than the Australian wool industry, he is mistaken. [More…]

• I do not want to harm the future prospects of Mr Maher in semi-retirement, because he is a good man, nor of Mr Mitchell, but Mr Mitchell should have told the truth. [More…]

• The new man is of lesser calibre but a bigger bore. [More…]

• Let me refer now to the remarks of tha previous Attorney-General, a man whose judgment in these matters is highly respected on both sides of the House. [More…]

• My secretary is going through the files and pulling out correspondence to Ministers - 1 write many such letters every week - to ascertain the delays that are occurring by the inefficiency of Ministers in this Government in replying to simple correspondence from members who are seeking information. [More…]

• It took the Minister 3 months to give reasons why that young man had not gained a scholarship. [More…]

• If it were possible for a man from Mars to come down and look at what is going on in this House it would not be very long before he realised that we are getting near an election. [More…]

• That is the kind of man he is. [More…]

• How many Labor members knew about that? [More…]

• A Prime Minister who always professes to be a Cabinet man, a government man, should not argue as the Prime Minister did last night. [More…]

• There is no question on this side of the House and I believe in the minds of many members, if not a majority of members, on the Government side that this is a vital issue of national importance. [More…]

• At the some time the world faces what I might describe as the new colonialism: Who can command the resources? [More…]

• Surely it has been the experience of all of us in this Parliament that the bitterness of the 20th century lies in the fact that man has been unable to find an accommodation with his fellow man. [More…]

• It has been estimated that there are approximately 360 billion tons of manganese and approximately 15 billion tons of nickel under the Pacific Ocean. [More…]

• Take the case of a vessel moving out of the territorial sea alleged to belong to Queensland into Commonwealth waters and a man on board catches a fish. [More…]

• The conference which is in view will deal with one of the most complex fields of law known to man. [More…]

• He is a man of great charm and of immense capacity. [More…]

• I feel nothing but amazement at the arrogance of this man who feels that as Premier of Queensland he can take it unto himself to say whether he will negotiate or not negotiate with the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• As I said last night, there would not be a man in this House who would not say that this legislation should become law. [More…]

• Nonsense and humbug - a very good reason for the right honourable gentleman no longer being in the leadership of the Government. [More…]

• There is an old aphorism and a true one, that in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king. [More…]

• A 25-year old man who smokes 2 packets of cigarettes a day can expect to die, on the average, 8 years sooner than a non-smoker of the same age. [More…]

• So are we all concerned with freedom of choice, but freedom of choice for the consumer, freedom of choice for the man who is to buy a packet of cigarettes if he wants to, or the man who buys a motor car, a loaf of bread, a bar of chocolate, a Shirt or a suit. [More…]

• The way the Government has put this it is a freedom of choice not for the consumer but for the advertiser, the manufacturer of this toxic product. [More…]

• I will accept it only when the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) rises in the other place and says, on the integrity and the professional capacity of a man equivalent to General Refshauge, ‘These are the facts of life’ and this, so far, has not been done. [More…]

• May I first thank the honourable member publicly for the manner in which he assisted me to probe rather deeply into this matter when I was in Western Australia. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) would most certainly be the man involved in those circumstances. [More…]

• They take the man who began it down to the village square and hang him”. [More…]

• It is very easy to be a knocker, and the United States has far too many knockers. [More…]

• History has shown us that the best law is the one which is based upon the most widespread human knowledge and proper ascertainment ot the facts. [More…]

• The rule made by one man is not nearly as good as the one a man would mab”, after consultation with those who are intimately acquainted with the situation the rule is designed to cover. [More…]

• I give as an illustration the special advisory authority report on man made fibres which the Minister presented last Thursday. [More…]

• The special advisory authority has the arithmetic and information within his command. [More…]

• We had a recent illustration of this in the special advisory authority report on man-made fibres which was presented by the Minister last Thursday. [More…]

• I understand that this will be the sixth time within 10 years that a temporary duty has been imposed on man made fibres. [More…]

• Many industries have been encouraged to set up by unwise State government action and indeed sometimes by Federal Government action, with the acceptance that lavish protection will always be available. [More…]

• Fibre Makers Ltd, in the field of man-made fibres. [More…]

• There we are, the honourable member for Robertson is the man who interjected and that cleans the matter up. [More…]

• What has been the living-away-from-home allowance for tertiary education for (a) a single person, and (b) a married man with a wife and one child, under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme, in each of the last 10 years. [More…]

• That man is an out and out scoundrel from whose pen flow lies with impunity. [More…]

• He did this and yet he is supposed to be such a brilliant man compared with myself. [More…]

• In 1955 the man who had opposed me joined the Democratic Labor Party immediately after his defeat. [More…]

• With the exception of salinity and the sometimes serious pollution from mine tailings in the interior rivers of the mainland States and Tasmania the major water pollution problems in Australia are within estuarine areas. [More…]

• It is there that the impact of industrialisation, land filling, tourist development, power generation and other activities of man is greatest. [More…]

• The above example clearly shows that State-Commonwealth cooperation will be necessary in projects not using Commonwealth funds if we are to ensure that the delicate marine ecosystem is to survive the various ad hoc activities of man. [More…]

• It is a whole umbrella of concerns which have as their common denominator the negative impact on a system with finite limits of man-generated growth which ignores the finite size of that system. [More…]

• We must be concerned with a whole complex of man, nature, technology and society. [More…]

• Because the environment is such a complex interaction of man, nature, technology and society we cannot just set up a bureaucracy and call it the Department of the Environment and expect it to solve our problems. [More…]

• We can see this in New South Wales where 4 departments - the Department of Health, the Department of Local Government, the Department of Transport and the Department of Environmental Control - are fighting each other about who has the right to monitor and control motor vehicle emissions and to manage the environment as a whole. [More…]

• It is an entire complex of Nature, Man, Technology and Society, all these are interlinked, changing, evolving and influencing each other. [More…]

• Up until recently we have tended to regard parts of the NatureManTechnologySociety complex as separate from one another. [More…]

• The motor car has perverted the design of the cities and dehumanised them. [More…]

• Dr Aurelio Peccei, the founder of the Club of Rome expressed ‘environment’ in a systems way which embraces both natural and man-made components. [More…]

• The subsystems can be natural or man-made but they interlink anyway. [More…]

• The sum of human things must be guided by long range vision and objectives. [More…]

• Results of such decisions will deviate more and more from true human welfare. [More…]

• Look at where all the decisions which have been made to accommodate the motor car in the city have got us; bad air, destroyed homes to make room for freeways, decaying public transport, destroyed lives from traffic accidents, urban noise, destruction of buildings for car parks, growth of junk yards, and many other consequences. [More…]

• The arrival in Australia of such large numbers in the last 10 years particularly, has, however, strained almost every aspect of the Nature-Man-Technology-Society System. [More…]

• To keep our lives human and preserve at least some of nature at all we must reaffirm our control of technology and end our mindless slavery to it and worship of it. [More…]

• If we do not put man in control of his technology we will continue to stagger from one crisis to the next. [More…]

• This can provide the legal basis for protection of the environment from man and his technology. [More…]

• Up until now the law has protected man from man. [More…]

• Man is now doing violence to the environment at an increasingly alarming rate. [More…]

• It is always very pleasant to see a man who feels that his pride is worth preserving. [More…]

• Of course, we all heard in this House, following the publication of a newspaper article after the Caucus meeting last week, that the honourable gentleman lost out in a debate that apparently was conducted in Caucus. [More…]

• The present rural crisis not only concerns the man on the land but has widespread sociological, community and centralisation problems. [More…]

• But if a man operating in a small way bought shares in Poseidon today and sold them in 2 or 3 days time there could not be much doubt that he bought or sold the asset for the purpose of making a profit. [More…]

• For argument’s sake, a man who buys a share on 1st July has until 30th June to watch the fortunes of that share. [More…]

• But this is not the case for the man with big income and capital to go with it. [More…]

• There are still many other areas of tax avoidance about which nothing is being done. [More…]

• The little man who overclaims medical expenses or some other deduction is made an example of, is taken to court and fined; but the big man or financial corporation is allowed to get off scot free. [More…]

• I think it can readily be said that the average working man does not have much truck with share dealings, although there would be exceptions to that. [More…]

• One has to look only at the structure of certain companies, which need not be named at this stage - although there are many examples - to see that quite substantial proportions of their total capital are found to be in the hands of relatively large numbers of small shareholders as compared with the small number of large shareholders. [More…]

• I cannot admit to the same degree of problem having arisen, at least to my notice, in my own State of Tasmania. [More…]

• However, I think that, whatever the case there, in the logic of the matter if not in practice, he is right in saying that the previous provisions, until the introduction of this Bill, have in fact provided doubts for the man who is a small and certainly unpractised, unprofessional investor, and in that sense also have constituted something of a physical barrier to investment. [More…]

• He said that we have introduced this legislation in order to protect the big speculator as against the small man and this shows how little he knows about the speculative world, stock exchanges or anything else that I have ever heard him talk about. [More…]

• It could be driven by a woman. [More…]

• We can merely hope that for the huge investment of public moneys in ancillary services, the little things that affect the little man who wishes to use what should be a public service - but is not to date - will receive the attention of the respective airline administrations. [More…]

• This ignores the fact that a select committee of this Parliament has just spent 2 years grappling with one of the most complex military matters known to man, that is the Australian Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Fund. [More…]

• Far too many of these military reports are never released, supposedly for irrelevant security reasons. [More…]

• It is implicit that the new organisation will cost just as much and absorb just as many men in administrative duties as the old structure. [More…]

• This is unfortunate because the whole concept of rationalisation is to make savings, both in manpower and money. [More…]

• With the Army in particular scratching for manpower and the Government insisting that it can not make do with one man fewer than 40,000 it is a pity that the reorganisation should not have freed many more men from administration to service in training, specialist and combat roles. [More…]

• The redundancy payment may appear to be very large, but where does a man of 55 years of age, with no particular training other than as a waterside worker, obtain other employment. [More…]

• Whilst on the subject of portability I want to mention one or two anomalies that apply to elderly migrants who come to Australia from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. [More…]

• The Government has been less than just to many of the migrants who have come here since the war. [More…]

• The Government has tended to take a man from the bosom of his family and encourage him to come and work here. [More…]

• A man was encouraged to come here if he was in those categories. [More…]

• But it was 20 years before the Government recognised the basic humanity of facilitating family reunions. [More…]

• If a man settles in the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada or the United States of America and he has to maintain the members of his family in his country of birth, he can do this and claim income tax deductions. [More…]

• On many occasions in the last couple of years he has said that we must cut migration back. [More…]

• This is a very unworthy and unfair approach by the Leader of the Opposition, and indeed he certainly sells his country short as does no other man that I have seen in this House. [More…]

• I could say much more, because I have many thousands of migrants, including naturalised migrants, in my electorate, but because it is intended to pass this Bill before dinner I will now allow the Minister to conclude the debate. [More…]

• There could be one statistical quarterly period in which this may perhaps not be so, but overall, as a chief spokesman for the industry has said, this is what it means. [More…]

• As far as we on this side are concerned, the whole structure of the rural industry has been bled white by the middle man, and in this case beyond the middle man must come the Government. [More…]

• In view of the strong opposition taken by the Government, through the Minister for Customs and Excise, to the importation or culture of plants from which psychotropic drugs or some drugs of addiction can be extracted, why does the Government subsidise the Australian Tobacco Board which is an organisation engaged in cultivating a plant whose leaf, when consumed by man, has been proved to be a drug of addiction which causes cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease, to name but a few of its effects. [More…]

• He never lost the capacity to achieve a direct contact with the ordinary man. [More…]

• It stamped him as a leader of initiative and humanity. [More…]

• Has he received a telegram from the President of Actors Equity Association of Australia protesting about the banning of the Australian Broadcasting Commission television series entitled ‘Our Man in Canberra’ and alleging that this was as a result of political censorship? [More…]

• If you had listened, and as you are a truthful man, you would have accepted the fact that the ABC has informed me that the accusations are false. [More…]

• Australian Broadcasting Commission series Our Man in Canberra’ resulting in the series being suspended? [More…]

• We often hear about the number of man hours lost as a result of strikes, but the facts are that the number of man hours lost through unemployment is greater on a production basis than the man hours lost through strikes. [More…]

• The economy continues to slow down and many workers have lost their jobs. [More…]

• I simply point out that their courses of study are necessarily very much general purpose affairs, touching many, many subjects at no very great depth - no man can be an expert in all fields. [More…]

• So that a man having completed a university course and having chosen a specialist field very often finds he still has years of study and practice ahead of him before he becomes in fact a specialist. [More…]

• In conclusion, it was unusual to hear this man, who is respected on occasions, making what was purely a political speech. [More…]

• The point at issue has nothing to do with censorship or whether a man spends money to put a stamp on an envelope address to a member. [More…]

• I am not arguing for or against the case of the man who had to pay postage for a particular matter that he wanted to send. [More…]

• As far as the coastal trade is concerned, at present I believe 17 Australian ships are laid up with a displacement of 600 men who normally would man those ships. [More…]

• All of this was brought to this country in foreign owned and manned ships. [More…]

• At the present time all ships in the New Guinea to Australia trade are foreign owned and manned. [More…]

• Is there evidence accepted by the Department of Health suggesting that the incidence of carcinoma of the lung is higher among smokers man non-smokers; if so, what are the comparative rates. [More…]

• Under the subsidised health insurance scheme, would a man supporting a wife and 6 children and paying rent or housing repayments at the rate of $10 a week from a wage of $72 a week be excluded from any benefits of the scheme, but be entitled to free public hospital outpatient treatment in the A.CT. [More…]

• His tireless efforts to bring an end to that unhappy conflict were not to succeed but it was widely recognised that he had done as much as any man could possibly have done in those most difficult circumstances. [More…]

• It is, nonetheless, as an outstanding man of the law that Sir Owen Dixon will be remembered. [More…]

• He commanded respect in every field of human endeavour to which his talents were called and he was held in deep affection by all who knew him. [More…]

• Australia has indeed lost a great man. [More…]

• My own Department has not carried out studies of the type suggested by the honourable gentleman but I believe that this certainly would be a worthwhile area of inquiry at present, because if one looks back at the calendar year of 1971 one will see that average weekly earnings during that 12-monih period increased by 12.5 per cent and the consumer price index increased by 4.8 per cent as against a long term productivity growth increase of 2.5 per cent. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman inferred, or directly stated, one of the inhibiting factors in the labour policies of companies throughout this country certainly is the high cost of labour. [More…]

• Equally, as the honourable gentleman has said, the continuing series of stoppages is a major factor which impacts itself upon the whole problem facing the Australian com*munity. [More…]

• As the House will be well aware, during the last year the number of man days lost was 3 million, which was an increase of 28 per cent over that of the previous year. [More…]

• I recognised the Reverend Jim Udy, a very respectable clergyman in Canberra, linked arm in arm with the Aborigines. [More…]

• I recognised the Reverend George Garnsey, another very respected and responsible clergyman from Canberra, linked arm in arm with the Aborigines. [More…]

• I recognised Bruce Kent, another responsible, recognised and well known man in Canberra, linked arm in arm with the Aborigines. [More…]

• The low income earner is contributing a proportion of his income in taxation far higher than 10 or IS years ago; the man on average weekly earnings or a little more is finding income taxation looming increasingly larger in his calculations; and the managerial or professional man is facing marginal rates of taxation which on any reasonable criteria are very high indeed. [More…]

• I have explained in my Budget Speech that these increases in dependants allowances, together with the reductions in income tax proposed by the Bill I have already introduced, are directed to easing the tax burdens of the family man and the single income family in particular. [More…]

• The point I am making is that the Governor is a busy man. [More…]

• I have no intention whatsoever of making any comment about the Governor of New South Wales other than to say that he is a very distinguished Australian with a very distinguished war record and a man who is highly respected by me. [More…]

• As to the substance of the honourable gentleman’s question, I remind him that a statement was made only yesterday by the former Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Army who then pointed out that if national service were abolished, half the Army would go and that about 20,000 Citizen Military Forces personnel would also have to be taken out of the Army. [More…]

• I have been advised that a wide range of biological effects can be produced in experimental animals or in human being by exposure to large doses of ionising radiation delivered in a short period of time - that is, at high dose rates. [More…]

• There are, I understand, many technical difficulties which prevent direct evaluation of any effects of radiation doses on experimental animals at low levels approaching that of natural background radiation and even more so at the still lower levels resulting from fallout in Australia. [More…]

• The difficulties are even greater in the case of man. [More…]

• I think he is a man of principle on most occasions. [More…]

• He has not said whether they would be platoons, sections or just one man. [More…]

• How on earth will we ever be able to cure the unemployment situation while the ordinary working man on the national minimum wage is being told that he has to be able to satisfy all his needs on a miserable $51.60 a week? [More…]

• A man with a wife and 1.8 children just cannot live on that sum. [More…]

• I feel very sorry indeed for a Labor man who happens to hold the shadow portfolio of Labour and National Service, because he is no master in his own house. [More…]

• The effects of industrial unrest cannot be assessed simply in terms of official statistics of man-days lost. [More…]

• Moreover, there are all the indirect effects on business and consumer confidence and on management planning which cannot be quantified. [More…]

• For a man, a wife and 2 children, the unemployment benefit is nearly $18 a week below the poverty line. [More…]

• The Labor Premier of Western Australia is the man who, after the Premiers Conference in June, expressed himself as being satisfied and even pleased with the result that Western Australia gained from that conference. [More…]

• In my electorate a man with an income of $65 a week, with 7 children, the eldest of whom is 10, is in debt for over $1,000 through just keeping his family surviving. [More…]

• In Victoria a man could earn an income of $112.50 and still qualify for free treatment at the outpatient clinic of a public hospital. [More…]

• If so, has Inspector Munday, the Chief Officer for the Australian Capital Territory, now been instructed that he should permit his staff to fall to 6 firemen at Forrest before another man is provided by being recalled to duty. [More…]

• Is there any justification for a man named Alan Ramsey, who acquired some notoriety here a little while back, to write such a story? [More…]

• Many a man on the land has in the past bought a pump or a machine and has suddenly found that he is unable to get parts for it. [More…]

• The point I want to make, especially in regard to television, is that once a man’s image and character have been maligned by the ABC it is very difficult for him to correct that situation. [More…]

• This has given a great degree of liberty to many people who previously did not have authority. [More…]

• It has been the practice over the years that when a Minister is asked about 4 o’clock or 5 o’clock in the afternoon to appear on one of the current affairs programmes the same evening and is unable to do so, the interviewer or the chairman of the programme invariably has stated that the Minister declined to appear. [More…]

• On one occasion when I spoke to the General Manager of the ABC about the imbalance in these sorts of programmes he replied to me that if the ABC waited until a balanced programme was produced, many of the programmes at present which go to air would not be produced. [More…]

• I pointed out clearly that it would be far better for them not to be proceeded with if they defamed a man or smeared his character and reputation. [More…]

• Surely a man’s character and reputation are of greater value than a television current affairs programme. [More…]

• The person interviewed was Mr Bob Hawke - the leader from behind; the man who pulls the strings of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• I believe that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) is the only man in the Labor Party who is genuinely interested in the question of privacy and the individual, but Mr Hawke also controls him like a puppet on a string. [More…]

• I must admit that 1 was totally horrified that a man in Mr Hawke’s position had so much disregard for the right of the individual as to be able to set himself up as a judge on that programme and justify to the viewers in his words why he thought he had the right to use that tape recording. [More…]

• During the programme Mr Hawke said that this man had worked for the oil industry for 35 years and therefore he was a voice of authority and a man who knew what he was talking about. [More…]

• I can talk to a man in the Senate - Senator Gair - who has been in parliaments for 40 years, 30 years of which were as a member of the Labor Party, and who reckons that the ALP is not worth supporting. [More…]

• This man who held the nation in chaos day in, day out - the man who said: ‘When I am ready we can send the men back’ and forgot completely the inconvenience that was being caused every man, woman and child in the nation - went to the nation on Television. [More…]

• Now we see this double standard: Because the authority concerned cannot help this man on this particular basis he will consent to a second mortgage, something which is not done in any other normal case. [More…]

• The examination is imperfect, yes, as all things human are, but it is possibly the least imperfect mass ability testing instrument that the wit of man has so far managed to devise. [More…]

• He is a grand man; but certainly in terms of diplomatic protocol this sort of function required the presence of a Minister. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that honourable members opposite will quote the remarks of a very gallant and distinguished gentleman, whom I will not name, whose rank in the Army after serving in a most distinguished arena was that of Captain. [More…]

• He was a very young gentleman when he served and a most distinguished one. [More…]

• But when a former Chief of the General Staff, a man who was responsible for the training, the maintenance and the planning of the Army, speaks out to the people of Australia and says that what the Labor Party means is that Australia would literally have to disband 5 bat talions - most of the effective force in the Army - very few, if any, members of the Labor Party will quote him. [More…]

• In Switzerland the man is uphill. [More…]

• They want to see every available dollar put into the Permanent Army. [More…]

• But notwithstanding the increased degree of training of a professional soldier today and in the future it is one of the facts of life that if Australia is faced at some time in the future with a threat to its security we will need to use the services of the part-time soldier, the voluntary soldier, the man who serves in the CMF. [More…]

• I would not care whether they were said on an election platform by a Labor man, a Liberal man or any other man. [More…]

• He was a man who had worked with a horse and dray through the burden of ali the heat and difficulties of the years to raise a few dollars only to find them taken from him. [More…]

• It is a good thing in a hall of residence or a college for a man who is doing a medical degree to rub shoulders with a man who is doing an engineering degree, a man training for teaching or a man going into the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• Everyone knows that a man who becomes a professor of surgery probably sacrifices about $50,000 a year that he could earn as a practising surgeon. [More…]

• I want the man who is absolutely top of his profession in surgery to be the man who is training surgeons. [More…]

• So that the House will know the exact level of this: problem, let me say that in my electorate it would take more, teachers than those to man preschool centres to enable the bulk of children in. [More…]

• I refer to those children whose parents are in the semi-skilled, manual labouring area. [More…]

• The Treasurer’s typical family man - the average wage earner with a wife and 2 children - pays a higher proportion of his income in tax under the McMahon Government than under any government in Australia’s history. [More…]

• But the $5,000 a year man today is taxed as if he were the wealthy man of 18 years ago - because the system remains unchanged. [More…]

• Yet there are commanding economic reasons why such an attack should have been made this year. [More…]

• The man on $2,200 who gets an extra $33 will spend every one of those dollars. [More…]

• Will the man on ‘$20,000 spend the $600’ the Treasurer is giving him? [More…]

• As much as any other produced in the last 23 years, this, is a rich man’s Budget. ‘ [More…]

• Full employment is now to be redefined by the Liberals as never less than 100,000 and as many as 200,000 unemployed. [More…]

• It means, and can only mean, that every able and willing man and woman can find a job. [More…]

• The Treasurer said that his standard of reference was what he called the typical family man. [More…]

• He had nothing to say, one notes, about the typical family woman. [More…]

• The Treasurer has set himself the narrowest possible target - $2 or so to the so-called typical man. [More…]

• The typical Australian today is, I profoundly believe, a man or woman who wants to believe that he or she lives in a society which is committed to achieving justice and equity and opportunity for all, not just for himself and his immediate family but for all his fellow citizens, and who believes that he can and does contribute to achieving such a society. [More…]

• But the typical Australian cannot believe he is living in a society committed to justice and equal opportunity when he sees his national government content to have 100,000 and more of his fellow-citizens unemployed, when he sees one million of his fellow citizens living near or below the poverty line, when he sees the operation of one law for wage earners and another for price fixers, when he sees men of great wealth able to avoid, through tax dodges, paying millions of dollars, when he sees the Aboriginal community suffering from the world’s highest infant mortality rate, when he sees millions of dollars spent on a handful of the wealthiest schools in Australia while most State and parish schools are struggling to meet basic standards, when he sees a health system which costs the richest man scarcely half as much as the average man has to pay. [More…]

• This most impermanent and unstable document this year provides nothing of the sort. [More…]

• The result of that sort of limited involvement is that a family man with a taxable income of $3,000 pays in New South Wales $1.24 a week for public ward cover, a man on $5,000 pays $1.06, while a man on $20,000 pays 5 lc. [More…]

• Tonight the Leader of the Opposition treated us to a performance of little man’s rhetoric - cliche and spite throughout. [More…]

• He himself would negate any idea of equity in the work force for he would give it only to some and would deny it to other members of trade unions who are just as anxious to have it, so they say, but I do not believe that they are because the Australian trade unionist is a sound man when not badly led. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman with his idea of regulation and controls naturally jumped in a Freudian way to justification instead of to notification. [More…]

• The third distortion was the allegation that this was a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition used the term ‘rich man’s Budget’ while talking about tax. [More…]

• It is very strange for many people in the community to find, in terms of what the Leader of the Opposition said, that they are rich men because they are getting $6,400 a year. [More…]

• If bis actual income - not his taxable income - is $2,800, which is S54 a week after the so-called tax concessions, that man still pays in tax $163.57 a year, or over $3 a week. [More…]

• A man on this salary, as a consequence of the proposed taxation measures, will receive a tax reduction of $295 which is more than the man on the lower income is paying in tax. [More…]

• with prices rising as they are, a married man with a dependant wife and 2 children who receives an income of $54 a week should pay over $3 a week in income tax? [More…]

• I would hope that we in this country will be mature enough not to believe that something which is done on the second or third Tuesday of the month of August by the great man, the Treasurer - I say that with all humility, whatever the portents for the future may be - will produce out of a hat overnight assorted varieties which will set the economy right. [More…]

• If a man receiving about $3,600 gets a 9 per cent increase in his wage he will then be paying as high a marginal rate of tax, even with the reduced schedules, as he was before the tax rate was reduced. [More…]

• This simply means that if a man receives a 9 per cent increase in his salary he will be paying as much tax as he was before the reduction in the tax rate. [More…]

• Accordingly, assuming the payment of rent in each case, an unemployed man, his wife and 2 children are together expected to live on $4.50 a week less than a married pensioner couple alone. [More…]

• A man, his wife and 3 children are together expected to live on exactly the same amount. [More…]

• But I have never heard an argument against another proposition, namely, that it is immoral not to allow a man to work when he is able and anxious to do so. [More…]

• Therefore these reductions will be a stimulus to the economy and of great assistance to the family man and others. [More…]

• There has been a good deal of activity over the last 6 weeks in the national and local Press, much of it under the imprimatur of the Leader of the Opposition, alleging that I have been misusing public moneys in that I have had stationed in my Ashfield office at times when he has not been in Canberra a young man who is training as my Press officer and who, from time to time, assists constituents with their problems and is always available to do so. [More…]

• May I make 2 points: Firstly, my files disclose that the Leader of the Opposition himself has used his own staff to direct constituency problems to me; for example, I have letters from his own private secretary who is a permanent public servant. [More…]

• This same private secretary, 1 understand, is a candidate for the next election, is being paid as a permanent public servant and is currently electioneering in the electorate of Casey. [More…]

• It is a resolution which incidentally is apparently adopted by the Executive at the insistence of one of the great betes noires of the Opposition members in this House, a man well known to the Australian community. [More…]

• If the honourable member is raising this question because of its implications on law and order, 1 put it to him, not in any offensive or provocative manner but simply to state the facts. [More…]

• If I might say so, this is the same Premier who authorised a man in that State serving a prison sentence for breach of the law to address a political meeting outside the gaol and to hold a Press conference within the gaol. [More…]

• Last year they declined to 22 per cent, so there again there was no benefit we could sec for the small family man whom the present Budget purports to be able to help. [More…]

• Increases in charges by governments and their business undertakings for TV and radio licenses, postal and telephone services, water, fares and many other things have directly increased the cost of living. [More…]

• We have an overall reduction, not one which is entirely designed to help any particular area of interest or of earnings but one which considerably increases the capacity of the man at the lower end of the scale to retain more of his earned income. [More…]

• At the outset the results indicated that there was roughly speaking, a parity in output per man-hour. [More…]

• Costs rose steeply in industry almost without exception and the 40-hour week back in the late 1940s, owing to an increase in overtime and casual work, meant no additional leisure for many sections of the community despite the fact that the Arbitration Court saw the introduction of the 40-hour week as having as one of its effects an increase in leisure for the average working man. [More…]

• He suggested that because the average man pays a higher percentage of his wages in tax than ever before - even if that were right - this was a bad Budget. [More…]

• Many of its provisions will raise a substantial proportion of those identified as being in poor circumstances well above any denned poverty line, and I might add that no such defined line reveals that there are 1 million Australians below the line as the Leader of the Opposition said. [More…]

• The average family man says: ‘If the Government offers me a bribe of $2 a week it will take $4 back from me because no increase is worth anything today unless there is price control.’ [More…]

• Today the only commodity which is under universal price control in Australia is human labour. [More…]

• No, I am talking about a family man on $10,000 a year. [More…]

• What does this Government do for the man in receipt of the national average income of $90-odd a week, the man with 2 jobs who works a mass of overtime? [More…]

• What about a man on, say, $67 a week, who really would go out and spend everything he could lay his bands on because he is suffering economic hardship. [More…]

• Consider the man on $10,000 a year - and as a politician I would like to have a salary increase. [More…]

• but large in terms of human values, namely, the Aborigines - these bewildered, gentle folk of another civilisation whose land we share. [More…]

• This year the Government will spend $53m in direct aid to 144,000 Aborigines, which amounts to about $370 a head, .man, woman and child. [More…]

• Yet at our very doors the apostles of class and race hatred have stirred up many good people to support a cause which is aimed at the creation of apartheid and race friction. [More…]

• The man with a wife and 2 children and a taxable income of $50 a week will receive a taxation benefit of 90c a week. [More…]

• A little higher on the income scale the man with a taxable income of $80 a week will pay $1.75 a week less in tax. [More…]

• The essential point is: What is the true policy of the Australian Labor Party and how will it affect every man, woman and child in this country in the future? [More…]

• It has been said many times in this debate by honourable members on this side of the House, and it bears brief repetition, that the Budget is a misrepresentation. [More…]

• A single man receiving $15,000 a year will have his tax reduced by $420 a year. [More…]

• A family man with a wife and 2 children, receiving $5,000 a year, is to receive a tax reduction of $141 a year, yet he is alleged to be getting a princely benefit of a 17.6 per cent reduction - 2i times the percentage but only one-third of the amount. [More…]

• The take home pay of the man on $5,000 a year will rise by a much smaller percentage than the take home pay after tax of the man receiving $15,000 a year. [More…]

• The station at Norseman is also of very low power. [More…]

• So if the Government persists with its decision to set up only a low-powered station at Esperance also, it will mean that the people resident beyond a few miles from both Norseman and Esperance will be in no man’s land with no prospect of receiving a television service for many years to come. [More…]

• We have also decided that that poverty inquiry will be undertaken by one man. [More…]

• We have one man in mind but as yet we have not been able to make contact with him because he happens to be out of Australia. [More…]

• A man’s working environment has to be treated as part of his total environment, because a working man spends more than half his waking hours in the workshop. [More…]

• What is the position of a working man and his family? [More…]

• The Americans estimate now that a tradesman will need to be retrained 4 times during his lifetime. [More…]

• Italian and British have adopted the modular system of training where instead of training a man to become a tradesman capable of doing any one of 200 or 300 complicated operations, of which number he may have to do only 3 or 4, they train him to be very proficient and efficient in perhaps one or two of those operations, adding another module in each year or period when modern technology calls for the additional module of specialised training. [More…]

• He has now demonstrated that he is a man who is really prepared to go right to the depths of the problem. [More…]

• It was 3 million man days for the whole year. [More…]

• This amounted to something like 4 million man days a year. [More…]

• Unemployment accounts for something like 20 million man days a year. [More…]

• If we add absenteeism to that as well, then we realise the number of man days lost is even greater. [More…]

• Mr Speaker is a man of estimable and good judgment in almost all matters except politics, and I can accept the view that the Minister for Customs and Excise has put forward. [More…]

• 1 believe that, as a forum for the discussion of national affairs, as a Parliament considering national matters in public manner, as we do here - and this Parliament is almost unique us a national instrument inasmuch as its proceedings are continuously broadcast - we are operating not as the Parliament of Australia should but as a third rate progress association in the most benighted Country Party area might. [More…]

• It is quite extraordinary that so many members on the other side of the House, including the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) and the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), who represent areas of primary production and export industries, should support this proposal. [More…]

• How can a man like this claim to represent the interests of primary producers? [More…]

• It is concerned about the slight devaluation of British currency last year, and many people have advocated the payment of compensation. [More…]

• It is not because a man is black, brown, yellow or inferior or anything else; it is because he is different. [More…]

• I wish to quote a statement issued by a man in the Opposition for whom I have great respect, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly). [More…]

• Even as a social document it is a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• That is why we have called the Budget a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• This is not, as alleged by honourable members opposite, a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• Income tax at present rates has been placing too heavy a burden on the family man, but under this Budget the family man will benefit very considerably in a variety of ways. [More…]

• The very substantial increase in Commonwealth scholarships of all kinds will help many thousands of students. [More…]

• A married man with 2 children would receive $13 below the recognised poverty line under this arrangement. [More…]

• In 1949 a man with a wife and 2 children, On the minimum wage, paid $1.60 a year in income tax. [More…]

• Under the revised scale of tax deductions issued with the Budget papers a man on the minimum wage of $51, with a family of the same number, will pay $2.36 a week or $132.98 per annum. [More…]

• This financial year the Commonwealth will collect from each man, woman and child in Australia about $59 in sales tax, which is more than $1 each a week. [More…]

• The mark-up, according to the Cosmetics and Toiletry Manufacturers Association, is being operated by the Government to the tune of 55c in every $2 spent on everything from hair cream to contraceptives. [More…]

• It is an unfair tax because a man on $12,000 a year pays the same tax on razor blades as does a pensioner who needs to shave. [More…]

• Is it not true that a reduction in taxation for a man earning wages or salary means infinitely more in real terms than an increase in wages of the same amount would be, because that increase in wages not only attracts taxation but also puts up prices on what is being purchased, whereas a reduction of taxation does neither but would mean a much greater increase in take home pay than would be a much higher amount added to the wage cheque each week? [More…]

• I agree with the comment of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) that this is one of the best Budgets that this House has seen for many years. [More…]

• It is a Budget for the average man; it is a welfare Budget. [More…]

• I pay a tribute to the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who is sitting at the table for the tremendous effort he put into making this an average man’s Budget and seeking out the areas of greatest need and doing his utmost to assist those areas. [More…]

• As a representative of a rural area I was a little surprised at the attempts made by the public media to suggest that this was not a country man’s Budget, I do not think I have ever heard anything more ridiculous. [More…]

• Estate duty has broken up many a family property which has been run efficiently for generations to the great advantage of the nation, the district and the people in it. [More…]

• One of the first things a bank manager says to a man who has to pay probate and is short of money is: ‘I am afraid there will be no superphosphate this year’. [More…]

• The better improved the property is the more likely it is that some professional or business man will buy it to save tax. [More…]

• It has hit hardest of all the small business man, the small farmer and the provident wage and salary earner who has attempted to save something for his old age. [More…]

• It has caused the bankruptcy of some of the best citizens of this country and forced many of them to resort to debt reconstruction. [More…]

• As I said before, there have been many reasons for the necessity for debt reconstruction. [More…]

• I have seen a man who has been demoralised because he owed money to people in bis town or village, to the suppliers of all the commodities he required. [More…]

• This man has been taken up by the Rural Reconstruction Board in New South Wales and given what we are asking for - in effect, a long term loan. [More…]

• We believe that it is a permanent cure. [More…]

• Through over-subdivision - the socialist governments have a lot to answer for here - we have been in trouble over and over again, particularly after the First and Second World Wars when unpractical theorists in our departments based the size of too many rural properties on what they considered was a living area when the seasons were good and the prices were high. [More…]

• What we are endeavouring to achieve in farm buildup is to help the man who is in an impossible position or is too old and would sooner get out, to sell his farm to the younger man who can make what was an unviable area a viable area. [More…]

• We want to see a living area that makes it possible for a man to live decently and to repay what he owes. [More…]

• Some of the best citizens this country has had, some of whom went overseas and fought in 2 world wars, have had their hearts and their pockets broken by the sheer stupidity of theorists, bureaucrats and unpractical people who tell the other fellow how to do it when many of them are in the departments because they failed on their own properties. [More…]

• I do not condemn all of them but I condemn a great many of them. [More…]

• So that if there is a man who is entitled to the age pension and who has a young wife who is not entitled to the pension she will now come in with full entitlement, and the same provision will apply in the invalid pension sphere. [More…]

• I think the House will agree with me that this is a humanitarian measure the effect of which will go far. [More…]

• In this Budget the total increase for a single man is $3.75 and for a married couple it is $6.50. [More…]

• An unemployed man, with a wife and 2 children, receives $38 a week to live on - $14 a week below the poverty line. [More…]

• Thus, although the Treasurer is correct in asserting that the percentage reductions in the amount of income tax payable are significant to the family man on a low income, once again the greatest beneficiaries are those on higher incomes. [More…]

• Any economic attack on Western Australia’s export mineral industries would intensify unemployment, as would any increased inflow of cheap imports into Western Australia because they would undermine established manufacturing firms. [More…]

• But in practice it is most difficult to tell a man that he and his family must sell their house and get out of one area and go to another area. [More…]

• It is remarkable, listening to the debate on the Budget, how the same set of figures can be interpreted in so many widely divergent ways. [More…]

• In some rural industries comments were made by apparently responsible men such as: ‘This is a city man’s Budget and there is nothing for the man on the land’. [More…]

• We have almost reached a holding position for the man on the land but some areas of some industries will require continued assistance from the Government and co-operation between the industry and the Government. [More…]

• But in all fairness and in all truth it cannot be rightly said, as some say now, that there is nothing in this Budget for the man on the land. [More…]

• It was produced by a man who covered the whole field, right throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]

• A man on the average weekly earnings will still pay this year more taxation than he paid last year. [More…]

• A man receiving $5,000 will gain $140.96. [More…]

• A man receiving $10,000 will have his tax reduced by $295.08. [More…]

• A man on $20,000 will receive a reduction of $667.78. [More…]

• In other words, the man on $4,000 saves in taxation only $104.15. [More…]

• The man on $20,000 saves $667.78. [More…]

• In regard to dependants’ allowances, we have heard the same old story that one man’s wife is worth more than another. [More…]

• This is a superficial argument, like so many others. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party leader quite erroneously described it as being a rich man’s Budget, for yet 57 percent of the tax saving to income earners will go to those people who have an income of $4,800 or less. [More…]

• In this Budget some assistance is provided for many facets of our society. [More…]

• Apart from the increase of the basic pension to $20, real aid is given in many places where it is needed. [More…]

• My attention was directed to one gang of these children aged between 7 and 11 years who, roaming around on their own, robbed an old man who was lying on the grass of more than $100. [More…]

• According to the media the Prime Minister is adamant that it should be a late poli and has ordered Government supporters to go forth into the electorates to try to perform the impossible task of selling the Budget to the people - a job at which even a super salesman could not succeed. [More…]

• His idea is that the people will have less time to realise the general inadequacy of the Budget and that once again it is only a wealthy man’s document. [More…]

• Of course, there are not too many of them in rural electorates either. [More…]

• Certainly the people of Australia will not be fooled on this occasion, particularly as they will bear in mind that there is a very strong move among Government supporters to sack the present Prime Minister and reinstate the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), the very man who in 1969, as Prime Minister, said quite definitely that as far as he was concerned there would never be an abolition of the means test. [More…]

• Ever since I can remember, which is quite a few years now, the family man and the taxpayer in the poorest circumstances have, upon a measurement of the financial circumstances, made the greatest contribution to the revenue of this country, have carried the greatest burden and have been treated most unfairly in relation to taxation, both direct and indirect. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the method which the Government has decided to use on this occasion in relation to alterations in the taxation scale has further aggravated and further reduced the living standard of the family man and the man on the lower income as measured against those without families or in comfortable or wealthy circumstances. [More…]

• Certainly the reduction in percentage is greater, but in actual money, which means actual relief - it is actual money that buys food and clothing, not percentages - It is the low income groups and the family man who get the worst deal and who in fact have been treated very shabbily in this Budget compared with those on very high incomes. [More…]

• For instance, the man with a wife and 4 children with an actual income of $67 a week and other allowable deductions amounting to $500 will receive a tax reduction of 34.2 per cent. [More…]

• It is the family man who suffers most from increases in the cost of living, and the larger his family the more he suffers - not only financially but also in a general way, because it is a great strain and worry to him if he is unable to provide his children with the start in life to which every child should be entitled. [More…]

• This Government is too lazy, too unconcerned or too incompetent to trouble itself about working out a system or formula for giving the family man a fair go. [More…]

• There are a number of ways by which the family man could and should be assisted. [More…]

• This man was hospitalised for some considerable time. [More…]

• The Department courteously wrote this man a letter a few months ago and told him that his pension had been cut down to $9 a fortnight. [More…]

• It is only since the Repatriation Department damn well dumped this man - the Army is intent only on getting rid of him at the end of his service - that the doctors have discovered that he has practically no hearing in one ear. [More…]

• This man is one of 3 returned soldiers in my electorate who have complained to me. [More…]

• If the Minister is not prepared to stand in this House tonight and speak on this matter, I serve notice on him that I will take any measure that is available to me to help this young man. [More…]

• Do you not consider that this is in itself an act of violence or a form of violence in regard to this man who laid, almost at death’s door, for weeks? [More…]

• It was impossible for this man of 75 years of age to obtain work or supplement his income in any way. [More…]

• This same man was banned from attending the rocket range by the then Labor Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, because he was regarded as a security risk. [More…]

• On the other hand, Mr Laurie Carmichael, another very influential man and a self-confessed communist, has a very efficient and disciplined organisation of his own which operates through the shop stewards. [More…]

• I cannot help feeling that if there is one man to whom one should look for a certain degree of intellectual integrity in the process of argument it is the Leader of the Opposition, that distinguished member of that most distinguished profession, the law. [More…]

• He is a man who, over the many years he has been here, has won a very real place in the hearts of many honourable members on all sides of this House. [More…]

• He is not a man of no consequence - or ought not to be a man of no consequence. [More…]

• He is a man who leads an alternative government. [More…]

• We are disappointed that a man from an academic area who has influenced so many young Australians about political matters has not shown the same inclination. [More…]

• Never mind the best interests, fiscal or humanitarian, of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Greater love hath no man than this: That he would lay down his friends for his life. [More…]

• This is the man who in recent months has been so free with his moralistic lectures - we have all heard them in this House - on the propriety of the actions of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and other senior Ministers on this side of the House. [More…]

• As I have said, we cannot say that we have not been warned of both the nature of the man who aspires to lead us and the immediate effects of the decisions he has taken. [More…]

• A table prepared by Professor Hogan of the University of Sydney - I will seek leave to have the table incorporated in Hansard -shows that to a man with an annual income of $2,000 . [More…]

• and supporting a wife and one child that tax cut represents a rise of 1.56 per cent in after tax income and to a man on $15,000 a year it represents a rise of 4.9 per cent. [More…]

• Yet on the very night on which the Leader of the Opposition delivered that attack he went outside this Parliament and spoke in a manner which demonstrated his own lack of economic commonsense. [More…]

• It was a statement which every member of the Australian community needs to take into account when assessing the suitability of this man for the leadership of this nation. [More…]

• This repudiation shows what trust the men who elected him have in him as their leader, and what trust they have in him as a man who demonstrably hungers for the power to govern the national economy. [More…]

• Consequently hundreds - perhaps thousands - of Australians could be thrown out of work; yet this is a man who claims that he is concerned for the economic welfare of the Australian worker. [More…]

• Professor Henderson is a man who would have the respect of all members of this Parliament, but I feel that Professor Henderson’s contribution would be enhanced if there were more than one representative on the committee. [More…]

• I believe that there is a need for people representing the behavioural sciences, especially sociologists and social workers, who can explore more widely than will a man such as Professor Henderson. [More…]

• The unemployment benefit for a man, wife and 2 children is nearly $14 below the poverty level. [More…]

• Nobody is going to suggest that Professor Ronald Henderson is not a person who has for very many years devoted himself to inquiries into social and economic matters involving poverty. [More…]

• He has been, of course, the man who has published the pioneering works and has conducted the pioneering surveys into poverty, particularly in the monetary sense. [More…]

• The other suggestion which has been made by the Australian Labor Party and by the Australian Council of Social Service is that it is too much for any one man or any one woman to conduct as wide ranging an inquiry into social welfare as this country needs. [More…]

• Professor Henderson has : been immersed in this inquiry for many years,, particularly in the field of monetary poverty. [More…]

• But it is legitimate to point out that it is too -much for one man or one woman to carry out an inquiry of the magnitude which is heeded. [More…]

• The instances which were given to the House on 10th May by the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) and myself from the Anglican social workers related’ to people who in many cases would still fall outside the terms of reference given to Professor Henderson. [More…]

• the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) and he should know the deprivation which is suffered in many fields of social welfare by the people who live in so far flung an area as his area on the outskirts of the metropolis of Sydney. [More…]

• If a man. [More…]

• If a woman is deserted in the electorate of Mitchell she has to go a very long distance to appear before a chamber magistrate. [More…]

• In order to secure an order against the desert- = mg husband she has to go very many miles indeed. [More…]

• Having obtained such an order, she has to go very many miles to a branch of the New South Wales Department ofSocial Welfare before she can get the forms of assistance available from that Department. [More…]

• When 6 months has elapsed she has to go very many miles to a branch of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in order to get a widow’s pension. [More…]

• The Labor Party expresses concern for unemployment and showed its concern when last in office by paying an unemployed man with a wife and 4 children $5 a week unemployment benefit. [More…]

• If we increased that rate in accordance with changes in the consumer price index the same man would now receive $13.70 a week unemployment benefit. [More…]

• The Government pays to an unemployed man with a wife and 4 children unemployment benefit of $43 a week. [More…]

• As the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) pointed out in the Budget Speech, a man with a wife and 2 children, in receipt of $98 a week, which is the approximate average weekly male wage, will gain an additional $2.75 a week. [More…]

• This is a distressing human problem. [More…]

• Let us face facts: This is an election Budget and on the proven past performance of this very same Treasurer (Mr Snedden) we will have a further mini Budget which will no doubt impose fresh taxes and be used to curtail any, in the Government’s opinion, inflationary tendencies in the economy. [More…]

• That is, of course, when the working man begins to purchase new cars and consumer goods, and to save money for holidays and the future security of his home and retirement. [More…]

• This Budget will encourage and, in many cases, force the working man to spend. [More…]

• It wants to play politics with the human misery of the unemployed and the bankrupt. [More…]

• No wonder the average man refuses to believe anything that is promised by people who support this Government. [More…]

• This news has been greeted with enthusiasm and will help the family man and assist in improving the economy. [More…]

• These 2 factors have been responsible for the increase in unemployment in rural towns and districts and this trend has carried over to such secondary industries in the cities, as the agricultural machinery manufacturing industry, the automotive industry, the rubber and tyre industries, the iron and steel industry and a host of other. [More…]

• The working man in Australia would now have his greatest opportunity to provide the necessities of life for himself and his family if it were not for strikes engineered in the main by communistcontrolled unions. [More…]

• He is the man who represents Eureka, and from his activities politically it is no wonder that at Bakery Hill, one of the symbolic spots of Eureka, the plaque on the wall of the building there is decayed and falling off - at least it was when I last passed that way. [More…]

• Is it a fact that 2.5 million man days production were lost last year through what is loosely termed industrial action? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that an extra 60,000 people have been unemployed because of Government action and ‘ that this number of people represent 12.5 mil1 lion man days lost production? [More…]

• I certainly would not agree with the figures which have been mentioned by the honourable gentleman, nor in fact would I agree with the conclusions which he has drawn from the figures which are a mis-statement of the present position. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman queries, first of all, the degree of industrial unrest during the course of the past 12 months. [More…]

• I welcome that question because the facts are that during the course of the past calendar year 3 million* man days were lost; there was an increase in the number of strikes of 28 per cent over the previous year’s figure, the previous year itself showing an increase of 24 per cent; and during the course of that year Australian wage earners lost $46m which was an increase of 46 per cent over the figure of the previous year. [More…]

• It is, therefore, as the honourable gentleman might well have said, or suggested by way of implication, a disturbing situation. [More…]

• He then proceeded to compare the number of mandays lost with the unemployment position, but he would be very well aware if he were to study the figures of the Commonwealth Statistician that those figures greatly understate the extent of industrial unrest in this country. [More…]

• So the position is that one cannot draw any parallel whatsoever between the level of unemployment and the figures to which the honourable gentleman has referred. [More…]

• In the comparatively short time remaining to me in this debate I want to refute the suggestion that this is a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• It has been constantly put that this is a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• So how can the Opposition claim that this is a rich man’s Budget? [More…]

• With regard to taxation, a man with an annual taxable income of $40,000 will have his tax reduced by 7.2 per cent; the tax on a taxable income of $20,000 will be reduced by 8.7 per cent; at $10,000 the reduction will be 12.6 per cent; and at $5,000 it will be 22.4 per cent. [More…]

• I could go on giving example after example to refute completely the Opposition’s story that this is a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• The Budget under debate is the effort of a demoralised, dying Government clutching at straws like a drowning man does. [More…]

• It is worth noting that the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition does not mention tax, despite all his talk about ‘a rich man’s budget’. [More…]

• A man with an income of $40,000 a year, who is anything but poor and anything but unable to pay his own rates, will receive from the Commonwealth on rates of S400 a $250 subsidy in the form of a direct reduction of the amount of income tax he must pay. [More…]

• The size of the tax deductibility which has been set to favour the family man and to assist oneincome families is not only popular; it is proper, just and immediate. [More…]

• What would the Opposition have done for the pensioners now;, what would the Opposition have done for; returned servicemen now; what would the alternative Government that sits on the Opposition benches have done for the family man now; what would the Opposition have done for the disabled now?. [More…]

• It is to the eternal credit of this maligned man, Bob Hawke, that we are in a situation of peace today and that we are able to go to the nearest petrol station and fill our cars with petrol. [More…]

• The cost of reducing tax for the family man, as announced in the Budget, is S480m a year. [More…]

• If we were to agree that some of the Labor Party proposals could be financed there would be an increase in taxation on the family man by 10 per cent or 15 per cent. [More…]

• I believe that his actions are those of a totally insecure man - and when one looks around him it is no wonder. [More…]

• Even the honourable member for Mallee (Sir Winton Turnbull) was a young man then. [More…]

• That is a modest statement from a modest little man, yet this is the man who is going to ‘murder the brutes’. [More…]

• The unemployment and sickness benefits is unchanged and a man and his wife will receive only $25 a week. [More…]

• We had quoted to us this afternoon something said by Mr Ducker to this man Ball, who is a communist. [More…]

• If I remember correctly, this is what was said by the man Ball to Mr Ducker: ‘You will have to take it as it falls, mate’. [More…]

• Those are the words not of a man caught up closely in political life as we are are but of a man who has fought and served his country both in peace and in war. [More…]

• Many grandiose . [More…]

• It showed that a man receiving $67 a week, with no dependants, will pay $1.09’ a week less in taxation. [More…]

• Many people in my electorate - semi-skilled and unskilled workers - receive a great deal less than $67 a week. [More…]

• A man receiving $98 a week who has no dependants will pay $2.14 less a week in taxation. [More…]

• Existing banking institutions and pastoral firms have strained their resources to help financially the man on the land but they could not give the same assistance and security as could a national institution specially designed to provide long-term low-interest credit to those engaged in rural pursuits, including local district farmers, graziers and agriculturists. [More…]

• Not only will this stimulate consumer demand; it will be of great assistance to the family man who is endeavouring to pay off a home and provide for all the needs of a growing family. [More…]

• It is obvious from these figures that those most in need of extra funds for consumer spending will benefit most; yet the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), in search of a criticism, has called this a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• The honourable member for St George has further claimed that a 5 or 6 battalion permanent force would be more efficient than the present 9 battalion force. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) pointed out recently, a reduction in the strength of the Army from 40,000 to 30,000 - which is a reduction of 25 per cent and a serious reduction in any man’s language - would cause the disbandment of 5 to 6 infantry battalions and would leave this country with an army of very little significance. [More…]

• It is a great indictment of us as Australians that, 200 years after the white man came to Australia, the Aboriginal is not in a better or more secure position. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is indeed fortunate in having the services of Dr H. C. Coombs as Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• money man out of the shadows’ and which is an interview with the ALP shadow Treasurer. [More…]

• I make this challenge to the Government here and now: Man for man we can outmatch it and we can beat it. [More…]

• In my view, any self-respecting government which had the endeavours of the small man at heart and which respected a small wholly Australian-owned company in its fight against the cartel would have allowed IOC and XL to export their quota of indigenous crude rather than be exploited by the Mobils and the Essos in this way. [More…]

• It is the citizens of Australia who should weep because we are beset by this monopoly which has littered our country with too many inefficient service stations. [More…]

• Let us hope we shall soon have a Federal Labor government which will apply some planning to this situation and which will champion the little man, the IOCs and XLs of this world, the little man who provides some competition and some lower prices for our people. [More…]

• However, there is an area to which he has not seen fit to apply his mind and it relates to his own statement that this Government is culpable for not, in his own words, looking after the endeavour of the small man or not having the endeavours of the small man at heart. [More…]

• Quite patently the position of the oil industry, as I understand it, is that the interest of the small man, the consumer, in Australia is very largely protected by the South Australian Prices Commissioner. [More…]

• Doctor Armati produced clear medical evidence to show that this man’s essential hypertension was due to these 2 earlier causes. [More…]

• War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal Nv.. 2 does not comprise any medical practitioner; it comprises 3 laymen, and they decided that the medical evidence they had, which was in favour of the appellant, was not sufficient and they denied this man’s appeal. [More…]

• The only consideration to which I think this man is now entitled would appear to be consideration under section 64 (6a. [More…]

• In this case I earnestly ask that this man’s appeal be reconsidered because the medical evidence submitted was never considered by the Repatriation Commission. [More…]

• He makes the further point that because of his age and medical disabilities he cannot do the normal things around the home that any able bodied man can do such as cut the lawn and keep the home in repair. [More…]

• So I earnestly ask that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) have a look at this case on the basis of precedent and the fact that really the only income the man is getting is something he has earned for service to his country and by contributions he has made to his superannuation fund. [More…]

• I asked the young man why he had not interviewed Mr Quinn. [More…]

• I took the matter up with the Housing Commission which at first remained adamant but which, on further strong representations by me, agreed to withdraw the court order. [More…]

• He is one of the good and great members of the Australian Labor Party, a similar type to the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) and the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Mclvor) - a man of great conviction and dedication. [More…]

• He was chairman of the Blacktown Hospital Board for many years and proved himself to be an administrator of outstanding ability. [More…]

• MLA, the honourable member for Mt Druitt in the New South Wales Parliament, it is correct that we have been friends for many years. [More…]

• I regret this because, looking at it from my point of view, I am now in a position where, instead of having in the State Parliament a man with long experience representing a new, vital and quickly growing area, I will have a new member of the State Parliament. [More…]

• Mr Johnson, the new endorsed candidate, who has been pre-selected, is an excellent young man. [More…]

• But, as the Federal member representing this area, I feel that it is much easier if there is an experienced man in the State sphere. [More…]

• Many speeches relating to law and order are made in this House but few are made about the personal protection of the individual in his dealings in the commercial world. [More…]

• Mr Whitelaw is a self-employed business man who is widely respected in the community for his diligence and honesty. [More…]

• The gain on a taxable income of $2,000 would be 1.54 per cent for a single man, 1.56 per cent for a man with a wife and child and 3.57 per cent for a man with a wife and 3 children. [More…]

• However, in respect of an income of $15,000 the percentage rise in income after tax would be 4.62 per cent for a single person, 4.90 per cent for a married man with one child and 5.30 per cent for a married man with 3 children. [More…]

• He specifically attacked the proposals for the reduction of personal income tax, something which affects us all, and tried to sell the idea that it was only a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• The other major step taken was to increase dependants allowances in order to help the family man. [More…]

• These proposals will put an extra $565m into the pockets of the taxpayer each year and will particularly help the family man earning an average income. [More…]

• For example, a man on average wages with a wife and 2 children to support, with the increased dependants allowance will gain an overall reduction in tax of approximately 17.5 per cent. [More…]

• No-one who knows the Prime Minister will deny that he is a man of outstanding ability and an administrator and economist the equal of which there are very few in Australia. [More…]

• This Budget is not something cooked up for the election but is the result of many months of planning, research and imagination. [More…]

• Taxation has been reduced by a record amount for every taxpaying man or woman. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition - I never like to be personal - is a very vain man. [More…]

• He likes to strut the stage and project his commanding stature in the hope that people will believe him and trust his word. [More…]

• If we get a Labor government it will be without doubt under the direction of the left wing trade unions, dominated by the most powerful man in Australia, Bob Hawke, and I leave it at that. [More…]

• On the one hand, the people can settle for a party which for the moment has successfully concealed its deep ideological divisions and is led by a man- [More…]

• I say to the honourable member for Moreton: ‘When you had your chance to stand up and be counted as a man of substance and a man who backs up his own words with actions, you backed out the door, as the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) did. [More…]

• On the other hand, those people least likely to spend and most likely to save - people at the top of the income scale - are precisely the ones who get the biggest increases in aftertax incomes in this rich man’s’ Budget. [More…]

• In particular it is a budget for the family man. [More…]

• Job security and peace of mind for the ordinary working man and woman must be shattered. [More…]

• It has offered nothing, despite the claim by the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) in his Budget Speech that in framing the Budget he was concerned with the needs of the family man. [More…]

• This provision operates successfully in other countries, as many honourable members may know. [More…]

• This is a Budget for every man, every woman and every child in this nation. [More…]

• But it is also a document of humanitarian hope and compassion. [More…]

• We seek an environment where man and nature can live in harmony. [More…]

• We seek to secure the dignity of man by our social welfare policies which provide for all those in need. [More…]

• We seek these in this society, where the rule of law is honoured, where the individual and his liberty are first in our consideration and where the incentive genius of man has unfettered opportunity in a climate of free enterprise and healthy competition. [More…]

• The Opposition on the other hand betrays its class-conscious outlook on this issue as on many others. [More…]

• It says this is a rich man’s budget - that he gets the best deal in the tax cuts. [More…]

• Some of them became quite pale, others sat without moving and others were fidgeting in their seats as the Treasurer unfolded the many benefits for the community. [More…]

• A young man went to an artist and said: T want you to paint a portrait of my father’. [More…]

• Even the best Labor man must admit that the Government has taken the initiative and that the Labor Party is trailing along waiting for the day when it will suffer another defeat. [More…]

• Agreement was brought about by the Government and it came into this House for ratification, every Labor man in the House at the time voted against it. [More…]

• I know that you are a very fair man, Mr Speaker, and I would hope that you would allow me the same latitude as you allowed the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) when he referred to Bathurst, Wooloomooloo and [More…]

• These were supposed to have been introduced in the interests of the family man on low income. [More…]

• I simply took as an example a man with a dependent wife and 2 children who was enjoying the magnificent income of $54 a week. [More…]

• I think if we asked whether that man should pay any income tax most people would say no. [More…]

• If they think it is too5 much, do they think they are paying too much in comparison with the man with an income of $2,800 with a wife and 2 children who is still paying over $3 per week? [More…]

• There is no doubt that in Australia at the moment, even after these tax reductions, the married man with a nonworking wife and with children to support is still paying too much tax. [More…]

• In the first place, they are designed to benefit the family man and, in particular, the one-income family. [More…]

• I would like to be informed by the Minister for the Army (Mr Katter), who is at the table, before the debate is closed whether this would also apply to a professional man such as a doctor who goes for example, to London to obtain higher professional degrees? [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne Ports indicated that the family man - the man on $90 a week or thereabouts - would be the person who would be paying the tax. [More…]

• So what we have been able to discover finally is that the Labor Party proposes increasing the levels of tax on the man on or about $90 a week. [More…]

• I believe that he is an honourable man and that he was sincere when he talked about doubling family deductions. [More…]

• So, in this sense, this is a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• Regarding medical expenses, I have taken figures out in relation to the man who earns about $60 a week - that is the person in the income range of $2,800 to $3,000 per year. [More…]

• If we go back to our $60 per week man again, we find that he claims $79 per child per year, but the bloke on $10,000 to $12,000 a year claims $155 per child per year, which is almost twice as much. [More…]

• The man in the $10,000 to $12,000 a year range with one child will receive a tax saving of $125. [More…]

• He is trying to scare and intimidate this man. [More…]

• It is pointed out to me by Mr Walter Chivell, who is a very prominent rifleman, that if the price goes up - it is about 8c a shot now which is too dear - it will become a rich man’s hobby and many of the smaller, weaker clubs will have to close. [More…]

• After all, if a man is not trained he would not be very valuable in matters of defence. [More…]

• That the Leader of the Opposition further worsened the situation by a direct allegation against me just illustrates the calibre of the man. [More…]

• As to the last part of the question, it is unbelievable that any man could come to such a conclusion as the honourable member has come to. [More…]

• For a man with a wife and 3 children and a taxable income of over $15,000, the percentage rise in after tax income is 5.3 per cent. [More…]

• The percentage rise in after tax income for a man on 82,800 per annum is only 2.24 per cent. [More…]

• On that occasion the honourable member pointed out so rightly - I think I am quoting him correctly from memory - that a man on $55 a week with a wife and a child and sometimes 2 child’ ren or more- [More…]

• The income of a man on $55 a week with a wife and 2 children should not be taxable. [More…]

• How many people in our country would disagree with that? [More…]

• But I venture to guess that even after these changes are made the family man with dependants will still not receive the same benefit from his dependants’ allowances as he did in earlier days. [More…]

• It is ridiculous that a man with a taxable income of $15,000, whose marginal rate of tax is so much greater than that of a man with a taxable income of $3,000 or $4,000, receives a greater benefit from the $312 concessional deduction for his wife than the person on the lower tax rate receives. [More…]

• This is the situation: One man is deaf, dumb and blind and another man is deaf and blind. [More…]

• One man spends most of his income on taxi fares just for the therapeutic value of being occupied. [More…]

• The manager asked me whether I would see what could be done. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) emphasised in the Budget Speech that in the Government’s view personal income tax was too high as it existed last year, and that the average family man in particular was being hit too hard. [More…]

• As one of my colleagues pointed out recently, when the aggregate of the sales tax revenue is divided by the total population of Australia it emerges that every man, woman and child bears a burden of about $60 in sales tax. [More…]

• Like other honourable members on this side of the House, I regret that the Government did not adopt a more extensive view and provide for relief on many other items. [More…]

• A person who is dependent upon a pension pays just as much for an item that carries sales tax as does a man who earns SI 00,000 a year. [More…]

• At the outset, I want to state that the Government is not opposed to the concept of more real leisure for the Australian working man any more than it is in any way opposed to the concept of increased real wages for the work force of this country. [More…]

• It applauds both concepts, and by its progressive policies over many years it has worked steadily to achieve both objectives. [More…]

• Last year the Prime Minister and his Ministers announced that we had our worst year of industrial instability for 25 years with 3 million man days lost. [More…]

• But in spite of the fact that stevedoring output had more than doubled in 10 years this Prime Minister had the cheek to send somebody into the Arbitration Commission to say: ‘We do not care, whether the output per man-hour has gone up 100 per cent in 10 years, we are still opposed to the 35-hour week’. [More…]

• It seems to be a logical conclusion that more productivity demands greater leisure, but this Prime Minister applauded the previous Prime Minister for sending the most expensive counsel that money could buy to oppose their application in the Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• At the outset J want to state that the Government is not opposed to the concept of more real leisure for the Australian working man. [More…]

• While we have a government like this in office, which tells the Arbitration Commission that it should not award even $51.10 a week for a man, wife and children to live on, these people will always need a second job to get sufficient money to live on. [More…]

• In the history of this nation and this Parliament every man who has appeared on the side now represented by the Government - the Liberal-Country Party side, the United Australia Party side, the Nationalist Party side - back to the early part of this century has always opposed every move that has ever been made for shorter hours or for higher wages. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hindmarsh, who led for the Opposition in this debate today, made a speech which did not do him credit because of the manner in which it was delivered. [More…]

• The individual man, well-trained, does not work harder to increase productivity; he works more efficiently by reason of better management. [More…]

• Only a man with an imagination such as that of the honourable member for Hindmarsh could put forward such a proposition. [More…]

• What is wrong with the country that it should allow the whimsy of one man to keep people waiting around? [More…]

• Why should 1 ask the Minister for the Interior - a 5- minute man in this place - whether I can have a car to enable me to catch a plane? [More…]

• I think even inside that piece of vandalism, the ring road, there is an area of 85 acres still, and I suppose it is not beyond the wit of man to overcome that disability. [More…]

• The court is not concerned with what the worker’s taxable income will be, and grants in most instances the same allowances to a highly skilled man on a high wage as it does to a labourer on a low wage. [More…]

• Apparently this man came home one night to find that the bailiffs had taken possession of all his furniture to settle a $71 debt to the Taxation Office. [More…]

• Evidently, the man had had an argument with the Taxation Office. [More…]

• At the same time we get the opposite case - a man who has had the whole of his furniture repossessed by the Taxation Office for a debt of only $71.29, which has been disputed. [More…]

• Because of her ineligibility for service pension as a wife, a de facto wife of an exserviceman is, in many cases, at some disadvantage compared with a Social Service pensioner’s de facto wife, as the latter is recognised on the same basis as a legal wife if her association with the man concerned is of 3 years’ duration. [More…]

• But, as indicated in the first part of this answer, many de facto wives of ex-servicemen receive war pensions. [More…]

• How many of these gangs have a fully qualified first aid man as a member of the gang. [More…]

• One gang has a fully qualified first aid man as a member. [More…]

• This makes it highly impractical to attempt to provide a qualified first aid man with every gang. [More…]

• The decision of the Full Court yesterday aroused great hopes among the Aboriginal community that their expectations could be fulfilled and their aims achieved through the operation of the normal processes of the law, through what an increasing number of Aborigines are coming to describe as ‘white man’s law’. [More…]

• Opposition and surprising that it should come from a man such as he - is his statement that the only reason this Government moved the campers from opposite Parliament House was because they were black. [More…]

• The Government is like a man who waits for something to happen to him before he works out what he is going to do about it. [More…]

• It is all very well for us to seek to extricate ourselves from these miserable circumstances into which we have been pushed by saying that the man had the ordinance there and read it. [More…]

• I can remember - and I will finish on this note leaving with honourable members on both sides the suggestion that the most important aspect is the amendment about which I will be talking in the Committee stage - that 3 or 4 years ago a man called Taylor was convicted of a small offence in Canberra and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment. [More…]

• The High Court let the young man out - and this, too, is relevant to the amendment - which meant that every man who bad been committed to the New South Wales gaol system had been committed illegally. [More…]

• There is a clause that can send a man to gaol for 12 months for drunken driving or impose a penalty of 500 or $500 - I am not sure exactly what it is. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister were as strong a man as he said he was on television the other night he would - being a man of decision, as he said he was - have nothing to do with the matter which is before the Parliament today. [More…]

• I wish to protest against the manner in which this country of ours is being governed at present. [More…]

• It is high time that we had in power a government that has decent respect for human rights, human dignity, the liberty of the subject and the rights of man. [More…]

• We are living today in a country which has both Houses of its Parliament in session but not a single Minister who is in a position to do so is showing the slightest concern that at this very moment in a New South Wales gaol is a young woman of 22 years of age. [More…]

• This afternoon I pleaded with the Minister to let this young woman out of gaol. [More…]

• What faith can anybody have in this Attorney-General, a man who we all know broke the law of the land himself when he filled in a false declaration about his expenses in the election. [More…]

• My Leader informs me now that the Attorney-General has already informed the honourable member for Prospect that he will not give justice to this young girl, who has been put into gaol by a man who had absolutely no legal right to put her into gaol, unless she goes to some barrister or engages counsel to make an application for her and pays for it out of her own pocket. [More…]

• He could not care less that there is in gaol tonight a person who was sent there by a man who had absolutely no legal right to put her in gaol. [More…]

• How can we respect this thing called ‘the rule of law’ when this Government allows people like this to be grabbed out of their homes and taken to gaol on the say so of a man who has no more legal right to make the decision than this book which I hold in my hand. [More…]

• Just where do the rights of man end or begin, if this is the way you are going to treat this young woman? [More…]

• I say to the Government: If it can act as quickly as it acted last night to correct the defect in the law which made it an offence to have an embassy on the lawns opposite, to get the printing presses going after midnight and to get police storming the countryside in the early hours of the morning, then why in the name of God can it not act with the same alacrity to ensure that this young woman is not kept in gaol tonight against her will? [More…]

• It was about protecting the little man from the powers of the state. [More…]

• Wherever any law seeks to impose a penalty, to exact an obligation, to demand of a person that something be done, I say it must be stated in clear, explicit language. [More…]

• My friend the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) is a man of good will. [More…]

• But does the honourable gentleman seriously ask me to say that, with respect to all the offences, the Commonwealth should proceed untrammelled and unassailed? [More…]

• The Minister for Primary Industry said that a number of people have been charged with resisting arrest, assaulting a policeman and using offensive behaviour. [More…]

• If a man came to my home, knocked on the door and said ‘You have a hose on, ergo you are guilty’, I socked him on the jaw and it turned out that the particular ordinance was invalid or unenforceable, is the Minister serious when he says - if not explicitly, by way of implication - that that would be no defence? [More…]

• Is there a prosecution pending with relation to manslaughter with a motor car? [More…]

• I invite the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) to say whether he would honestly suggest that such a charge could be immediately connected with this matter. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman nods his head. [More…]

• But I do ask the Minister with all the simplicity I have at my command to look again at the implications of this legislation. [More…]

• I seek not to instruct any person as to the jurisprudence to which he should succumb, but I do extend an invitation with all of the sincerity at my command to all members of this Committee, no matter what their views may be, to look at the implications of asking all of those people who have been connected with proximity to face prosecutions on this issue. [More…]

• If a man came to you and you were convinced one way or another that the ordinance was not valid, and it turned out to be invalid, what would your reaction be if the Parliament of your nation then said: ‘It does not matter very much. [More…]

• I will not read out individual names, but let me pick out one offence from the list of many charges. [More…]

• The rights of the individual are tremendously important to every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• It is nice that the Leader of the Opposition is a man of letters, and we know that he is a great scholar in the courts but, my word, that is small compensation for being a man amongst men. [More…]

• The other man, who operates in Alice Springs among the Aboriginal people, said how important it was that they should be educated in their own language too. [More…]

• He is a man who is always trying to do things for his area and for Australia. [More…]

• I was interested to hear what the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) had to say, because if ever a man came into this House with pecularities and idiosyncrasies, it was the honourable member for Chifley. [More…]

• and use it to go to work they receive no consideration at all while the great company executive, the man holding a very high position, has his charges paid by his ‘company and is protected in ‘ this way. [More…]

• The young man reports that, following those addresses, more than 80 per cent of the men on parade volunteered, and in his opinion the repatriation provisions were a strong incentive. [More…]

• When his company arrived at Vung Tau in Vietnam, the company commander told them the same thing and made the point that they were eligible for these benefits after they had served 18 days in Vietnam. [More…]

• The young man reports that on his return to Australia he received the same address and the same impression as to his equal rights when he was in camp at Enoggera. [More…]

• The Tasmanian State secretary of the RSL however, did break the news that volunteers and Regular soldiers were not eligible for resettlement loans and that even Citizen Military Forces personnel who volunteered for Vietnam were ineligible if they went to Vietnam and were not taken on strength. [More…]

• Terracur p is based on the organophosphorus insecticide fensulfothion which is extremely toxic to man, animals and wildlife. [More…]

• He forwarded to me a copy of a paper he had given entitled The Conservation of Man’. [More…]

• Living in an urban society has deprived man of one of his greatest needs, namely that of movement. [More…]

• As a biological organism, he has evolved over millions of years in an environment demanding physical mobility and endurance, yet in the last 50 years, Australians, by following the trend of other technologically advanced countries, have considerably reduced their daily energy expenditure. [More…]

• There is now alarming medical evidence which indicates that man’s inability to physically adapt to his changing environment is causing many diseases of a degenerative nature. [More…]

• Research in the field of human biology has demonstrated that a certain amount of physical activity is necessary so that man’s biochemical processes can function normally. [More…]

• We must guard against man falling victim to his own technological ingenuity. [More…]

• Neglect of man’s physical welfare could be disastrous for his future. [More…]

• In West Germany, with the co-operation of the various branches of government and the German Union of Sport, a programme of measures designed to advance sport and to make it available to everyone in that society, not just a privileged few, has been drawn up. [More…]

• Between 1955 and 1959 the German Olympic Society developed what it refers to as the golden plan, not because it costs a lot of money but because man’s health is one of his most prized possessions. [More…]

• I am aware that there is a difference in the populations of West Germany and Australia but we have done nothing in regard to this type of activity. [More…]

• He accused the Dunstan Labor Government of corrupt practices and drew attention to the fact that Mr Huntley, the manager of Hansen Rubensohn-McCann Erick.son, although a highly experienced advertising man has no notable experience in finance, accounting or public administration yet suddenly he has been appointed as a trustee of the Savings Bank of South Australia. [More…]

• I just make the final point that the Australian Labor Party is supposed to represent the little man - the local man, the battler. [More…]

• I do not believe that the Australian Labor Party represents that sort of man any more. [More…]

• This species had not been seen in the paddocks since the white man came, yet these suckers emerged. [More…]

• The seeds had been dormant in the soil. [More…]

• The first man cannot stand in this House and stick up for himself. [More…]

• The second person is a man who is retiring from politics. [More…]

• He is the State member for Alexandra, which includes Kangaroo Island, Mr David Brookman who was at one time the South Australian Minister of Agriculture. [More…]

• Last year at this time I castigated the Minister by saying that although many appeals had been heard, as far as I could ascertain no action had resulted. [More…]

• I do not have with me at present the details concerning how many appeals were heard but within the last 2 weeks I have heard - this is rumour only - that 3 settlers will have the valuations of their blocks altered as a result of appeals. [More…]

• This farm contains 2 or 3 acres of soft fruits as well as citrus and these plantings of soft fruits have carried that man, not his major areas of citrus which should have been playing their part in determining his future. [More…]

• In addition to those events which I enumerated on that occasion, on 19th May 1964 a man of Yugoslav origin lost his legs and his sight while carrying a bomb. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition has detailed, since 1964 there have been 20 bomb explosions - not one or 2 or 3, but 20 - each of which could have killed or injured many people. [More…]

• Incidentally, the man who was charged with that offence is one of those who are alleged to have been arrested in Yugoslavia for carrying out similar terrorist activities there after being trained here. [More…]

• May I say how delighted I am to see that Sir John Overall has been invited to be chairman of this national authority. [More…]

• Sir John Overall is the man whose work lies behind the modern concept of Canberra - the man who has been in charge of Canberra’s development since 1958 - and I believe great credit rests on him for the magnificent job that he has done. [More…]

• He is a man who has also won great recognition by State governments and has been consulted from time to time with some of their developmental projects. [More…]

• We can show the world how a sensible nation can go about the kind of development the modern world and the modern needs of man and the demands of his environment require. [More…]

• A national serviceman further is entitled to a re-establishment loan. [More…]

• Is there any distinction between the man who fought in Vietnam and the man who fought in the Second World War? [More…]

• If a man serves on a voluntary basis in the armed forces today he is not entitled to the benefits of war service land settlement or, in fact, to any of the benefits that ought to be accorded to an ex-serviceman of this country. [More…]

• But if he is a national serviceman and serves for 2 years, he is entitled to all the rehabilitation entitlements. [More…]

• We beg to differ on many points. [More…]

• Yet when one looks at writings about the early history of man and explorers rarely is there any mention of black spear grass, or heteropagon contortus as it is known. [More…]

• When man settled areas man started to do 2 things - to graze his animals and to fire the country. [More…]

• I give that only as an example to show that the giving of insufficient attention to a particular problem has completely changed the distribution of a certain type of valuable pasture in northern Australia after man came into the area. [More…]

• The Minister for Housing (Mr Kevin Cairns) has before him at the present moment a case referred by me of a new Australian gentleman who, on advice from his solicitor, signed a contract on a certain date only to find that that date was not the appropriate one. [More…]

• I had another case not so long ago of a man who was anxious to get started with his house and poured the concrete for the foundations of his house a week before the 3-year saving period was up. [More…]

• There was a not dissimilar case of a gentleman who built a room purporting to be part of a house. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, in one case a man was advised by his solicitor, who was obviously quite wrong, that he could sign the contract on a certain day. [More…]

• But wrong advice is sometimes given and it was unfortunate that it was given in this case because it cost this man $500. [More…]

• If ever there was a dreamer I see it in the man who one day hopes he might be the Minister for Housing. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid is a man to whom we can attribute so many silly statements. [More…]

• He pointed out, quite rightly, that the scheme has been characterised as a profligate rich man’s dream, and the Opposition intends to propose it. [More…]

• I was in America as a young man about 50 years ago and I formed the opinion there that unless one had money one did not have any rights whatsoever. [More…]

• I make a plea for consideration of the innocent man in Australia. [More…]

• No matter who we might be we like to see that uniformed man around our streets at certain times. [More…]

• It works out at $2,000 for every man employed in the industry. [More…]

• Indeed, one of my constituents who is a business man of some considerable renown and accomplishment also had this idea and the principal reason for which I have risen tonight is to draw attention again to the need to overhaul this system and to claim some redress for my constituent. [More…]

• Here is a man who is a resourceful businessman and who evolves a scheme, puts it in writing to the Minister and has it sensibly represented through his member of Parliament - through a sensible member of Parliament. [More…]

• Here is a man who had an original idea but the Government did not recognise or appreciate it for some time. [More…]

• They will come expecting a warm and friendly welcome in a prosperous and beautiful land, blessedby natureand man. [More…]

• God help the consumer, in this instance a man who served his country. [More…]

• If this shows that a woman who finds herself pregnant is less prepared to enter a shotgun arrangement with a man with whom she has had a clandestine or brief affair, and if she says that she is not going to ruin her life, and the baby’s life and that man’s life, and that she will have the baby as a single person instead, I would not say that this is the sort of thing we should rapidly condemn without some thought. [More…]

• Have they taken any effective action or have they adopted the general, traditional attitude of the man playing the piano on the ground floor of the brothel and affecting neither to know nor care what goes on upstairs? [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to a nation-wide opinion poll held in the United States of America last year which indicated that some 78 per cent of Americans wanted Ralph Nader as their president - 1 might add that this opinion poll was a little better than other opinion polls on some people - and that they regarded him as one of the few men, if not the only man, in the country with the capacity and integrity for that great office? [More…]

• Firstly it was said that the level of fallout was equivalent to that given off when a man wore an illuminated wristlet watch. [More…]

• These examples represent the equivalent effect that a human being would be subjected to as a result of the recent fallout according to New Zealand scientists in the Pacific. [More…]

• Let us take the case of a man with a wife and 2 children. [More…]

• It certainly has created the pool of unemployment that it wanted and has rather foolishly achieved a dampening down of demand at a time when demand badly needs to be stimulated. [More…]

• It is cheap to throw these people into unemployment and to provide a man with a wife and 2 children with benefits $18 a week below the poverty level. [More…]

• Mr Menzies resigned as a man of principle. [More…]

• He is a man of compassion with a driving zeal to achieve happiness and security for those in the community for whom we have a special responsibility. [More…]

• The Australian people are fortunate that we have such a man in this Government. [More…]

• This is a gigantic sum in any man’s language. [More…]

• The present provisions have grown in a haphazard manner over the past 70 years but it is obvious from the action of the present Government in deciding to abolish the means test in the near future that the winds of change are blowing to usher in a complete reshaping of our social service structure. [More…]

• For example, at age 77, for a married man with no assessable means other an superannuation, this table shows that he would be able to receive superannuation benefits up to $10,404 a year or $200 a week. [More…]

• In the case of a single man he could receive up to $5,900 a year or $113 a week and still receive some pension. [More…]

• When a man’s income does fall below the stated level or when a man becomes unemployed it pays his contributions, not in advance but on a hand to hand, month to month basis. [More…]

• It will be remembered that in June 1966 Professor Henderson set down a poverty line of $33 which he applied to what he called the standard family, which was a man, wife and 2 children paying rent. [More…]

• In virtually every case the provisions in this Bill put them above the poverty line in accordance with that formula - and in many cases substantially above it. [More…]

• According to this line, all a man with any war service at all on his slate has to do is stroll into the nearest Repatriation Department office, fill out a few forms and hang his hat on a pension for the rest of his life. [More…]

• For example, a lot of play was made in the recent spate of criticism about the case of an 80- year old man on the basis of war-caused impotence because obviously all 80-year old men were impotent. [More…]

• I doubt that many people would begrudge some sort of compensation to a man who lost his generative powers through war injury in World War I and suffered considerable deprivation throughout his mature life as a result. [More…]

• How could many of these get through the strict system of determination 1 have outlined? [More…]

• While the total and permanent incapacity pension might appear to be a substantial sum when it is looked at from the lowly depths of the ordinary pension system, or even when it is looked at from the point of view of a man and his wife who are on the minimum wage, it is still pretty miserable, k it not? [More…]

• What did we do to our young man of 20 years of age? [More…]

• Never before in the history of man have men endured and suffered as did the men of the First World War, and for anyone to state that their mental and physical strength had not been impaired as a result of their service, even though delayed for many years, is an indictment. [More…]

• Service pensions are available to cxservicemen and ex-service women if they have suffered from tuberculosis or have served in a theatre of war and are 60 years of age, if a man, and 55 years of age, if a woman, or are permanently unemployable. [More…]

• Apart from the resultant substantial benefits to those already receiving service pensions, many of whom also receive war pensions, a large number of people could qualify for service pensions for the first time. [More…]

• The service pension rate for a single exserviceman has increased from $16 to $20 a week in the last 12 months and combined payments to a husband and wife who are both in receipt of service pensions have increased from $21.25 to $34.50 a week. [More…]

• For many service pensioners, a number of fringe benefits are also available from Commonwealth sources. [More…]

• The proposal to provide the major part of the cost of nursing home care for totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners, intermediate pensioners, war widows and 1914 war nurses is very commendable. [More…]

• As the weekly amount which these pensioners will be required to contribute towards the cost of their maintenance in a nursing home in all cases is less than the maximum amount they can receive by way of Commonwealth pensions, these proposals will completely remove the worry and expense which many of them and their relations have had to bear. [More…]

• As the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) has pointed out, during the last 3 years many of the rates of repatriation pensions have increased in excess of the increases in various economic indexes. [More…]

• We have in the Minister for Repatriation a man of compassion, of understanding and of good will. [More…]

• I have had to contend with many difficult cases and he has gone out of his way to help me. [More…]

• No better man could be in the position of Minister for Repatriation and I am sorry that the honourable member for Wills spoke as he did. [More…]

• Apparently he does not realise the character and stature of the man who is Minister for Repatriation. [More…]

• That is what the man to whom I have referred is suffering from now, and this evidence could well have helped him secure a ruling that his condition was war-caused, but his case was rejected on the tribunal’s interpretation of section 47. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned, if a man has suffered as a result of his war service there should be no difference in the rate to which he is entitled whether he were a colonel, a general, a corporal or a private. [More…]

• A man is either discharged from the Services fit to return to his normal style of occupation with all his health or he is not. [More…]

• But here is this fearless man speaking out and telling everybody what a big racket repatriation is - according to him. [More…]

• Like every other system that is administered by man and not by computers, mistakes certainly will be made on occasions. [More…]

• There is a rather filthy cartoon in this little yellow book I referred to earlier which shows a woman lying on a bed. [More…]

• As a non-medical man, I cannot judge. [More…]

• Recently I saw a man at my home who was in his early fifties and who was convinced that some of the things wrong with him were as a result of his war service. [More…]

• I would not know whether they were, but this man was actually crying from frustration. [More…]

• This man in his fifties was, until a few years ago, as strong and as able as anyone in this House. [More…]

• I am always encouraged to hear my colleague the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) because he is a man of military involvement. [More…]

• He is a man who suffered in the war. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin), who also spoke, is a man of similar distinction. [More…]

• My colleague the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) is a man who has applied himself with skill, expertise and great sincerity to the cause of ex-servicemen. [More…]

• He is a young man compared with myself and a few others in the Parliament and it was good to see a young man with his heart in the right place. [More…]

• determining authorities is that every member - I think I am right in saying this - of every determining authority throughout Australia is a returned serviceman. [More…]

• A great deal of publicity has been given to the granting of a pension to an 80-year-old gentleman for a certain complaint. [More…]

• Of course I am not at liberty to disclose the man’s name or the medical details of his case, and I do not intend to do so. [More…]

• I do think that people who try to bolster a case and thereby receive widespread publicity through the news media by making a smartalec remark about an 80-year-old man getting a pension because he is impotent ought to be ashamed of themselves. [More…]

• When these people are painting a critical picture with a wide brush they should remember that they are causing embarrassment and ridicule to many thousands of decent and gallant exservicemen without whose efforts in war these people would not enjoy the freedoms and rights of criticism in Australia that they do today. [More…]

• But the legislation leaves the tax with all its inequality and the fact that it applies only to the little man - to the family enterprise whether it is a farm or a business. [More…]

• The whole idea of imposing taxation on an estate left by a man or woman does not seem to have any real justification. [More…]

• I say again that there can be no excuse for imposing duty on an estate into the assembling of which a man and his wife have put their years and which on the death of one spouse passes to the other. [More…]

• The government had to pay a man a full wage while he was being treated. [More…]

• Many consequential policies followed the decision but the government got rid of tuberculosis. [More…]

• Before going on to state my opinions on this matter, I should like to say that I do not know how many honourable members have captained football teams which have played against Aboriginal teams and who on that basis know the Aborigines well. [More…]

• I do not know how many honourable members have played tennis with and freely mixed with them in the country area in which I lived. [More…]

• The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), as a great cricketer and a great Alice Springs man, would certainly be one of them. [More…]

• He is a cattle man and farmer. [More…]

• He can give first-class practical advice and assistance in places such as Milingimbi, Elcho Island, Bathurst Island, Croker Island, Goulburn Island and Maningrida with regard to developing projects which are in the interests of Aborigines residing in those areas. [More…]

• There is Bulman in Arnhem Land where there could well be an outstanding buffalo export industry. [More…]

• In fact I think a man is operating an industry there at the moment and I believe he intends to hand his plant and the whole concern over to the Aborigines and train them how to do the job so they can get into this very lucrative beef export industry. [More…]

• The project at Haasts Bluff has been run by a very knowledgeable cattle man in the past but he is now retired. [More…]

• It would take many years to train the local Aboriginal people who live in that area and who would feel that they would be entitled to be in the Haasts Bluff cattle company. [More…]

• It will take the time, the patience and the experience of as many men and women as possible. [More…]

• A lot of Aborigines in this area have the determination and ability to run some places on their own, but the point is that the Aboriginal philosophy is such that if one man and his family get onto a block and get a few head of cattle and some water they are obliged to see that their relatives, if they arrive on the verandah or outside the homestead, are watered, fed and cared for. [More…]

• Is the man who serves in the lighthouse at Wilsons Promontory, tens of miles from anywhere, still a part of the Australian community? [More…]

• Of course, he is a man of great distinction. [More…]

• I do not know how many times the Minister for the Interior walked across the road to Parkes Place to negotiate with the people over there. [More…]

• But how many Ministers of the Government walked across and sat on the grass to negotiate with them? [More…]

• The electorate which I represent contains a fair number of Aboriginal people, from the people in the north west corner who have had contact with the white man for only a few years, to the possibly more sophisticated people in the south - people with regular jobs, living in Europeanised conditions. [More…]

• In this type of debate I usually suffer the disadvantage of following the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), who is, at most times, a reasonable and even a temperate man. [More…]

• Their connection with this Bill is just as tenuous as that of the arguments of the honourable member for Fremantle. [More…]

• He is a man for whom I think all honourable members in this House have respect. [More…]

• One would have thought that before he made very strong accusations against my Department and myself in the House he would have checked his facts because the honourable gentleman’s academic training and his training in a distinguished branch of the civil service would have led him to check facts. [More…]

• 1 hope the honourable gentleman will be good enough to take my refutation back to his sources and if I am wrong and my refutation is wrong I would be pleased if he would let me know. [More…]

• It may not be so, but it is likely that a fairly heavy teacher load or a fairly heavy administrative responsibility in relation to a large department will produce, under those circumstances, a plus loading for a professor or another university staff man in a large university as distinct from a smaller one. [More…]

• Because he is a fair man I am sure he will agree that this is a realistic and logical way of allocating these funds for capital development. [More…]

• I cannot be sure what the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) meant by his comment but I certainly do not think that he meant that the Australian Medical Association, to a man, will now vote for the Labor Party because it supports our policy on this matter. [More…]

• The point is that for the first time publicly on television a spokesman for the AMA conceded- [More…]

• I seem to remember that the last time the estimates for this Department were discussed I referred to the electorate of my friend and colleague, the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope), where there is a situation of fragmentation with large numbers of widows and large numbers of man-less women who are either deserted or the wives of service personnel. [More…]

• I think a lot of the criticism of the migration programme has come about because the suburban man or woman has looked over the fence and said: ‘We have too many people here. [More…]

• Yet when a man crosses the Great Dividing Range he finds that he is meeting everybody coming back because of the rural situation. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman said that we do not discriminate against the colour of the skin or things of that kind. [More…]

• We do not judge a man on the colour of his skin but on his way of life, and if we import people with a completely different approach to life then we are headed for trouble. [More…]

• How many Scandinavians or north Europeans do we attract to Australia? [More…]

• With the techniques of future science it would be a bold man who would set a figure of limitation on the population that Australia could carry in future years. [More…]

• So let us continue to encourage and assist as many people to come to Australia as we can absorb, provided we can absorb them as far as is possible into a homogeneous society, a society which is not only in the interests of Australians but also of migrants themselves. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass), who I believe is a sincere man - and I admire him for his sincerity - is all for the legalisation of pot. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) advocates legalised abortion. [More…]

• It has made it perfectly clear that its policies with respect to housing are a profligate rich man’s dream. [More…]

• That is to be the model of the Opposition in so many areas. [More…]

• He is a man who would use Mr Dunstan as his Steerforth. [More…]

• a man who would use South Australian policies as models for his own legislation. [More…]

• The truth is that nowadays even the richest man cannot educate his family . [More…]

• I regard him as an honourable man who operated in the best interests of this country. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has rightly said, Sir Winton Turnbull is a most remarkable man - an unusual man. [More…]

• I had thought that I would be making some reference to the honourable gentleman on the last night of the sittings. [More…]

• From your position looking straight down the centre aisle Mr Speaker, you will have observed the reactions that the honourable gentleman can produce. [More…]

• He has been a man of undiminished ardour in everything pertaining to his duties over his very long period of service to the people of his electorate, the people of his Party and the people of Australia. [More…]

• We know that a man whose wife works and earns more than $31 a week will not be eligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]

• It was referred to me by the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) who has always been a man with a great humanitarian streak in his makeup and who is as saddened asI am to hear of examples such as this. [More…]

• A Rockhampton man was given a rail pass by the Department of Labour and National Service to travel some 200 miles to take a job at Springsure. [More…]

• He, a man with a wife and 2 children had to se” the family refrigerator to a neighbour for less than S30 so that they could pay a week’s board in advance at Springsure. [More…]

• But this man had received no benefit payment at that stage, What is the use of sending a man, his wife and 2 children to a place 200 miles away with just a train ticket? [More…]

• I remind the House that many people who fall into the age or invalidity categories I have mentioned, that is, where the man is over 65 or the woman is over 60, will immediately become entitled to a pension even though the husband may still be employed in his normal job. [More…]

• I understand from what was said by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) that a man who has no assets other than a weekly income of, say, approximately $100, his wife who is over 60 years of age will possibly become eligible under the changed circumstances to some form of pension. [More…]

• But the point that strikes me - this is a matter which comes within the portfolio of the Minister - is that a married man who is unemployed and getting just under $30 a week is expected to keep himself and his wife. [More…]

• But if the Prime Minister wants to play a one man band in regard to when he announces the date of the election- [More…]

• When a man aged 55 years has worked with a company for over 30 years there is not much possibility of retraining him under the scheme referred to from time to time by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch). [More…]

• Had the same action been taken then and the same man appointed, the decisions would have been exemplary and convincing. [More…]

• Canberra has shown that an alternative way of life is both possible and practicable and that a small to medium sized city now has many advantages over the larger conurbations. [More…]

• I might mention at this stage that a great deal of credit for the success of Canberra - a success which was recently acknowledged at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm - is attributable to the work of Sir John Overall as head of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]

• Sir John Overall is a man of the highest international reputation in the field of new town development. [More…]

• He is a man who in his own right was invited to the Stockholm conference to deliver a paper on new town development. [More…]

• I think it is fitting that this most experienced and competent man has been appointed as Chairman of the new National Urban and Regional Development Authority. [More…]

• I believe this man has the capacity to launch this new organisation. [More…]

• The Prime Minister announced the selection of Sir John Overall as Chairman of the National Urban and Regional Development Authority. [More…]

• He is a man who has had considerable experience as Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]

• Quite obviously the use of the name, very respected as it is, of the Chairman of the National Capital Development Commission, was designed to add status to the statement. [More…]

• The announcement that this man will not hold the position beyond July of next year is clear evidence that he will not in fact be the man controlling this organisation and his name is being used purely to add status to what is a hurried and ill considered statement. [More…]

• It was beautiful by nature, but it has been virtually destroyed by man. [More…]

• We have a massive expanse of land and a relatively small population, and we are being worried by and buried in our own refuse, whether it be industrial or human. [More…]

• Yet one can go to Japan, which has a small land mass and 100 million people, and be shown in no small manner of means how they are coping with this problem. [More…]

• Here is an intriguing pattern of interlocking directorates and shareholding - the DLP’s advertising agency owned and controlled by the Liberal Party’s advertising agency together with a man prominent enough in the Liberal Party to be its candidate for a seat at the last State elections and another who is an official of a LCL branch. [More…]

• What is the real subject of discussion is man’s use and manipulation of the world around him. [More…]

• Man has to decide what he wants and what he will do without. [More…]

• are to decide what man wants, what he will accept and what he will do without, for a. start, members of Parliament, who will have to deal with the legislation that will handle these matters should be involved in this whole process of looking at the total concept. [More…]

• We see the briefest of debates on the report presented to the Parliament on the United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm. [More…]

• Recently I saw an example of these economics of ecology in Tasmania at the pulp and paper works. [More…]

• If rigid requirements are made on the industry it may mean that production is stopped; it may mean that man has to accept less of this material. [More…]

• Although in the past a number of people have been concerned about the relationship between man and his environment, about the utilisation and conservation of scarce resources, about the preservation of unique natural land forms and the conservation of the earth’s flora and fauna, only recently has this concern become widespread amongst the people of the developed countries of the world. [More…]

• V;n himself is an increasingly important part of this total equation, not only because of the absolute growth in the world’s population but also because of man’s increasing capacity to alter the environment for both good and evil. [More…]

• The portfolio of Aboriginal Affairs should be looked upon as a very important and responsible portfolio; but notwithstanding its importance, the Government has appointed as the Minister in charge of Aboriginal affairs a man who has very little interest in these people and certainly has very little knowledge of their customs and problems. [More…]

• The Vienna Conference concluded that environmental education at all levels is essential to the wellbeing of the planet in which we live and for man’s place in the planet. [More…]

• The answer to this question, as I sen it, is you and I - every person, every single human being. [More…]

• The answer is that man alone is to blame. [More…]

• It says that God created man in his own image and gave him dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle and all the earth; over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. [More…]

• He commanded that man be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. [More…]

• In my opinion man has done just that. [More…]

• We must learn that the conservation of our environment must be a joint venture between man and nature if we are to hand our country and our way of life over to future generations in good order and condition. [More…]

• The challenge of preserving this environment may well become one of man’s greatest tasks in the near future. [More…]

• You would be just the man to be a ticktack expert on some racecourse in Sydney. [More…]

• It is an indictment of the parliamentary system in this country that one man can sign an agreement without having even ro enter into discussions with a parliamentary committee of any description or having to report the matter to the Parliament which, after all, is supposed to be the legislative body controlling national affairs. [More…]

• Among other things he said: ‘I am a city man and know little about country conditions’. [More…]

• As a result the city areas get more amenities with a snowballing effect, for the man in the country says: ‘I cannot get jobs for my boys or girls here and my job is a bit shaky owing to the way the population is moving’. [More…]

• The Minister will recall the case of a man called Maljevic to which I referred in one of my questions on notice addressed to the Minister. [More…]

• A man can be seriously injured when employed by a company which is under-insured because of inadequate action by this Government. [More…]

• The Legislative Council would need the Crown Law Officer, a man familiar with the laws in the Northern Territory, and perhaps the Assistant Administrator who is concerned with relationships between Canberra and the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]

• I think a regular soldier or a career soldier, whatever one calls him, is a man working in industry and his wage rates and working conditions should not be put at risk. [More…]

• So long as conscripts are dragged into this so-called ‘man’s army’ and made to stay there no matter what, at the risk or threat of imprisonment if they do not, then certainly the wage rates and working conditions of the other soldiers are at risk. [More…]

• The Minister is a very generous man, but I doubt that he is so generous that he would permit me to read the whole document. [More…]

• Is this man shown statistically as being unemployed? [More…]

• A man who is out of work for 6 months finds it more difficult to get a job and develops a mental attitude towards the unfortunate position in which the Government places him. [More…]

• The honourable member for Cowper (Mr Robinson) is laughing but I point out to him that it is harder for a man who has been out of work for 6 months to get a job than it is for a man who has been out of work for 3 weeks. [More…]

• It is even more difficult for a man who has been out of work for 9 months. [More…]

• What is it that makes a man with a 10 per cent equity so much more morally reliable? [More…]

• The Labor Party argued that if a man was prepared to join the forces he was entitled to services and amenities such as those provided by the War Service Homes Act. [More…]

• • but not for the average working man at least not under the present government. [More…]

• Let us examine the position of the man on less than the average weekly wage. [More…]

• I am pleased that the Permanent Building Societies Association has come forward with a proposal which, with limitations, will be of great assistance to low income earners. [More…]

• If that man had a taxable income of $4,500 it could mean a saving in taxation of about $232. [More…]

• I hope that the new Leader of the House will not adopt this tactic too often because he will be a long way behind the man he succeeded if he tries this stunt. [More…]

• This man has been subjected to reassessment on 3 occasions in 3 years. [More…]

• I do not think it is necessary to say any more about this case, but I think that somebody along the line ought to have a serious look at why this man has been subjected to reassessment 3 times in 3 years at this great age. [More…]

• Surely no person in his right mind would suggest that a man at 70 years of age is better able to go out and earn his living than he was at 67 years of age. [More…]

• hope that the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten), who provided me with the reply on this matter - and I realise that he does not have the power to reverse decisions of tribunals - will find out why this man was reassessed 3 times in 3 years at this age. [More…]

• Recently there has been considerable discussion about incorrect charging in and out of the Newcastle area, and I believe that this is a case in which a man has been overcharged. [More…]

• In a 5-week period this gentleman’s meter showed 2,800 metered calls for which he was charged. [More…]

• However, I suggest - and I have discussed this with both the gentleman concerned and his son - that on any basis 2,800 metered calls - at the rate of one metered call every 4 seconds, I think that is the rate - means that this gentleman or his son would have had to talk on the telephone for about half an hour nearly every night during that period to run up such a bill. [More…]

• Prom the information I have been able to obtain and as a result of the discussions I have had with the gentleman concerned and his son, who used the telephone on most of the occasions involved, I do not believe that the account is correct. [More…]

• I know of at least one case where a woman received a very substantial telephone bill which the Department eventually admitted was incorrect, when she was not in occupancy of the house. [More…]

• In the case to which I have been referring the man’s accounts for metered calls over a period were $11.26, $6.25, $12.56, $12.88, $49.20 which was a period when the girl was in Newcastle and the son was ringing up, as in the next period when the bill was $168.34. [More…]

• The assessment made by the Navy and by officers of my Department is that the performance would be not as good. [More…]

• It would require at least 50 more people to man the Dutch DDG as to man the modified DDL. [More…]

• The first is that wool’s prosperity is inevitably tied to a confident and buoyant world trading situation, including currency stability and particularly the demand for textiles. [More…]

• The second - perhaps this is of more immediate importance in considering this legislation - is that the man has not yet been born who can with confidence and accuracy predict the future trend in fashion preference and consequently the demand and price for wool. [More…]

• appropriate measures to adjust the levels of farm production in balance with realistic domestic and overseas market demands in order to provide satisfactory prices to farmers and consumers with the aim of establishing industry on an economic, self-supporting basis within a definable period. [More…]

• In February of this year Mr Vines, the Chairman of the Australian Wool Commission, a man for whom I have very high respect and who would probably know as much about the world wool market situation as anyone, said that we could look forward to a price of around 40c per lb for greasy wool in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• I often wonder how many people sit down and think and study the situation before they say what some people in the Press and elsewhere around Australia have been saying about the present price of wool, as if it is terribly high. [More…]

• In 1968 when wool was at a reasonable price, the return to the woolgrower for a man’s suit or a lady’s woollen garment was only 4.5c in the dollar. [More…]

• I have said before that last year the entire wool clip could have been given to overseas textile manufacturers and it would not have made one iota of difference to the price paid by the end user of the woollen product. [More…]

• The fact is that manmade fibres for a very long time have been looked upon as a direct threat to wool. [More…]

• If the prices are such that they are not strongly competitive against wool then wool will be the favourite in relation to demand. [More…]

• The present rise in consumer demand stems from wool’s attractiveness as a fibre and also from an economic advantage which it is gaining over man-made fibres. [More…]

• As those costs increase, man-made fibres - synthetics - will gradually but certainly fall into a position in which they becomes less and less advantageous in relation to wool. [More…]

• As a result the cost of man-made fibres will rise and become less competitive if wool prices remain reasonable. [More…]

• It is in their interests to have a solid woolproducing industry - one that can produce at prices favourably competitive with those of man-made fibres, lt is in the interests of the nation as a whole. [More…]

• This is obvious from the terms of the deficiency payments scheme, which gives very little to the small man who is in real trouble and gives quite considerable assistance to companies and such like with other means and income. [More…]

• A man who had increased his sheep numbers to keep himself solvent and whose income did not drop by the statutory 8 per cent found he was cut off from getting any of the money which was made available, no matter what sort of trouble he was in. [More…]

• Another man who was going out of farming and sold all of his sheep and therefore had no income from wool and whose income dropped more than 8 per cent as a result, put the whole of the $1,500 towards his trip overseas. [More…]

• It is rather interesting that the biggest single decision on wool was made by a man who has never been a wool grower and has never lived in the countryside. [More…]

• Whatever capital goes through the farm gate allows the farmer to service his debts, to meet his ever increasing local government rates, his cost of living, his depreciation on machinery and all the other things that he is responsible for as a man on theland. [More…]

• Surely he must be the most optimistic man in the Parliament. [More…]

• In any event, does a man’s political allegiance have anything to do with the conduct of a business? [More…]

• The Board has to determine whether on the basis of the recommendations of the trained man in the field so-and-so is eligible for assistance and just how much assistance he will get. [More…]

• The point I am trying to make is that because of the limitations of time very many orchardists in Tasmania might not be able to comply with these requirements. [More…]

• It is like so many of the matters which have been transacted by the Barton family over the years. [More…]

• After reading of the machinations of the companies that have been set up by these people, it astounds me that a man such as Sir Reginald Swartz, who is to retire at the end of this Parliament, at this late stage of his political career has become tangled up with a stinking thing like Jetair just to try to give some respectability to what has been carried on by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• This is the man whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs - himself an eminent member of the Bar - came into this place this morning to use as his authority to bolster up the Government’s case. [More…]

• Perhaps it goes to the middle man and not to the purchaser. [More…]

• How much goes to the middle man? [More…]

• Certainly in relation to the wine excise which was pocketed by the middle man the formation of a subsidy squad would have been a good measure, because there is nothing like a salutary visit by 1 or 2 officers saying: ‘The Parliament of the Commonwealth made a decision. [More…]

• He would be a good man who could point to many areas of significance which were not contained by those headings. [More…]

• If, as I think most honourable members believe to be the case, the Commonwealth Grants Commission has examined and continues to examine in some detail all of the submissions made to it by the relevant States under those and other headings it would be hard to sustain the argument that the Commission and through it the Government are neglectful of the rights and rightful needs of a State such as Tasmania and, of course, not only Tasmania. [More…]

• Like the man about to be hanged, the Honourable member for Macarthur has found that his attention has been concentrated most wonderfully. [More…]

• A former AttorneyGeneral, the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes), a man of learning who is not here today, has not changed his views in any way on the urgency of settling this problem as quickly as practicable. [More…]

• How can the Commonwealth go to this convention and speak with one voice for the whole of Australia when we know that some States are in marked conflict with each other regarding their definitions of the outer limits of the continental shelf, their definitions of what is a man-made island, caves and reefs, and in relation to where the Commonwealth responsibility might start and end. [More…]

• The western coal field of New South Wales has the highest output per man/ shift - 14.72 tons - although the number employed in the industry in that field has fallen from 2.519 in 1952 to 577 at the present time. [More…]

• To me, a losttime accident rate for staff of 5 per cent is rather high but to determine the real effect of this rate one would have thought that the figures would have been expressed in the usual way in which such figures are expressed, that is, in terms of the number of hours lost per million man hours worked. [More…]

• None of them has yet ans wered the question why a man, who was on holidays for 3 weeks and had his house locked up and not used by anyone., had calls recorded on the meter during that period. [More…]

• Nor do they explain the question concerning one other man who, because of the size of his account, has locked his telephone and has kept a very close record of the calls that are made, yet the number of calls which he has recorded differs from the number recorded on the meter. [More…]

• I ask the Minister how many complaints he received about telephone accounts issued from that exchange? [More…]

• How many rebates and adjustments were made in terms of dollars and cents? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: What the devil goes on, man? [More…]

• To say that 400,000 square miles of Australian land is owned by aliens sounds quite impressive, but if the young man conducting the interview had known something about the subject he would have asked: ‘Is this freehold or leasehold land?’ [More…]

• One has only to look at the daily Press and to read the reports that are emanating from the ABC at the moment to see exactly what sort of situation we have got ourselves into. [More…]

• lt well suits the management at this time to indulge in this self-imposed censorship of programmes. [More…]

• In the 3 years I have been in this Parliament I have found him to be a man of great integrity and I have no reason to change that point of view, but unless the Government allows the ABC to operate as an objective current affairs examiner of governments and government performance without any interference, it might just as well let the ABC die tomorrow, because this is what is happening. [More…]

• We hope that the Australian people, when they look at the policy of the Australian Labor Party, will realise that we want to ensure that we have our own ships, we put our own ships on the overseas trade, that we man them with Australian seamen and that we see that they are carrying a fair percentage of our own trade. [More…]

• This evening I wish to raise a matter that has been referred to me in recent days by the father of a young man who has been caught up in the vicious provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]

• The situation is rather typical of what probably many young men are facing today who have recently passed their medical examinations and who have been called up to report for Army duty at the end of January. [More…]

• This young man, who is 21 years of age, is just about to sit for his final examinations at the University of Queensland to qualify as a chemical engineer. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that this young man who has been educated under Commonwealth scholarships and in whose future success the Commonwealth has an investment, will perhaps be in a position where his future will be ruined almost before he is given an opportunity to enter his profession, simply because of the provisions of this disgraceful: and obnoxious National Service Act. [More…]

• More likely he will find himself gardening at Ennogera Barracks or doing storeman’s work. [More…]

• While I do not wish to reflect on the men in the Services who carry out these duties, I am critical of a system which forces a man of this capacity to carry out these duties when he is qualified in the profession which he has chosen. [More…]

• Under the provisions of the National Service Act and because of the stupidity of this Government, he finds that if he had qualified as a teacher or a doctor he could have applied for exemption or time in which to gain experience in his profession, but because he is not in either of those professions this man has been told by the national service office in Brisbane that there is no provision under which he can seek deferment to gain experience in his profession. [More…]

• As I said in my opening remarks, I mention this matter at the request of this lad’s father who has suggested to me also that he knows of one other similar case involving a young man who qualifies this year as a mechanical engineer. [More…]

• The matter which I wish to raise concerns a Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Australian Navy who was injured in 1969 while serving in the flying arm of the Navy. [More…]

• The man to whom I referred who was injured in a flying accident is now a paraplegic and is restricted to a wheelchair. [More…]

• This letter in relation to the claim of this man was sent to the honourable member for Macarthur and stated: [More…]

• There was no interest in re-establishing this man so that he could restart his life or in giving him the opportunity to have a more complete life than is possible at present as a paraplegic with the pain and suffering and everything else that he has gone through. [More…]

• If 1 had been the Minister - I do not reflect on him because the letter was probably written by the departmental head - I would rather cut my arm off than write such a letter to a man who was injured in the service of the Commonwealth and is now a complete paraplegic. [More…]

• The man is not complaining. [More…]

• At the peak of his career as a lieutenant commander he injured himself in such a way that there is no possibility of his recovering. [More…]

• As I understand the position, the moment this man receives $1 a year he will lose his entitlement to Commonwealth employment compensation and I think this is quite iniquitous. [More…]

• If this man does not pass his first year at the university surely to goodness he should not lose his fees. [More…]

• At the present time this man is living at Bruce Hall at the National University. [More…]

• With a wife and 4 young children this man is in very difficult circumstances. [More…]

• I think that this man should be given his pension without any taxation deductions. [More…]

• In my opinion, the rehabilitation which has been given to this man is an example of how the system falls down. [More…]

• I thank the Minister and I hope that the Government will look at this matter more sympathetically not because this man is asking for help but because he says that there are others who are suffering who should be helped. [More…]

• On Tuesday the Prime Minister engaged in a charming little exercise of pooling the Permanent Head. [More…]

• This is the great Cabinet man. [More…]

• Anyone who has never heard of Mr Barton does not live in Sydney, or even in Australia, because associated with this man are some of the most notorious firms in Australia today. [More…]

• The gentleman who went to look at them between Christmas and New Year, before the Government bought them, offered $22,000 for one. [More…]

• When he made the offer the salesman laughed at him and said: ‘Look, we are not interested in that price. [More…]

• That man knew, prior to the deal, that they were going to sell them to the Government. [More…]

• What is facing the Australian people is the risk that a man so reckless that he would not bother to check before going on to the media to make these very serious allegations could become a Minister in certain possibilities. [More…]

• The only man who can expose him is the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and he ought to be brought before the Bar of the House to clear his own name, which he knows is in jeopardy. [More…]

• I am sure that he would not want to cover up for a man he knows will not be the Prime Minister after 2nd December anyway. [More…]

• In my electorate at Bankstown is the factory of Hawker de Havilland Australia Pty Ltd. Retrenchments are imminent there but are being avoided because the dropaway rate Ls such that one man a day is leaving the plant. [More…]

• As 5 or 6 men are leaving each week the management has not had to resort to retrenchments but eventually, unless an improvement takes place, it will be forced to lay off some of its workers. [More…]

• I was at a debate in this town the other day and a young man stood up after the debate and said: ‘I will tell you what they are doing this afternoon, Mr Bryant. [More…]

• After a national serviceman has done his initial training and he has gone off to his unit, he picks up papers, he cleans his boots, he cleans the car and he polishes the door knobs’. [More…]

• I believe that it is a total waste of human time to use it in this way. [More…]

• I should mention that I have been concerned for a long time with the apparent lack of public awareness of the task being done by the CMF and the value to be derived from such service, particularly in the field of man management and the development of leadership qualities. [More…]

• The Labor Party is making a magnificient contribution in having one man in the chamber. [More…]

• I have no doubt that at almost 21 years of age he does not need the help of some corporal in the armed Services to make him a man. [More…]

• I would be very disappointed in his mother if she had not taught him manliness over the years. [More…]

• I refer to the case of one young man in particular, a very fit, very healthy and very vigorous young man. [More…]

• He has been brutal lised and bastardised and, as our Minister for the Army has told us, is now training to be a fighting man. [More…]

• This young man is being trained to use a typewriter and to understand the Army’s filing system and the Army’s accounting system. [More…]

• But the community thinks that it can sleep safely in bed because this young man has been taken from a community and trained, as the community believes, to be a soldier. [More…]

• The Minister for the Navy is a minister of religion and I am astounded that a man with such a background could endorse a policy of aggression to his fellow man. [More…]

• Many good men died in the 1939-45 war for a just cause - the defence of this country against the Japanese who wanted our mineral resources. [More…]

• From the many statements that the Prime Minister has made recently it is clear that he could not have possibly found the vision necessary to set up even the modest effort proposed. [More…]

• It was forced on him by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony), a man of somewhat greater vision. [More…]

• It is in these areas that many of our migrants live. [More…]

• Any reasonable man would advocate a reduction in our migrant intake to give the appropriate authorities the breathing space necessary to begin to give a fair deal to those migrants already here and to get regional development off the ground. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid has become a very worried and disappointed man. [More…]

• He had hoped to have his hobby horse to ride for many months and years to come and is frustrated to find that an effective approach is being made in this matter by the Government. [More…]

• Is there any Australian who could be seen as a man of greater capacity in this field? [More…]

• He is the man who in the next breath wants to give away land at the periphery and how better to over-expand any centre than to give away land rather than to charge for it? [More…]

• It has one man - a very eminent man- Sir John Overall. [More…]

• One gentleman - a very eminent gentleman. [More…]

• It has offered the job of Commissioner to a very eminent gentleman who has done a fine job here in Canberra. [More…]

• The Bill appoints one man to go away and think in the way that the Prime Minister tells him to think and on the subjects that the Prime Minister tells him to think on, and then report to the Government. [More…]

• So what the Government is saying is in effect: ‘We will pay this gentleman - this very eminent gentleman - and we will presumably pay the man who is going to help them, insofar as he needs help’. [More…]

• This one person, who will be called an Authority and who will be helped by a man who is not an authority, will be paid what Parliament decides. [More…]

• We have our 4 pieces of paper and we will have a man tell us what to do. [More…]

• We do not have to do what he tells us should be done but we think sufficiently seriously of the problem to appoint to this position a man who is about to retire and who has previously done a good job*. [More…]

• One would also expect that a government would have policies on the subject, as the Labor Party has had on this subject for many years. [More…]

• This Authority - it is not an authority, it is one man - will be told to investigate matters by a Prime Minister who is not interested in the subject. [More…]

• The man called an Authority, which he is not, will report to the man who does not want to receive a report because he is not interested in the subject except in perhaps fooling a few people into voting for the Government at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• I have here a decentralisation report of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) gave me the impression of being a man who is whistling in the dark. [More…]

• Not only is he on a losing wicket and being betrayed by bis colleagues over the second Sydney Airport site but he is also being misled in regard to fringe benefits for the wives of totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners. [More…]

• Thus, taking the example of a family of 5 members with the married man getting $17 a week, the dependent spouse $8 a week, and 3 children under 16 getting $13.50 a week, the total income of that family in this day and age would be $38.50 a week. [More…]

• The most that a man with a dependent spouse and 3 children under 16 years of age can bring into his household would be $44.50 a week. [More…]

• This situation has existed for thousands of people in our community not for a few weeks but for many months. [More…]

• I point out through you, Mr Deputy Chairman, that it is not just the absolute amount of the benefit that is so sad about this case. [More…]

• There are many cases that I know of where a promising student who is the son or daughter of an unemployed person has had to be withdrawn from school and his whole career is thus jeopardised. [More…]

• I ask him to take into consideration the published material of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and so many other organisations in our community which know so well the misery that results from these miserly payments to the unemployed. [More…]

• Of course, it can be said that we make a free motor vehicle available in certain circumstances and allow a totally and permanently incapacitated pensioner to purchase a car free of sales tax, but this is a pathetic reward for a person who has won a government lottery. [More…]

• It is said that a total of about $22,000 was spent in making sure that one 26-year-old man from Carnarvon in Western Australia complied with the National Service Act. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, who is the official spokesman of the Opposition on repatriation, during debates on either the Budget or the Estimates, by a series of oft-repeated words and cliches tries to convey to the ex-servicemen of his country that he has their interests at heart; that he is constantly worrying about them and constantly fighting for them. [More…]

• He pointed out that the members of the Country Party had not asked many questions on a certain subject. [More…]

• This is the man who will be Minister for Repatriation, if a Labor government has a Minister for Repatriation because it is rumoured that there will not be a separate Repatriation Department if the Labor Party becomes the government. [More…]

• I do not believe that this man has exaggerated these costs. [More…]

• In the 5 minutes remaining to me I want to raise another matter and in this case I will give the gentleman’s name. [More…]

• He is a young man. [More…]

• I do not pretend to be a doctor, but I have gone into this case in a fairly detailed way and, as I understand it, the only basis for rejecting this man’s claim was that he had complained, I think before he went into the Army, of having had a stomach ache. [More…]

• I have discussed this matter with doctors, and for the life of me I do not know how any doctor could possibly say that this man’s duodenal ulcer was not related to his war service. [More…]

• How could any doctor in the Repatriation Commission say that a man would not worry about going into the Army? [More…]

• How could any doctor say that this man would not worry about going into the Service and, if he was a born worrier, that he would not worry while he was in the Army doing his training and that he would not worry about going to Vietnam? [More…]

• I do not care how many heroes there are around the place. [More…]

• Any normal human being who has any sense or feeling at all is scared about going to a front. [More…]

• lt will be seen from the dates I have given that 5 months after coming out of the Service this man was struck down with this severe duodenal ulcer. [More…]

• I do not know how the doctors can possibly judge that this man’s illness is ‘not due to, contributed to or aggravated by his war service’. [More…]

• This man has been to Vietnam. [More…]

• Honourable members can contrast the smarmy letter written to me with what was said in the Press statement on the same day by the same man. [More…]

• In a way it is impossible to have factual advertising put out which does not to some extent give credit to this Government because what we are advertising is the fact that so many more people are eligible for pensions because of what this Government has done. [More…]

• Twelfth Man’, written by a Don Whitington, a journalist well known to most honourable members and senators in this Parliament. [More…]

• The unions held the gun at the heads of the harbour board with demands for increased wages, improved conditions and all the rest of it. [More…]

• We believe in a fair go for the working man but not for this sort of blackmail that happens in some of our seasonal industries. [More…]

• This has happened many times over the years. [More…]

• It seems quite absurd to me that a government which can recognise the justice of full wages during compensation for incapacity up to 26 weeks should say that once a person has suffered 26 weeks of incapacity, beyond that point he can go no further but must revert to ordinary weekly wages which, even with the amendments proposed by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), will amount to only $43 a week for a single man and $54 for a man with a wife with an additional $5 a week for each child. [More…]

• It is the man who is incapacitated for long periods who really needs more money and for a longer period than docs the person whose incapacity puts him out of business for only a short time. [More…]

• But, in addition to that, in order that the man she marne:; does not have to maintain the children of her first marriage, we would provide that weekly payments must continue to be paid in respect of each child at a rate equal to not less than one-sixth of the amount which the widow would have been receiving but for her remarriage. [More…]

• Does he not care any more about the plight of a young man who suffers this terrible injury. [More…]

• The weekly payments have been increased so that a man can get $43, with another $11 for his wife and another $5 for each child. [More…]

• There were 3 judges in favour of the decision and one dissenting judgment but that decision said that when you consider what a man has lost and you compare his post-accident earnings with his pre-accident earnings you take into account what he earns by way of overtime afterwards and discount it by what he earned before. [More…]

• We accept that if a man is injured and incapacitated or if a woman is injured and incapacitated that person should be adequately and properly compensated for the loss and should not have to depend upon a lottery-like system like being able to bring themselves within the category of workers’ compensation, inadequate as it is, or the negligence category lottery-like as it is. [More…]

• The Council resolved to co-ordinate pollution monitoring data from all available sources including data on the dietary intake of man and animals. [More…]

• It is true that subsequently, under a different name and a different kind of operation altogether and with the approval of the Philippines Government with which I personally ensured that there was a check, this matter was carried out with that Government’s approval and this man became an accredited representative here as, I believe, a commercial attache. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman wants to seek some reason> at least he can be certain of this; When I was Minister for Foreign Affairs I did not approve of this man being given the position of plenipotentiary. [More…]

• Perhaps this is the case to which the honourable gentleman refers. [More…]

• The man took the matter to the High Court and the High Court ruled that he was obliged to pay. [More…]

• I notice that the honourable gentleman in his question referred also to the issue of estate duty. [More…]

• The net cost of tax concessions in 1969 to a man in New South Wales who was in receipt of the average weekly earnings and who bad a wife and a couple of children of covering himself for public ward and medical insurance was $48. [More…]

• That man was a fair dinkum Australian. [More…]

• The saying in regard to Mr Nixon in the United States used to be: ‘Would you buy a second-hand car from that man?’ [More…]

• The saying in regard to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) now is: ‘Would you buy a second-hand plane from this man?’ [More…]

• I had made certain remarks about Mr Peter Frankel and had said that he was literally the man behind the Liberal Party in the sense of sitting behind the Liberal Party benches. [More…]

• I referred to him as the chairman of Selected Mining Holdings Ltd. [More…]

• -It is just that I should pay a tribute to a man who has devoted much time to sorting out the problems of health services. [More…]

• This Government’s civil aviation policies are dictated by one man - a man who is not elected and is in no way responsible to this Parliament or to the Australian people. [More…]

• What is more, it is demanding that this be done on the second last day of this Parliament. [More…]

• If we relate this subsidy figure to the number of men employed, it can be seen that the taxpayers are paying $2,800 for every man employed in the industry. [More…]

• The best Australian performance was an increase from less than 7 to 9 tons per man in the 7 years to 1969; 9 tons per employee is well ahead of the Australian average. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) talked about the price at which ships can be built overseas and the fact that overseas some of the yards have averages of something like 40 tons per man per annum as against 9 tons per man in Australia. [More…]

• If they were prepared to do that I am certain that the tonnage rate per man would improve considerably because the industry then would be able to introduce the latest type of equipment, machinery and technique whereby it could build ships that would be comparable with those built overseas. [More…]

• In this sense the Minister means some anonymous public servant somewhere - a good man or a bad man, a competent man or an incompetent man. [More…]

• The person summoned could be a little man or a big man, a powerful man or a weak man. [More…]

• The view is generally taken that where a man has family commitments he should not be asked to take work in another area before a reasonable time has elapsed. [More…]

• However, for a single man the criteria are imposed with much less flexibility. [More…]

• The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) was chairman. [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), who has a very extensive knowledge of pension and actuarial techniques, was deputy chairman. [More…]

• Apart from the wealth of experience of the Services possessed by members, the Committee also had the benefit of assistance from Mr Phil Stokes, an experienced politician and a man with an intimate knowledge of conditions of service. [More…]

• But in my opinion, if a man is invalided in his service to the Commonwealth in the defence forces and is in receipt of such a benefit, he should not be subjected to a means test. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Shortland is a man of humane attitudes. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Shortland, who shortly, I regret, will be leaving us, by his attitude and his remarks in this House, has shown himself to be of a humane disposition. [More…]

• The Committee has recognised that wildlife conservation is only a part of a much larger issue of conservation, and the environment and that retention of our environment is essential to man’s survival, not only that of wildlife. [More…]

• During its inquiry the Committee became: aware of the very great concern of a large number of individuals about a wide range of environmental and conservation matters, many of them outside the scope of this Committee. [More…]

• actual, name of the Committee was in some sense misleading in that a select committee on wildlife conservation allowed a number of our fellow members, departmental officials and a number of the general public to feel that many things would be pushed aside, when in fact what this committee was dealing with was the relationship of man to his natural environment. [More…]

• Not only are we dealing with land use and with man and his relationship to his natural environment but we are dealing also with some of the aesthetic values for tourism, recreation and enjoyment of life. [More…]

• I hope that the outcome of the report will be a better understanding by the Parliament and the country of the relations of man and the environment in which he lives. [More…]

• Finally I congratulate the honourable member for Henty for the part he played in initiating this Committee and for the effective chairmanship and leadership he gave to the members of that Committee. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) referred to a particular case. [More…]

• Air travel around the world is now a very common and widely accepted method of travelling and this whole method of travelling will be under threat unless the nations of the world, acting strongly together - it will require action by all of them - prevent this from occurring so that hijackers will see the virtual certainty of their apprehension and punishment and so that there will be no refuge anywhere for the man who commits such interference. [More…]

• The people of the area owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to this man, who, at all times, did exactly what the police and the residents asked him to do. [More…]

• I do not know whether the Minister will go down in history as a great Minister - only time will tell - but he is a man who is held in respect by members of all parties. [More…]

• Although the Opposition does not agree with many of the Government’s policies on resources development nevertheless I believe the Parliament will be much poorer when the Minister retires at the end of the year.It is only 7 or 8 years ago that the Australian Government was considering policy steps to rectify serious defficiencies in our balance of payment position. [More…]

• In 1965 and 1966 many documents - from Treasury and elsewhere - where in the possession of the Government. [More…]

• For quite a number of reasons including State and Commonwealth policies, there has been what one might call a mad race to develop many of our mineral fields. [More…]

• It has been like a man in the sea and just about drowned, who had to be pulled on to the beach and resuscitated. [More…]

• Mr Fast is a man whose word you can take on this subject because he is an expert and :s not prone to giving the wrong information. [More…]

• 1 have not heard many people advocating this system. [More…]

• The man on the land must have security and he will never get it in this country unless we have water piped. [More…]

• I think you will be doing something, because you are too active and you are a comparatively young man. [More…]

• I have always respected him as a man and particularly as a Minister. [More…]

• Today it is fitting that we in this Parliament should pay a special tribute to the man on whom we have relied to produce these Bills in the technical sense, the First Parliamentary Counsel, Mr J. Q. Ewens. [More…]

• He became the Commonwealth Parliamentary Draftsman in 1949 and took the title of First Parliamentary Counsel when the separate office of Parliamentary Counsel was established in 1970. [More…]

• In wishing him a long and happy retirement we also extend a welcome to Mr C. K. Comans, who will be his successor. [More…]

• I particularly thank all those persons who have made the conduct of the Parliament in this session an especially easily managed programme. [More…]

• I have never known another man who could stand up in this House and bring a turbulent situation into one of calm and reason as Reg Swartz could. [More…]

• I compliment Sir Alan Hulme, a man who has had respect for his strict compliance at all times with the decencies of public life and his presentation of the truth at all times in the Parliament. [More…]

• No man can say more. [More…]

• I saw this young man grow from boyhood. [More…]

• The man who wrote that editorial that the Government pushed through 25 Bills yesterday knew he was telling an untruth, obviously concocted for the sole purpose not of scoring a political point against the Government, but of trying to demean this Parliament. [More…]

• I should like to pay my respects to the retiring members, firstly to my own colleague, Arthur Calwell, with whom I have served in the last 17i years in this Parliament for many years of which he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and also Leader of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Hee Mclvor, another colleague of mine, has been a very good Labor man as well as a very good friend of mine. [More…]

• Charlie has been a friend of mine for many many years since I have been here. [More…]

• I wish Charlie and his wife, and Hee and his wife, many years of retirement and good health. [More…]

• I found him to be a man of integrity. [More…]

• He is the man who first allowed air hostesses to wear mini-skirts. [More…]

• At one time many members of the House used to ask for window seats in planes. [More…]

• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead. [More…]

• After many attempts to get an office of the Department of Social Services established in my electorate I asked a question one morning of the Minister and he knocked me down by saying that his Department had already obtained the premises for a local office and they were about to open it. [More…]

• In fact, it now is necessary for me only to pick up the telephone and address Mr Jock Webb, the man in charge of that Department in Footscray, and the problems I have in regard to social services are taken off my hands. [More…]

• I used to be able to tell my children and my grandchildren: ‘Look at the man in the moon’. [More…]

• But from the sputniks came the man who walked on the moon and. [More…]

• A certain lady came to me one day and said that a certain gentleman in the Parliament should be Prime Minister. [More…]

• If a list had been made of all members this member - a nice gentleman who is not here now - would have been near the bottom of it. [More…]

• But this lady thought he was a great man who should be Prime Minister so to console honourable members I put it that so far as they arc concerned: [More…]

• We have agreed and disagreed on many occasions. [More…]

• He is a man of honour - a man who has served his country with distinction. [More…]

• He is a man of honour, a man of distinction and a man who knows his views and is prepared to back them. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar spoke and tabled the letters for one purpose only - to discredit Alderman Peter Morris, the selected and endorsed Labor candiate for the seat of Shortland at the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]

• Mr Morris is a most honourable man. [More…]

• I have known him for many years - I would say for the best part of 20 years. [More…]

• He is a well respected alderman of the Newcastle City Council and a well respected businessman in Hamilton. [More…]

• These letters were tabled to villify this man, in an attempt to discredit him on the eve of an election. [More…]

• I can get proof to show that this man Johnson, who is a justice of the peace, knowingly witnessed a false statutory declaration by a person whom he personally knew. [More…]

• This fa the type of man for whom papers are being tabled here in an attempt to villify Alderman Peter Morris, the selected and endorsed Labor candidate. [More…]

• I should have liked to take the whole file apart and explain to honourable members just how rotten this man is. [More…]

• However, it must be recognised that the half life is but one of the factors which define any hazard which a radioisotope presents to man. [More…]

• Other factors are: the radiotoxicity which, in the case of the wastes under discussion, falls mostly either into intermediate or low categories; the contained quantity, which in this case is low; the probability of man coming into contact with the material, which again is low. [More…]

• The term ‘register late voluntarily” refers to a man who registers after the ballot .which applies to him but does so voluntarily. [More…]

• They believed that you were a man of honour. [More…]

• The Government recognises that the use of leisure in a modern society presents problems and opportunities involving profound questions of the relations between man and his community and man and his environment. [More…]

• He was identified by the late Mr Chifley as a man with a contribution to make and was encouraged by Mr Chifley to play an increasing role in the Australian Labor Party at the time. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that he endeared himself to members of both sides of the House, including those who campaigned against him in the by-election in the iron triangle of South Australia, as a gentle large man. [More…]

• The Honourable William James Frederick Riordan was a different man. [More…]

• He was a very big man, as I recall him. [More…]

• He became Chairman of Committees and was actively and constructively involved in inter-parliamentary affairs, on which he represented Australia overseas. [More…]

• He was an earnest man. [More…]

• Many members in this chamber will remember him, as 1 said, us u big man physically and as a sincere man with a friend y smile for all who walked through the corridors of Parliament House, regardless of their political party. [More…]

• He was a man of strong views, which he would state forcefully and with confidence, and his devoted work in the interests of the citizens of Australia entitles him to be remembered with respect. [More…]

• and just as inevitably comes the further comment: ‘He was a good man’. [More…]

• I think full credit must go to him as a Minister for consolidating the various branches of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture by having constructed the persent building which stands in Farrer Place, Sydney, and which gave the Department of Agriculture, which was just a group of separate entities, its own permanent home as a single entity. [More…]

• He was the State Chairman of the New South Wales Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission for 3 years. [More…]

• Although 1940 was a long time ago, many people among the older generation in the division of Calare will remember Vic Thorby and his work. [More…]

• They remember him as a man of very high principles which he employed in all his dealings. [More…]

• He was a man of a very high standard of honesty and straightforward approach. [More…]

• I join with the many people who are extending sympathy to the ones that he left behind and also extend appreciation for the life work of Victor Thorby. [More…]

• In the later years of his life, Bill Riordan was very active in many community organisations in Cleveland. [More…]

• It was somewhat pitiful to endeavour to speak to a man about matters that he was interested in - subjects in the political arena - knowing that, while he understood what was being said to him, the heavy toll that that stroke had taken of his health meant that he was barely able to answer. [More…]

• My first knowledge of Kath Riordan came soon after I was endorsed as the Labor candidate for the electorate of Bowman. [More…]

• She was tragically taken from him some 2 years before his death and, although many predicted that Bill would not last long after this, he had the capacity to draw himself up and regain his interest in life to a much greater extent than his friends ever felt that he would be able to do. [More…]

• In my final remarks I remind honourable members, as Bill often proudly told me, that he met his wife when he was introduced to her by the man who represented Melbourne until the last election, the right honourable Arthur Calwell. [More…]

• I understand that Arthur Calwell was a close, lifelong friend of Bill’s and was best man at his wedding. [More…]

• Bill Riordan distinguished himself in many ways. [More…]

• He was Chairman of Committees in this Parliament for some years. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) said, he was a big man, and he was. [More…]

• In that period of time, of course, I sat next to htm on many DC3 flights to and from Western Australia - in those days only Western Australian members had air travel rights - and I got to know him extremely well. [More…]

• He not only was my supporter on the nervous occasion of my first flight but he was also best man at my wedding, which was another nervous occasion. [More…]

• He was a man who had a tremendous fund of anecdotes. [More…]

• You, more than any other man, have saved western civilisation. [More…]

• He understood the common man in a manner rare among world leaders. [More…]

• The citation described him as a man with a strong faith in the final victory of the good forces of life. [More…]

• Harry Truman, 33rd President, was best known for his contribution to international affairs during his presidential service from April 1945 to January 1953. [More…]

• Many may have agreed with him, described as he was as ‘the little man from Missouri’, when he said of himself: There must be a million men better qualified than I’ as he acceded to the Presidency of the United States. [More…]

• A common man to the end, with no sense of personal grandeur, he nevertheless exhibited a great strength in decision taking and firm leadership when he believed he was right. [More…]

• Its ramifications could not have been fully apparent to him then, or to the rest of the world then, and it remains to us the manifestation of the ferocity of science and its sheer power. [More…]

• We earnestly pray that no human being will ever again face such a decision. [More…]

• Yet, in contrast, his strength and foresight led him to commit his country to the policies of the Truman Doctrine and to the Marshall Plan - the massive economic reconstruction of Europe - costing the United States up to $12,000m from 1948 to 1951 alone, at a time when Europe was literally at its knees. [More…]

• Many of us in this chamber have met Lyndon Baines Johnson. [More…]

• We accepted his hand of friendship which as a big man he offered. [More…]

• At the time of his death I said that his personal agonising over that war reflected his deep humanity and that humanity was a testimony to his greatness and no doubt was a major contributor to his early death. [More…]

• No man has borne greater personal burdens for the sake of his country. [More…]

• Of the 3, only Lyndon Baines Johnson was known to me personally as he was known to many other members of this House. [More…]

• I believe that when the late Harold Holt made the comment ‘AH the way with LBJ’ he was expressing the affection and opinion of a great majority of the Australian people, not only in respect of the President’s actions but also in admiration of the responsibilities that this man was carrying. [More…]

• When I sat behind the late President during the memorial service I could not help feeling what a powerful but lonely role this man played in carrying the great responsibilities of the Western World and yet how fragile and temporary that power was in the light of death. [More…]

• I am sure that Harold Holt’s disappearance made an enormous impact on the President, as it did on many Australians at the time. [More…]

• Many will remember Ladybird Johnson when she accompanied the President to Australia. [More…]

• A man supporting a wife and 2 children, drawing unemployment benefit and even after allowing for child endowment, has been paid a benefit rate some $17 a week below the updated Melbourne University poverty line. [More…]

• The Government’s view is that the special or total and permanent incapacity rate payable to a man or woman who has been classified as totally and permanently incapacitated because of war related incapacity should not be less than the adult Commonwealth minimum wage. [More…]

• This is a programme of social reform, a drive to reassert the authority of morality over technology - of man * over law - and to correct a society in which humanity has become a casualty to the laws of economics. [More…]

• Increasing productivity demands a rapid change in our attitudes. [More…]

• The result is that our way of living, our future expectations and our very morality have not been able to keep up with the demands of the new technological age. [More…]

• This is essential if we are to condition technical change to human needs rather than to subjugate man to technology. [More…]

• Emphasis must be placed on our human resources rather than on the material resources of the land. [More…]

• If we husband and protect our human resources we will have maximum scope for innovation. [More…]

• The subsidy or the tariff is designed to protect an individual group of employment, whether it be farmer or manufacturer. [More…]

• For any man this is an outstanding achievement. [More…]

• What more could honourable members expect from this man? [More…]

• He is the man who not only pushed his Prime Minister into the political mud but also knifed him as he crawled from it. [More…]

• Forever will they sit in this place in Opposition wishing that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) was in fact able to claim the title of the second most important man in Opposition. [More…]

• He was a great man. [More…]

• He was a man with a conscience. [More…]

• What an odd set of priorities it is that restores a passport to Burchett while on the same day it withdrawsthe Australian passport of Air Vice-Marshal Hawkins, a man who served this country with distinction and honour in the last World War. [More…]

• There are many records of his having participated in interrogations, of United States airmen shot down in: Korea. [More…]

• During them many prisoners died or disappeared. [More…]

• Yet this man. [More…]

• Ever since one man has employed another employees have had to endure employers whose attitude has been to say: ‘I own the show. [More…]

• I think the House is entitled to know whether the man who is Prime Minister can be trusted to be truthful in his answers at the table in this House. [More…]

• The man who is responsible to the nation does not know. [More…]

• If this is so, is this a man who is to be exempted from security clearance because he violently objects? [More…]

• He suddenly changed his attitude and found many virtues in that man after Jim Healy threatened him with a court action. [More…]

• The Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Enderby) has a very good man at the top of the Department now. [More…]

• However, there is community welfare as well and that means the welfare of the man in the street. [More…]

• We see again the narrowness of conservatism and that those who have been so arrogant for so long do not understand this sensitive man. [More…]

• I said that his appointment would be a matter that would test my strength of character; it would show whether I had the courage to stand up against men who would besmirch a man and who would determine that he and people like him have no real rights in this country. [More…]

• I tell honourable members clearly that irrespective of what the honourable members who sit on the opposite side of the House have to say to smear this man, I said: ‘As far as I am concerned, Harry, I think you are a fair dinkum Australian and I would like to have you working with me.’ [More…]

• This man worked with me before the elections - he worked his heart out for a Labor Party victory. [More…]

• There is also another young man on my personal staff who has not had a security check. [More…]

• Let us start dealing with real freedoms and liberties irrespective of whether this man is a communist. [More…]

• I hope that people outside consider the matter of real freedoms, of the individual freedom of every member and of the right of every man to be deemed innocent until he is proved guilty. [More…]

• The honourable member commenced by saying that he intended to make a very strong criticism of the Government over its handling of the Department of the Northern Territory but then he went on to congratulate the Government and me on many of the things that we have done already. [More…]

• I think that was the main point that he made, and he added that the man chosen as head of the Department would do an excellent job up there. [More…]

• Look at what he did for the country; yet he is a Country Party man. [More…]

• Let us deal with them on the basis that the Commission ought to be able to make some findings in respect of a number of matters including what might be termed the country lines policy, its financial implications and the disaster it means for many people who have been misled. [More…]

• The other day we remembered 3 great international leaders - Truman, Johnson and Pearson. [More…]

• What a contrast to this man, the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• I think that this House and the Australian people need an explanation as to what the Prime Minister did in trying to get this man out of China when he knew, as Leader of the Opposition, that Mr James was in China. [More…]

• They are worried about his display of ineptitude in Indonesia when he was given a quick lesson in international statesmanship and its requirements. [More…]

• Is it because the Prime Minister really is what somebody called him the other day, HMV Whitlam - His Master’s Voice Whitlam, the man who does what he is told and whose words and policies are those of other people, his political masters? [More…]

• Many people have put forward theories but the one- that seems most likely and the one that has met with the widest acceptance is that he wanted to put Singapore in a position where it would have to tell us to withdraw our troops. [More…]

• Any man who is prepared to play with the nation’s security to meet his own domestic party political problems must be strongly criticised. [More…]

• My predecessor but one, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), could not come in on this debate because he was the man who disclosed the secret of President Johnson, that he was going to suspend the bombing over North Vietnam, in an effort to get to the conference table in Paris. [More…]

• I would suggest to any betting man on the Opposition that the oldest man in this Parliament could get from the old Cabinet room to the Senate, which was a very short distance- [More…]

• The suggestions were put forward by the Leader of the House (Mr Daly), a man of long experience in this House and a man who made delightful use of the adjournment debate for effective politicking and putting his viewpoint and that of the people he represents. [More…]

• Surely it is the business of Parliament to examine the extensive legislation that is put forward in an efficient and correct manner. [More…]

• I pay my tribute to this man who is truly a great Australian. [More…]

• I was appalled yesterday to hear in this House a vitriolic and uninformed attack by the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh), who I understand has, under the privilege of Parliament, done this sort of thing before. [More…]

• This man, who can look through his lounge room window and, without turning his head, survey his entire electorate, criticised the Australian Country Party in a vitriolic fashion. [More…]

• I am sure that he would not manage to do that in 3 years. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman talked about one-vote one-value. [More…]

• I have also been told - my authority is good and if a Minister can deny what I have been told I will be the happiest man in this House - that the officers commanding these bases have been instructed to allow union officials the full facilities of the bases. [More…]

• It had many wonderful things to say about you and referred to your famous interjection when Sir Robert Menzies as Prime Minister was replying to attacks on him as ‘Pig Iron Bob’ and so on. [More…]

• He explained that on the previous day when his car had drawn up at traffic lights a working man had driven up in his car alongside. [More…]

• 1 say that no man in this Parliament deserves the honour of being Mr Speaker more than you. [More…]

• He is a man who has had a very long experience in the industrial jurisdiction and who I have no doubt will seek to utilise the expertise and experience he has in working for the development of a bigger and better Australia during the course of his period in this Parliament. [More…]

• That problem is the development of what I would call in terms of the theme which the honourable gentleman put before us ‘a community of interest in the Austraiian work place’. [More…]

• If an answer cannot be given are we and the Australian people entitled to believe that this is not the man of the new age but the man for the double standard - the man who preaches open government and yet denies to colleagues close to himself the opportunity for consultation? [More…]

• But are we in this Parliament to be confronted day after day with all of the things which the Government is seeking to do in the interests of one group in the Australian community and in which area we have many supporters. [More…]

• I tell the Government that I have received many representations from trade union members who have asked of me the question which they might well ask of honourable members opposite: ‘When is the Prime Minister of this country prepared to stand up and be counted?’ [More…]

• Whether in the area of the economy, the area of industrial relations or, in terms of the censure motion which was moved today, the international area, this is a government led by a man who is prepared to sacrifice national interests to the dictates of party policy, a man who cannot give an effective lead and a man who cannot lead this country into the mid 1970s and beyond simply because he is not captive to the Parliament or subject to the Parliament as he ought to be, but rather is subject to many people outside of it upon whom he depends. [More…]

• His is a very shoddy performance and a disgrace to this country. [More…]

• This is from a man who belongs to the parties which formed the last Government and allowed the adverse meat inspection procedures and the restrictions that were placed on the Australian meat industry. [More…]

• As many honourable members realise, South Australia is on the end of a vast river. [More…]

• The capacity of man has not yet enabled him to invent a proper method of controlling the quality of water as it affects urban users and industries downstream in South Australia. [More…]

• We have had - it will be no surprise to many, particularly those from, say, Gippsland - drought conditions in the southern half of Australia. [More…]

• This man, Mr- Mason - he will not mind my mentioning his name - has not had a telephone connected as yet. [More…]

• Knowing the pattern of the man, I feel confident that the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) will give very sympathetic consideration to these problems. [More…]

• The first matter is the critical and urgent necessity for the construction and completion of the Julius Dam to supply water to the city of Mount Isa and the huge mining complex there which contributes in so many ways, not the least of which is the employing of many thousands of Australians, to the national economy. [More…]

• One can find in Mount Isa people from all States, most of whom are there permanently although there are many transients. [More…]

• Do not honourable members opposite think that the existing subscriber has a right to say to them: ‘Gentlemen, do you mean to say that I have to provide from my own funds, limited as they are, pensioner as I am, small business man as ! [More…]

• I suggest that any man who seeks his Party’s endorsement and stands for election on the policy of that Party and then seeks to repudiate in the Parliament the right of that Party to ask him to carry out the policies on which he was elected is a person not fitted to be a member of this or any other Parliament. [More…]

• From my own point of view, if there has to be a Labor government in power, I would prefer to see in charge of our defence a man who has flown the Fill and had served at the battle of El Alamein rather than someone less conspicuous. [More…]

• Whilst thousands of young Australians were fighting and dying in South Vietnam to save that country for democracy our former Prime Minister was trying desperately to maintain relations with countries which select their sporting teams on the colour of a man’s skin. [More…]

• Ever ready to denounce the denial of human rights in Russia, China, North Vietnam and other communist countries, the former Government was noticeably reluctant to apply the same yardstick to South Africa, Rhodesia, Greece, Spain, Portugal and the Philippines. [More…]

• The nice gerrymander that prevented Labor from taking office in 1954 and 1961 when it gained the majority of the 2-party preferred vote operated again during the last election so that Labor required 52.7 per cent of the 2- party preferred vote to gain office, whilst our opponents could have retained office with 48.5 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• With electorate boundaries drawn fairly - with one man, one vote, one value - the defeat of the Liberal PartyCountry Party coalition would have been devastating. [More…]

• Human nature does not change but human attitudes do. [More…]

• It showed a small boy in the latter part of the last century being reprimanded by his schoolmaster for making paper darts in school. [More…]

• As a punishment, the boy was writing over and over again on the blackboard: ‘Man will never fly. [More…]

• Man will never fly.’ [More…]

• Mankind can, if it so desires, accomplish all manner of wonderful things. [More…]

• Perhaps no man in this Federal Parliament, in recent years, has more patiently, and at the same time more urgently, applied himself to the subject of overseas aid to underdeveloped countries than has Len Reid. [More…]

• The man in the street knows these as ‘currency crises’. [More…]

• As loath as I am to do so, 1 feel bound to say that with the United States deficit in 1972 and the Japanese surplus being the size they were, a blind man could see in the latter months of last year that a major realignment of world currencies was inevitable and imminent. [More…]

• I would like to congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on being elected to your high office and ask you to extend my congratulations to Mr Speaker and the Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Contrary to the suggestion from the Opposition that you should limit yourself to precedent set by your previous counterparts, may I warn you that to treat all precedent as gospel is the mark of the conservative, stunts initiative and limits man.oeureability. [More…]

• Man’s activities are increasing at a rate that is unprecedented. [More…]

• Then it set up a 2- man government of a kind this country has never seen and does not want to see again. [More…]

• The 2-man Government did more in an hour than the previous government did in the previous year. [More…]

• The man who the Liberal Party claims is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has the worst room in Parliament House, and. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party says that he is the second most important man in opposition. [More…]

• Can honourable members imagine, for instance, that great man, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), thinking that the present Leader of the Opposition has more brains than he? [More…]

• The whole surrounding countryside and lake were serene and still: solitude reigned, no tree disturbed and no trace of white man’s civilisation … all is in its natural state. [More…]

• I described earlier to the House the idyllic conditions that existed at Lake Macquarie in 1821 before the white man’s civilisation came. [More…]

• For instance, a man with a dependent wife and 2 children who was out of work for more than 6 weeks because he could not get a job currently receives $34 a week, but a man with the same sized family who was out of work because he was sick for that period of time receives $37 that is, S3 more. [More…]

• Perhaps the unemployed man was penalised for being a politically embarrassing statistic. [More…]

• Of course, a government which is concerned to eliminate poverty must do more than provide adequate social services, lt must also endeavour to ensure that the lowest wage is such that no man can work for a full week and then take home an income that would leave an average family living in poverty. [More…]

• It is not the large financier who invests in building societies; it is the average working man who puts his savings into a building society because of the interest rate, the security and the readily accessible nature of his investment. [More…]

• In rising to speak for the first time in this House I ask the Deputy Speaker to convey to the Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees my sincere congratulations on their election to their exalted positions. [More…]

• Also I ask you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to convey to the Speaker my sincere and warm appreciation of his most human thought in insisting that the wives of new members be seated in the chamber for the swearingin ceremony. [More…]

• No doubt tonight I can be excused for being somewhat overwhelmed - certainly overawed - by the knowledge that I am following in the footsteps of a great Australian, Sir Reginald Swartz, who is a manly man and a friendly friend. [More…]

• I wish him well in his retirement and recall the words of Hamlet: ‘He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again’. [More…]

• It is worthy of note that the estimated reserves are in excess of the reserves at Moura and Blackwater and have one very great advantage over these areas in that they will be under the control of that great man of principle, Joh Bjelke Petersen, rather than being a political football in the game of personal ambitions and antagonisms between the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) and the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor). [More…]

• Many good contributions have been made by new members from both sides of this House. [More…]

• I congratulate the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) on his maiden speech, not so much for what he said but for the manner in which he delivered it. [More…]

• I hope that he will emulate the principles of his predecessor, Sir Reginald Swartz, who had the respect of all members of this House for the many years during which he was a member. [More…]

• But I think the honourable member for Darling Downs was rather extravagant in his praise of the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Peterson who, if I recall correctly, is the man who sees no evil or nothing improper in his Cabinet Ministers taking out shares from time to time in private companies which are connected with areas on which his Government has to deliberate and legislate. [More…]

• That man came back to Australia with the aid of the French in Noumea. [More…]

• It concerns virtually all the non-permanent ports around the Australian coastline. [More…]

• Perhaps I need to explain that up to the present time there has been a levy of 40c a man in all the Australian ports which come into this category. [More…]

• A 40c levy per man hour based on all Australian ports has enabled the employers of waterside labour to meet the minimum at all ports. [More…]

• The arrangement provided a guaranteed minimum income for workers in ports where fullscale permanent employment is not regarded as an economic proposition. [More…]

• Initially this levy was set at 8c per man hour, but immediately prior to the recently announced changes this had risen to 40c per man hour. [More…]

• The levy was altered from a uniform rate of 40c to a rate depending on the minimum wage payments required in each port The effect of this has been to raise the levy to $1.50 per man hour in Cairns, $1 in Mackay, $1.70 in Coffs Harbour, $1.15 in Portland and $1.20 in Esperance. [More…]

• For example, it was reduced to 2c per man hour in Geelong, 20c in Broome, 20c in Albany, 25c in Devonport and 30c in Bowen. [More…]

• So at 22 of the 30 non-permanent ports where a rate of 60c or less applies, there appears to have been a reduction on what would otherwise have been the case. [More…]

• A good effect is that the levy per man hour in a number of ports has been reduced and that this ultimately will contribute to the more efficient functioning of these ports. [More…]

• The then Treasurer wanted to tame the militant unions, regardless of the cost in human misery. [More…]

• The man who carried through that cynical program of misery now sits opposite as Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• On 2nd December the Australian taxpayer decided to sweep the carrion crows from the Government bench, in many cases, thankfully, never to return. [More…]

• Their places on the Treasury bench have been filled by a team which reflects and upholds the electorate’s demands for new enthusiasms and new aspirations in government. [More…]

• It was Bulwer Lytton who said: ‘The prudent man may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates it’. [More…]

• As a member of the new Australian Labor Government I am pleased to have the opportunity of cementing the first brick in the foundation of a social security structure which will put the welfare of the community on a rational, socially-just basis and, for the first time since the last Labor government, offer some hope to the working man and his family. [More…]

• Predictably enough, anguished voices have already been raised against the fact that, at the new unemployment benefit rates, a man with a wife and 3 children will . [More…]

• For the man who retired 10 to 15 years ago, and his wife, the situation is often pathetic. [More…]

• I think that the success of what was in the past my Department has been due very largely to the influence of a man who was the Director-General and I hope that the House will go with me in regretting the circumstances, whether they be ill-health or whatever they may have been, that have caused the retirement of Mr L. B. Hamilton, O.B.E., as Director-General of Social Services. [More…]

• Sir Garfield Barwick as a lawyer was not a man who easily gave very much away on the interpretation of words. [More…]

• He is a theoretical man and not a practical man. [More…]

• I want to speak about a matter of great importance to Australia - the manufacturers’ export incentive scheme. [More…]

• This action would considerably affect the incentive to Australian manufacturers to seek export markets, which will result in a loss to Australia. [More…]

• It is important that the impetus given to increased exports, particularly of manufactured goods, be maintained. [More…]

• A reasonable fee is payable for time spent and if your man wants to ring Hector Ward on 65 5666 in Perth or myself on 21 4225 for more information we will accept reverse charges. [More…]

• But all history shows that if an opportunity for corruption is created then sooner or later some man or another, some [More…]

• Then it becomes a matter for the Minister to form his own judgment, in secret, in his own mind, without giving any reasons - merely saying: ‘I agree that the relationship is not good and therefore this man will not get the contract which on terms of quality, ability, supply and price he should get.’ [More…]

• It should not be subject to financial fines and punitive measures by anybody, by any court, and, more importantly, it should not be subject to punitive measures by one man without charges having been brought, without any chance to defend himself or the firm - indeed, quite possibly unknowing that he is being punished because it is a decision of the Minister sitting in his own office. [More…]

• The Minister for Works is saying blatantly that if a man is not a unionist he cannot get a job with the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• It could be that, in some cases, the doctor can say definitely that a carcinoma is in no way related to a man’s war service, but there appear to be large numbers of cases - some have come to my notice - in which the doctors cannot be certain of the cause, particularly where the growth is internal. [More…]

• I support the view that the special or TPI rate payable to a man or woman who has been classified as totally and permanently incapacitated because of war related incapacity should not be less than the adult Commonwealth minimum wage. [More…]

• The Government recognises that a man or woman who served Australia and has been permanently incapacitated because of such service should not receive less than the Commonwealth adult minimum wage. [More…]

• Honourable members can think of instances - fortunately there are not as many as there might have been - of young national servicemen who have been sent to Vietnam and who have returned to face life as totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners. [More…]

• It has been a matter of concern to many parents in receipt of sickness or unemployment benefits that student children over the age of 16 years have not been regarded as dependants. [More…]

• Eventually he set up a relationship with a woman and lived with her for 23 years. [More…]

• In his first application to the Department he was advised that because he was receiving an income of $47.40 a week, which was in excess of the amount allowed for a single man, he was not eligible for a Service pension. [More…]

• The Minister wrote to me and said that as this gentleman’s de facto wife and dependent children were not eligible for consideration under the Repatriation Act any application for a Service pension he may lodge must be assessed on the basis that he was a single man. [More…]

• This man was caught in a real scissors. [More…]

• However, as this man was injured at the end of October 1972, some 5 weeks before the election, he is apparently not covered by the new provisions. [More…]

• It appears that he will be permanently unemployable when he is discharged from the RAAF. [More…]

• Obviously this amount will not cover this young man, who has a family, for the rest of his life. [More…]

• The RAAF apparently is prepared to keep this serviceman on for a period of 12 months because he was injured while on overseas service. [More…]

• This man, and his family, should receive some sort of compensation. [More…]

• I could not agree too much with this because man does not live by bread alone. [More…]

• One can give man everything equated with material, scientific and physical progress but man is still poverty stricken unless he finds the answer to selfishness, greed, arrogance and self-love. [More…]

• A young man with a family has very little chance of raising this amount of money when he is anticipating building. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has forecast that the Labor Conference will not put any great demands on him or call for any great changes. [More…]

• It is very useful to the Left to have a weak front man, because the Australian people would never vote for the extreme Left. [More…]

• They voted for a weak front man, not realising what they were doing. [More…]

• Mr Prime Minister, I say that you have no mandate for what you and your Government are doing. [More…]

• The former honourable member was a man who passed through this place often but spoke little. [More…]

• He was a man who loved the land and was happiest with farming people. [More…]

• The change in capital per man in Australia has raised national income by one-fiftieth of one per cent; consumer surplus accruing through price reductions has been outweighed by adverse changes in terms of trade; taxation gain has been onequarter of one per cent of national income; indirect gains via linkage effects have been negligible; and rapid capital inflow has been a major cause of inflation. [More…]

• Many voters now feel, however, that they may have been sold a pup. [More…]

• He was a man of no mean talent; he was educated; he was presentable; and apparently be was quite moderate in his views. [More…]

• thanks to the comments - widely published here and read in the White House - of Ministers Cairns, Cameron and Uren, we have angered the most powerful man in the world. [More…]

• I suppose a man’s religion or lack of it is his own affair, but it did not go unnoticed in the Press and elsewhere that 12 Labor members, approximately 20 per cent of their number in this Chamber, refused to swear on the Bible when being sworn into Parliament. [More…]

• There is a conjunction of circumstances, with this power in the hands of one man, a front man to deal directly with the people, and his being told what he shall do by somebody unelected, outside this House. [More…]

• This astonishes me because the Prime Minister is not an ignorant man and he must, therefore, take the more blame for this. [More…]

• Shakespeare was an amusing man too. [More…]

• In some very good advice that an old gentleman in one of his plays gave, Shakespeare said: ‘The friends thou hast and their_?ic2 tion tried, Grapple them to thy heart with hoops of steel’. [More…]

• He has tried to be a great man in South East Asia and has fallen flat on his face. [More…]

• Briefly, the facts are that the gentleman concerned had ordered a tractor worth $11,000. [More…]

• A balance is not necessarily achieved in these matters when one man loses and the other man gains. [More…]

• He is an honourable and dedicated man who recognised that many facets of the repatriation system were highly unsatisfactory and in need of change. [More…]

• After all, the gentleman concerned is not a man who has a great knowledge of primary industry. [More…]

• Hanoi and East Germany. [More…]

• The Prime Minister sees himself as a man of great destiny, and God help the state if he stays there long. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bennelong did not once express sympathy for the honourable member for Wills, who is now the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant) and who was gagged possibly more times than any man in the history of Parliament. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Overseas Trade say last week that the Government would be depending partly on the idealism of the man in the street to invest in national development bonds, which he has in mind as a method of financing the. [More…]

• Might not the man in the street see the same sense of idealism in investing in housing through permanent building societies at interest rates higher than those of Commonwealth bonds? [More…]

• Has the honourable gentleman proposed also that tax deductions or rebates may be used to make national investment bonds more attractive, and is this not just another method of increasing the actual interest rate? [More…]

• Will the honourable gentleman explain why tax deductions should be allowed for the form of investment which he has in mind but not allowed for housing through permanent building societies? [More…]

• It is an inherent part of their beliefs that the individual should be free in the manner envisaged by the free enterprise philosophy of the Opposition parties. [More…]

• The encumbering embrace of socialism, the concept of the great and all-powerful State and the idea that man is on earth to serve the State is the antithesis of what young people in this country believe. [More…]

• Or will it let the Labor Party machine - a group of people many young people have never heard of, and frankly do not care for, much less would be prepared to vote for - tell it what decisions to make? [More…]

• The honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) quoted from a committee report and claimed that the argument that because a man was old enough to fight and die for his country, he should automatically gain the right to vote was fallacious. [More…]

• But it is still an historical fact that, throughout the centuries, men and women who were eligible to serve their country in a military capacity were also regarded as being adult enough to do many other things in the community. [More…]

• Many people will rejoice in that description. [More…]

• Each man is entitled to his own opinion. [More…]

• Perhaps I might add, for those who see the changes with regret or sadness, that nothing in the legal change removes a young man or woman from the influence and guidance of parents, if it is capable of being exercised through the relations of trust and reliance that have already been built. [More…]

• The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb), who is not now in the chamber, made an attempt at a serious contribution to the debate although in many cases he sounded like a man used to talking to Labor Party branch meetings who has not had very much opposition. [More…]

• One or two of these were taken up firmly by my colleagues, notably the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock), who disposed completely of the old argument that, if a man is old enough to fight for his country, he should have the right to vote. [More…]

• The honourable member for La Trobe tried to mock the fact that the age of majority is 21 by saying it assumes that all of a sudden a man becomes full of wisdom on his 21st birthday. [More…]

• Many countries have determined that 18 is a fitting age. [More…]

• There can be no doubt whatever that a man is entitled to equal representation whether he lives in the city or the country. [More…]

• Perhaps it was designed to perpetuate -he type of gerrymandering which occurred in South Australia where at one stage there a as no redistribution for 25 years and some electorates - city and country - were 3 times as large as others. [More…]

• First of all there is no doubt that the wine industry has been going through a process of change which affects it in many ways. [More…]

• I am afraid that it seems to me in respect of many sectors of our rural industries that there is a change of attitude by the present Government which seems to hold the view that because a measure is introduced into the House there is no need to worry about more significant problems that might affect the rural industries, directly or indirectly. [More…]

• I invite honourable members to compare the net worth of this exise with the duty that is collected on what one would see as the working man’s drink, that is the drink that most of us like in many circumstances in Australia. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wimmera interjects the voice of the countryside; the man who voted 3 times for an impost on his own fellow primary producers. [More…]

• The man who was supposed to represent wool manufacturers on the Wool Corporation belonged to a firm which went bankrupt. [More…]

• So much for his management. [More…]

• So this firm exercised its influence through the Corporation in many ways. [More…]

• In regard to the more serious matter, the Minister for Labour has for a long time had the reputation in the trade union movement of being something of a hatchet man. [More…]

• They should have some kind of protection against the dictatorial trade union secretary blackmailer, the bully, the man who maintains the ring of informers and pimps. [More…]

• There are some things about the honourable gentleman which I think I should tell the new members here because 1 believe that this legendary figure ought not to be allowed to wither on the vine and pass out of history as the forgotten man. [More…]

• We should remember some of his exploits, especially during World War II when he commanded a volunteer defence corps and was asked by his commander to carry on certain exercises at Cronulla in order to demonstrate whether or not an enemy would be able to take possession of the Cronulla foreshore. [More…]

• So the honourable gentleman, with great skill and characteristic attention to detail, decided to blow up the Cronulla bridge to demonstrate just what could be done. [More…]

• I ask you, Mr Speaker: Do you not think we ought to take a very kindly interest in this man? [More…]

• Thinking that the unions down there were communist controlled, he got in touch With another communist, a man called Edward Roach, whom he has frequently described in the Parliament as the most dangerous and evil communist that this country had ever seen. [More…]

• In fact, I have a photograph of the honourable gentleman presenting the ‘Illawarra Star’ Cup to this dangerous communist, Mr Roach. [More…]

• I have had one man to see me upon whom pressure was being put to try to force him to join a cleaners union. [More…]

• He is a young married man who mortgaged his home to buy a truck. [More…]

• I would like the Attorney-General to have a look at this matter to see in what way there can be co-operation so that the credentials of a company that is operating in another State can be investigated before people are let down in a shameful and shocking manner as were the people I have mentioned, on the eve of Christmas. [More…]

• The young married man to whom I referred has a young family. [More…]

• Many of the integrators who run the industry, in conjunction with the growers, in the way that the integrated system works, always try to act with the growers’ interests at heart. [More…]

• Professional management has been introduced and growers find themselves in a situation where, they are in a constant bargaining and negotiating position. [More…]

• For example, in Victoria recently a man growing 82,000 chickens over a 3 month period lost $3,400. [More…]

• For the first time moves are now afoot for growers in all States to push for some form of State legislation to protect them from some of the more blatant forms of ungentlemanly actions being carried out Over the last 2 years in both Victoria and New South Wales, particularly New South Wales, negotiations between integrators and growers have been carried out with some degree of Government supervision. [More…]

• I have long been of the opinion that the New South Wales Minister of Agriculture is a very sympathetic and able man who somehow gets beaten at other levels of the coalition Government of that State. [More…]

• We have been able to do this because investment from overseas has helped to finance the other things we wanted to do, such as expanding our manufacturing and mining industries. [More…]

• The Treasurer is the man who has to operate the chopper. [More…]

• The fact is that there is direct competition between many users and spenders of resources. [More…]

• The privilege of owning his home is a large part of a man’s heritage, and I completely agree with the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) that more avenues should be made available for a man to obtain finance to rear his family in their own home. [More…]

• Government offering greater opportunities to the average working man to purchase his own home. [More…]

• In the same speech that I mentioned the Minister said .that there were many families and individuals for whom it is not the right solution. [More…]

• But to the average working man who has borrowed from the bank to build his home and who is repaying the loan to the maximum of his capacity any increase in bis repayments could place him in an embarrassing financial situation. [More…]

• I support this Bill, which I hope will be the means of assisting many more people to build their own homes. [More…]

• Given that we have on Our plates a problem with the Torres Strait boundary, which we take very seriously, we are fortunate to have in the House a man such as the honourable member for Kooyong who understands both sides of the question. [More…]

• Indeed, before the white man came, there, was diversity among Aboriginal tribes of quite a considerable character, but today there are 2 poles and between them a spectrum. [More…]

• He is a big man and with a big task to perform he needs our support. [More…]

• I do not know how any man with 20 years of experience can be cast aside. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs is the man who is getting the advice. [More…]

• They include doctors, settlement managers, ministers of religion and cattlemen. [More…]

• With the exception of Gus Williams from Hermannsburg, who is part-coloured, these men are all full-blooded Aborigines. [More…]

• They are not screaming to have churchmen cut down or screaming in the manner of some part-coloured people who. [More…]

• I wish to raise once again the question of the implications of the change in the guaranteed minimum wage levied in non-permanent ports by the Association of Employees of Waterside Labour. [More…]

• The problem as it relates to Queensland ports is particularly important, because under the previously existing arrangements a uniform levy of 40c per man hour on labour working in ports all round Australia was imposed for the purpose of paying the minimum guaranteed wage to waterside workers in every port in Australia. [More…]

• The levy prior to the change was 40c per man hour. [More…]

• As I have said, the old rate was 40c per man hour, and it applied throughout the whole of Australia. [More…]

• Under the new scheme of things the port of Cairns is paying $1.50 per man hour, which is an increase of something like 200 per cent; the levy on the port of Mackay has been increased to $1 per man hour, which is an increase of something like 150 per cent. [More…]

• They are the guilty men and, in particular, the honourable member for Wannon is the guilty man. [More…]

• There is no inner 11 and there is no outer 11 determined by the vagaries of one man or perhaps 2 men or perhaps outside influences. [More…]

• And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminium can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. [More…]

• And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminium cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: Look at this Godawful mess.’ [More…]

• This organisation, separate and distinct from the HRB (Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood) is the Australian Branch of the UHNj (League of United Croats of West Germany). [More…]

• Its leader in Germany is one Ante Vukic, whom our Commonwealth police considered such a dangerous man that they advised the Immigration Department against granting him a permit to visit Australia in May 1972. [More…]

• The organisation in Germany was associated over the last decade with attempted murders of Yugoslav officials and attacks on Yugoslav embassies, and employed strong-arm squads to threaten other Croats living in Germany for the purpose of either conscripting them into the organisation or extracting financial contributions. [More…]

• Its leader is a man with a particularly violent record named Jakov Suljak. [More…]

• Why was this man Suljak not deported in 1969 as recommended by the Commissioner of Commonwealth Police? [More…]

• 1 understand your apprehension is that he is a man with a propensity to violence and that, in view of recent happenings involving violence to persons and property, we have a paramount obligation to the Australian community to remove him from the country. [More…]

• Surely that was a mild charge to lay at the door of a man whom the documents prove to have been the active protector of terrorists. [More…]

• The latter admits that he will use any means possible to achieve an independent Croatia; claims to know that one of the Andric brothers (since killed in the Bosnia incursion) made the pen bomb which exploded in Richmond Town Hall on 2nd September 1967, gravely injuring a young man; advocates the violent overthrow of the Yugoslav Government. [More…]

• I refer to the request made by the honourable member for New England, a man of great practical experience who saved the wheat industry and wool industry in this country from failure, to vary the inflexible rule of the Reserve Bank not to grant exchange cover for more than a month after the sale proceeds should have been received. [More…]

• Man has been continuously exposed to natural radiation since his appearance on earth and, until less than a century ago, was exposed to natural radiation only. [More…]

• Even now despite the widening use of radiation producing devices, the widespread radioactive contamination from nuclear weapon tests and the Increasing applications of nuclear energy and radio isotopes, natural sources are the main contributors to the average radiation exposure of human populations- [More…]

• Man-made sources of radiation include mining for radioactive material, medical use of radioactive material both for diagnostic and treatment purposes, nuclear power production, miscellaneous sources such as electronic tubes emitting X-rays, but not designed for that purpose and, of course, nuclear explosions for both peaceful and non-peaceful purposes. [More…]

• There are 2 common methods whereby such radioactive nuclides may be absorbed by man. [More…]

• The first has become known as the foragemilkman way and the second is called the soil route pathway. [More…]

• The first is important because comparatively short lived fallout such as iodine 131 finds its way to the human population in the milk they drink. [More…]

• The effects of revaluation on the little man in country areas, particularly in a vast area such as the one 1 represent, are very worrying indeed. [More…]

• I suppose that a man who has been selling insurance or who has worked on a ship would have a pretty profound knowledge of primary industry. [More…]

• We saw, too, the setting up by this Prime Minister of a 2-man government - Australia’s first 2-man government. [More…]

• Many decisions were made by that Goverment, most of them unjustified as to their urgency. [More…]

• How can a man properly carry out the high offices of Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia? [More…]

• I appreciate the help from the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• He is the highest paid young man of that age that I could find on ordinary award rates. [More…]

• A shop assistant receives $27.80 a week, a clerk earns $28.10 a week; and a storeman receives $24.05 a week. [More…]

• In Canada a jobless man can draw as much as $100 a week provided he works for 16 weeks in 52 weeks. [More…]

• A young man from Scone in my electorate entered into an agreement with this company for a $3,000 cover on a 1971Valiant Pacer sedan on 19th March 1971, to give cover until 19th March 1972. [More…]

• During the period of the policy, this young man was involved in a major accident and damage to the extent of $1,000 was done to his vehicle. [More…]

• I have been asked by this young man to bring this matter forward and this request has the full backing of his solicitors, McLellan and Noonan, of Scone. [More…]

• The honourable member for Curtin was one appointed not on ability but because of the geographical location of his district and because he worshipped the little man who was Prime Minister not so long ago. [More…]

• The Government is in office because it has a clear mandate. [More…]

• How the honourable member for Wilmot, a man of the cloth and a sincere, hard working member, can tolerate that proposition is beyond me. [More…]

• I received constant deputations from them pleading with me not to put Australian seamen out of work and not to tie up Australian ships but to find a way to remedy the situation so that the Australianbuilt ship, the ‘Straitsman’, could handle the job. [More…]

• We were united to a man that we could not possibly accept the Government’s proposition. [More…]

• 1 rise to speak in this adjournment debate mainly because an approach was made to the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) - the man who has admitted that he is very inexperienced in primary industry matters, the man who has admitted that he would not know the difference between a corriedale and a merino, the man who is in charge of the destiny of Australian primary producers. [More…]

• The honourable member has always been able to present himself as a man with a fair amount of confidence in his ability to put a case. [More…]

• I was trying to analyse the change that has overcome this gentleman. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has evinced absolutely no interest in this subject for as long as I can remember. [More…]

• I was here when he first came into this Parliament as an upstanding, bright, eager-eyed young man from Wannon, but never once have I heard him say anything about Portland until now when a State election is pending. [More…]

• Here is a man who has the audacity to pretend that he has some interest in the port of Portland and in the viability of that port. [More…]

• I regret to say that the man whom he appointed as Attorney-General was not loyal to his suggestions as Prime Minister and formerly as Foreign Minister. [More…]

• I do not demur in any respect, as far as I remember the papers, from what the right honourable gentleman tried to do in this matter as Foreign Minister and later as Prime Minister. [More…]

• I do not deny that there are many problems. [More…]

• But I think that many of the objections are not important. [More…]

• The man who has great rhetorical skill will have no advantage. [More…]

• The man who can persuade people in their homes is the man who will succeed in this House. [More…]

• If a man who represents a coal mining constituency is speaking, people will not care whether he drops his aitches or whether he stumbles. [More…]

• These commodities have been handled in a certain way in the years gone past, and no man who knows this game would want that situation to continue. [More…]

• But where because of rising costs, for manpower reasons and for many other reasons, there has been a change in technique, especially around our coastline, and millions of dollars have been spent improving the conditions of workers in those industries, many tons per man per hour have been able to be handled as against no tons per man per hour previously. [More…]

• I agree totally with Chief Justice Warren that as nearly as practicable one man’s vote should be worth as much as another’s. [More…]

• Apparently a terrible, undemocratic gerrymander operates in the United States where under the fiat of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States there is a tolerance of 15 per cent and slightly above. [More…]

• There can be no doubt whatever that a man is entitled to equal representation whether he lives in the city or the country. [More…]

• In the famous election on 2nd December 1972 which brought so many changes we found that this sterling fighter for freedom that we heard just before dinner represents the 9 per cent that has 16 per cent of the Parliament. [More…]

• I know that he is a man of considerable means because the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) told us just last night that the honourable member could buy and sell us all. [More…]

• I do not believe that this Parliament or any other Parliament has a mandate, a charter or a responsibility to decide that a person shall have a vote according to the size of his backyard. [More…]

• The Country Party wants the size of a man’s backyard to be the real criterion of electoral boundaries. [More…]

• Once one breaks with the principle that in a democratic society every man’s vote should be of equal value one runs into all kinds of anomalies and contradictions. [More…]

• I accept the proposition and 1 believe that if we tell the people of Australia, as we are doing, about it they will accept this proposition that one man, one vote, one value is the only principle that any democratic society possibly can accommodate. [More…]

• But they came around to a system of electoral gerrymander. [More…]

• The then Premier, now Sir Francis Nicklin, invited Sir Thomas Playford, a man of considerable experience in the matter of electoral redistributions, to come to Queensland and give them some advice. [More…]

• Any member of the Liberal Party who votes for a gerrymander that favours the Country Party votes against his interests, the interests of the Liberal Party and the interests of people who vote Liberal. [More…]

• I do not know whether Professor Aitkin’s study was right, but it suggests that many people who have voted for the DLP in recent times have been estranged Liberal voters. [More…]

• This Bill represents a step taken early in the Parliament for a redistribution to give Australia fair electoral laws which will ensure that throughout Australia any one man is as near as possible to being equal to any other man when he goes to the ballot box. [More…]

• Over the last 23 years we have seen a steady progression in Australia towards a condition of oligopoly in the food industry, both in the manufacturing and retailing of food. [More…]

• We have seen the gradual elimination of the little man, noi only from the retailing but also from the manufacturing and wholesale fields. [More…]

• In fact, from all areas of activity in the industry there has been an elimination of the little man. [More…]

• We have seen the gradual takeover of Australian food industries by mammoth overseas corporations and multinational corporations, and the crushing of the smaller man, the smaller retailer. [More…]

• The wiping out of the interests of the small man has helped to remove the competition that ought to exist in the economy and in the community to provide a check not only on prices but on services as well. [More…]

• I reserve that for a later occasion, lt is sufficient to say at this stage that most of the Australian food manufacturers and food retailers are presently foreign owned. [More…]

• The confectioner has been in operation for many years and is a man who serves the little people. [More…]

• He is the in-between man, not a gigantic retailer, not a gigantic merchandiser. [More…]

• Let me refer to the facts when I came into office, and I came in with a mandate to evaluate and secure the balanced development of Australian mineral resources for posterity. [More…]

• The honourable member for Farrer is the man who is responsible for it, and let him deny it if he can. [More…]

• It said that he was a rigid, doctrinaire, class warfare man. [More…]

• The matter of public importance raised by the Opposition does not warrant debate, much less any serious consideration, particularly as it was raised by the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) who, as the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) said, would be the man in this Parliament least able to talk on this question. [More…]

• We were not able, when discussing the limits of the territorial sea and continental shelf with the Government of Indonesia, to say where those limits were because of this man, the former Minister for National Development. [More…]

• He holds himself out as a man of reason, a man of logic and a man always willing to listen to argument. [More…]

• The provision in the Act is mandatory. [More…]

• It would be mandatory under the proposal of the Labor Government. [More…]

• The crux of the Bill is concerned with a matter which is at the heart of the democratic parliamentary process, namely, that as far as possible the value of a man’s vote should be the same wherever he lives. [More…]

• Only a man who represents an electorate of 3 or 4 square miles could fail to understand the difficulty of representing people in large electorates where distance, remoteness and sparsity of population make the task frustrating and difficult. [More…]

• The Country Party pooh-poohs the proposition of one man one vote and believes that this is certainly not the sort of thing that one should support. [More…]

• What changes, if any, should be made to the basis on which the Stevedoring Industry charge is presently levied, and in particular whether the present ‘man hour’ basis should be replaced or supplemented by some other method of assessment? [More…]

• Yes, a good man. [More…]

• During my speech on 15 th March I announced that Mr Norman Foster, together with 2 departmental officers had been dispatched to Portland to make an on the spot investigation of the trouble. [More…]

• For example, in Portland the guaranteed minimum wage levy will be reduced from $1.15 a man hour to about 2c or 3c a man hour. [More…]

• Here is the guilty man sitting at the table, the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]

• All the non-permanent ports will be advantaged by the change as this levy of 2c or 3c a man hour will be uniform. [More…]

• I believe that this recommendation represents a far better solution to the problem of the non-permanent ports than those which have been advocated by the honourable member for Wannon or by the Victorian Government. [More…]

• But he is not known as a man who changes his view. [More…]

• The insidious changes that are proposed are being introduced under a very attractive slogan - one man, one vote, one value. [More…]

• Now the Government says that the maximum provision should be 10 per cent to follow the slogan ‘one man, one vote, one value’. [More…]

• The facts are that because of movements in population an allowance is needed - not a mandatory allowance but an allowance which the Commissioners may use if they believe it is necessary and desirable having in mind the various factors which this Parliament determines that they should take into account in drawing the boundaries of electorates. [More…]

• Again, do we find any proposal from the Government to reduce the number of electorates in Tasmania from the constitutionally guaranteed 5 seats? [More…]

• Do we hear Government supporters saying that the principle of one man, one vote, one value must apply in Tasmania? [More…]

• Is it going to take seats away from Tasmania in a constitutional referendum? [More…]

• Tasmania has 10 senators and 220,000 voters and New South Wales has 10 senators for more than 21 million voters. [More…]

• Where is the one man, one vote, one value principle in these aspects of the Labor Party’s proposals? [More…]

• It reveals the falsity of the claims to support the principle of one man, one vote, one value in all its purity. [More…]

• Under the proposals as many as 10 seats could be moved from great and large areas of the country, from provincial towns, to the smaller electorates of the extra-metropolitan areas which I have mentioned. [More…]

• Man for centuries has desired to take a hand in the manner in which he has been governed. [More…]

• We as a Parliament have always taken many of our customs from the Parliament at Westminster and, whilst that institution is referred to as the mother of Parliaments, the stage that it has reached today did not come about without a continuing fight for fair representation and some form of electoral justice. [More…]

• But whilst we still have our anomalies in South Australia, I think we have lost our crown as the most gerrymandered State to Queensland, where we see the reins of government in the hands of a Party which is receiving only 20 per cent of the overall votes of the Queensland people. [More…]

• We on this side of the House firmly believe that one man’s vote is as good as anothers, and we will continue to press for reforms in the electoral system of our society so that we can say that our society is democratic in every sense ot the word. [More…]

• Honourable member** know as well as I do that the Government gave the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) an extension of time, and he is only the third most important man opposite. [More…]

• In the 4 weeks of this Parliament on only 2 or 3 occasions has the curtailment of a debate occurred and this was simply because members opposite were frustrating the duly elected Government of Australia, which has an overwhelming mandate to legislate in the interests of the people. [More…]

• 1 went with the honourable gentleman - I am sure it was up a flight of stairs - to the Bargello and there was that other pornographer Donatello’s David, but admittedly on a more seemly scale. [More…]

• In Sydney there is the Archibald Fountain which has not merely one but, to my memory, 3 naked male figures for everybody in the park - man, woman and child - to see. [More…]

• The suggestion that he did not want to use the word ‘conspiracy’ and that I had forced him to use it comes as an extraordinary statement when we have seen the arrogance of the man during question time. [More…]

• I congratulate those who were successful in getting their man elected. [More…]

• There is not one order in the pipeline to be allocated to any shipyard, and if ever there is a guilty man he is the honourable member for Gippsland. [More…]

• So there, once again, is the guilty man. [More…]

• I desire firstly to refer to some of the points made by the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) who no doubt will recall that on a previous occasion I referred to his leader in the Queensland Parliament, the man who through acts of gerrymander and not through the decision of the electors is the Premier of Queensland today. [More…]

• I will accept the concern of members of the Australian Country Party for the type of man that leads their Party in Queensland. [More…]

• I intend to make some further remarks about the actions of this gentleman. [More…]

• No-one disagrees with the slogan of one man one vote, but what this really means is that in a democracy the government should be won by the party which obtains a majority of votes. [More…]

• There may be as few as 25,000 in one seat and as many as 150,000 in another seat. [More…]

• This man is one of the people who tell you that they believe in democracy. [More…]

• Mentioning electoral boundaries to the supporters of gerrymanders in the Country Party is like putting your hand in their pocket and taking out any money you can find. [More…]

• Not only must this Parliament be representative by observing equal electorate representation so that urban, country and fringe areas are represented equally, and so that socioeconomic groupings are represented equally, but it must guarantee that as far as practicable one man’s vote is equal to the vote of any other man, no matter where he lives. [More…]

• It states that, if a man or. [More…]

• a - woman in Parliament says something of that kind, that person should be given the opportunity to explain the context in which, the statement was made. [More…]

• You, Mr Speaker, in .what I believe to be the most grievous error of judgment ever made during my period in’ this House from the chair that you occupy; refused to give a man, who served for about 3 years as the Prime Minister of : this. [More…]

• When you were elected to office, Mr Speaker, I spoke briefly and said that I believed you were a man who could carry put the job, that you had displayed an understanding of Parliament during your manyyears here and that provided you dispensed justice without bias and impartially you would have the support of this side of the Parliament. [More…]

• He has refused to answer many questions that I have asked him concerning the simple proposition: Why did the Attorney-General attack ASIO headquarters in Canberra? [More…]

• It is not that the expression is unparliamentary, as you know,’ Mr Speaker; it is the manner which is objectionable What is said is one thing, but every member of this Parliament knows that how it is said is another thing. [More…]

• You may well call a man a ‘b’ with a smile on your face because it is how you say it that determines whether you get away with it. [More…]

• It is the manner and the context in which the words are used which determine whether they are objectionable. [More…]

• It is all very well to say these things flippantly, but the emphasis they are given and the manner of approach can cause people to take objection. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the people who man the ships, although not traitors themselves, are under the control of traitors. [More…]

• This book was first published in 1966 and was reviewed by a man well versed in pastoral affairs. [More…]

• He said that there were so many errors in the book that it should be re-written. [More…]

• A Labor man in the Territory has said that there is considerable merit in appointing a joint committee. [More…]

• I think this is a great pity because the Minister for Northern Development is a dedicated and knowledgeable man in the area of northern development. [More…]

• I think that it is a grave mistake for the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to have the responsibility of appointing the chairman of the Committee. [More…]

• I say that because only the committee members - only the members who have worked together - know the value of the man who is elected as chairman. [More…]

• I was proud to be able to second the nomination of the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Fulton) for the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee. [More…]

• I think that it is a grave departure from the high principles that we always have held to allow the Prime Minister to select the chairman of a committee. [More…]

• When 1 say that I am conscious of the fact that when God created man he gave him no third hand with which to pat himself on the back. [More…]

• If we have regard - as I am sure honourable members on both sides of the House do - to the problems of the man in the street, we will know that he is already feeling the pinch because of the Government’s lack of sensitivity to the inflationary problems which the Australian economy is now experiencing in a very marked fashion because of the expenditure programs of the new Administration. [More…]

• All work by its very nature is hazardous because it takes a man away from the things he would wish to do or the things he would probably normally do, and in order to satisfy the economic needs of his family he engages in activities that are not necessarily familiar to him. [More…]

• Nobody ever seems to take into account the things which occurred to them during perhaps half a century in the employ of another man. [More…]

• Research on these viruses; several of which affect man as well as livestock, has been hampered to date by a lack of a maximum security laboratory. [More…]

• Because of the inadequacy of our knowledge of endemic diseases, virologists would in many situations be unable to differentiate quickly between an endemic and an exotic disease. [More…]

• Many of these communications were received prior to the recent election. [More…]

• However, I believe that this matter goes beyond the cat egory of internal affairs and really should be judged in terms of international concern for inhuman treatment of man against his fellow man. [More…]

• He is running scared because, as the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and other honourable gentlemen opposite would know, it is a matter of record that during the course of the last days of last week in the Senate, the Attorney-General himself, a man who alleges a sense of high principle, was seeking in the corridors of that place a shabby deal. [More…]

• What would we say if a German club were to display portraits of Hitler and the swastika flag and to commemorate and celebrate the day Hitler became Chancellor as a community national day? [More…]

• What an affront that only last weekend the picture of this man [More…]

• The third point is that the Prime Minister asked rhetorically what we would do if Germans displayed photographs of Hitler and the swastika to celebrate the day on which Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany. [More…]

• In my Party there is hardly any man who was of military age at the time who did not fight it and who would not be prepared to fight it again today. [More…]

• But the Attorney-General is an intelligent man. [More…]

• Whichever it was, he is shown to be a man not fit to hold the high office which he occupies. [More…]

• The man in Australia who puts aside the ballot box and reaches for the bomb leaves the ranks of the politically concerned and becomes a criminal. [More…]

• I know of a case - 1 will not name the gentleman concerned, but his wife would be known to many honourable members opposite as well as to many Government supporters - in which over a long period a man was refused naturalisation by the previous Government. [More…]

• Immigration and sought the reasons why this man had been refused naturalisation. [More…]

• By a process of elimination only one ground remained, namely, an adverse security report on the man. [More…]

• The man did not have much understanding of English. [More…]

• I got a Ukrainian-speaking man from the Australian National University, who is above reproach, to sit in with me while I discussed the position with the man. [More…]

• In the opinion of the Ukranianspeaking Australian, it was a joke that this man could be regarded as a security risk. [More…]

• To the credit of the present Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), this mistake has been corrected and the man will be naturalised. [More…]

• In conclusion I say that, if the man in the street outside is listening to this debate, I have no doubt that if he is asked who should run this country, ASIO or the Australian Government, he will side with the Australian Government. [More…]

• It has been a campaign manipulated by one man, the Attorney-General, initially without the knowledge or authority of the Government and subsequently, with only an uneasy form of tacit approval. [More…]

• To abandon that principle and to assert that a man or an organisation can be charged and convicted and, indeed, can be punished without that procedure being passed through, is one of the most dangerous attacks on civil liberties that I have seen in the time that I have been in Parliament. [More…]

• We need to know this because if that is in fact to be asserted by the senior law officer in accordance with what the Prime Minister suggested ought to happen, there should be no lawyer on the other side of the House and no man on the other side of the House concerned with civil liberties who ought not to hang his head in shame, if I may use that word, sir. [More…]

• Above all we need to inquire into the question of why one man - one ASIO representative^ - has been made a scapegoat for this affair. [More…]

• This again is a man who cannot defend himself. [More…]

• Let us ask the Attorney-General when he comes before us whether this man has been treated in such a way because the laws relating to public service inquiry do not apply to ASIO personnel and therefore he would not have the same right of protest as any other public servant who attended that meeting would have. [More…]

• Because of the pattern of uncertainty that must lie around the person of the Attorney-General because of actions over the last few weeks there is no course of action open to this Parliament other than for us to call the Attorney-General before the bar of this place so that we can ask of him the questions that still remain unsolved - questions that are fundamental to the standing of the man, the standing of this Parliament and the reputation and administration of the Australian legal system. [More…]

• His Leader is only the third most important man in the Opposition. [More…]

• Although I am not a suspicious man, I could almost be persuaded to believe that not one gallon of that 20 mollion gallons was below 2 per cent proof. [More…]

• It is a novelty for a man to produce a brew that is acceptable to his friends. [More…]

• He wears many caps, but looking at him in that wine coloured suit, it is not an unfair comparison. [More…]

• He could be the wine coloured suit man or the Minister for Immigration, but I will always know him as the bubbling, popping member for Riverina. [More…]

• The Japanese company, NissanDatsun, expressed great and prompt concern for this man and his troubles with his vehicle and stated that it considered that the New South Wales State distributor, Capitol Motors, should work to overcome his problems. [More…]

• The program was produced by a man called Finlayson who apparently arrived in Katherine, in the Northern Territory, with a preconceived idea and plan of how to present this meeting to the people of Australia. [More…]

• He parked in the main street of Katherine, leaned over the door of his utility and said that Katherine has never been known for its good humanitarian relations between races. [More…]

• A man called Finlayson on the program ‘This Day Tonight’. [More…]

• I rise tonight to say that that man did the cause of the Aborigines and the Europeans in that area and of the people who are trying to bring these 2 groups together - the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant), the Minister for Education (Mr Beasley) and all of us - a great disservice. [More…]

• If I did not know that he is a man of sober habits and good intent, I would think that something had stung him. [More…]

• You are the luckiest man of the lot to be in the Ministry. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) - colleague and friend of us all - is a man who has constantly stood up for the rights of this Parliament. [More…]

• Paragraph (c) of the amendment (c) deals with the eligibility of a serviceman to borrow on second mortgage, and this is something I know a bit about. [More…]

• In my opinion this should have been considered many years ago. [More…]

• There are many people - in fact I would go so far as to say there are honourable members in this house - who have never been able to take advantage of a war service homes loan because of cost and family commitments which in many instances dictate the opportunity for a member to take advantage of the loan. [More…]

• The Government has stated on many occasions that it desires to help the man with a young family, and if it means what it says here is an opportunity to help the serviceman with a young family. [More…]

• 1 feel there would be no loss to the Government if it considered this amendment favourably, and it certainly would make the task of purchasing a home a lot easier for the serviceman. [More…]

• I was somewhat surprised by the speech of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), who has just resumed his seat. [More…]

• I would have thought that as a man trained in a university he would not be guilty of the egregious logical errors which he committed. [More…]

• The second reason is that under our existing agreement with the United Kingdom, people who go to the United Kingdom - I >tm speaking not of those people who qualify under an agreement made under section 137 of the Act but of those people who have lived here for 10 years or more - are paid a pension in the United Kingdom, that being their permanent residence. [More…]

• Perhaps the honourable member for Prospect is a little ignorant in these matters, but as a trained man he should not commit that kind of egregious error. [More…]

• If a man goes to the United States and is outside Australia for a period the Act states that a pension is not payable to him in respect of that period. [More…]

• I have seen from the intelligent expression on the face of the honourable member that I need a straight guy, and he is the man to do the job. [More…]

• He is a man who has devoted his life to the study of psephology, who until a few short years ago was a member of the New South Wales State executive of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• He has written many books. [More…]

• He stated on the Brian White radio show today that the New South Wales gerrymander that exists at this moment is worse than that in any other State, and he is amazed that so little has been said or done about it. [More…]

• We have almost accepted in certain parts of the Labor Party that gerrymander is the norm and that inequality in voting is part of the price of defeat. [More…]

• The scene opened with the producer, a man called Finlayson, leaning over the door of his utility in the main street of Katherine and remarking that Katherine had never been known for its good humanitarian relations between races. [More…]

• What sort of experience has a man like this Finlayson which enables him to arrive at a place in. [More…]

• I think he succeeded because a number of complaints I have received about that particular segment of that program have said that this man was really showing that there was this attitude in Katherine, that there were 500 or 600 people seething in a racist manner. [More…]

• I will not read any more of them but there are many more. [More…]

• I am not attacking him but the man who produced this segment and misrepresented a meeting at Katherine, misrepresented the [More…]

• But no, this reporter showed this bitter meeting between an employer and the man he had sacked, a man who had left him irresponsibly. [More…]

• How can a man keep a family on $66 a week? [More…]

• Recently - if I could put it that way, in a court in this country a man, if I may call him that, was convicted of selling the drug lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD - more than 100 microdot tablets - for a sum of several hundred dollars. [More…]

• The man to whom I referred was convicted of selling this drug. [More…]

• This means that after a period of 8 weeks this man. [More…]

• One wonders at the capabilities of a man such as this magistrate to sit on the bench in a court in this nation. [More…]

• unemployment benefits for a man, a wife and 2 children were $18 a week below the updated poverty line, and they have been below that poverty line for a very, very long time. [More…]

• He has been succeeded by Dr Wienholt and I am not trying in any way to denegrate Dr Wienholt or write him down but I simply say his ability is not nearly as great as that of Mr Hamilton, the man who has left. [More…]

• The calculation shows that the original repayments on a loan for purchase of a home may cost a man 29.5 per cent of his average weekly income. [More…]

• Of course, it has to be remembered that while it is good for most people who buy a home it is bad for those people who rent homes so that any surplus money they may try to invest, for example, in permanent building societies, suffers erosion just as people gain from that erosion in the purchase of their homes. [More…]

• I watched the performance, qualities and the capacity of the honourable member for Mackellar as Minister for Social Services during the past 5 years in this House and all I can say is that I can well understand why he would find a very pressing need to have a man of outstanding qualities of excellence to make sure that the Department ran under him. [More…]

• This is the man who up till 5 years ago, as a spokesman in this Parliament on the back benches on the Government side, continually argued that the means test should be abolished in 3 years. [More…]

• It could have become a permanent feature of a permanent means test. [More…]

• We formed fair and accurate judgments of the man’s performance in this House over a very long term. [More…]

• He is a man who made his reputation by promising the abolition of the means test but who, when given a golden opportunity to do so, failed to achieve his promise. [More…]

• We have a program presently being costed and analysed and when we consider it is appropriate we will announce the details of it and not because the honourable member for Mackellar is demanding, now that he is no longer the Minister for Social Services, that we should tell him how we will achieve what he could not. [More…]

• It is very important that our Speaker should be a man of complete impartiality. [More…]

• Of course, this man who is now Prime [More…]

• The Government is firmly committed to the abolition of the penal clauses- the criminal sanctions against the working man who withdraws his labour. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s mandate is precise. [More…]

• loss of man hours and earning capacity, and [More…]

• There was no point in taking one man from each group, putting them together and expecting that they would necessarily produce a better result than if they proceeded initially in their separate ways. [More…]

• I recall talking to the chairman of the council of advisers to the President on this subject, Mr Russell Train, who is backed up by a first class scientist, Dr McDonald, in Washington. [More…]

• Our judgment of a man can often be illuminated by that man’s judgment of others; and I think it says as much about Arthur Fadden as it does about John Curtin what he wrote about the man who succeeded him as Prime Minister and who, in fact, brought about the defeat of his Government in this Parliament. [More…]

• Sir Arthur was a man for whom all Australians had deep respect and of whom we can justly feel proud as a representative of all that is best in Australia and its people. [More…]

• This is an occasion for rejoicing - not sadness - rejoicing in what a man can do and what contribution he can make to a country and to the people with whom he came in contact. [More…]

• This was an indication that he was a thoughtful man, indeed a humble man. [More…]

• I always witnessed that this was his performance with all types of people during all his life; it was not unique with me. [More…]

• Although he had a lighter side to his nature, Sir Arthur Fadden was an intensely responsible man and indeed a much more sensitive man than most of us ever realised. [More…]

• He was a very devoted man. [More…]

• Neither the tinsel of power nor the transient grandeur of position had the slightest effect upon the remarkable man whom we recall today. [More…]

• I wondered how so much exuberance and unfeigned amiability could be reposed in one man. [More…]

• He then turned to the man who had given him some measure of entertainment, took him into a hotel and bought him a drink. [More…]

• He won that man’s heart and I suspect he may have voted for me by accident. [More…]

• He said: ‘They have taken so many pictures of me that I am going to leave them all to the national art gallery.’ [More…]

• But this man will always be with us in the vision both of memory and of hope. [More…]

• The history of Queensland politics details how his defeat was manoeuvred in the 1935 State elections and it would be foreign to that man’s character for me to relate those particular circumstances. [More…]

• Several people have asked me, during the last few days, to express their sympathy at the passing away of this great man. [More…]

• It was only last year that his brother, Charlie Fadden, retired as manager of the Racecourse Mill. [More…]

• As has been said before, irrespective of whether a man was a cane cutter, a local councillor, a top administrator or whatever else he might have been Artie Fadden was a friend to all. [More…]

• Although death has claimed him, he will live on in the hearts and minds of many people for a very long period. [More…]

• On behalf of the electorate of McPherson and indeed, if I may, on behalf of the entire membership of the Liberal Party organisation in Queensland, I pay a tribute, to a big man - big in the mould of Queensland, big in the mould of Australia. [More…]

• I had the opportunity to serve with him in this Parliament for a very long time, and I endorse the sentiments that have been expressed from all sections of this Parliament and the compliments that have been paid to him as a man, as a personality and as an outstanding Australian. [More…]

• How does he reconcile authorising that respected newspaper man to write that he was furious when he says today: It was all a misunderstanding’? [More…]

• I regard myself as privileged to have been able to discuss many matters with this gentle and wise man. [More…]

• Under the Act, the maximum rates of charge are now$1 per man hour, $1.75 per man hour and $1.20 per man hour for A, B and C class respectively. [More…]

• The Minister pointed out that in the case of class A waterside workers the actual rate charged within the existing maximum rates which are fixed by regulation has now reached the maximum level of $1 per man hour. [More…]

• Idle time is the cost incurred by the Authority in reimbursing employers at permanent ports for charges paid to waterside workers for full shifts during which they are available but not required to work. [More…]

• While the total waterside worker labour force has decreased from 20,140 in 1967 to 14,285 as at 31st January 1973, the demand for labour has fluctuated substantially. [More…]

• For the 14,000 registered waterside workers the current average idle time payment has been calculated at $14.31 per man week, industry estimates now show that idle time payments are running at an annual rate of between $7m and $8m. [More…]

• The surplus labour which contributes to this very substantial industrial overhead exists, as the Minister would know, at many ports - not just nonpermanent ports - not over a greater part of the year. [More…]

• It is a matter which commands the attention of the Minister for Labour because he knows that the Waterside Workers Federation has become a vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]

• In many instances strike action has been taken on a unilateral basis without the sanction of the Australian Council of Trade Unions or the Trades and Labour Councils. [More…]

• In 1969-70, 81,205 man-hours were lost through strikes of this nature - equal to 6.7 pes cent of all man-hours lost through strikes. [More…]

• In 1970-71 losses through political strikes amounted to 214,214 man-hours, or 31.9 per cent of all man-hours lost. [More…]

• In 1971-72, 137,525 man-hours, or 33.3 per cent of all time lost through strikes was over political or non-industrial issues. [More…]

• There has been a 20.8 per cent reduction in average hours worked at permanent ports in Australia between 1969-70 and 1971-72 and over the same period there has been an increase of 13.3 per cent in average wages at the same ports. [More…]

• Honourable members should know that in 1967 a change in the status of waterfront workers occurred and these employees ceased to be casual labour and became permanent employees. [More…]

• The formula provides for a charge on employers for each man hour worked. [More…]

• Class A are registered at permanent or continuous ports and work regularly on a weekly basis. [More…]

• Class B waterside workers are employed at continuous nonpermanent ports and class C at non-permanent ports. [More…]

• Had the previous Government seen the situation clearly, it could have solved it then by increasing the levy per man. [More…]

• Statistics show that man-hours lost due to industrial stoppages, as a percentage of manhours worked, on an Australia-wide basis, were worse in recent years than in 1965-66, 1966-67 and 1967-68. [More…]

• The Bill before the House provides for an increase in the rate of the class A charge under the Stevedoring Industry Charge Act from Si per man-hour to $1.50. [More…]

• Thus the increase in the hourly rate was 44 per cent over the 2 years or an average annual increase per man-hour of upwards of 20 per cent. [More…]

• In number terms there were 81,460 manshifts idle in 1967-68 compared with 465,224 in 1971-72 - and that latter figure applies to a decreased work force. [More…]

• These things put a premium from the employer’s point of view on industrial peace and keeping the man on the job - in a word, peace at any price. [More…]

• It is interesting to remember that in his speech the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) said that the reason the Opposition is supporting this Bill is the change in the man hour levy which will enable outports such as Portland and a number of others around Australia to continue in operation. [More…]

• In the case of Portland, which was the area of most concern, the previous division of idle time payments amongst all outports meant a levy of 40c a man hour. [More…]

• The change which took place when the Employers of Waterside Labour decided to levy each port according to its needs was from 40c a man hour to $1.20 a man hour in Portland. [More…]

• It may have been $1.25 a man hour but it was of the order of that level of change. [More…]

• This Bill reduces the man hour levy to something between 2c and 10c for the port of Portland. [More…]

• Therefore, if the arguments the honourable gentleman has put up are logical at all, he is supporting the Bill because it enables idle time to be more easily paid for in outports. [More…]

• The previous Government refused to accept the recommendations of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority or the recommendations of the Employers of Waterside Labour and demanded that a figure be fixed which it knew, as a result of advice from the Stevedoring Industry Authority and the employers, would not meet the costs accruing in the industry. [More…]

• So the port of Geelong was carrying a penalty of 38c a man hour to subsidise other ports. [More…]

• Honourable members have heard the story that one can always tell a man who is dining out on an expense account because of the enthusiasm with which he summons the waiter. [More…]

• It costs a shipper $157.50 for a 35-hour week for every man employed on the waterfront. [More…]

• As I mentioned once before in this Parliament, I knew a young man who came out from England as a migrant at the age of 5 years. [More…]

• As a result the young man went along to a high school. [More…]

• He managed to get a Commonwealth scholarship. [More…]

• What a blow this would be to the ambitious man who wants to build a nice home for his family. [More…]

• If the Minister has his way - let us hope he does not - such a man will not be able to buy a house from the housing commission, and a home buyer will not get the interest concession if he builds one. [More…]

• I want to look at a couple of points that he made as the Opposition leader in housing matters and the man who took charge of the Bill. [More…]

• I also ask the Prime Minister: Is the reported rumour true that one man is still being held in prison or will he find out whether it is true? [More…]

• Since the honourable member is now putting forward a proposition that there should be a period of national service training of 3 months for the youth of this country, I remind him of the experience that the previous Government went through when it had compulsory training of 3 months duration for every young man in this country, which proved to be a disaster and involved this country in a financial obligation which it could not afford and which undoubtedly had a detrimental effect on the more important procurement requirements to meet the needs of the Services in this country. [More…]

• As appears from my letters, the Ambassador had been inquiring into this case and seeing that the man had legal representation. [More…]

• So posterity will hand this $16,000 bonus to each man who serves for 3 years in one of the Services. [More…]

• Until a serviceman leaves the Service it is very difficult for him to make up his mind as to where he wants his permanent home. [More…]

• Very little thought has been given to the practical application of this measure as an inducement to a man or woman to join the Services, lt could be very deceptive. [More…]

• Unless major amendments are made to the principal Act they will find many difficulties in their way. [More…]

• The Act favours the man with money, and in the first instance the needy have very little hope of receiving any benefit from it. [More…]

• There are many inhibitions in relation to this matter. [More…]

• It does not matter whether a man is wealthy, as long as he enlists for 3 years service. [More…]

• This Bill rules out the provision of second mortgage money by banks or permanent building societies to bridge the deposit gap, which makes things very difficult. [More…]

• A serviceman would need $8,000 deposit. [More…]

• A man can enlist for 3 years. [More…]

• I now refer to the 3-year period of service which enables a Regular serviceman to qualify for a loan. [More…]

• While there is room for different opinions on the definition of ‘substantial’ I consider it to be reasonable to class a minimum time of 3 years’ service as unsubstantial because it is the minimum period for which a man can sign on. [More…]

• Therefore it is most questionable whether the availability of a loan to a man who has served for only 3 years in the Regular Army or in the other Services is fair and equitable as far as the Australian people are concerned and also as far as the majority of those members of the armed forces who served generally for a much longer period are concerned. [More…]

• I should like the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) to give me an assurance on this particular point because if a man’s business includes his place of abode - which is a necessity in the conduct of that business - his entitlement to a war service home loan for a private home should not be denied him. [More…]

• Shortly after the election 1 received a phone call from a young man who said to me: ‘Well, they are in now. [More…]

• I am a national serviceman. [More…]

• At 3i per cent I would not have too many feelings like that.’ [More…]

• He is a man of God. [More…]

• The country has had more bombs dropped upon it in the last 12 months than has ever been dropped on the world in the history of mankind. [More…]

• That man of God, the honourable member for Lyne, did not raise his voice when napalm was raining from the heavens on women and little children. [More…]

• He is a man of God, an evangelist. [More…]

• Clarence Darrow, the great American lawyer, once said ‘Deep in the heart of every evangelist is the wreck of a confidence man’. [More…]

• I tracked this matter through 5 hospitals, not as a member of this Parliament but in the company of a Chinese man who was living in the area and who was able to gain access to these hospitals. [More…]

• The stoppage by tanker drivers and airport refuellers extended from midnight on 18th January 1973, to midnight on 30th January 1973, thus resulting in an estimated loss of 45,500 man hours. [More…]

• At the same time, the Government is concerned to ensure that the ordinary man or woman who may be a user of welfare services, or dependent on pensions or other income support programmes, would also have a voice in the development of welfare policy. [More…]

• The Government considered it more appropriate to invite the ACTU to nominate a member of the Commission, since union membership includes a great many potential or current consumers of welfare services. [More…]

• In Victoria about 300 petrol outlets and service stations have closed in the past 3 years, and it is understood that the oil companies plan to close many more outlets. [More…]

• It has been interesting to hear the statements being made by the chairman of XL Petroleum Pty Ltd, Mr Ian Sykes, to the effect that there has been heavy over-investment in service stations in Australia over the past 25 years. [More…]

• This is an interesting observation coming from a man who has taken on the major oil companies in a price war, particularly in Victoria where, as honourable members know, concessions are being given, and also in New South Wales. [More…]

• This gentleman, on behalf of his company, has been able to enter into a contract with Ampol to refine his company’s entitlement of Australian crude oil. [More…]

• It is interesting to note what the managing director of Ampol has said about this deal. [More…]

• The man who is responsible for the wholesale price of petrol, the South Australian Prices Commissioner, Mr Baker, has said as recently as 24th April that there is no indication that oil companies are making excessive profits in Australia. [More…]

• This gentleman has stated also that the wholesale price of petrol before Commonwealth duty is added is cheaper now than it was 15 years ago. [More…]

• In fact, the manner in which the houses are sold is exactly the same as that adopted by A. V. Jennings Industries (Australia) Ltd or any other mass seller of houses. [More…]

• If a man earns less than a certain income he is denied the right to purchase, and if he earns more than a certain income he also is denied the right to purchase. [More…]

• I should like to place on record, although the term of office of Mr Leslie Johnson is not yet completed, the fact that many members of this House and many Australians should be grateful for the role Mr Johnson has played as the Administrator of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Because of the regrettable dearth of knowledge of Papua New Guinea affairs in Australia many people may not recognise or be cognisant of the contribution that this outstanding man has made to the close relations between Papua New Guinea and Australia and to the development of self government in that area. [More…]

• 1 am not here just to extend plaudits, but his predecessor, the Secretary of the Departmental of External Territories, and the officers who work in that outstanding Department who have done so much to bring about even the acceptance by the United Nations of Australia’s role in Papua New Guinea, should have their performance placed on record before that Department is merged with other Commonwealth departments. [More…]

• Now is the time for the Leader of the House to show that he is a real statesman, a man who is prepared to stand and be counted. [More…]

• No doubt if he takes that stand he may well stand alone, but surely that would be no disincentive to a man of great national stature, a man of courage and integrity and a man who really appreciates the fundamentals. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister, who is a fair minded man, will look at these amendments in this light. [More…]

• In other words, we are seeking to obtain information which will be of enormous help in casting further legislation which we all agree is necessary to provide financial assistance for needy students to cut down on the economic and personal lo;,s occasioned when a student, in many cases through no fault of his own, fails his course. [More…]

• To the man in the street these most directly affect what is happening in the domestic economy. [More…]

• But for a man professing a concern for reforms of the system, the Treasurer’s statement is a bit carping. [More…]

• The essence of the matter is precisely that many countries, including Australia, do have holdings which are - and the Treasurer used the word a few sentences back in his account - excess’ to their reasonable requirements for national reserves. [More…]

• I refer to the sudden retirement of Mr Schweitzer, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. [More…]

• He is a first class man. [More…]

• In fact, he is one of those rare examples of a really first class Frenchman who has a perfectly international mind. [More…]

• I should add that Mr Frank Southern, Mr Schweitzer’s very able and experienced deputy managing director, also has resigned. [More…]

• As technology is developed to replace existing methods of performing work we find the displacement of the needs for old skills and the growth of demand for new and different skills or skills of a higher level. [More…]

• The common mistake made over a number of years has been to expect a man in his middle age to respond to the same training methods as those used in the schemes for training school leavers. [More…]

• It is important to note that whilst ‘merphos’ is an organic substance containing phosphorus it does not possess a significant ability to inhibit cholinesterase enzyme activity in man or animal. [More…]

• But this Bill represents, for the first time, a proposal to commit, not simply the ALP, but the whole industrial relations community in Australia to such a course; and the man who fought so hard against such a course of action is now charged with the responsibility of its direct implementation. [More…]

• The historical purpose of arbitration in Australia is to prevent exploitation and to give the working man an effective voice without forcing him into a strike and without forcing him into unfair and inequitable working conditions. [More…]

• In other words, the fact that a man is dismissed unfairly cannot be determined by a conciliation and arbitration procedure. [More…]

• He certainly does not have all of the legitimate choices of a free man. [More…]

• If the largest corporation in Australia refuses tomorrow morning to employ a man because he is a union member, that corporation faces the prospect of a fine of $400. [More…]

• I think that all of us in the last few years have become increasingly concerned about the number of man days that have been lost annually through industrial trouble of one sort or another. [More…]

• That is evidence of the provocation of the working people that was practised by the previous Government Many other instances could be given. [More…]

• In the minds of reasonable Australians, how can it possibly be said that either a working man who refuses to provide his labour - the only bargaining power that he has is his ability to labour and his skills - or his organisation should be prosecuted and fined and he in the long run, under the present provisions of the Act, gaoled? [More…]

• But a man may suffer a financial death when his business is destroyed by boycott, or he loses his job because he will not join a union, or his truck will not run without petrol which the union has refused to supply. [More…]

• It would indeed be a strange society which would allow no compensation to a man or woman injured by deliberate, calculated, conduct, and yet in the end this is what the Minister’s Bill would do. [More…]

• He has had precious little to do with hard negotiation if he advances to the House that if 2 people in conflict with each other know that the man with whom they are discussing the issue ultimately will abandon one hat - the hat of the conciliator - and put on the hat of the arbitrator they will never be as forthcoming as they are when they know they can deal, in complete honesty and complete frankness, with one man carrying out one function. [More…]

• It may cover as many different kinds of people as it chooses. [More…]

• That is a right which distinguishes the free man from the slave. [More…]

• If the honourable member cares to examine this matter he will see that the very thing about which he and his colleagues screamed for so long when they were in government in regard 10 loss of production, loss of man hours, industrial disputes and other kinds of terrible practices, on occasions was caused by more than one union operating in the same field. [More…]

• Not many people have the skills of a good conciliator. [More…]

• If 2 parties to a dispute appear before a man who is sitting as a conciliation commissioner and they realise that at some point of time he will take off the hat of commissioner and put on the hat of an arbitrator, to that extent they will be reluctant to place all their attitudes before him. [More…]

• No man is so perfect that he can always place all people in the right categories. [More…]

• 1 would suggest that it is obvious that if a person has sat as a conciliator asking both parties in a spirit of frankness and goodwill to lay their cards on the table with the object of settling in a fair and frank manner a dispute that has arisen, both parties or at least one of them could well hold the belief that the person who has sat as conciliator in an attempt to negotiate a settlement might well have built up prejudices or, if not prejudices, at least attitudes which, if he sat as an arbitrator, would prevent a spirit of fairness prevailing in the arbitration. [More…]

• That is not suggesting that a man who is thrust into this position deliberately takes one side or another. [More…]

• Unless both parties agree to a person who has sat as chairman in conciliation, that person should not sit in arbitration upon the dispute. [More…]

• I know from my own experience in Western Australia, looking at the industrial legislation of that State, that that principle has been accepted for many years and has been acted upon by both parties. [More…]

• So what the Opposition objects to is that without any justification at all, without showing what the problems are that have arisen and without demonstrating how the one man can fairly wear 2 hats the Minister is seeking to overturn an existing situation and compel the one man to be both conciliator and arbitrator. [More…]

• The Minister says that parties have sometimes expressed this preference, but I ask him how many times. [More…]

• He had not told the Parliament how many times. [More…]

• What is the proportion of the number of cases when the parties have wanted the same man to conciliate and arbitrate to the number of cases when other parties have wanted a different man to arbitrate? [More…]

• All that needs to be done by anybody who wants one man to step out once conciliation has broken down and arbitration has to be entered upon, is for him to object. [More…]

• I will not enlarge upon them because there are many of them. [More…]

• We then find a difficulty, due to the previous Government’s legislation, where there are teams or panels of arbitrators and conciliators, in that the top man or the head of the team is eliminated from the process of arbitration. [More…]

• I thought the honourable gentleman made out a perfect argument for the case that I was putting, that a clear distinction should be drawn between a man discharging the role of conciliator and a man acting as arbitrator. [More…]

• I would not like the honourable member to think that I whistled up a curious idea while walking across the carpet from the door to my seat simply, as the honourable gentleman said, to fill in a few moments because my colleague, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) was prevented by an unhappy gathering of facts from being here. [More…]

• I have never heard anyone in the trade union movement complain about the attitude that if you can get a sound conciliator he is the man who can achieve a great deal in this field. [More…]

• I must confess, for all of my manifest imperfections, that 1 am not persuaded to the view that you are correct merely because one or other of the parties would say: ‘We object to your now sitting as an arbitrator’. [More…]

• I hold strongly to the view that if the parties to a dispute realise that a man can sit as an arbitrator - albeit they may say that they do not want him to sit as an arbitrator - they will not be as forthcoming as when they know that they can put all their cards on the table. [More…]

• We have not been able to get the answer to that question from the man to whom it was directed. [More…]

• In the far ranging way in which he went around the bush that time - it has to be remembered too that you, Mr Chairman, had to bring him back to the field on at least 2 occasions - he used his usual rhetoric when speaking about the rash of strikes, communist control of this and communist control of that and the sort of - I was about to say garbage’ but I suppose that would be unparliamentary - that we have had to listen to since I have been in the House anyhow. [More…]

• Had the honourable gentleman bothered to read the whole of clause 6 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill and tried to comprehend what it was all about, I am sure he would have made a different speech from the one he did make. [More…]

• Had the Deputy Leader of the Opposition ever had that experience he would understand and appreciate the very great risk that a working man places himself in when he takes on the troubles of his fellows in the factory; how he runs the risk of, if not being blatantly dismissed, being placed in a position in the factory and given work to do that is completely unacceptable to him and having no redress in the matter. [More…]

• I hope that if I ever hear the honourable gentleman mention ‘onus of proof again the words will choke in his throat. [More…]

• This is what the honourable gentleman proposes to do under clause 6 (b), which is to be a part of section 5 of the Act. [More…]

• If an employer says to a man: ‘Look, old chap, if you want to go about your business with this hair brained scheme and stop the factory for half an hour for the purpose of listening to the Minister for Labour - that is. [More…]

• All of the argument that we have heard against this clause has been put forward in an endeavour to hinder the role of the shop steward, a man who performs a very important role in the involved system of industrial relations. [More…]

• Undoubtedly it would inevitably corrupt in a place where a man is given the privileged and protected position that members, and particularly shop stewards, are given in these particular circumstances. [More…]

• The Opposition regards this matter seriously, being alien as it is and obviously designed to impair the authority of the arbitration commission and the position of management in any industrial concern or industrial business. [More…]

• As a sensible and realistic man the Minister for Labour will come to the conclusion that it is not - that is, if he is a sensible and realistic man. [More…]

• It is all very well for the Prime Minister to come in here - he is a man with many abilities - and to wipe off the questions. [More…]

• This was predicated on the idea that, in effect, a man can be directed where to go and what to do once he has graduated, lt has not worked effectively, as the honourable member will know. [More…]

• In some cases in the past they were required to leave even though there had been a great demand for their services in the Australian community. [More…]

• On the other hand, let us take the example of a man who has a job in one State and an employer who might translate him suddenly to another State. [More…]

• I say to the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), and seek his response during the Committee stage of this Bill, that he is a man who understands full well the need for some enforcement in relation to industrial agreements. [More…]

• In recent years the Australian public has been very concerned at the major increase in industrial unrest - the number of strikes, the number of man-days lost and the extent of wages lost by Australian wage earners - not simply because of the impact of these statistics in themselves but also because of their total impact upon the inflationary spiral. [More…]

• A strike is not an end in itself to the working man. [More…]

• Today a man with an average weekly earning of $100 can be penalised that amount. [More…]

• No one in this Parliament who has not been on strike without pay and who has not known what it is to go home empty handed each day has any right to pretend that he knows what sort of anguish and what kind of sacrifice a working man must endure to exercise his right to strike. [More…]

• Never forget when talking about strike penalties the penalty that a working man pays every day that he is on strike because he gels no wages during thai period. [More…]

• I have never said that there is within the wit of man the power to evolve a statute that will eliminate all strikes, but I do say that without the powers that the Government is now seeking and without the amendments to the Act that it is asking the Parliament to grant in this Bill, the Government cannot maintain industrial sanity and it will not be the Government’s fault if it fails to do so. [More…]

• Let us always remember, when we are talking about penalties against men who withdraw their labour because they discover they are not being given for their labour the amount which they believe the market will yield or which they believe their labour is worth, that the right of the working man to strike is a very essential element in his armoury of protection against arbitrary action by his employer. [More…]

• Let us never forget that the history of relations between master and man is replete with examples of arbitrary changes in the task to be performed, the times allowed in which to perform it and the reward paid for performing it. [More…]

• I think that when a question is posed in that way no really satisfactory answer can be given to justify an ordinary citizen - man. [More…]

• woman or child - being deprived of a right of relief in the civil courts of- this land. [More…]

• These provisions, no doubt, are designed to avoid, for example, the situation in which unions found themselves in the United King- dom where a union sought to deprive a man of his employment because he would not join that union. [More…]

• Fortunately, members of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, enlightened judicial gentlemen as they are, held that that man had a sufficient remedy, so a person in that situation in Australia ought to have the same kind of remedy. [More…]

• The only thing that unions can do in these circumstances is to have somebody take the place of the man who is gaoled and for him to give the instruction for the boycott to continue, and as each person who gives the fresh instruction is prosecuted, tried, issued with an injunction and gaoled, somebody else will take his place until the gaols are full of honest, decent hard working men who have never committed a crime in their lives but who find themselves standing side by side with murderers, common thieves, pickpockets and prostitutes. [More…]

• And it does not harmonise with accepted principles or standards of industrial conduct if you envisage a law which gives courts the right to serve an injunction upon a man who has no intention of observing :t and then arresting him ‘and having him incarcerated as a common criminal. [More…]

• -It was caused by somebody forgetting to include dirt money in a man’s pay envelope and not correcting the omission when the next pay was due. [More…]

• I think it is very poor for a man of such far sightedness and modern thinking as the Minister to cast back to 1906 for a precedent for clause. [More…]

• Here is a man seeking redemption for what he has done in the course of the last 2 days. [More…]

• I do not know whether the honourable member for Curtin, who has just left the chamber, is interested, but I am a man of peace. [More…]

• If the Minister wants to turn Australia into a republic he should be a man and get up and say so. [More…]

• It preserves the inalienable rights of individuals as human beings. [More…]

• They suggest, at the very least, the humility of the sterling scholar, the surrender to the realised truth, tolerance for the other man’s point of view if honestly held, the ability to make allowances and reluctance to condemn. [More…]

• The Minister has attempted to portray himself as a man of initiative. [More…]

• One could almost describe the Minister as a con man for claiming suggestions which were not really his. [More…]

• of the most progressive, energetic, sincere and hardworking Ministers that the Parliament has had for many years. [More…]

• He is a down to earth practical man who has eliminated superfluous red tape from the Migration Act which many Australian people had requested the previous Government to do when it was in office. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr N. H. Bowen) being a legal man, and believing as I do in the liberty of the subject, would be able to use a powerful argument against such a concept. [More…]

• I believe that one day the Australian people will ask for the voluntary surrendering of the fingerprint of a person on an important document such as a passport, because a fingerprint is the only known positive identification of mankind. [More…]

• The patron saint of Australia’s migration and citizenship program today could well be Robert Burns, who once wrote: ‘A man’s a man for a’ that and a’ that’. [More…]

• He attacked by name a man and his company which gave time generously to lead a massive rescue effort for the wool industry only 2 years ago. [More…]

• I refer to Mr BDI Vines, a man well known to honourable members, in whose debt we are permanently placed for the marketing strategies he developed as chairman of the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]

• I discussed the matter with the Director, Posts and Telegraphs in Queensland who after all s> the man responsible and the man who would be charged with the obligation of providing postal facilities at Nambour as expeditiously as possible. [More…]

• I hasten to assure everybody that I regard him very highly as a very competent man. [More…]

• The Minister for Civil Aviation, who is a funny little man, pokes his nose rather irreverently into the situation and implies that unless Papua New Guinea gives up its ideas about the capital structure of its own internal airline, he will move to prohibit certain grants in aid to that rapidly emerging country. [More…]

• I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and with to lighten his load by all possible means - except by getting off his back. [More…]

• Not every woman or man can use contraceptives due to aesthetic, religious or physical reasons. [More…]

• Life is a continuum that began well before man’s consciousness and for the individual began at conception. [More…]

• There is the myth that abortion is not the killing of human life, that the foetus is just an appendage of the mother. [More…]

• It ignores the statement of the world leader in foetal medicine, the man who first completely transfused a foetus within its mother. [More…]

• All of these features are insignificant, however, compared with the view of man which inevitably develops. [More…]

• The Bill provides for abortion on demand up to 12 weeks; abortion on the opinion of 2 medical practitioners between 12 weeks and 23 weeks. [More…]

• In an age when the setting in train of the life process can be managed and controlled, and even prevented, it seems to me an abrogation of our responsibility to ourselves and a betrayal of humanity to claim that abortion, except where justified on grounds already provided for in the law, is an acceptable and appropriate alternative to the exercise of the control which an acceptance of responsibility would suggest should be exercised. [More…]

• to be not an expression of the liberation of a woman but an affront to her womanhood and a denial of her rights if it is suggested that all responsibility for avoiding or terminating an unwanted pregnancy should rest with that woman alone. [More…]

• If a man now is permitted by society to avoid responsibility in these matters, to what greater extent will he be encouraged to avoid responsibility in these matters if women are called upon to accept an even larger part of what should be. [More…]

• I had not thought to hear a man of the admired integrity of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) suggest that a proposal in which he saw considerable merit should be rejected because of what other people might think about it. [More…]

• The poor woman who is not so well informed and who does not have the money, cannot do any of these things and worries herself sick as does the man who is involved with her, and her parents and her family. [More…]

• The buyer did not have the legal power to demand and acquire, without appeal, land from any other person. [More…]

• You must provide it to us,’ apparently not being willing to pay a just price for it when the man does not wish to sell his land. [More…]

• The greatest work of man is the building of cities. [More…]

• You are a man of your word. [More…]

• Therefore., the Government should be specifically interested in those things which might tend to depress, through its cheap imports, the standard of living of the Australian working man. [More…]

• It is what I would expect a sincere man to do. [More…]

• Over the past few years it has become evident that local government authorities have become increasingly less able to cope with the situations that demand their attention. [More…]

• Cities are an expression of man’s organisational ability. [More…]

• It is not that the Cities Commission is going to consider cities only, but cities are an important part of man’s development of this country. [More…]

• We were given a mandate to do something about the position. [More…]

• But if we examine the reasons why the price of land is increasing we find it is because there is interference with the supply and demand of land. [More…]

• If this were translated into increased savings for the average family man, intent upon providing the security of a home for his family, it would mean that he would have to increase his earnings by $48 a week which, when one considers the average wage of about $95 to $98, would make it an impossible task to clothe, feed and house his family. [More…]

• When the increase in housing costs is added to that, the amount translated into increased savings is almost an incredible $80 a week to enable the family man to purchase land and establish a home in these outer eastern suburbs. [More…]

• Man stilt seeks a more pleasant environment in which to live, and it must become more so. [More…]

• 1 think I am as well aware of that as is any man in this chamber! [More…]

• Many other matters are of prime concern to our people. [More…]

• It involves the availability of employment opportunities and protection against the capricious actions of governments which can take away from a man his right to earn a living in the community. [More…]

• So whilst ladies can get jobs, they find it very difficult to get a rating that a man would get if he were in the same position. [More…]

• As I have said in this House on other occasions, one can always tell the man who is dining out on an expense account by the enthusiasm with which he summons the waiter. [More…]

• There are certainly still considerable problems - problems of organisation, problems of management, problems of utilisation of the available labour. [More…]

• What one has to do is to determine the cost of having men idle for certain periods of the year compared with the cost of having ships idle for other periods of the year when there are insufficient men to man and work them. [More…]

• I agree that this is a question of delicate balancing, lt is a question of balancing out costs to see which is the greater, and in many instances it will be shown that it is far better to have some men idle for some of the time than to have ships idle and unable to be worked. [More…]

• The Prime Minister today, repeating an assertion he made yesterday, alleged that I blew the cover, to use his words, on the status and position of a man whose status and position were, revealed to this House in the question that I first put to the Prime Minister concerning that man’s admission to Australia in a private and personal capacity to attend and address a Pacific Basin Economic Council meeting. [More…]

• That is from a man who has a great knowledge of the gas industry in Australia. [More…]

• Continuing his expedition into uncharted areas of economics the man who sought $11.50 a week increase in the national wage stated: ‘By discouraging price increases we automatically discourage employers from granting increases in wages and salaries.’ [More…]

• steps a manufacturer would have to go through if he wished to raise the price of one of his products on an Australia-wide basis. [More…]

• Let us take, for example, a large manufacturer of bread. [More…]

• In South Australia the price of his product would be subject to mandatory price control. [More…]

• The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prices set up on 12th April has authority to investigate complaints on the prices the manufacturer is charging and to initiate investigation into price movements in his industry. [More…]

• It will, as is quite right and proper, establish the priorities for investigation indirectly because that Committee will respond to the pressures which the average man in the street and his wife feel when they shop. [More…]

• He has taken on this double task which, as we know, is too great for any man - even the present Prime Minister. [More…]

• We know that many changes have been made in the foreign policies of this country - when that was stated the other day Government supporters cheered - and yet he will not allow debate, discussion and criticism of those great matters in this place. [More…]

• The Leader of the House is a harsh man. [More…]

• We have before us at this time many Bills of great policy significance and of great importance to the people of Australia. [More…]

• One such man drew my attention to the glass. [More…]

• Without me or my friend, the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock), being allowed to speak in the debate, this man, without coming to see us or soliciting our attitudes, wrote: [More…]

• What impertinence for a man to write that and to ascribe those motivations to my friend the honourable member for Kooyong, and me without paying us the courtesy of asking us What are your views on abortion?’ [More…]

• When is this man going to be constructive? [More…]

• No wonder he is leaving the chamber; I am reminding him of the performance he put up when he had responsibility. [More…]

• All the Leader of the Opposition has ever done - he did it again today - is huff and puff against the unions and now this destructive criticism has been turned to such legislation as this Bill, which proposes to establish a Prices Justification Tribunal, and also to the Joint Committee on Prices of which I have the honour to be Chairman. [More…]

• It is the one last great frontier that man has yet to conquer. [More…]

• The achievements and persistence of man today take him way beyond that point. [More…]

• That city, which is in close proximity to where the oil and natural gas have been found, has been unable to get natural gas up to this stage because of the man ner in which that resource has been handled. [More…]

• One thing, I am sure, on which the Parliament is united to a man is the elimination of discrimination in this field. [More…]

• Sometimes the elimination of it will require retraining, perhaps relocation and some vocational guidance, but we are determined to ensure that whatever is needed to be done is done to put an end to the idea that at 45 years of age a man is dead from an employment point of view. [More…]

• As with widows pensions, supporting mother’s benefit will not be payable if the women return to live with their husbands or if they are living with any man on a de facto basis. [More…]

• People have said that this is not what was proposed, but here is the man who was one of the central figures in it. [More…]

• Here is the man who refused to sign the agreement in the initial stages until such time as was written into the Bill those things which we are putting forward to the Parliament today in the form of the amendments that this Bill provides for. [More…]

• Contrary to the wishes of the man who will be the Prime Minister of an independent nation in years to come, the Minister for Transport threatened fiscal reprisals and said that he must not allow the degree of capital holding of one Australian company to be, part and parcel of the future airline policy of a future nation which is our next door neighbour. [More…]

• The reason for that was simply that the availability of the man who we hoped might have been managing director of the Australian Wool Corporation was dependent on a meeting of the International Wool Secretariat and the appointments of the other members of the Corporation were dependent on the availability of the man who now has been nominated as full time chairman of the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]

• He is the man that your Government appointed. [More…]

• Did the Government send a 3 man team of Australian scientists to inspect, on behalf of the Government, the French atomic weapons testing site at Mururoa Atoll this year. [More…]

• If we wanted to talk about the past we could talk about the circumstances in which a former Minister for Agriculture, a Labor man - Reg Pollard - sold wheat on account of Australian wheat growers below the world price to help a Labor government in New Zealand b the early years after the war. [More…]

• In one case against a person whose name I have forgotten - he is either a Yugoslav or a Croat - evidence was given not only by the man but also by the police that he was worried that he would be sent back to Yugoslavia. [More…]

• He got himself involved in a minor scuffle with a policeman and as a result of that scuffle it was alleged that he bit the policeman’s finger. [More…]

• I speak first of the man whose wife has died. [More…]

• Very often it is a terrible thing for such a man that when he is faced with the loss of his wife, at the same time, because of the fact that he receives no social security benefits or help, he is faced with the loss of his young children because he is unable to keep them at home. [More…]

• This has always seemed to me to be one of the most terrible things that could face a man. [More…]

• This is something which by reason of the operation of the means test, of course, will not mean that a man earning a wage will receive the full pension, but under the measures which the last government brought in, by the tapering of the means test and by the raising of the free area of income from SIO to $20 a week, those men who perhaps have 2 or 3 dependent children and who are earning, say, $80 to $90 a week will still receive a considerable help. [More…]

• Normally I am very reluctant to give unlimited discretions especially discretions of this kind to a Minister but on this occasion I will not say to the Prime Minister: ‘I would like you to take away that discretion’, because if the Government feels that the discretion ought to lay there all I can say is jolly good luck to the man with the discretion because he will be under enormous pressures. [More…]

• by omitting from the definition of “child” in sub-section (1) all the words after the words “sixteen years,”; “widow” in sub-section (1) the following paragraph: “(f) a man who has the care and custody of his dependent child or children and - [More…]

• There are those who have lost their wives and still have young children, which is a terrible thing for a man to experience. [More…]

• The complaint is based on an advertisement which appeared in the ‘Situation Vacant’ column of a local newspaper which sought a man of specified age to do what was called ‘supervisory work’ and whose qualifications were to include a European language in addition to English. [More…]

• Not only does the organisation, formed on the principle of vigilance and service, exemplify the highest ideals of man’s concern for the well-being of his fellow-man; it also has saved the lives of literally hundreds of thousands of people and has brought great notice and credit to this country, in a way no other organisation can emulate. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that this measure should be used to help the big man, or the wealthy man. [More…]

• I suggest that it could be used to help the little man or the person of moderate means who is looking for a moderate type of house. [More…]

• The saving can be done either by a man or a woman. [More…]

• It is important that we take steps to ensure that the standard of living of a man with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly, with that of a single man or a single woman. [More…]

• As more and more women work and have higher and better standards of education they wish in many instances to continue te be involved in the community outside the home. [More…]

• One can imagine the situation of a man marrying a woman who was already pregnant to some other man. [More…]

• This would mean that that man who became the legal father or custodian or one responsible for the care of the unborn child at the time of marriage would be entitled, upon the confinement of the wife, to have a week’s parental leave, notwithstanding the fact that the child Was not his own child. [More…]

• Many of these women are. [More…]

• There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]

• What else decides where a man lives and the type of home in which he lives? [More…]

• In the inner suburban areas which are part of my electorate there are interesting land masses which nature has left unadorned but also which man in his building has made, if not beautiful to the trained eye, at least exciting and entertaining to those who enjoy the novelty of variety. [More…]

• He is a hard working, dedicated man and he has the confidence of the people in the north. [More…]

• On many occasions I have listened to Sir Adrian Curlewis at various functions associated with surf clubs speaking about the magnificent effort and work of the young men in the life saving movement. [More…]

• I can think of many older men who have attended functions with me at surf clubs who have given years of selfless service to the surf club movement. [More…]

• The only thing that has motivated them has been a desire to serve their community and their fellow man and a feeling that they are making a contribution to the community of which they are a part. [More…]

• I notice that Sir Frank Packer’s hatchet man, Mr David McNicoll, has a full page article in one of Sir Frank Packer’s publications, the ‘Bulletin’ of 26 May 1973, which has just gone on sale. [More…]

• These are the people whom his hatchet man says will be removed from this House - no matter what our views may be of them as members of this Parliament. [More…]

• Yes, I recall the question asked of the Minister for Social Security yesterday by the honourable member for Macquarie about hardship that can occur to people who are in an unequal bargaining position when .they come to negotiate with the managements of certain homes that provide facilities for old people. [More…]

• The standard form of contract for the sale of land in many of the States favours the vendor against the purchaser. [More…]

• The standard form of leasing agreement entered into by some of the large lessor corporations operates against the small business man, who has no freedom of choice to say: ‘I will not take it’. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there will be sufficient crew members to man the Supply’ or the ‘Sydney’, whichever ship is used for this purpose. [More…]

• I have sufficient faith in those who serve in the Royal Australian Navy to know that in these circumstances and because the question that is involved is one of very great significance to this country, there will be adequate numbers of naval men to man either the ‘Sydney’ or the ‘Supply’, whichever ship is used on this exercise. [More…]

• The Government will not accept his supervision, although he is the man nearest to the local government scene in his State and knows it best. [More…]

• A German philosopher, Baron Weizsacker, said recently that man’s physical and mental capacities are not opposing but complementary factors. [More…]

• Yet, he said, that in our movementdeprived working life, ever greater demands are made on the mind while the physical capacities are withering away. [More…]

• But what will happen in 10 years time or by the year 2000 when the balance between working hours and leisure time will move explicitly towards leisure, when man may have 3, perhaps even 4 days at his disposal to spend on intellectual or recreational pastimes? [More…]

• We must begin at once to implement a broad policy which, along many parallel lines, launches a variety of schemes. [More…]

• With the certain increase in leisure time, with the equally certain yearning of man to escape, however temporarily, from a highly industrialised and urbanised routine existence, it is our responsibility to recognise, for the first time in the history of Australia, that recreation and sport should constitute an integral part of our life and, as such, must receive serious attention and much more than token support from our governments. [More…]

• If a man’s income is below a certain level he cannot purchase a Housing Commission home in Victoria. [More…]

• Has the Prime- Minister seen the statement by the Queensland Stats member for the Gold Coast, Mr Bruce Small - a man who is qualified, I believe, in Sbe exploitation of sex appeal, by taking bikini clad meter maids to Melbourne in mid-winter - that suck an allocation of money was irresponsible? [More…]

• The extension of trading hours will Increase the pressure and rate of decline of the smaller man and ultimately the range and quality of service available to the consumer. [More…]

• We should remember that as long ago as 1968-69 expenditure on food was $272 per head or in excess of $5 per week per man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• Tks records indicate that they were closely associated or related to a Melbourne business man, Mr Alan Prebble By aeon. [More…]

• Mr Dyason was a director with Dr Garretty s2 the Garretty company which managed Dividend [More…]

• The man who used that quotation was an adviser to Wilson when he was Prime Minister of Great Britain. [More…]

• I refer to the Chairman of the Fabian Society. [More…]

• We are paying $8m a year for the very strong membership of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia to be able to stand the shipowners up and say: Now look, we are going to demand this kind of a payment from the economy.’ [More…]

• We used to think that unions were necessary in order to protect - I guess they were - the small man against the big employer, but if we are not careful we will run into a different situation which will overwhelm us. [More…]

• I did this by outlining the causes of radiation, both natural and man made. [More…]

• I would like to point out again that natural background radiation which every Australian is exposed to is of the order of 100 millirads a year whereas the total man made radiation which he is exposed to is in the order of between 2 and 4 millirads per year. [More…]

• For example, the man who marries his housekeeper lowers the gross national product and consequentially the measured output of the economy, although his wife continues to produce the same level of goods and services as she previously produced on a paid basis. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that society has a direct responsibility to ensure that the dual role of the working woman who becomes pregnant does not affect her health or that of her child. [More…]

• Whilst supporting the proposition, he found many queries to raise and many obstacles to place in its way. [More…]

• It in fact left the family man to find his own feet and do the best he could. [More…]

• I can tell this House right now that if Jim Fraser had run at another election or had stood behind a candidate for this place one of the things that he would have been saying from the platform in that election campaign would have been that the job of representing the ACT is too big for one man. [More…]

• That job was far too big for one man. [More…]

• The job is far too big for one man. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman referred to 1968 and the conferring of voting rights on the present honourable member for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It was a piece of absolutely unscrupulous practice on the part of the Government which the honourable gentleman supported to confer on a man rights to which he had not been elected. [More…]

• So do not let us talk about that as an episode in constitutional nicety on the part of the side of politics which the honourable gentleman supports. [More…]

• The other serious misrepresentation by the honourable member for Mackellar was in making the disparities between the States on the question of one man one vote. [More…]

• When normally one objects to departures in principle from one man one vote, one objects to deliberate malapportionment which is intended to favour a party. [More…]

• It does not matter much in the party sense in the Parliament that New South Wales has 12 times the population of Tasmania and that New South Wales and Tasmania are equally represented in the Senate as part of the original compact. [More…]

• Tasmania is not an arranged boundary to favour the Country Party, the Labor Party or the Liberal Party, nor is the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• It is not a gerrymander; it is not a malapportionment. [More…]

• Yes, but when the principle of one man one vote, one vote one value is departed from it causes damage and a lack of faith in the body politic, not if it is done to equalise the States but if it is done to ensure that the Australian people do not get the government for which they voted; when it is an arrangement to ensure that a minority can stay in power. [More…]

• In some odd way the honourable gentleman suggests to us that ‘either House of the Parliament’ somehow or other excludes the Senate. [More…]

• I do not think the honourable gentleman can impose upon us his rather odd interpretation of the meaning of these words especially when in the preceding paragraph of the Constitution the very expression extent of representation’ is included, not just the extent to which a man may be representative, but the extent of representation. [More…]

• It is impossible for any man with the tremendous extent of terrain and the spread of people to be as effective in this place as he would be if he had a tightly knit city electorate. [More…]

• We look on the Australian Capital Territory as being permanently a body which must be apart from the States either in the present or in the future of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• But one of perhaps many - certainly several - remaining areas of maintenance of objective within the Senate is that essentially it should provide a voice for the States at a Federal level. [More…]

• The powers associated with the man in charge of the new organisation should be reduced to fit the function of that position. [More…]

• With the removal of the restrictions on the scope of the work that the Corporation can undertake it is expected that many more people will be absorbed from the Snowy Mountains Authority. [More…]

• In many cases the cost of purchasing the notional service will be met by the refund to them of excess contributions and the lower contribution rates which will apply to them in the future. [More…]

• In effect the intention is to preserve a man’s entitlement as at 1 October 1972. [More…]

• I am very glad that my colleague the honourable member for Gippsland joins with me in that interjection, because he is a man with a very distinguished record in the portfolio of Shipping and Transport. [More…]

• He knows full well the nature of the problem and the apparent manner in which the Government to this stage, is not prepared to provide the House with the information it ought to have in this context. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I am privileged that you are sitting in the chair at the moment because I know you had a very difficult task, probably one of the most difficult tasks, on King Island and that was to minister to the population which at that time consumed 5.5 pints of beer per week for each man, woman and child. [More…]

• I recall that the flow of this commodity, like that of many others at that stage, was interrupted by various holdups in the shipping service. [More…]

• You, sitting in that Chair, must be a sorry man to see such a policy breakdown, finch a destructive act and the capacity of the Labor Party to turn its back on a clear commitment. [More…]

• You must be a broken man tonight, Sir, having to sit in that Chair and listen to this debate. [More…]

• I know that if you were not sitting in the Chair you would be on your feet demanding that the Labor Party’s obligation be fulfilled. [More…]

• I am reminded of the line in Aristophanes In regard to the conduct of another man - it would be well known to honourable members [More…]

• He is a big man, at least in stature, and he is, as you say, a big fibber. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the Prime Minister is not a man of his word, and the country is now starting to understand that it has elected- [More…]

• What of the ordinary man in the street up to his neck in hire purchase? [More…]

• What of the man who has a family to maintain and who needs transport for his work? [More…]

• One also hears of the new and used car distributor who laughs and says: ‘They supplied us with so many parts that failed, and we had to do the job twice, that we refused to pay them’. [More…]

• Any man who has been in the trade union movement for the last 30 years as an official will have something of major consequence to contribute to the Qantas board, and Lord only knows it needs some trade union assistance because if ever a board has had trouble industrially it has been the Qantas board. [More…]

• When it comes to the appointment of trade unionists, have a look at the same man, Mr Egerton. [More…]

• I could go on and point out to the honourable members the record of what this man has done in Queensland. [More…]

• I hope that the House in passing the recommendation for such a committee will accept that it will not be a committee that deals only with wildlife measures, whether they relate to flora or fauna, it is to deal with the wider environmental aspects as they affect man. [More…]

• After all, this is why we are here - to look after the well being of man, to preserve the environment that he enjoys and to make the greatest use of our natura] resources without ravaging them and leaving the place in an awful mess for coming generations. [More…]

• Queenslanders are suggesting that the retraction was at the request of the Minister for Health, Mr Tooth, a man who apparently cannot bear to hear the truth about the discredited system for which he is responsible. [More…]

• I would not have any suspicions about the Minister because he is a right wing Labor man, but how many Ministers in the Government have refused to have their staffs security cleared? [More…]

• The Opposition believes strongly that tha retention of these concessions will help to maintain the support politically and otherwise of the ‘small man’ in exploration who has been the traditional supporter of prospecting ventures in Australia. [More…]

• My colleagues and friends, the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) and the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland), made certain comments this morning and there is little point in repeating the views they expressed, especially with this session of the Parliament drawing to a close. [More…]

• He is a young man and one would have thought there would have been hope for him, but unfortunately he suffers from the same syndrome as a great percentage of the members on the Government side of the chamber: Anything that they see as representing success or anything that has a shadow of free enterprise could be evil and must be stopped. [More…]

• But his statement does nothing to allay the fears of those who believe that the burden of the 2 portfolios - that of the Minister for Foreign Affairs as well as that of Prime Minister - are too much for one man. [More…]

• It demands a full-time, quiet and prudent consideration of the complex, deep and abiding interests and responsibilities of Australia in our relations with the other countries of the world. [More…]

• The arrogance and insult of such a statement condemn the man who made it. [More…]

• and (2) Approval was granted for the entry to Australia of a Pakistani man and his family on the basis of his re-union with immediate family relatives in this country and his ability to meet the criteria for migrant entry. [More…]

• This man was a successful applicant for the lease of farming land on the Ord River and a subsequent report indicated that he proposed to bring farm workers from Pakistan to work on the property. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to Mr Mumbengegwi’s statement that the only good white man is a dead one; if so, is Mr Mumbengegwi to be permitted to raise funds in Australia for the purpose of supporting violence elsewhere. [More…]

• His closest associates feel that, remarkably resilient a man as he was, that blow- a series of blows really, beginning with the assassination of John F. Kennedy a week before the elections- left him permanently depleted. [More…]

• He was an Australian citizen; he was a man very much of a particular city, the city of Melbourne. [More…]

• He was the Member for Melbourne and a man of Melbourne, the inner Melbourne in which he was born, in which he served his political apprenticeship, which he represented for so long in this Parliament, whose people paid him such singular tribute in its Cathedral and in its streets last month, the Melbourne where he now lies. [More…]

• As husband and father he suffered very terrible losses and as a man with a genuine dynastic sense, the tragedy of the death of his only son, Arthur, was deep and enduring in its intensity. [More…]

• I have much pleasure in seconding the motion moved by- the Prime Minister for it is a motion dealing with a man for whom those who served with him have a very special regard. [More…]

• Eight months ago many of us farewelled Arthur Calwell from this House. [More…]

• Both times he typified the man and his philosophy. [More…]

• He spoke briefly- perhaps for 10 minutes- but the speech revealed as much about the man as anything else. [More…]

• No man can say more. [More…]

• Many words have been spoken about Arthur Calwell since his death. [More…]

• Arthur Calwell was, above all, a man of the people. [More…]

• Concern for the little man was a strong motivating force for him. [More…]

• It was the basis of his personal philosophy and it was his humanity which characterised his policy ambitions and personal relationships. [More…]

• Arthur Calwell ‘s concern for the interest of people made him an extremely popular man in his electorate. [More…]

• His warm humanity is remembered today not only by those in this chamber but by everyone at Parliament House- the staff of both the House and Senate departments, officers of the Parliamentary Library and house attendants who have lasting memories of a man who was kind and generous to them. [More…]

• Arthur Calwell was also a man of crusades. [More…]

• Arthur Calwell was always a tough man, a rugged man and a strong man. [More…]

• He was a man for a fierce fight, who rarely backed down or sought the easy compromise. [More…]

• He was a man who gave criticism readily and often throughout his political career. [More…]

• He was a man who knew his failures and was ready to admit them even if with tongue in cheek. [More…]

• There would not be a man in the House today who does not bow his head in great sorrow at the passing of a very significant parliamentarian, a former member of this House, who devoted his life to the service of his country and particularly to the institution of Parliament. [More…]

• He was an unusual man in that often he made utterances that annoyed, bewildered and even staggered people. [More…]

• He was a man of absolute dedication. [More…]

• He was a man of great wit, and I think that was how he always got away with his caustic and often unthoughtful remarks. [More…]

• Arthur Calwell was a man who believed that the sort of Australia to which we should aspire should be a prosperous Australia based on principles of justice and equality- a society in which people are not divided by social barriers or by extremes of wealth and poverty. [More…]

• In many respects my entry into politics was a case of history repeating itself. [More…]

• My very first political memory is that of being taken by my mother, at the age of eight, to hear that great Labor man, Dr William Maloney, speaking in the by-election campaign in which he defeated Sir Malcolm McEacharn for the seat of Melbourne in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• It was indeed a very proud moment for me in following such a man. [More…]

• Arthur Augustus Calwell was in many respects a complex person, a man possessed of a medley of emotions. [More…]

• He was a great family man, as the Prime Minister has said. [More…]

• -I want to join with my Parliamentary colleagues on both sides of the House in paying tribute to the late Mr Arthur Calwell, a warm and human man who was at all times, I believe, a very great Australian. [More…]

• He was the man who was destined not to lead the Australian Labor Party to government. [More…]

• He was a man of unquestionable integrity and a great churchman who held firmly to his beliefs and stood by his convictions. [More…]

• He was in fact an espouser of what were at times unpopular causes in the electorate at large, but he was not a man to act for the sake of political expediency. [More…]

• He was essentially a humanitarian who worked untiringly for the rights and wellbeing of every Australian. [More…]

• His advice to me as Minister for Immigration was at all times helpful and in Australia’s best interests I want to record my unqualified respect for this man who in both a personal and professional capacity was one of the great parliamentarians of this country. [More…]

• Arthur was the enthusiastic young man. [More…]

• It was there that I had an opportunity to observe Arthur Calwell, to note his qualities and to try to understand him, for he was an idealistic young reformer with a deep faith in mankind and unswerving confidence in the aims and objectives of the Labor Party to create a better society. [More…]

• He fought for those people even though many times it was not to Arthur’s great advantage to do so. [More…]

• He was in the broadest sense a good man who did not confuse modernity and progress with degeneracy. [More…]

• He was a kind and generous man who never spared himself in his work. [More…]

• When that was done he travelled many, many miles very late in the afternoon to call upon an old friend and to make a little gift to the person who had almost forgotten Arthur, but Arthur had not forgotten him. [More…]

• I remember that as Minister for Immigration he was an extremely kindly man to immigrant families whose cases were presented to him, as I presented some in my first years here. [More…]

• I remember that he showed the same great courtesy to members of the Opposition of that time in the personal manner in which he dealt with cases which they presented to him as Minister for Immigration. [More…]

• I think there are many in this House who over the years have been grateful to Arthur Calwell for personal kindness and for many quite remarkable conversations. [More…]

• He was a man of very wide interests. [More…]

• I think we all remember the man who helped us in our early days in the jungle of politics. [More…]

• He was a thoughtful, considerate man to the extent that no matter how busy he was in this place, if he knew one’s wife was ill or one’s father, mother or relative was ill, he would often ask, not just once but several times a week, how that person was. [More…]

• I personally appreciate that sort of thing as much as anything because it shows just how genuinely thoughtful and considerate is a man in a busy life when he can consider some humble member of his own party or even in the Opposition, who is going through a very serious time of sickness and worry. [More…]

• He was a humble and human man. [More…]

• Also, he had a fantastic sense of history, deeper than that of any other man I know. [More…]

• He also possessed what was to many people a frightening memory. [More…]

• I think almost all has been said of the great qualities of a great Australian and a great Labor man. [More…]

• Much has been said about the qualities he had and of his oratory but he had another quality that many did not seem to realise. [More…]

• He had a great memory for names and the most humble members of the staff, as with many people from all sides of politics, were always surprised when, frequently after a long absence, he remembered their first names and was able to address them in that way. [More…]

• This, in itself, was a capacity which was remarkable for a man with so much on his mind. [More…]

• As a person who in the last few years had an opportunity to get to know him quite well personally I express thanks for being given the opportunity to know the man well and to recognise that he had one quality perhaps above all other qualities- the quality of tremendous integrity. [More…]

• In that time he endeared himself not only to his fellow members but also to the staff around this building as a man of great charm, openness and attractiveness. [More…]

• The death of a young family man of promise must in any circumstances be deeply saddening and, in the appalling circumstances of Dugald Munro ‘s death, most sad, most horrible. [More…]

• In these tragic and unforeseen circumstances they lost a husband and a father who was so young in years, spirit, attitudes and action, a man of such high integrity and principle. [More…]

• His father was known as a truly great horseman, a great cattleman and a great figure in that part of New South Wales. [More…]

• Dugald Munro ‘s death removes from among us an outstanding man in the prime of his life, a man who had a warm and dedicated public spirit His death represents a great loss to the community that he loved so much. [More…]

• He was at all times a frank man, a man of great charm and humour, a man of outstanding dedication to the best interests of Australia, a man with a great sense of public service to this country. [More…]

• Within three or four years, as a young man in his early twenties, he joined the Australian Imperial Forces. [More…]

• He was associated with the Senate for a period of 40 years, a remarkable achievement for one man. [More…]

• He was a warm and humane man who was highly regarded in his electorate and by both sides of the House. [More…]

• That speech was made in 1 964, and of course I concede that any man of substance may change his views in time. [More…]

• My electorate includes many serving members of the armed forces, particularly the Fleet Air Arm and the Army, and it gives me considerable pleasure to be able to commend this Bill to the House. [More…]

• World War II huts still suffice as buildings in too many establishments and it is obvious that many decisions regarding building programs have been put off for too long. [More…]

• As a result of the tour, the Committee has raised many matters with the Minister. [More…]

• It has certainly been so regarded by many servicemen in my electorate of Macarthur. [More…]

• I did check out this matter and I found that the description of the man in question as a leader in crime did not agree with the information in the possession of either the United States authorities or the Australian authorities. [More…]

• We live in closer contact with our fellow man today than at any times in our history. [More…]

• It is not my aim to get at loggerheads with a man so important and so erudite as the Leader of the House. [More…]

• The spokesman for the Opposition asked for leave to make a statement; it was granted. [More…]

• It was accepted that there would be one speaker and that was the spokesman of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Who is the spokesman on the Opposition side? [More…]

• Is it the Deputy Leader of the Country Party, the fourth most important man in the House, or is it the honourable member who spoke? [More…]

• The next thing that will happen is that Mr Fraser, the honourable member for Wannon, will be speaking for the DLP as the third most important man in the Party. [More…]

• In order that this will not happen again, I ask the honourable member for Angas to ensure that arrangements are made with the man responsible for making them. [More…]

• Any lingering doubts about - dare I say it - the concept of open government, frankly, have been totally destroyed or erased by the Prime Minister’s recent vaudeville performance on the David Frost show, a venue to which he apparently attaches a far greater degree of significance than he does to the functioning of the national Parliament in Canberra. [More…]

• The Leader of the House, a man of integrity, a great statesman, knows this point to be of significance in the context of the absence of answers given by the Prime Minister during question time in the House yesterday. [More…]

• I can remember when I first became Deputy Liberal Party Whip some years ago to my blank amazement seeing a man who now sits on the front bench of the Government put off 4 times debating a Bill on which he was the Opposition’s spokesman. [More…]

• If it does not do that, the democratic process, to which I believe this country over many years owes a great deal, can be brought into disrepute. [More…]

• A man named Lynch moved the amendment and a man named Sinclair seconded it. [More…]

• Every day that a private members Bill was brought on it was discussed and debated, much to the annoyance of honourable members opposite who wanted to hide from a lot of issues such as abortion on demand. [More…]

• I was impressed by the work of a young Aboriginal man of about 20 who, while he would not have the qualifications of a European teacher, is able to write Aboriginal stories for primers and to illustrate them. [More…]

• Their cause is one of dedication to their fellow man. [More…]

• Does he agree with this criticism by this man Woodward? [More…]

• He is a man who is extremely well qualified for the job and he has the money - $25m - and the means to provide assistance for any industries that are in difficulty. [More…]

• It is rather like the case of the man who says that he is against sin. [More…]

• Through our new initiatives we shall be involved in many more investments in urban areas. [More…]

• I am speaking of such things as the Commonwealth Aid Roads Agreement - a new agreement will be entered into next year; the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement which has been successfully negotiated by my colleague the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson); our proposed subsidy for urban public transport that the Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr Charles Jones) has also negotiated; our sewerage program; our policies on land commissions; assistance for the National Estate - in co-operation with State governments, local government, the private sector, private companies and private individuals, we want to preserve what has been created by man and by nature; and, of course, our new cities program. [More…]

• Nor, of course, can any reasonable man have any objection to studies being carried out in various parts of Australia in order to seek to decide where the best opportunities are provided to establish new cities or where the best areas are in the vicinity of existing cities. [More…]

• There can be no doubt whatever that a man is entitled to equal representation whether he lives in the city or the country. [More…]

• It would not be out of place, in the words of a man who has given great hope to our people, to observe that, as far as the old British Empire and Commonwealth is concerned, this is the occasion to acknowledge the fact that it may well be that the gulfs will wash us down. [More…]

• With all due respect to the Foundation Director who has been appointed - I have no doubt that Professor Jerzy Toeplitz is a man of outstanding ability and probably of international reputation - I would ask this: Would anyone interested in seeing a good film attend its showing if he was told that it was a production under the organisation of Professor Toeplitz? [More…]

• I suggest respectfully that we consider employing a producer such as David Lean, a man who is internationally known for such recent productions as ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ and earlier productions such as ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’. [More…]

• The double advantage of having a man of that prestige and of that tremendous talent would be that he would work with those people who are involved in the operations of the School, and they would be off to a tremendous start. [More…]

• He is a man of great talent and a man who can orientate productions to what the people want. [More…]

• I reiterate 2 points: Firstly, we should launch this School in a most dramatic way by bringing a man such as David Lean to Australia to work with our people and to show them the type of producer who earned an international reputation and won so many academy awards that I have lost count of them. [More…]

• Secondly, even though we have a man of the obvious great capabilities of Professor Jerzy Toeplitz, I feel that we have to involve all sections. [More…]

• When we are talking of Professor Toeplitz, it is quite obvious to everyone, of course, particularly to me, a man who comes from a cosmopolitan city such as Mt Isa, that we have such a tremendous reservoir of talent from which to draw among people who have come to Australia from Europe and other parts of the world. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the original reason for setting up the position of executive member was that Sir Philip Baxter, when he first became Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, had other duties to perform notably as Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• On his retirement from the University of New South Wales Sir Philip became full time chairman of the Commission and later showed the prestige with which he is regarded throughout the world by being appointed chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors for 1969- 70. [More…]

• Now Sir Philip has retired from the position of Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and I wish to place on record my appreciation of the services of a man who devoted a great deal of time to the service of the community and the British Empire in war arid in peace and who was not only a highly competent technical officer but also an extremely able administrator. [More…]

• After all, as the Commission points out, uranium is expected to become the basic fuel for man’s energy needs in the latter part of this century, both for power and for nuclear powered ships. [More…]

• I do not think he should resign as a member of Parliament, because the electors will deal with him in due course; but if he is a man of honour I feel that he should resign from the Cabinet. [More…]

• One problem is that there will not be enough members to man the committees. [More…]

• F. CAIRNS - I will give the honourable member an assurance that I will do my best to keep out of the Australian law in the future any mandatory reference to the Tariff Board. [More…]

• If I were a betting man I would give him even money that it does not appear henceforth. [More…]

• The Opposition primary industry spokesman, the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street), has already described Budget day as a black Tuesday for the country man. [More…]

• But this is the man - the Leader of the Opposition here this evening - who, as Treasurer in the last Liberal-Country Party Government, foisted upon the people of Australia the highest level of unemployment since the Depression days. [More…]

• He is the same gentleman who told this House and the people of Australia, through the medium of this House, just how bad is the Labor Budget. [More…]

• Did he, in answer to a question by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition directed to elicit whether one man was capable of handling all 5 Defence portfolios, say that the Moreshead Committee had recommended the system that the Government had introduced [More…]

• In the past, planning was on the basis of 80 square feet per man with four men to a room. [More…]

• From now on the planning basis will be 106 square feet per man in groups of four single rooms with separate toilet facilities for each group. [More…]

• This Budget is a great tribute to the Treasurer, a man who for 24 years with great dedication has devoted his talents to the fiscal policies of the Australian Government. [More…]

• An educated man like the Federal Treasurer (Mr Crean) knows that as day follows night a situation will emerge in this country that will require strong fiscal action and strong economic policy to cope with the result of inflation and at that time the Government’s plan is to go to the Australian people and say: ‘We now seek overall control of the economy. [More…]

• If the Government goes on with this absurd business of increasing taxation patterns so that it takes all the attraction out of the life effort of the man who works, produces and earns income and keeps pouring money into the pockets of those who it alleges need it without proving their need, it will take the incentive out of the Australian society and will eventually produce a nation of automatons. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody in this House would suggest that we should copy the American presidential system or one of those presidential systems which is very close to a single man non-parliamentary government. [More…]

• Why do they hit hardest at the little man in the country - the small farmer, the small business man in the country town and the less affluent sections of the community? [More…]

• This brings me to my own portfolio, the related wings of which are ideal to cater for the leisure and pleasure of man. [More…]

• I hope our society has come a long way since the midVictorian days when pleasure was automatically equated with sin - when the average working man’s only privilege was the generous allowance that he could work a 70-hour week. [More…]

• Between us, covering the entire spectrum, lies the elusive essence of man’s leisure time recreation. [More…]

• The allocation amounts to about 50c for every man, woman and child in Australia, compared with $3.24 a head in Holland, $2.40 in France, and $2.3 1 in West Germany. [More…]

• On 24 July 1971, the Governor of Victoria, Sir Rohan Delacombe, handed over to the Chairman of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, Mr Charlie Carter, title deeds to 4,000 acres of land. [More…]

• But the Country Party member for East Gippsland, Mr Bruce Evans - the man on the spot said: [More…]

• It responded by appointing Europeans to 2 positions on the committee of management for Lake Tyers and to the position of farm manager. [More…]

• The appointments have been a failure, despite the best efforts of the manager, whose undoubted professional competence, sincerity and good-will have not equipped him to help the people of Lake Tyers to overcome their formidable social problems, or rise to the challenge of community-building with which they find themselves faced. [More…]

• Today the man to whom the title deeds of the property were handed, Mr Carter, is a broken man, thinking about undergoing treatment for alcoholism at Larundel after serving 3 terms of imprisonment for offences associated with that sickness. [More…]

• The number of Aborigines on the 7-man Lake Tyers committee of management has fallen from 5 to 2, and great difficulty is being experienced in finding replacements for those who have resigned. [More…]

• Apart from the contradiction of our Treasurer (Mr Crean) being a low interest man, of what use is a loan that has to be repaid? [More…]

• So despite all of this great screaming about people who are not sympathetic to rural needs, we need look no further - and the honourable member for Riverina need look no further - than the man who is right here and out in the centre, the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• It worried me a little and I thought that my mental processes were perhaps deteriorating as I could not understand what this man was saying to the House of Representatives and through it to the nation. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman’s speech shows clearly how speeches can deteriorate when they are no longer written by Treasury officials. [More…]

• Certainly both of them bear heavily on the working man. [More…]

• The cost for the average working man to educate his family bears upon him far more heavily than it bears upon anyone else in the community. [More…]

• The Government intends to tear it down and restructure it in such a way that it will not discriminate against the low wage earner and the young family man as the present scheme does. [More…]

• I think it was quite a tragedy for those of us who know him to be a pleasant man to find that he found so narrow the path between responsibility on the one hand and, on the other hand, promises made by his leader the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in order to win the last general election. [More…]

• Every time this principle is put forward, there is some dear old man of yesterday who rises in his place - I do not say in this place, but in some other place - and says: ‘That is a terrible centralist speech’. [More…]

• The increase of 5c per gallon hits hard at every person, but it hurts the pocket of the battler, the working man, more than anyone else, and honourable members on the Government side know this. [More…]

• In today’s affluent society many average families possess 2 cars, many have one car and perhaps a boat, and many have only one car. [More…]

• It will hurt the family man. [More…]

• The man on a low income, even in his moments of relaxation, will be hit by this Budget. [More…]

• If he has no car, the added cost of public transport will, in many cases, probably force him to stay at home. [More…]

• All the rises that will occur in the prices of cigarettes, beer and spirits, will hit the family man more than anyone else. [More…]

• If he talked to the man in the street or got down to the shop level he would know what goes on. [More…]

• The Minister would know that there are many, many young people who have saved earnestly over a period of 3 years specified in the scheme to qualify for this grant. [More…]

• Every man on this side of the House is dedicated to 2 things - to the preservation of the great Australian freedoms and the high quality of life which was the envy of the world, and to the breaking of the grip which this arrogant, irresponsible unAustralian group of jackboot tyrants have on this magnificent country. [More…]

• The man hours lost through industrial action in the first 5 months this year as compared with the first 5 months of last year have gone up by 54 per cent. [More…]

• In the words of the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), the Prime Minister is the only man whose Achilles heel is in his mouth. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s performance is exactly the opposite. [More…]

• It got off to a superficially impressive start when the 2-man Government implemented a number of election promises by executive decision. [More…]

• Since, then its administrative performance has been woeful, but it will take some time for this to be apparent to the general public. [More…]

• I heard the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen) say one day in this House that a telephone was connected to a man’s farm in the country and it would have been cheaper to buy the farm than to connect the phone to the farm. [More…]

• Members of the Liberal Party opposite who kowtowed to the Country Party, who were bludgeoned into submission and who bowed and scraped every time the Country Party demanded something today do not matter in the big scheme of things; they are getting the rewards which they deserve. [More…]

• This is the small T liberal who is the chosen man of the Liberal Party to lead it into the sublime in the future. [More…]

• Does he really believe that at the next election Diamond Valley should have 95,000 voters while Mallee, which sent to this Parliament the man who sits among the incompetent members of the Country Party should have 45,000 or 50,000 electors. [More…]

• We believe that a man’s vote in this country should be equal no matter where he lives. [More…]

• To clear the way for this encounter, the small man must go. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is an honourable man and he would not therefore want to leave the House with a false impression of what I was saying or what he was saying. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that the Opposition has appointed a new official spokesman on industrial relations. [More…]

• Of course there is merit in such a proposition and it is good to know that the Opposition at last has a man who is able to make sensible propositions without being accused by his fellows of suffering from a poor upbringing, because nobody could ever accuse the honourable member from Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of having any traces of working-class precedents. [More…]

• He is a man who went to Melbourne Grammar School, was educated at Oxford and comes from the blue ribbon part of the Western District of Victoria. [More…]

• No one could ever say that when he says something in favour of working-class participation in management he has a hangover from his grandfather, great-grandfather or some convict way back in the dim distant past. [More…]

• I repeat, at the risk of being tedious, that I have the highest compliment for the Chair man and members of the Commission and for the Minister on a very worthy and significant contribution to this Parliament. [More…]

• I have always believed the Treasurer to be a rational man who would make a balanced decision in the context of his own political philosophy, but since these comments have been made I regetfully have had to reassess this judgment of him. [More…]

• The premises for such a policy also include: That get big or get out is inadequate as a policy for all farmers; that there is no once and for all size of farm business likely to ensure all time viability; that drought, flood and other natural disasters should attract realistic, not confused, financial assistance; that the welfare needs of rural communities and towns must be accurately perceived in social terms separate from handouts; that society, through government, has the responsibility to ensure employment opportunities for every man to earn or to have a minimum income but not to guarantee every man security in the occupation of his choice. [More…]

• On the surface, the bounty had only marginally improved the welfare of the small dairy man, when it is considered that the bounty has been a factor pushing up the price of land and other inputs. [More…]

• No matter what comments I will make later about the content and direction of the Budget, no one will deny that every Budget is a most significant document, and any man’s first national Budget is for him, and the nation, of special significance. [More…]

• Perhaps the Treasurer is thinking as King David did when he desired another man’s wife. [More…]

• I suggest that this Budget is a budget to hit the family man or the working man whom the Labor Party claims it represents. [More…]

• A man earning $80 a week who seeks to send his wife or child to a private hospital now pays $1.66 a week. [More…]

• It is not freedom of choice of a doctor; it is freedom of choice as to whether a man will send his child or wife to a public or private hospital. [More…]

• I instance the case of one young man who was having his home built. [More…]

• When the value of the home was assessed, it was found to be $80 greater than the upper limit provided and this factor denied that young man the payment of that grant. [More…]

• Continuing up the ladder we find a most respected gentleman, Mr Justice McTiernan, who was born on 16 February 1892. [More…]

• I cast no reflections on this elderly gentleman’s ability to make decisions, but I point to the fact that he is an elderly man. [More…]

• Surely, if a man who is now a Prime Minister says this, we all have reason to worry about what goes on. [More…]

• It must be a pretty easy job for a man of that age to be able to carry it out. [More…]

• But what the members of the Opposition forget to do, when they applaud the free enterprise society which they have followed diligently for many years, and have got away with, is to bring to notice or to level criticism at the crook companies which from time to time in their free enterprise society are exposed by the daily Press. [More…]

• I rise tonight to let the House know something of the quality of medical care as it was found a few weeks ago for some of my constituents, to let the House know what the doctor-patient relationship was worth to an 81-year old man in his hour of need. [More…]

• This man’s family was woken at 1 a.m. when he first became ill and again at 3 a.m. when he was clearly very ill indeed. [More…]

• An ambulance arrived within a few minutes but, as the attendants were carrying the old man into it, he died. [More…]

• They said this was impossible as the doctor had not seen the dead man and that he would have to come out immediately. [More…]

• It disturbs me that a man of the calibre of the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) should in this House defend developers. [More…]

• I have many friends in rural areas and they say: ‘We have been existing on handouts for too long. [More…]

• The man on the land has dignity and pride and he does not want to be propped up any longer. [More…]

• That does not matter to the businessman because the businessman will pass it on, but it matters to John Citizen. [More…]

• The man who has to drive his motor car to work will find his petrol bill going up each week. [More…]

• And everywhere today the man or the public body who wishes to put the land to its highest use is forced to pay a preliminary fine to the man who is putting it to an inferior use and, in some cases, to no use at all. [More…]

• He has, as Treasurer, wielded the broom with vigour and removed many of those loopholes, ramps and rackets which have provided tax dodges for many years and which had provided income to authors who wrote books about loopholes that people could use to dodge taxation. [More…]

• Apparently being an honest man is a bad thing in this country! [More…]

• It is the blueprint of a Government which is committed to worshipping at the shrine of national irresponsible economic management. [More…]

• It comes at a time of record inflation and does nothing about it, in spite of the iniquitous effects of inflation on all Australians - on the working man, the housewife, the exporter and particularly people with small financial resources. [More…]

• For the average family man the increased tax slug of the Budget will be at least $3 a week before the end of the year. [More…]

• Perhaps the share market will collapse again and the hard earned savings of many thousands of Australians who have invested in shares will be further eroded. [More…]

• Make no mistake, it is not the little man who bought in today. [More…]

• It is the big man. [More…]

• There is no indication that the Government has considered the way in which public funds should be spent or how the little man should be protected. [More…]

• His calculations showed that despite a 13 per cent increase in earnings this year a man on $100 a week would have only a 10.2 per cent rise in his actual after-tax income. [More…]

• Allowing for other deductions equal to 10 per cent of gross income the real after-tax income of the man on $100 a week last year would increase by 10.7 per cent this year, not the 10.2 per cent arrived at by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• If productivity rose by 3 per cent the price rise on his assumption would be 9.7 per cent, so the actual after-tax income of the man on $100 a week would increase notably faster in this year than would prices, and he would in fact be better off, not in the same position as before, as the Leader of the Opposition would have us believe. [More…]

• It probably never occurred to the Leader of the Opposition to consider what the position of the man on average weekly earnings would be if his wage rose by less than 13 per cent this financial year. [More…]

• In this connection it is rather ironic that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition commenced his speech in this debate with a nebulous quotation from a man to whom he referred as the distinguished American economist, John Kenneth Galbraith’. [More…]

• They, along with the family man on the middle or low income, are being made to pay the price for Labor’s inflationary policies. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden), like the dishonest milkman who waters down the milk, has given the pensioners an increased quantity of money but it is of rapidly declining value. [More…]

• Because of the way in which this Budget bears down upon the pensioner and the family man, I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) disapproving the Budget for the reasons outlined in that amendment. [More…]

• This is the man whose Party, as the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government, administered the affairs of the Australian Parliament for the past 23 years. [More…]

• Similarly at that time when the Australian Labor Party was in Opposition, it introduced in this House countless urgency motions seeking the Federal powers by referendum or to approach the 6 States, which on many occasions were controlled by Liberal governments, to concede the powers whereby the Australian Government could establish a Federal price control system. [More…]

• This doctor, a central Adelaide general practitioner, is an unapologetic $30,000 a year man. [More…]

• This doctor, by newspaper reports, bought his one-man practice 5i years ago for $4,500. [More…]

• It is a one-man outfit when the plural practice prevails. [More…]

• He does not demand appointments and 60 per cent of his patients are pensioners. [More…]

• The pensioner emphasis means lower fees and more routine work, demanding regular visits to nursing homes and a mountain of paper work. [More…]

• He says in order to take a holiday he could not now pay the $300 a week locums demand - this is understandable; he is only getting $120 himself - and he condemns doctors who close down their practices while they go away on holidays. [More…]

• I imagine that this Budget is supposed to be aimed at assisting the worker - the man who obviously voted this mob into government. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the New South Wales Government made no approaches to the Australian Government to have this man stopped from leaving the country? [More…]

• I might say that no request was received by the Australian Department of Immigration to prevent the departure of this man, and certainly no request was received from the Government of New South Wales. [More…]

• Does he accept these things and does he therefore agree that a tremendous burden is falling upon the ordinary man and woman in this community as a result of the Government’s policy announced last Sunday? [More…]

• Never has there been a man more completely denigrated or whose reputation has been more completely blackened than the honourable member for Dawson. [More…]

• He was a man who, I think, came in ninth in the Cabinet and yet he has been given absolutely nothing to do except look after sugar. [More…]

• He put forward the argument that the Labor Party had been putting to the Liberal Party and the Country Party for many years. [More…]

• He used his arithmetical powers to prove that the working man is slipping further behind in his seeking of wage increases to combat the effect of inflation. [More…]

• I am reminded of the definition of cheek - the man who murdered both his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he was an orphan. [More…]

• During this time the standard of personal living and affluence of the people of this nation raced ahead of that in most other nations and I could not but feel amazed that this Government, after so many years and so many election promises and after having set itself up as champion of the small man, the wage earner and the small business man, could introduce a Budget so devoid of any policy to deal with the crippling rate of inflation. [More…]

• The election campaign saw a wooing of rural electors by the Australian Labor Party with policies attractive to man/ producers who had forgotten past unjust treatment by Labor governments. [More…]

• I refer to the ordinary man in the street and his family, with their legitimate aspirations for a better house, a better car and 2 or more of them, and enough money not to have to pinch and scrape to clothe the kids and so on. [More…]

• No one denies the importance of that second objective, but how much store is the man in the street prepared to put in the rhetoric of the Treasurer (Mr Crean) about our being much better at selling cars than providing decent public transport services. [More…]

• This is a real blow to the man in the street, perhaps raising the price index by the order of 1 per cent Taxes have been raised less overtly in the decision to commence to move towards a system Df collecting company tax by quarterly instalments. [More…]

• That will be of assistance to economic management when implemented but it means - I do not know how far the business community is awake to this - that a business will be up for about 125 per cent of its normal tax bill in this calendar year and at least that much again next year. [More…]

• When the effect of that policy starts to show up in increases in mortgage repayments, when the bond rate goes up to 8i per cent and when the lending rates of institutions such as building societies and insurance companies operating in this field go up to 10 per cent or more, the man in the street and in particular those people who were led by election promises to expect not higher mortgage repayments on their houses but an effective reduction as the interest component in that was to be made tax deductible, will rise up in anger at the actions of this Government in seeking not to attack inflation in this Budget but in this way to throw the whole weight of attacking it onto monetary policy. [More…]

• House will be aware of the heavy financial impact that befalls the family man should one of his children require dental treatment under present conditions. [More…]

• Indeed, charges for dental services are so high that often much needed preventive dental care is not availed of because of the cost, with the result that when ultimately the trip to the dentist has to be taken, permanent damage to teeth has occurred which could have been avoided. [More…]

• We hope that the Australian school dental service will save a lot of children’s teeth as well as a lot of taxpayers’ dollars, because at the present level of dental charges many parents just cannot afford to send their children to the dentist for preventive dental care. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Crean) continually tells this House and the public that the Budget is only one part in the Government’s overall economic strategy to manage the economy. [More…]

• We are also continually told by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Treasurer tha’, inflation is the most serious economic matter commanding the attention of the Government. [More…]

• From the total perspective of monetary legislative and fiscal actions taken by this Government and the 2-man Whitlam-Barnard Government since 2 December the inescapable conclusion is that as an act of deliberate political policy the Budget was not intended to dampen or to curb inflation. [More…]

• When the 2-man Government that I have mentioned came to power inflation as indicated by the consumer price index was diminishing and was then at an annual rale of 4.8 per cent. [More…]

• It has been said of any government which in post-war times uses unemployment as an economic weapon or tool to manage the economy that it must be an evil government. [More…]

• The present effects of inflation upon the people are not so dramatic, not so publicly evident, as the sight of a man or woman on the dole but they are no less insidious and no less damaging to the individual and the nation. [More…]

• It is an ominous one for the private sector, for businessmen big and small, from the major corporations to the self-employed man or woman. [More…]

• If any businessman in Australia today was prepared to trust the Whitlam Government when it came to office he surely cannot trust it now. [More…]

• This Government has openly said that it will not try to control at any level union demands, within the private or public sectors, for increased wages and salaries or for increased working conditions which inflate costs. [More…]

• All the controls, all the monetary and fiscal actions of this Government, are directed squarely at private business -and the ordinary working man, as has been shown by other speakers from the Opposition side. [More…]

• It is the family man who is hurt by this Budget and this has been amply demonstrated by speakers from the Opposition side. [More…]

• Yes, as my colleague has said, such as supply and demand. [More…]

• It is only natural that if we belt into the man who is producing these commodities - it does not matter whether he is producing rice, wheat or meat in Australia or any other country - the simple ABC of the thing is that before long there will be nothing for him if he continues to produce that product and he will reduce his production further. [More…]

• As I heard the remarks of my colleague, the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King), I felt a little like the man who had been a feeding a dog on steak for a week and the first time he went to pat it, it bit off his fingers. [More…]

• 3 ranking Minister in the second Whitlam Ministry, a man supposedly intimately concerned with and involved in the development and implementation of Government policy. [More…]

• Even the Minister for Secondary Industry (Dr J. F. Cairns), the man who is never consulted about revaluation - it is a pretty good bet that as soon as he leaves Australia we can expect another revaluation; it has happened twice now - admitted that the increased imports may not be the ones we need. [More…]

• A few months ago I went to the funeral of a young daughter of one of my very close friends and while we were waiting for the cortege to arrive at the cemetery in Brisbane I stood beside the grave of a man who was hanged in Queensland some years ago for bushranging. [More…]

• His name was .Patrick Keniffe I stood beside his grave with a .man who. [More…]

• I could not help but think as I stood beside the grave of Keniffe: ‘Could you have pulled the lever to send this man to eternity?’ [More…]

• I went back to Keniffe: ‘Could you have pulled the lever to send this man hurtling to eternity?’ [More…]

• He was seen by 2 people to put 6 bullets into a man. [More…]

• The only defence available to that man was that of intoxication, to seek to reduce the charge to manslaughter. [More…]

• It was not up to me to measure its effect upon the man. [More…]

• But what has always remained with me is the thought that if when the jury brought in the verdict of guilty, the judge, as he would have in years gone by, had imposed the one sentence available and sentenced this man to be hanged, I would have found that utterly unconscionable having regard to all of the circumstances. [More…]

• But to have lived through the days with that man and to have seen the sense of anguish and indeed to have felt it is not an experience that can be lightly described nor, speaking for myself, lightly dismissed. [More…]

• It is not a decision which has been taken by an individual in society; it is a decision which must be taken here and now because it is only this Parliament which can decide whether a man should lose his life. [More…]

• As a young articled clerk I oan remember attending in the Central Criminal Court in Sydney on the occasion of a man being sentenced to death. [More…]

• The Minister for Civil Aviation is a very clever man. [More…]

• I warn the Minister that just as I was tenacious when my own Party was in power in my endeavours to ensure that a new airport for Brisbane was built, so will I persist now and it will be so much easier for me to continue a campaign against the new Labor Government, not just on the airport issue but on many matters of policy which adversely affect the standard of living of the people not only of the electorate of Griffith or of Queensland, but of the whole of Australia. [More…]

• This will be the test of the man and if he does not do this I suppose he will never do anything. [More…]

• What the libertine proponents of abortion on demand may refuse to regard as an important side issue is: how far should abortion be a matter of serious concern to people other than the woman herself, and how are the lives of her parents, husband or future husband and past or future children affected? [More…]

• Abortion is not just an unrelated operative event that vanishes without a trace once the wound is healed; it has an untold number of moral tentacles cutting into many lives. [More…]

• Firm evidence can be produced that abortion frequently reduces a woman’s future reproductive capability and subsequent children come at a. higher risk. [More…]

• It can also be shown that a man is more likely to have a sterile wife or a stillborn, premature or defective child if he marries a girl who has had an induced abortion. [More…]

• We all have been around long enough to realise that it is possible to select your man or woman according to the end result you want to achieve. [More…]

• Only keep in mind what happened to the gerrymandered Queensland, Victorian and New South Wales electoral boundaries. [More…]

• But it is not fair to leave such enormous responsibility to only one man or woman whose personal bias, one way or another, may influence his or her decisions. [More…]

• The Minister on the one hand professes to be a moral man and a religious man. [More…]

• Yet he says that a problem which is causing 200,000 human beings to be conceived unwanted in Australia each year is not a problem of consequence for discussion in this House of Parliament. [More…]

• The Minister professes some concern about the human race. [More…]

• If he could do a little arithmetic, he would know that if that figure which was put out on 8 September in the ‘Medical Journal of Australia, a reputable journal, is divided by 365, Lt means that this very day 550 human beings will be conceived all of whom will be unwanted and unplanned. [More…]

• Yet the honourable gentleman suggests that this is a matter of no importance and that the honourable member for Casey and I are wasting the time of the House in discussing it. [More…]

• We are creating a circumstance within which there can never again be a decision taken by a court of law considering a particular case that a man should be executed. [More…]

• Indeed, I think that there are many areas of our penal law which need to be revised, the existing penalties reconsidered and the nature of their enforcement reconsidered. [More…]

• The cover photograph shows a man in the process of being hanged. [More…]

• A priest, policeman and other representatives of the French State are present. [More…]

• Before turning to the question of deterrence which is one that worries many people - putting a policement behind the citizen otherwise the citizen will break the law - let me dwell for a moment on the concept of capital punishment - being merciful and painless. [More…]

• but the chief and the worst pain may not be in the bodily suffering but in one’s knowing for certain that in an hour, and then in 10 minutes, and then in half a minute, and then now, at the very moment, the soul will leave the body and that one will cease to be a man, and that that’s bound to happen; the worst part of it is that it’s certain. [More…]

• You know this is not only my fancy, many people have said the same. [More…]

• There have been instances when a man has still hoped for escape, running or begging for mercy after his throat was cut But in the other case all that last hope, which makes dying 10 times as easy, is taken away for certain. [More…]

• Who can tell whether human nature is able to bear this madness? [More…]

• Perhaps there is some man who has been sentenced to death, been exposed to this torture, and has been told ‘You can go, you are pardoned’. [More…]

• Perhaps such a man could tell us. [More…]

• No, you can’t treat a man like that. [More…]

• When it occurs man is no longer an object so sacred as before. [More…]

• I was in the position of receiving a judge’s report which told me that in the case of one man, Evans, had all the subsequent evidence been before the court, he, the judge, did not believe that a jury could have been convinced beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]

• I fear that it did not do the man much good. [More…]

• Many thousands of French soldiers were similarly executed. [More…]

• Yet I believe it would be a brave man who, in this House, would say that our army was less effective in wartime than that of any other nation’s. [More…]

• Incidentally, the Germans did not have the death penalty for military offences either. [More…]

• The man who escaped with Ryan during the course of their escape or a little later committed a much worse and more barbarous act. [More…]

• He shot a man in cold blood to prevent his recapture. [More…]

• However, that man was simply retained in prison. [More…]

• As honourable members will recall, there was a case a little time ago of a man named Lawrence in South Australia who asked to be hanged rather than be doomed to imprisonment for life. [More…]

• In my mind I got a visual picture of that man hanging by a rope and it made me feel sick inside. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Wills said, that man killed a policeman accidentally or in the heat of the moment of escaping over the wall at Pentridge. [More…]

• I did not think his crime was half as bad as that of the man who escaped with him - a man by the name of Walker - who, while he was at large, deliberately took a man into a toilet at Albert Park, put a gun to his head and shot him. [More…]

• Yet Walker got off with manslaughter while Ryan was hanged, even though Ryan had killed in the heat of the moment. [More…]

• I felt that it was a great pity that Ryan was sacrificed because he killed a policeman accidentally, yet Walker got off with a charge of manslaughter. [More…]

• I am not saying that it was not a terrible thing that the policeman was killed, but I think it was wrong to act against Ryan purely because, in the heat of the moment, he killed a policeman. [More…]

• We have coming up shortly the case of a man in South Australia, Rupert Max Stuart, who in 1959 was convicted of raping and killing a little girl. [More…]

• No one can force a man to be brave. [More…]

• Be it folklore or not, it was the recounted experience of a man whose word I value and whose judgment I value, an Australian officer during the First World War. [More…]

• Yet, because of the hysteria that existed, a man and his wife - a young Jewish couple with young children - were executed, burnt in the electric chair. [More…]

• He broadcast Nazi propaganda for the Germans against the Allied cause in the 1939-45 War. [More…]

• It was largely a nominal thing, because he had spent many years in Germany and claimed that he owed his allegiance to the German Reich. [More…]

• Had he committed it, would that saint-like man have been executed, in view of the fact that he would have held a British passport? [More…]

• The grave breaches are, for example, wilful killing, torture, inhuman treatment, wilfully causing great suffering and extensive destruction of property. [More…]

• If one thinks of the frightful cases that came out of World War II, both in the Japanese theatre and in the Ger man theatre, I think one would agree that it is necessary that the sanction of the ultimate penalty be retained in this area. [More…]

• If we are going to say, perhaps years later, This man or woman should be hanged for a crime that occurred many years ago’, again I suggest that we would be in trouble. [More…]

• He would not be a rich man. [More…]

• They have not realised how these proposals will hit the small man. [More…]

• He is not a wealthy man. [More…]

• The Labor Party, perhaps without knowing it - but I believe it did know it and hoped that it would be concealed - in point of fact has double-crossed the little man, the man receiving $20, $30 or $40 a week superannuation - not the big man, but the little man. [More…]

• I speak particularly for the small man with an income outside of his pension, probably from superannuation, of from $20 to $50 a week. [More…]

• I am not speaking on behalf of the big man; I am speaking on behalf of the small man. [More…]

• But in many cases, along with the increase in the value of property, there is an increase in costs for maintaining the property. [More…]

• The other day my washing machine broke down and it cost me $23 to have a man from Malleys Ltd in Brisbane come and fix it. [More…]

• I object particularly now to juniors - 16, 17 and 18-year-olds - being paid the adult rate when we have a situation of, if anything, overfull employment and inflation - the nation’s greatest problem - and when every able bodied young man who can work should be encouraged to work and not given an easy way out if he is so inclined. [More…]

• The honourable member seeks to justify this upon the basis that this remedy had to be taken in order to achieve equity between the pensioner and the young family man. [More…]

• I think the way the problem should have been dealt with was for the tax threshold, as it applies to the young family man, to be lifted. [More…]

• This is the Minister for Social Security, the man who today claims that he was the one who initiated the idea. [More…]

• If there is an inequity so far as the young family man is concerned, there are those of us on this side of the House who have urged for a long time that the tax threshold - the point at which tax first becomes payable - should be looked at across the broad spectrum of all taxpayers and not in the manner in which this legislation is proposed to operate. [More…]

• At $4,000 a year of non-pension income for a man with a wife, not including any of her personal income, the couple will be $1,070 a year better off, or more than $20 a week better off under our proposals. [More…]

• A man with $5,400 annual non-pension income will find that he and his wife are annually$1, 528 better off, or more than $30 a week better off under our very generous proposal. [More…]

• However, a man well known as an Australian entrepreneur, Mr Harry M. Miller, has been exhibiting in Australia a pirate film on which no copyright duties have been paid. [More…]

• We were told during the first 8 months of this Government’s administration that Australians were privileged to have ‘a low interest rate Treasurer’ - a man who held deep personal convictions as to the economic and social desirability of low interest rates. [More…]

• Labor’s ill-considered decision to use interest rates as the method of fighting inflation must hit the small man, the average wage earner and those persons endeavouring to purchase a home. [More…]

• For instance, recently I had a case involving a man with an above-knee amputation. [More…]

• The very fact of having an artificial limb enabled this man to carry out his normal everyday occupation and therefore he was not claiming any social welfare benefits. [More…]

• For those who are not familiar with these matters, a 100 per cent rate pensioner is not a man who is totally reliant on his war pension. [More…]

• He is a man who could be going to work. [More…]

• So the man who gets this 100 per cent rate pension will be getting an increase in this Bill with the qualifications which have been criticised by the Opposition. [More…]

• Under this Bill we shall disregard 25 per cent of what a man receives by way of war pension. [More…]

• Before getting onto these particular points I would like to follow up what was said by the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) about the repatriation problem concerning the ex-serviceman going back for a check-up for the purpose of his disability allowance. [More…]

• I have found, as obviously have other members of this House, that the ex-serviceman goes back to the Repatriation Board for a check-up and finds not only that his application for an increase is rejected but also that quite often he gets a reduction in his disability allowance. [More…]

• It is rather amazing that a man’s war disability can improve when he is over 65. [More…]

• This has happened many times. [More…]

• In the case of the person to whom the means test does not apply, if he has a superannuation income of $4,082 - there are many former public servants and others who have that sort of superannuation payment - and provided he is over 75 years of age, he can now receive a full pension of $1,053 a year. [More…]

• In a case I know of they were $388; so this man’s taxable income is $4,747. [More…]

• The net increase in pension to a person over 75 - in the case I mentioned the wife is 71 and does not get an increase in pension - means that this man gets an increase in his part pension of $317; but he is paying an increase in taxation of $700. [More…]

• It concerns a man aged 65 and his wife aged 60, in receipt of public service superannuation, each in receipt of a part pension of $877 for the 1972-73 income year. [More…]

• The man received $1,650 in superannuation and had allowable taxation expenses of $285 which brought his taxable income down to $1,365. [More…]

• Many honourable members on both sides of the chamber have been pushing for such a benefit for a long time. [More…]

• If we are to accept cancer in the broad why should a man be eligible only because of particular war service? [More…]

• What patient man would not have said: ‘I will await the outcome of this royal commission before I introduce these radical approaches’? [More…]

• During the last Parliament the previous Postmaster-General, whom honourable members will recall with pleasure as being a hard working, highly intelligent man, agreed - I was about to say gave way but I think perhaps that is unfair - at long last with a case which I had put forward for 3 years in this House in trying to get some method of helping small country newspapers with the issuing of supplements. [More…]

• In many ways they came into existence because of the success of the PostmasterGeneral^ Department in the field of household deliveries and because many people felt that this rather unfair taking away of business from country newspapers could be solved only if similar supplements were produced across a wide range of country newspapers to help advertise, shall we say, a sale in a chain store in an area. [More…]

• We find the Parliament having foisted upon it a proposition to introduce a 20c charge on the booking of trunk line calls through a manual exchange where an STD service is available. [More…]

• The call has to be booked through a manual operator so that the duration of the call and so on can be recorded and a proper charge imposed upon the person who makes the call. [More…]

• It has the hide to come out and make these attacks on what might be described as the ordinary man in the street and to fleece him for its own ends. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite are interested in the facts, they should look at what my predecessor, who was an honourable man, a member of the Liberal Party, put to the Cabinet in the 1972 submission. [More…]

• Migrants are not available to be ordered around like shock troops to man the front lines of industry. [More…]

• He is a man with a cargo cult mentality. [More…]

• I cannot say the same for the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) because he is not the type of man who bounces gaily down the corridor, gives you a hit on the back and says: ‘How are you chum?’ [More…]

• He is a man also beneath contempt. [More…]

• Let us look at the record of this man and of the former Government. [More…]

• The tragedy of the honourable member for Blaxland is that a man of such obviously immense prospects in the Government can so debase himself as to allow himself to be but the lackey of the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• He is a man who can one day say that it is a basically healthy economic situation and the next day say that inflation is a serious problem which must be tackled by everybody. [More…]

• Gone are the days when every Labor spokesman insisted that to control prices would solve the inflation problem. [More…]

• I have consistently and positively said that price control cannot be a permanent feature of economic management. [More…]

• Any other man would recognise in these words a misrepresentation - but we are accustomed to misrepresentation from the Prime Minister which no other man would use. [More…]

• There could be no clearer words used by any man than were used by the President of the Australian Labor Party and President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions about what were the words put in his mouth by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• This is no guarantee at all when one considers that only last week the Caucus a number of times took the management of the country out of the Prime Minister’s hands. [More…]

• I know it is almost impossible for a Labor man to understand this, but it is necessary for profits to be earned by manufacturers, by small businessmen, by taxi drivers, by farmers and so on. [More…]

• All the normal forces of the market - competition, supply and demand - are bottled up. [More…]

• One could well imagine what the performance of handling the economy would be, for instance, under the direction of a man like Mr Bjelke-Petersen, the Premier of Queensland. [More…]

• The Opposition to a man, they say, refuse to give us that power. [More…]

• One would have great difficulty in not looking up to a man as tall as he is. [More…]

• Does he honestly and sincerely argue that the economy is basically healthy with a consumer inflation rate of 13.2 per cent; with bottlenecks and shortages becoming endemic and covering a very large sector of industry; with the loss of man days worked through strikes reaching record figures - 860,000 in January to June 1973, but twice as many as in January to June 1972 - and with the loss of wages of $13m in January to June 1972, rising to $24m in January to June 1973? [More…]

• The deplorable exercise of irresponsibility demon strated in this place a few seconds ago by a man who is currently the Minister for Immigration, a man who has failed in his responsibilities to his electors demonstrably through the Bill that is before us, through the Budget and the neglect of rural interests which that Budget represented, is one of the damnations that must apply to this Government. [More…]

• The bashing that this Government has given to the rural community is completely vindicative in its nature and the man who introduced this Bil! [More…]

• In his speech, the Minister for Immigration - a man who once had pretentions to be Minister for Primary Industry until he became apprehensive of where his policies or the policies of his colleague might lead him - made the point that he did not think the levy would be passed on to producers, with profit margins of 0.7c and l.’25c per lb and a levy, according to the Bill, of 1.6c per lb. [More…]

• Is the man a complete imbecile? [More…]

• I speak tonight on behalf of the Brisbane suburbs of Hendra, Ascot, Hamilton, Doomben, Eagle Farm, Bulimba, Balmoral, Hawthorne, Norman Park, Merthyr, New Farm, Teneriffe and Newstead. [More…]

• One moment ago that man was in the House. [More…]

• I find this sad because on 2 occasions last week I advised the Minister’s office that I was to speak on this subject and tonight in this Parliament during those many divisions we had I advised him again. [More…]

• What a discourteous ignorant man he is, and a contemptible man at that. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, you are a man of democracy and will understand why I am personally upset that the Minister who has had many occasions to confirm or deny these allegations has seen fit once again to run from the concern which I express on behalf of 50,000 Brisbane citizens. [More…]

• The Minister’s inaction indicates that the Minister regards the honourable member for Lilley as a man of little worth. [More…]

• Comments have been made on the morale damage since this Government took office not merely by Mr Denis Warner but also by other correspondents and more particularly yesterday by the man the Minister for Defence had ghosting most of his speeches last year and during the 1969 election campaign. [More…]

• Party speeches throughout its period in Opposition were so frequently based on advice given by Major Peter Young, clearly he is a man of some substance and influence. [More…]

• All the Minister has done is to let the whole of Australia know that the knowledge about meat matters of the man responsible for initiating and conveying ing through this chamber a most important piece of legislation is absolutely nil. [More…]

• We all know the stance of this Government in the mining context under the leadership of so dogmatic, if I might say, and so prejudiced a man as the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor). [More…]

• If I could take a working man living in Toowoomba as an example, he would be able to drive to his place of employment in about a quarter of the time that the average resident of Brisbane would take to drive to his office or other place of work. [More…]

• For the simple reason that the average farmer - I have been on many farms over a period of years - and the average grazier purchases his petrol in bulk. [More…]

• He gets abulk rate, and probably over a period of time he is buying his petrol much more cheaply than are the people living in the city areas, but the ordinary working man in the country towns and provincial cities does not get his petrol cheaper. [More…]

• When we think of it, there are so many areas in which the country man has to pay increased charges. [More…]

• If he buys anything from the city - and many of his goods have to come from there - he pays transport costs. [More…]

• The country man has so many areas in which he has to pay and the city man does not, so why not help the country man with some sort of a subsidy? [More…]

• The country man has to put in a great deal of his telephone line. [More…]

• I know that the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen), who is sitting at the table opposite me, says that the country man is subsidised, but in order to get the service that the man in the city gets the country man has to make an additional payment that the city man does not. [More…]

• The city man does not have to do this. [More…]

• The country man has to install his own sewerage facilities and other facilities like this. [More…]

• We have had the situation with respect to petrol supplies where wholesalers, retailers and those poor people who man the service stations have been disadvantaged. [More…]

• This is one of the many performances of the honourable member for Riverina since the Labor Government has been in charge of Australian politics in this House. [More…]

• It is beyond belief for any man to try to justify that increase in the present circumstances. [More…]

• We will see more such performances as the pressure grows. [More…]

• This measure is part of a Budget which is increasing costs in many areas. [More…]

• We members of the Country Party are concerned with every man, woman and child living in this country. [More…]

• I do not see that by the arbitrary laying down of a law which says that sovereignty must be exercised by the Australian Parliament we will necessarily be providing that protection for the average man and woman of his heritage - that heritage being the wealth beneath the sea. [More…]

• He is the man responsible for the great inconvenience caused to many people, a man completely devoid of charity and justice, a man who obviously bows and kowtows to Mao. [More…]

• The Australian people will not accept irresponsible strikes initiated by a communist in a sneaky way, a strike caused by an internecine union jealousy, a jealousy which would not allow a woman to be given a position of responsibility. [More…]

• This is a very distressing situation and I am indebted to my colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Cooke) for reinforcing my statements to this House and pointing out that because of this strike, inspired by a member of the Communist Party who contested an election under the banner of that Party and who, when his boss left, stirred up trouble, many innocent children and many people who unfortunately have been afflicted with mental problems were denied their rightful place and hospital care and attention. [More…]

• This man who parades as a champion of the workers had his house broken into and had 7 suits stolen. [More…]

• I want to thank the third most important man opposite for his solicitude for my electors and I want to express appreciation for the question that he’ posed. [More…]

• I understand that he received a telegram, as I did myself, this morning, from the General Manager of the Leeton Co-operative Cannery. [More…]

• Is it to be paid to the man who owned the cattle at the time that they were sold to the butcher? [More…]

• If the industry is confused, its confusion is due to the comments made by the Leader of the Country Party, a man who now has no policy responsibility. [More…]

• The man with the policy responsibility is the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt), who has made his position clear in regard to the imposition of an export tax on meat. [More…]

• No other statement has emanated from the Government Party on this issue in such an authoritative form. [More…]

• The only assertive statement that the Government was to bring in an export tax came from the Country Party and Colonel McArthur, the Chairman of the Australian Meat Board, had to go onto the AusAustralian Broadcasting Commission’s radio program ‘Country Hour’ to deny this statement because it was causing so much mischief in the industry. [More…]

• But the honourable gentleman does not want that because he is being too greedy on behalf of the beef barons that he represents in this place, the big man, the absentee producer, the absentee farmer, the man in Pitt Street, the man who if his income from meat falls will have to put up the price of his medical consultation. [More…]

• I would have thought that a man with his knowledge, background and education would have recognised the importance of this Bill and the substance of my suggestion that he should debate the important parts and not make broad speeches. [More…]

• Yes, he is a reasonable man but because of the actions of the Minister for Services and Property- [More…]

• As for the Minister for Services and Property, we listened this afternoon to a scared man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is completely correct when he said what a pity it is that the honourable gentleman ever came back from London. [More…]

• When I heard that the honourable gentleman was coming back from [More…]

• Under this provision of the Bill if the employer, the managing director of BHP, came down and being swept beyond human patience, said: T will have no more of this’, and he gave the gentleman a kick in a certain place of the anatomy, what would happen? [More…]

• Under the provision introduced by the Minister the man’s actions subjectively are in the industrial interests of the organisation. [More…]

• Under this provision there is absolutely no form of redress that the general manager of BHP can resort to. [More…]

• But I remind the honourable gentleman that certain ground rules were to be observed there. [More…]

• I should have thought that the Minister for Labour, a man who has travelled this world investigating and examining the industrial relations experiences of other countries- [More…]

• We want rational discussion based on the merits of particular arguments and I hope that the Government will respond in the same manner. [More…]

• Every man and woman wants security for himself or herself and family, and want and expect a reasonable share of the affluence that Australia can offer. [More…]

• I do not want to be unkind to the man but he was the chap who said that he would be in a better position to solve these problems. [More…]

• In my own State of Western Australia, I note, there has been a considerable drop in the number of man hours lost in the sam : period. [More…]

• I certainly hope that he will because it is not in the best interests of anybody, much less the family man, to be out on strike. [More…]

• In 1967, 400 man days were lost in industrial strife in Sweden [More…]

• In that year 705,300 man days were lost in Australia. [More…]

• During the years 1967 to 1971 an average of 161,000 man days were lost in Sweden. [More…]

• We had 1,360,000 man days lost. [More…]

• I have received a report which indicated that a man had gone to gaol because there was complete confusion both on his part and the part of his defence about what the exact position was. [More…]

• I say quite frankly that I would have thought that the Leader of the Opposition and the third most important man on the Opposition side of the Parliament had more to do “-t this time than to move and second this motion. [More…]

• Here is a man - the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea - imploring Australia not to throw them to the wolves, not to cast them aside, and we have done nothing about it since he wrote this article for the Melbourne Herald’. [More…]

• Polygyny was apparently never universal amongst Aborigines in the sense that every man had more than one wife at a time, or even in the course of a lifetime. [More…]

• Where the matter has been studied carefully it would seem that fewer than one man in two had more than one wife at a time. [More…]

• Having several wives is no longer as fashionable as, and in modern conditions rather more troublesome than, it used to be; widows need the social insurance of a man’s protection less, and are often content to live as widows on the pension they receive and young women increasingly resist having to accept status as co-wives. [More…]

• It was also possible to bestow a girl as a man’s future mother-in-law. [More…]

• It was said that the girl was going back to marry a middleaged man. [More…]

• They have caused a great deal of concern to me and to many other people, and they have had all sorts of damaging implications, particularly in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It is a degrading, dehumanising experience. [More…]

• These are surely things that a modern community should be able to take care of through community based services instead of uselessly paying out $2,356 a year which it costs to keep a man in the Darwin gaol. [More…]

• If to this charge is added the cost of giving basic support to the prisoner’s wife and family a total amount of approximately $7,000 a year in involved in putting a man in gaol. [More…]

• Many travelled hundreds and hundreds of miles to bid at this land sale at Borroloola. [More…]

• A virtually unknown man appeared at the land sale and, apparently on advice from Canberra - a central control - he outbid others who were interested in bidding for that land. [More…]

• They did not know that this man had come with instructions from afar - I do not know whether he came on the instructions of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs or some other authority - apparently with an open cheque book to bid for 2 sites at Booroloola. [More…]

• They found later that no ceiling had been placed on the amount that this man could pay by cheque for these sites. [More…]

• I make this point: If this land was required for Aboriginal enterprise - by all means let the sites be used for that purpose; I am all for such projects - why on earth was it ever allowed to go to public auction which in the event meant that people bid against a man sent from the centralist control in Canberra with an open cheque book to buy that land? [More…]

• The second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) on the States Grants (Home Care) Bill once again was indicative of the quality of the man. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Social Security seen a report of a statement by Mr Justin Fleming, the President of the Australian Association of Surgeons, in which he associated himself or expressed agreement of his association with the Liberal Party spokesman on health and social welfare, the honourable member for Hotham, who had accused doctors’ organisations of deplorable taste in their attacks on the Federal Government’s proposed national health scheme? [More…]

• I assume that he referred particularly to the poster depicting the Minister as an SS man and the Prime Minister as Hitler. [More…]

• The Prime Minister of this country is a man who makes more statements on matters of significance to Australia outside this House than he is prepared to make inside it. [More…]

• The Prime Minister must stand indicted as a man who has allowed the inflationary spiral in this country to get out of hand. [More…]

• He has been caught out on a hypocritical performance. [More…]

• He is the man who has been running around this community talking about a prices-income policy and about demand management as though they are the latest trendy slogans, without ever filling out what it is that he has in mind. [More…]

• Let us put to one side that this man has been moving about the country with a slogan ‘prices-incomes freeze’, never specifying what he proposed to do after that- [More…]

• The Bill is introduced into the House by the second most important man in government, the Prime Minister. [More…]

• One might well ask: ‘Who is the most important man in government?’ [More…]

• Why, it is Bill Brown, the Chairman of Caucus. [More…]

• The second most important man is directed by Caucus to bring this matter before Parliament. [More…]

• Parliament is afforded the spectacle of the second most important man in government introducing this Bill. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has had a conference with the DLP on this matter - another first for the second most important man in government. [More…]

• At first it seems strange that we have no more than the assertion in the 2 pieces of legislation that the Labor Administration wants a permanent shift of power to control incomes and prices. [More…]

• Mr Oakes, a journalist with the Melbourne ‘Sun’, has made himself somewhat of an authority on this curious man, the Prime Minister. [More…]

• When he stands in this Parliament and says to this Government that it is a mangy deal because the senators who represent the Democratic Labor Party have agreed to support this proposition, one can only gather that he is speaking from past experience. [More…]

• To attack a man like the Treasurer (Mr Crean) as an economic illiterate shows the depth of the ignorance of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• The Treasurer is the most highly qualified and best experienced man on economics on either side of this Parliament. [More…]

• It ill behoves the man who is now the Leader of the Opposition, who spent a time as Treasurer of this country, to criticise one who has achieved as much as has the present Treasurer. [More…]

• The Opposition wants to protect the investor, the man who is not subject to control or regulation in terms of the rent he charges for ramshackle old places at Bondi for which he is getting $40 to $50 a week or, in the case of 2 old age pensioners on $40 a week, $26 for a couple of rooms. [More…]

• I recall decisions by the late Commissioner Findlay of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission who was an outstanding Commissioner but a man who was accused by learned judges of practising and preaching arbitral heresy because he dared to say that when prices went up the workers were entitled to get an increase in their wages. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who is interjecting ought to have more concern for the people in our community who are disadvantaged, because he is a party to the shabby manner in which the position of these groups has been further eroded because of his failure to stand up and be counted. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot is such a powerful man in this Parliament that I could not even remember what seat he represents. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman might know, the Economic Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said this in a report in June 1971: [More…]

• Far from being prepared to adopt a constructive approach to the making of economic policy, far from being able to move towards a bipartisan approach to our most immediate and pressing economic problem, he showed himself a man of petty stature. [More…]

• As soon as the Government began to make practical moves towards obtaining the power to implement a prices and incomes policy, the gentleman opposite ran for cover. [More…]

• On Sunday night, they blacked out a doctor trying to save a man dying from a heart attack. [More…]

• Granted that the doctor does not blame the man’s death on the blackout, the incident still highlights the dangerous situations which can arise because of the powerhouse workers’ decision to limit output. [More…]

• Unless the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), who is at the table, can answer the charges that I will lay against him, I say quite unequivocally mat, if a situation arises this week, next week or in the future in New South Wales of the kind described in the editorial, there is only one man in Australia responsible for it, and that is the Commonwealth Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has acted against the interests of every family and of every man, woman and child in the State of New South Wales and in Australia. [More…]

• I am informed that before the vote was taken the Minister spoke to Mr Reihr, the Commonwealth Director-General of the Department of Works and Deputy Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council and also to Mr Douglas, the chief operations engineer. [More…]

• Word would have come to members of the power unions who man the Tumut power stations, if they had not obeyed those legal and lawful orders and worked in accordance with them they could have been laid off. [More…]

• A man was dead. [More…]

• Any man - he does not even need to be a Reg Swartz; he could even be a member on the front bench on the other side- can talk for hours, being relevant, albeit, but wasting the time of the chamber; and the Speaker has no power over him. [More…]

• I think you would agree, Mr Deputy Chairman, that since this Government has been in office, the time allowed for questions has never been reduced below the normal 45 minutes. [More…]

• I have noticed this day by day because I am a man with some sense of justice and I have always felt that if I criticised the Opposition when it was in Government, I would have to take up the matter within my own Party if we were being deprived of an adequate time for questions. [More…]

• I think that you, Mr Deputy Chairman, would know that I would do that. [More…]

• I endorse many of his remarks. [More…]

• I spent considerable time with the Permanent Secretary of the Whips Office. [More…]

• This man was a permanent civil servant. [More…]

• In passing, I might suggest to the Leader of the House that one day this man should be brought to Australia to help us evolve better techniques for the administration of the Parliament similar to those applying in the House of Commons. [More…]

• I believe that the Leader of the House has become an embittered, cynical man who is pursuing a course of revenge in which he is excelling even the worst moments of those 2i decades in which he was in Opposition. [More…]

• But by comparison, and by the manner in which you have acted, you have made us look like angels. [More…]

• What a miserly old man the Minister is that he should look forward to that extra $20 a month. [More…]

• The second motion moved at that meeting was put by one of the older Greek growers in that area, a very respected man called Mr Spanos. [More…]

• As chairman of the Government primary industry committee, I am most disappointed that no Labor man was at that meeting. [More…]

• If these men were invited to the meeting, they should have had the courtesy to send a man to that meeting, even if it was a South Australian or a senator. [More…]

• On the day that it was sold to him it was remortgaged for $43,000 to a man with no money. [More…]

• A man with such a record of survival in a Party such as the Labor Party cannot help but become an expert in the numbers game, which is exactly what these Bills are about. [More…]

• He is a city man. [More…]

• I admit that during the term of the previous Government not many days were devoted to private members’ business but he could well have introduced a proposal to enable residents of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory to vote on referendums. [More…]

• The only way to establish whether a member is a man of principle who supports the things he espouses is to see how he votes. [More…]

• I wish to refer specifically to the inquiry that was made by the honourable member for Boothby about a report which appeared in a newspaper concerning a man who arrived from Africa and applied for political asylum. [More…]

• A fair question was also asked by the honourable member for Boothby in relation to the man who was deported by me recently - Mr Azzam. [More…]

• I have no right to deport a man because of his views and I would not do so. [More…]

• If a man transgresses the law in this country he will be dealt with according to the law. [More…]

• The honourable member is the wealthiest man in the House- (Opposition members interjecting) [More…]

• Yet millions of people in New South Wales are suffering because of the deliberate action of this man - the deliberate action revealed by the document which we seek to table. [More…]

• It is a document which shows that this man has completely contravened his ministerial responsibilities. [More…]

• The only vehicle we have to ensure that this man is revealed for his lack of concern for the truth, his lack of consideration for his ministerial responsibilities, is by demonstrating that in this document there is a complete rebuttal of the statements that he has given to this House. [More…]

• And the wealthiest man in the Parliament caring not a damn for them, interrupted this debate and then proceeded- (Opposition members interjecting) - [More…]

• engineers who had volunteered to man the stations and who had been moved to the Tumut area by the - (Extension of tune granted) I take it, Mr Speaker, that I will have the same period of time as was granted to the Opposition spokesman on this matter. [More…]

• This man is the secretary of the Electricity Commission Combined Union Delegates Organisation. [More…]

• It mattered little that in the process a man in hospital died when power was cut off from his ward, that children received third-degree burns when candles ignited their cots or that a man with a heart attack died because the doctor who was called to help him could not find a light. [More…]

• What about the many hundreds of thousands of housewives and ordinary citizens who have been inconvenienced? [More…]

• The man directly responsible for this situation was a Federal Minister who had intervened in an industrial dispute on the side of the communists and the leftwingers despite the statement of the Prime Minister: ‘This is not a matter where we can do anything as the employer. [More…]

• He acted like a man in panic. [More…]

• He acted like a man who did not want a settlement of a dispute. [More…]

• It has been defined as a man, a woman purporting to be his wife, 1.27 children, plus 2 social workers. [More…]

• Sometimes my sympathies go out to my friend the Minister for the Environment (Dr Cass), who is trying to implement his philosophies on the environment around the nation and is frustrated by having to deal with so many other people and finds himself impotent - in a political sense, I assure him - in being able to carry out these policies. [More…]

• One had to be a keen listener to what was said on the night the Budget was brought down to detect anything being said about there being an increase in the excise payable on beer in addition to the additional taxation that I have just mentoned on the ordinary man’s cigarettes, petrol and, if he takes them, spirits. [More…]

• It probably will be managed. [More…]

• Thus they will give a direct impetus to inflation and for the ordinary man in the street, who is the professed concern of this Government, will mean a lift in prices where it hurts a lot. [More…]

• While governments of all colours have over the years fallen back on the hardy perennials of higher taxes on the ordinary man’s cigarettes, drinks and petrol, the introduction of these measures on this occasion, when the containing of inflation is the dominating issue of national economic policy, are so inappropriate as to be ludicrous. [More…]

• It is good that so economically literate a supporter of the Government - indeed, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Prices - as the honourable member for Adelaide should acknowledge that. [More…]

• 1 am saying that the direct effect on the man in the street of a rise in the price level of cigarettes, petrol and spirits is adding to inflation. [More…]

• As I said, this Budget is best categorised as the phoney Budget and the greatest phoney aspect is that the Budget, the main instrument of sound and responsible economic management of the economy, should be constructed on this occasion as an instrument not of containing inflation but of sustaining, and indeed as I have suggested, of fostering galloping inflation; that is to say, domestically generated inflation superimposed on the situation where it is true there has been a significant measure, but not exclusively so, of so-called imported inflation. [More…]

• What I am saying is that in point of fact the responsibility of this Government was to contain and to cut back its spending and thereby to have eliminated the need for these unjust and unfair inflationproducing imposts on the ordinary man’s cigarettes, petrol and to a much more limited degree, beer. [More…]

• What I have tried to make clear about these increases in duties is that they add directly to the rise in costs and prices in their impact on tha man in the street and that this effect, in all the circumstances, outweighs any restraining effects through a concealed curtailment of spending power. [More…]

• For instance they are affecting the price of a refrigerator that the ordinary man is buying on hire purchase. [More…]

• They are likely to do that in prevailing circumstances more than they are likely to curtail the demand. [More…]

• These duty measures in particular impinge on the ordinary man in the street. [More…]

• The honourable member has spoken about increases in excise and how those increases will affect the family man. [More…]

• How does he think an extra $400m for education will affect the family man and his capacity to provide a decent education for his children. [More…]

• When speaking about how certain action affects the family man, the honourable member must consider the totality of the situation and return to weigh the priorities. [More…]

• When we look at the massive additional expenditure on health, social welfare, housing and all these other things, I think that for the man in the street the increased fuel charges, which probably could be absorbed by the petrol companies anyway, and the increase on spirits and cigarettes is only a very small price to pay for the additional services given to him through health services, to his children through better education and all the other facets of Government expenditure in the way that they affect people. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maranoa, a man whose people pioneered and tamed the western areas of Queensland, has expressed his concern. [More…]

• Of course the Prime Minister’s administrative performance is not helped by having a 27-man Cabinet and a 93-man supervisory Cabinet - his Caucus. [More…]

• The man hours lost through industrial action in the first 5 months this year as compared with the first 5 months of last year have gone up by 54 per cent. [More…]

• I refer to the last point mentioned by the honourable member in relation to man hours lost by industrial trouble. [More…]

• How many man hours did those 120,000 unemployed under the Liberal Government lose? [More…]

• How many man hours were lost because the honourable member and his vicious policies sought to make men so economically dependent that they would take any kind of employment? [More…]

• The previous Government wanted a pool of unemployment to lose man hours. [More…]

• Whilst honourable members opposite are clamouring about ministerial staffs they should turn their eyes on to their own leaders, including the Country Party leaders, and they will see not only the staff that they have but also what they are continually demanding from this Government. [More…]

• They have never seen a poor man because they do not mix in those circles. [More…]

• Let us look at the 27-man Cabinet and the 93-man Caucus. [More…]

• Many of them could not get in anywhere. [More…]

• The 27-man Ministry decides on matters in accordance with the policy of this Party. [More…]

• I am glad to hear the honourable member say that because I would not have thought that he was a man who believed he had no right whatever to comment on any Government decision but must come here only to vote in Parliament in support of what the Prime Minister and the Cabinet did. [More…]

• The Minister says that the Commonwealth Government will give Victoria $9.6m provided that the Commonwealth Government has a man on the commission for the transport system in Victoria, that he can determine where the contracts go and at what price the contracts are let. [More…]

• Productivity is simply an increase in output per unit of labour per man hour. [More…]

• It is coming from the small man, the man in the street, who previously supported the present Government but who recognises today that it is a Government of ineptitude - an incompetent Government. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Chairman, you might convey the message that the people of Australia are just waiting for an election, for the opportunity to show the Prime Minister, his 27 Ministers and the rest of the Australian Labor Party what the people think of their first 305 days in office. [More…]

• Unfortunately the same comment cannot be made in respect of the new Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh), a man with no experience and a man who has shown no evidence of any previous concern or interest. [More…]

• He is a man who has shown a very great sense of dedication. [More…]

• Although I have had considerable disagreement with him in the past on certain subjects, I am firmly convinced that he - like the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), who also struck stormy times - is a man who was sincerely motivated in his interest in the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The Communist Party of Australia - the Aarons group - appointed a man called Denis Freney, a previous Trotskyite, to control the operation. [More…]

• I repeat that that was mean and unworthy of a man of the stature claimed by the former Prime Minister. [More…]

• I blame the Government for appointing a man with that sort of performance behind him. [More…]

• Not one cattle man in the country is attached to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I would not say he was the most dedicated Minister because the man who was the most dedicated Minister the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) is sitting behind me at the moment. [More…]

• It is to our considerable shame as citizens and as a nation that 200 years after the advent of the white man Aboriginals are still living in this country as second class citizens. [More…]

• whose contact with the white man has caused them to absorb in many cases the white man’s faults without his accompanying virtues. [More…]

• I, in common with many others, had been told that the Aboriginal was a nohoper and a drunkard and that all he wanted was handouts. [More…]

• But the overwhelming majority of Aboriginals have been proud people who realise that they need assistance to assimilate into the white man’s society but who, nonetheless, wish to succeed. [More…]

• The problems facing the fringe dwelling Aboriginal are in many aspects greatly different from those facing the tribal Aboriginal. [More…]

• Given education, good housing, employment and a white man’s income, the Aboriginal will be well on the road to equality. [More…]

• The former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the honourable member for Wills, has created many initiatives. [More…]

• This is the state of the nation from an Aboriginal housing point of view and this man - the honourable member for Wills - is the man who knows all about the problem. [More…]

• We might be difficult and we might ignore our neighbours; but we would not go crook about a man and his wife and family unless they became too unhygienic or kicked up too much of a shindy in the middle of the night. [More…]

• The position still remains that a man of low occupational status has more chance of being dealt with severely by our courts than has a man of high occupational status. [More…]

• The reason is, of course, that the poorer man cannot afford legal representation. [More…]

• In many cases such a person suffers a penalty before being brought to court because he is unable to obtain bail, whereas a more educated man would know how to obtain it. [More…]

• The people of the Northern Territory were fortunate in that they were able to resist this piece of planting, comradeship, or whatever it might have been, by the Attorney-General to have this man stationed in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I do not believe that he is a man who is afraid of losing a few votes from the liquor interests in the Northern Territory should he advocate stronger action against them for serving drunken persons. [More…]

• From my knowledge of the movement of aircraft into and out of the existing Eagle Farm Airport - I am not a technical man, of course, but I have a pair of eyes and I can see what is going on there and the great need for something to be done in Brisbane - I say that if this work does not proceed, although I have no doubt that it will, Brisbane no longer will have an international airport. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned he is .the man that counts. [More…]

• There have been very serious discomforts and inconveniences for personnel employed by the airline and the only reason for this is the action - or inaction - of this man and the Labor Government. [More…]

• The references which the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) made about the Minister in this regard, whether it be shipbuilding or any other aspect of his portfolio, definitely do not line up with the nature of the man as I and many other members who have worked with him know him. [More…]

• The honourable member probably heard during an election campaign a Labor man putting forward a proposal that Redcliffe should be linked to Brisbane and the penny suddenly has dropped as far as the honourable member for Petrie is concerned. [More…]

• The man who was responsible for this action is the honourable member for Lilley who was recently elected to this House. [More…]

• He might be a pretty good legal man. [More…]

• I do not claim to be a good industrial man, but I learned something many years ago in my experience in trade union affairs. [More…]

• It may be of interest to honourable members to know that there has hardly been a day gone by in the time since that strike started that officers of the Department of Civil Aviation have not telephoned me or I have not telephoned them - invariably they rang me - to give a progress report on discussions which have taken place between themselves, the people involved in the dispute, the people associated with it, the Chairman of the Public Service Board, the representatives from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and representatives of the PREI. [More…]

• If I think he is the best man, I will appoint him to the job. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister, being a fair man, will allow Connair to hire or run prop-jet aircraft and earn an income with them if it can. [More…]

• I make a request to the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) to recognise that every effort should be made in this age when man is bouncing satellite communications around the world to ensure that small but important communities have a continuing right to full post office facilities. [More…]

• But I have to be convinced that the minute savings that would be made by post office declassification in many rural centres will have any impact when compared with the unnecessary millions of dollars that are spent and often wasted in central areas of the Public Service. [More…]

• That is typical of him because he is a fairminded man - but Brisbane had almost 50 per cent of Queensland’s population and 50 per cent of the unemployed, yet . [More…]

• Now of course an old man, he says that in putting his affairs in order he came upon some relics of his World War I experience, including his Army pay book, and this recalled to his mind the fact that he had made his investment of 30 in war bonds 50 years ago. [More…]

• This, as I have said, should scare the living daylights out of so many people in the Australian community who are discovering that as much injustice can be done in the name of equalising opportunity as can be done in the name of anything else. [More…]

• I am sure that as a man of good will, he will seriously consider this. [More…]

• To some extent it takes the blame away from him if he should choose in his own way the wrong man for the job. [More…]

• We know that one man cannot be all things to all men. [More…]

• I can only assume that the Opposition sticks to its stodgy, old school tie, Party factionalism type of attitude that has become so evident in its political manoeuvrings in recent times. [More…]

• The Labor Government is determined to make a permanent commitment to the education of every Australian child and every Australian young man and young woman. [More…]

• This proposed amendment would require the Government to appoint the Chairman for a term of not more than 5 years. [More…]

• The gentleman who has been appointed as Chairman of the Interim Committee is Dr Kenneth McKinnon. [More…]

• He is a young man of 42. [More…]

• The amendment would ask a man to move from a secure position into another position with a limitation of 5 years on his term of office. [More…]

• The chairman will be Dr Kenneth McKinnon, who for many years was the Director of Education in Papua New Guinea, who created a very large part of the secondary and teacher education aspects which have been the most marked development of education in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Other members will be Mrs J. Blackburn, now senior lecturer at the Sturt College of Advanced Education in Adelaide and who for many years was connected with teacher education; the Director-General of Education in South Australia, Mr A. W. Jones; Father Martin, director of the Catholic Education Office, Melbourne; Dr Peter Tannock, Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Western Australia, who also is on the Roman Catholic Archbishop’s trustee board or whatever it is called, for education in Western Australia; Mr Ray Costello, the President of the Australian Teachers Federation; Mrs J. Kirner, President of the Victorian Federation of State School Mothers Clubs; Mr A. McNamara, the President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations; Mr Peter Moyes, the Principal of the Christ Church Grammar School in Western Australia; and Mr A. D. J. [More…]

• Mr Wood comes from near Launceston in Tasmania. [More…]

• There will be 2 other appoint ments - one a very distinguished officer of the New South Wales Department of Education whose name I am not yet free to disclose and another, a man who was until recently a principal of one of the leading experimental schools of Australia. [More…]

• No member opposite has dared to deny that we have a mandate to set up this Commission. [More…]

• They have made many innuendos about the sort of people we would appoint to the Commission, but no one has dared to name a soul whom we have already nominated. [More…]

• I could not imagine a more distinguished man than Mr Peter Moyes, the headmaster of Christ Church Grammar, who has been chosen by all the headmasters of the independent schools as their president. [More…]

• That choice of presidency came after I looked at a panel of names from that quarter and selected him as a man I thought to be outstanding. [More…]

• He is a man of great integrity and of great intellectual insight who, in Christ Church Grammar School, has developed a magnificent section for brain damaged handicapped children as well as having a school with children of the highest academic ability. [More…]

• Nevertheless, many misleading statements have been made and our friend the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) has certainly been well to the fore in this. [More…]

• It makes one wonder whether he has not passed the clock back a little to a period of about the middle of December 1972 when we had a 2-man Cabinet - a 2-man government, if you like - because at present it would appear to me that there are only a couple of people running the country. [More…]

• Again I ask: Who is running the country - the Caucus, the rural rump, Cabinet, this 2- man committee which I mentioned before, or you, Mr Speaker? [More…]

• My reason for this request is that generally a man who owns his own home keeps his place tidy, cuts his lawn and so on. [More…]

• From my experience in local government over many years, generally, I have found that rented homes built together as a section of rented homes were disaster areas when it came to the occupiers keeping the places looking nice, making gardens, cutting the lawns and so on. [More…]

• Before dealing with some of the contents of the report I should like to pay tribute to the Chairman of the Committee, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), whose profound interest in road safety was well known before he actually took over as Chairman of the Committee. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie) would agree with me that the Chairman is a man of great enthusiasm. [More…]

• The Committee has had a multitude of sittings - many more than any other committee of which I have been a member. [More…]

• He is an entirely different man. [More…]

• I think it is important that it is recognised that the urban policy of this country is apparently to be set by a man who has tonight stated that in future, if the referendum that is coming before the Australian people on 8 December is successful, and perhaps even if it is not successful, the Government will intervene to acquire arbitrarily and compulsorily not with the consent of the land owner, not with the consent of the householder, land in each of the capital cities, without a plan, without explaining what is to be done with the land, without announcing any basis of compensation, without people really knowing whether the land will be used or what will happen to it. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I am sure that you are a man of commiseration. [More…]

• He is the one man who does not want to have it happen in Darwin. [More…]

• He is a little man - an honest man. [More…]

• Again we have a Country Party spokesman in the forefront - in the vanguard. [More…]

• The fact that only one pocket of land was involved, and not many, probably can be attributed to the fact that the Country Party has never had much influence in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• It is only in the Northern Territory where there is influence from people such as Mr Geoff Letts, the Country Party member for Victoria River, that wc have a situation where a man can buy land at $32 an acre and then demand that the taxpayers of Australia pay him $5,000 an acre before he will let people build houses on it. [More…]

• Think your position out, man. [More…]

• I should like to quote a proposition by that very great Englishman, Sir Winston Churchill, on this very subject. [More…]

• And everywhere today the man or the public body who wishes to put land to its highest use is forced to pay a preliminary fine to the man who is putting it to an inferior use and, in some cases, to no use at all. [More…]

• This is similar to the man in the Northern Territory who bought land for $32 an acre and wishes to sell it for $5,000 an acre. [More…]

• I thought that it was a despicable twisting of statistics to try to cast aspersions on a man whose integrity in this place is without parallel. [More…]

• To overcome this problem of aggregation Mr Tilling adopts a technique developed by Phelps-Brown - which the honourable gentleman would know all about, I hope - the effect of which compensates for the changing structure of the economy. [More…]

• Is it true that the naval officer - I understand a lieutenant-commander in the Navy Reserve - who is the editor of Navy News’ is to be reprimanded for views expressed by him in the last edition of ‘Navy News’ concerning the Labor Government’s defence policy? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Defence checked to see whether the Prime Minister is going to reprimand his, the Prime Minister’s, principal economic adviser, Dr Coombs, over some statements that Dr Coombs made at the weekend concerning the budgetary tactics of the Government? [More…]

• If no reprimand is to be issued to Dr Coombs and a reprimand is to be issued against the editor of ‘Navy News’, is it because the editor of ‘Navy News’ is too close to the truth or is it just because he is seen as a little man and a man over whom the Minister feels he can exercise his authority whereas Dr Coombs is seen to be somebody above the law? [More…]

• He, masterful man that he is, commissioned a strategic appreciation looking 15 years ahead. [More…]

• This I believe marks one of the tragedies of this man’s appointment to this portfolio. [More…]

• lt is quite obvious that this man does not really know where he is going in the administration of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]

• Because emergency services, such as hospitals, ambulances, police, and fire departments would have priority over the common man in getting petrol, oil gas and electricity, whole families would suffer. [More…]

• ‘Daddy, what does that man do?’ [More…]

• One can almost hear the man reciting it - towards the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s goal of a world free from want. [More…]

• It is to no avail the Minister for Overseas Trade rising and saying ‘Oh, but no, those fears are quite groundless; we are so reasonable’, the urbanity of the honourable gentleman creaking even to the joints, the honourable gentleman posing as the man of great reason and of great understanding and so gentle. [More…]

• In the course of redistributing wealth, will the opportunity be taken from the small man to share in that wealth? [More…]

• Yet everything is thrown at Woodside-Burmah which has Australian management and Australian equity. [More…]

• For goodness sake if there is anything he wants from these companies he should be man enough to tell them and they will provide it. [More…]

• That money will come back to this Parliament thanks to one man and one man alone; and that is the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• I ask honourable members: What can we believe of this man? [More…]

• It was a carefully documented speech made by a man who was in a position to have first hand knowledge of what was happening in some aspects of the administration of this Department. [More…]

• Therefore, having these doubts, the former Minister called in Senator Georges to be chairman of various companies involved in the project. [More…]

• But, even in spite of that, apparently public money was to continue to be spent on this over the objections or the doubts of the former Minister - he can correct me if I am wrong - because there was an outside council to which the head of his Department could go for advice, and if that advice conflicted with what the Minister felt should happen, after he had spoken to his departmental head, that outside man could go directly to the Prime Minister without the Minister even knowing, let alone being there, and give different, advice from that which the Minister would have given. [More…]

• We are spending $1,000 for every man, woman and child in the Aboriginal population. [More…]

• For their sake we need to see that full benefit, or at least as full a benefit as human fallibility can give, is available for the expenditure. [More…]

• There are those who are prepared to side with the rich man - the international investor. [More…]

• In circumstances like this, with its powers to obtain funds and with its command over resources being so great, again the whole concept of the original Bill and of the AIDC has been changed. [More…]

• As one who probably knows as much about the Australian Resources Development Bank, having brought the measure into the House, and who knows more about the AIDC than any other person, with the possible exception of Sir John McEwen and Sir Alan Westerman, I know what the purposes of the original Bill were and what Cabinet intended. [More…]

• He is a talented man. [More…]

• The original Bill, with opposition from the Reserve Bank and from the Treasury, was in fact drafted under the directorship and supervision of Sir Alan Westerman. [More…]

• Is there anyone knowing that we are dealing with human beings and knowing the way that this man acts in life, who would deny the fact that he would want to do this. [More…]

• But we do not believe that we should put into the hands of one man, one organisation or one government the powers that are comprised within this clause of the new Bill which could do great harm to the Australian people. [More…]

• He is a man who enjoys, in the Victorian secondary teaching service, an unusual and perhaps a unique reputation for the warmth of his relationship with the children he has taught over the years. [More…]

• All accommodation and messing is to be free of charge and all to be first class - one man per room, hot midday meals and first class recreation facilities. [More…]

• Let us consider the claims that have been made by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who said that the superphosphate bounty will be lifted by the Government and that Colonel McArthur will be sacked as the Chairman of the Australian Meat Board. [More…]

• The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), posturing on the steps of Parliament House last week, confidently predicted that the Government had decided to make a senator Minister for the Capital Territory because, as he said, this man would be the hatchet man. [More…]

• Once again a spokesman for the Opposition made a fatal mistake. [More…]

• Does the honourable member think that he was a nark, a no-hoper or a biased man? [More…]

• Does he not agree that he was a good man? [More…]

• There was the Chairman of Committees, Mr Lucock. [More…]

• My word,, what an intelligent, able man he is. [More…]

• The Leader of the House, Mr Swartz, was on it, as was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr Barnard - a most reputable man. [More…]

• I do not want the honourable member for Maranoa to express his opinion of that right honourable gentleman tonight. [More…]

• We had Mr Drury, a distinguished man in Parliamentary procedure, and Mr Duthie, a distinguished colleague of mine. [More…]

• We had Mr Scholes the Chairman of Committees in the present Parliament. [More…]

• So does the honourable gentleman say that his leader and all those associated with him are phony and do not believe in the present arrangement? [More…]

• The suggestion by the honourable member for Maranoa was rejected by his own leader and by members of his Party and the gentleman who sits in front of him tonight. [More…]

• I am a reasonable man, but you can understand how I have been roused tonight by this new-found democrat in our midst. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister, as the Prime Minister or the senior man of the Government, to try to resolve this difference between departments. [More…]

• I based my question on a statutory declaration made by a man named Dell, a former member of the Labor Party. [More…]

• That is, the Presbyterian Assembly- that, while it believes that homosexuality is contrary to man’s ethical development, that homosexuality is productive of personal moral disintegration rather than any true personal wellbeing and happiness, it nonetheless supports the Wolfenden report that homosexual behaviour between 2 consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence and that the appropriate authorities should be advised accordingly. [More…]

• It is immoral because it -seeks to shelve the question and to say: A man is subject to this sort of threat but the threat is rarely carried out so I can salve my conscience by just letting it go because rarely is the threat carried out. [More…]

• He ought to say to himself: ‘If I were sitting in a seat and before me was brought a man who has been convicted of, in private, committing homosexual acts with some other adult who wanted him to, would I, if I bad to make the law, send that man to gaol? [More…]

• If honourable members would not do that, it is equally wrong to vote that the law should continue as it is because they are then acting as judges, to say that this man can be sent to gaol. [More…]

• The Australian Capital Territory law provides for a maximum of life imprisonment and a minimum of 5 years; Tasmania allows a maximum of 21 years; Victora may impose 15 years imprisonment - or 20 years when vio lence or an under-age offence is involved; while New South Wales is content with 14 years. [More…]

• In New South Wales, incidentally, it is possible for an abominable man to be guilty of indecent assault with consent. [More…]

• I believe it is completely distasteful to the average man and woman in this country who I think would prefer to have nothing to do with it. [More…]

• It is unforunate that there are many twists in normality in our community. [More…]

• I refer, for instance, to kleptomania - the urge to steal. [More…]

• Violence in many ways and in many aspects, although some people cannot help performing violent acts, is an offence. [More…]

• Prostitution is an offence in many countries. [More…]

• I cannot understand any decent man or woman opening the door wider to these kinds of things. [More…]

• Prior to coming to this Parliament homosexual acts were as repulsive to me as they were to any man. [More…]

• On the serious side, to any decent, thinking man, blackmail should be more repulsive than any other crime. [More…]

• But I know that people with this unfortunate affliction have been blackmailed for many years. [More…]

• Invariably judges reprimand police officers in court when they enforce the law. [More…]

• We are the ones who should be ashamed because we have not had the courage, the spunk or the guts to liberalise the law and to remove this unpleasant phase of police duties which is repulsive to every decent policeman in the country who has to enforce this law. [More…]

• It is also true, as has been pointed out by the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass), that many homosexuals throughout their life fight against the affliction. [More…]

• I should not like to see homosexual acts removed from the law altogether because from my own personal experience, in my previous profession, I have had to go and knock on the door of decent homes and say to the parents that their 10 or 14-year-old son had been found with an old man in the Sydney domain. [More…]

• We make the strongest possible protest to the Parliament about the manner in which the Government has abused the forms of the House at every opportunity. [More…]

• The responsibility lies with the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), but he is a man who is intent on using this Parliament as a forum for his own grandiose pretensions and not as a house of legislative review, as its democratic functions are prescribed under the Constitution. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property is seeking to build up for himself a reputation as the Stalin of Australian politics - the man of steel, smiling away. [More…]

• Admittedly in the second reading debate the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) went a stage further than Opposition members have previously and laid down some guidelines in the matter of Australian management and a few things like that, but I suggest that they were pretty nebulous. [More…]

• The debate on this Bill shows up that one opportunity we have of tapping an important area where the smaller man can invest in his own country. [More…]

• We had a year or two ago - many members will remember this - the proposition of the present Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) and the present Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) to attempt to raise funds to buy a portion of the Simpson Desert. [More…]

• The way the small amounts flowed into their offices at that time showed that the small man in this country has a great deal of interest in buying a part of his own country. [More…]

• The endowment insurance and public retirement fund provisions of this legislation will be a means of harnessing the funds of the smaller man to do just this. [More…]

• One has only to glance at the comments made at the election of the Chairman and Council of the Sydney Stock Exchange in recent days. [More…]

• The newly elected Chairman of the Exchange said that it was time to convince the investing public that the Stock Exchange had to take real strides to restore the confidence of the small investor in the operation of the Stock Exchange, and that many questionable mining stocks had been brought before the people of Australia. [More…]

• In fact each time one of these mining ventures or companies fail, generally it is the small man who gets burnt. [More…]

• ‘The big man has the know; he has the nod and he gets out in time. [More…]

• He is a man who has great support on all sides of this Parliament and, indeed, in this country. [More…]

• The honourable member indicated in his comment that he did not understand the man. [More…]

• If a man who does not support the sentiments contained in his report writes that sort of statement into it, we are faced with a peculiar kind of logic. [More…]

• When the case for industry is before this Commission the industries that will be found to be in the strongest position on the basis of efficiency will be found, in my opinion, in the countryside because in my own electorate what one finds are industries that have doubled their productivity in 10 years, and they are still increasing productivity per man and per unit of investment in a way which, if we were able to achieve it in secondary and tertiary industry, would put this country on the high road to a better prosperity than we have at present. [More…]

• Do not give up the mandatory provision. [More…]

• He said that his actual words were: ‘not many members of the Country Party’. [More…]

• The fact that he was prepared to go to these lengths of believing he could make these major alterations to falsify Hansard rather than coming here like a man and saying: ‘I am wrong; I made a mistake’, which is pardonable, shows something of the character, I fear, of the Minister. [More…]

• This man seems to be talking sense, Laurie.’ [More…]

• I will give the honourable member an assurance that I will do my best to keep out of the Australian law in the future any mandatory reference to the Tariff Board. [More…]

• If I were a betting man I would give him even money that it does not appear henceforth. [More…]

• It is to be a comparatively small Commission with considerable powers apparently vested in the Chairman. [More…]

• The Commission should consist of a number of independent Commissioners meeting together and policy should thus be in their hands rather than potentially in the hands of one man should the situation emerge of there being a particularly dominant Chairman. [More…]

• For one thing, the first step man takes when building a town or city is to replace trees and grass with asphalt, concrete and brick. [More…]

• It has been interesting to note in the Press during the last few days a report stating Fumes at night are like a fog’, according to a Port Kembla resident; a report in the ‘Canberra Times’ stating that a Geelong company was fined $1,000 for polluting the air; and a report on the opening of a symposium on air quality by Professor Zelman Cowen who spoke of air pollution as an ‘abomination - a defeat of man by man himself. [More…]

• I can remember years ago as a very young man hearing the late Billy Hughes, a former wartime Prime Minister of Australia, putting great emphasis on the fact that grazing lands were being reduced to sand dunes as a result of overstocking, particularly with sheep and cattle, and the cutting down of trees. [More…]

• If we start again to analyse those very wise words of a man that was held in very great regard by the Australian people we stop and think. [More…]

• No government could have made a better choice of a man to head this Ministry than the present Minister. [More…]

• This awakened the minds of people and they went on to think about the destruction of the natural environment of man. [More…]

• But surely to goodness people in this House do not think that it is possible for a man and his wife and family to exist at that level, even for only food and clothing, for 12 months in this day and age. [More…]

• It is totally irresponsible for a government to allow these elephantine exercises of an obsessed man like the Minister for Minerals and Energy - this sweet prince who has visions, but he does not tell his Cabinet colleagues about the visions. [More…]

• The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), the man who virtually guaranteed industrial peace and stability under a Labor Government, appointed the former member for Sturt - stormy Normie - to be his troubleshooter. [More…]

• The record speaks for itself and the honourable gentleman tries to laugh it off. [More…]

• Any man on the Government side who insists on perpetuating this untruth, this falsehood, this base lie, deserves to be known as a liar. [More…]

• I shall give an Australian answer and only hope that I am correct in speaking for the Liberal Party when I say as I shall say that no Australian government, even one led by a weak and susceptible man, would ever encourage Japan into courses of revived militarism. [More…]

• The Chinese, 1 trust, will simply say to me about the Leader of the Opposition: ‘Forget that unfortunate man, but we would rather not see him again’. [More…]

• This is the gentleman who talks about damaged relations with other countries. [More…]

• The Liberals always preached the prescription for conscription; let that be known to every Australian young man. [More…]

• The most interesting thing about this motion is the man who has moved it and his motives. [More…]

• It is the motion of a man who, a year ago, was [More…]

• Well, I would have thought that even such a redoubtable numbers man as my immediate predecessor would have known that if you have fewer public servants that can only be achieved by sacking them or by recruiting none. [More…]

• The irresponsible approach of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to this censure motion is a clear reflection of his total inability to command effective national leadership in this country. [More…]

• He spoke in this House not as a great Prime Minister concerned with the basic problems facing Australia but rather as a man devoured by his own vanity and arrogance - a man whose vaudeville performance in this House is one of contempt for the Parliament and contempt for the people at large. [More…]

• This man sought to clown his way through the debate by using personal insult and cheap political diatribe. [More…]

• Many more people than that were actually out of work, but that was the seasonally adjusted figure. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, who was then the Treasurer - the architect behind and the man responsible for that disaster - has the gall and the nerve to try to convince the Australian people that this Government is responsible for a loss in production of some 860,000 working days. [More…]

• Let us face this fact: The position today is that we are short of goods and services because of the increased consumer demand which is existing, as well as certain other factors. [More…]

• That means that we have a great demand - a demand which cannot be satisfied because of a number of factors, one of which is directly attributable to the lack of manpower policy of the Opposition. [More…]

• The present Minister for Labour, contrasted with the previous Minister for Labour, is the first man since the Second World War to undertake a manpower survey in this country. [More…]

• He ought to be man enough- [More…]

• If he is man enough to say that he is wrong he should get up and say that he is wrong and we will give him leave to correct his mistake. [More…]

• But we all know which hat this man believes to be the most important - that of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party made a feeble but very unconvincing attempt to satisfy the Parliament that his Party is not the captive of foreign interests seeking to steal and to ravage Australia’s mineral and energy resources and to impose excessive tariff burdens upon the man on the land who has to sell his production at prices governed by world parity while being forced by the Country Party to pay through the nose for everything he has to buy, because of the excessive tariff policies of the Country Party. [More…]

• He talked about lost time due to strikes but he was as silent as the grave on the 20 million man-days lost annually through the massive unemployment which the Liberal-Country Party Government deliberately created as a means of controlling inflation and of preventing industrial unrest. [More…]

• He dodged the issue because he is an intelligent and widely read man who knows perfectly well that the Australian Parliament has no power to deal directly with labour relations. [More…]

• I think it is deplorable that a man who is responsible for the defence forces of this country should have pioneered the complete dismantling of our defence capacity. [More…]

• If there is ever an area of public responsibility in this country which is falling into disarray it is under the administration of this man, who has failed to create any certainty in the minds of the Australian public as to what is the new health policy of the Government. [More…]

• This man has not given us a positive health policy; I believe he has given us a negative health policy. [More…]

• From the Treasurer (Mr Crean) we have had a Budget which has seen the complete dismantling of significant areas of assistance to private individuals engaged in productive industries in Australia. [More…]

• I refer not only to the primary sector, although there the cost will be about $160m, but also to the extractive industries, the mining industry and the manufacturing industry. [More…]

• As a result of the Budget which this man introduced we have seen the principal economic adviser to the Prime Minister come out and say that we have 2 alternatives - either we increase taxation or the Australian taxpayer will pay through increased inflation. [More…]

• So that we are now in the position where the man who presented the first Labor Budget for 23 years has come out with a wet squib. [More…]

• All one needs to do is to cite the deplorable Australian Security Intelligence Organisation exercise to recall how this man, in an endeavour to protect his colleagues in the left of his Party, was prepared to breach every area of ministerial responsibility by taking one of the groups responsible to him - the Commonwealth Police Force - into the offices of another, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, in order to pursue what I suspect was only a personal vendetta. [More…]

• I believe it is deplorable that in such a direct and irresponsible action this man could so have disrupted the security capacity of this country. [More…]

• I believe that is a fair assessment of the contribution of this man. [More…]

• Here we have a man who seems to be in constant disagreement with his colleagues in the Ministry. [More…]

• We have in him a man whose uncertainty and leadership are such that most people in northern Australia are concerned about just where they are heading. [More…]

• It is the Minister for Labour as much as anyone who must take responsibility for the increasing number of industrial disputes, for the considerable increase in man days lost and for the consequential shortage of goods which is accelerating the inflationary forces of this country. [More…]

• Look at the Bills they put through, and particularly the Australian Country Party members, these defenders of the rural man. [More…]

• In other words, there is no means of communication known to man which they use - only the secret signals that they give. [More…]

• This is a difficult task for any man to do. [More…]

• He made it quite clear that they would be very welcome to engage in the manufacture of motor vehicles in Australia. [More…]

• There is competition between domestic manufacturers in this country and importers of cars from overseas. [More…]

• Yet at a time when the Government is trying to encourage domestic manufacturers we have appreciated our currency against the Japanese yen by 10 per cent since November and we have cut tariffs by 25 per cent. [More…]

• He is a very broad minded man. [More…]

• Sir Robert Askin made no mention of Mr Bob Heffron, a former Premier of New South Wales, now over 80 years of age, a man who must take great pride in the fact that he helped to continue the project. [More…]

• In the National Capital Development Commission we have the cleverest bunch of bureaucrats I have ever seen because if they can twist a man of such stamina as my Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) into the gyrations in which he has been engaged during the last few weeks, they can do anything. [More…]

• I am not saying that we are tied to what a dead man - a great architect but now a dead man - once said should be done. [More…]

• The man who knew what he was talking about was ignored. [More…]

• He did just that and I suppose that if ever there was a man guilty of not having started or planned anything in relation to the permanent parliament house, it was the successor to the right honourable member for Higgins. [More…]

• I admire the* right hon ourable member for Higgins for his courage and for many of the things he did in this Parliament, and the decision he took to place the new parliament on Camp Hill was one of them. [More…]

• The Minister was a Capital Hill man. [More…]

• We could not attach this Parliament House to a permanent parliament house on Capital Hill. [More…]

• I remember not so long ago - it does not seem to be so very long ago, but it was back in time- a certain gentleman arriving back in his country, waving a piece of paper and saying: ‘Peace in our time’. [More…]

• I said that some years ago a man waved a piece of paper and said: ‘Peace in our time’. [More…]

• I think this is something we should consider when we think that just after so many people had commented about the fact that there was no imminent danger confronting Australia the conflict between Israel, Egypt and Syria broke out. [More…]

• They were excited by our 2-man dictatorship because we were trying out a pattern that has been fairly well tried around so many parts of the world. [More…]

• It was very odd to visit Paris and to be asked by so many people in France: ‘Is it true that the Australian people like the Communist Chinese more than they like the French, or is it that they are just a little hypocritical in their attitudes to bombs?’ [More…]

• The postal workers’ boss said: ‘Well, one is an imperialist’s bomb and the other is a working man’s bomb’. [More…]

• The Labor Party seems to think that by attacking the United States it is adopting a stance of independence which will command the admiration of the entire world and that by attacking the United States we might neutralise some of the suspicions that some countries have about Australia. [More…]

• I am not talking about the man who holds the presidency but about the office of President of the United States. [More…]

• Subsequently the picture clearly unfolded that the man who holds the office of President of the United States was not really interested in meeting the leader of this bunch of alley cats which sits on the other side of the chamber. [More…]

• You will run into trouble quicker with that man than you will with a man who expresses an independent opinion. [More…]

• The previous Government heralded the visit to this national capital of a man who is now in disgrace in the United States. [More…]

• One would have thought that members opposite would have said something favourable about it but they could not do so because they have too many masters to serve in other places. [More…]

• It is a fact of history that the Australian Labor Party has done more constructive things on a long term basis for the rural man than the Country Party has done by any of its jobbed up, subsidised, propped up schemes. [More…]

• I might add that I have some respect for the man he defeated. [More…]

• He has learned his lesson and realises that when one is up against a man of some competence one wants a safer situation than he had. [More…]

• The Government should patch up its taxation system, because from taxation it can get funds to treat those people who are not so well off in an unequal manner so that their children may have some equality in life when their turn comes. [More…]

• But this is the man who when he was Prime Minister had his own Minister for Defence resign and who provoked massive rows with the generals. [More…]

• This is the man who had $50m peeled off him in the 1971-72 Budget when he was Minister for Defence. [More…]

• This is the man who went to Papua New Guinea with a gun on his hip and who shot down plans to take over MLC Ltd. [More…]

• The petty politics went so far that there was not even an acknowledgment of the man who had the great foresight to initiate this wonderful project, of which we all feel so proud now. [More…]

• The man who was responsible for this is the honourable member for Lilley, who was recently elected to this House. [More…]

• I am convinced that this man will fight tooth and nail for the party to which he belongs, the Liberal Party, and its objectives. [More…]

• Nevertheless it was very evident that he believed in fair play - a quality I admire in any man. [More…]

• In reply to my query whether this was the A. Langton whose name appeared on the leaflet he said: ‘I am a betting man, and I will bet on that one’. [More…]

• He presents himself in this Parliament as a champion of the Brisbane Airport - a man whose . [More…]

• With an eye to the main chance he formed an association with a man named John Bovill, of 36 Drumalbyn Road, Bellevue Hill, a leader of the society set and a man who lived close to and I understand was a neighbour of a former Prime Minister whose name has been mentioned earlier. [More…]

• While the chairman of directors of Landmark, A. E. Armstrong, was abroad, Barton moved for his ousting and the appointment of himself in his stead. [More…]

• Firstly, the Premier of New South Wales is a man who so loudly cries about the so-called poor deal his State gets from this Government. [More…]

• This is the man who claims his Government receives unfair treatment from this Government, yet by the parsimonious attitude of his own State Government keeps local government and the ratepayers in a financial straightjacket. [More…]

• What he was really saying was that he wanted local government to remain a dependent child of the States and that councils should be kept in a Statetightened straight-jacket - this from a man who claims that the Australian Government is trying to shackle the States. [More…]

• It was fantastic, for instance, to hear the speech of doom this afternoon in this debate by the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann). [More…]

• He said that the rural man and rural industry were doomed. [More…]

• My reasons are, firstly, that the dairy man would receive only a minimal share of the increased price and, secondly, that the drastic and dramatic fall in butter consumption in Australia over the past 12 months should startle the dairy industry into some intelligent reaction. [More…]

• And each man squatted on bis heel [More…]

• This man said: ‘In 1949, every person involved in primary production was doing fine. [More…]

• What an absurd statement from the Leader of the Country Party, a man who claims that his Party speaks for growers. [More…]

• How can a man, when his income is better than it has ever been before, complain that it is not? [More…]

• Frankly, I thought that Goebbels was without offspring, but I must say to the members of this Parliament that I believe his children are well represented, all of them, in terms of propaganda, because really the performance of the Country Party in the last few months has been pathetic. [More…]

• Let us face it; the man is thirsty. [More…]

• In the wheat industry, as indeed in almost every other aspect of research not only in agriculture, we find this incredible gap between the fundamental research workers and the practical problems of the man on the land. [More…]

• I say finally on this point: Should a man be congratulated on a job that is harmless and useless because he has not done any harm? [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), we know, is exceptionally clever at smearing but tonight he has given the best exhibition of smearing that I have heard him give for many a long day. [More…]

• However, I want to say something further about this man Barton and link it with the remarks I made in the grievance debate today. [More…]

• I will not name States but I will not necessarily disagree with what the honourable gentleman says. [More…]

• Therefore, the Opposition believes that this question of mental illness is something that impacts itself upon human beings and upon families. [More…]

• It seems to me ironic that here we are spending $ 15m in 2 years to cover, amongst other things, an illness created by the greatest killer drug of addiction known to man - alcohol. [More…]

• The World Health Organisation rates alcohol as the fourth largest medical problem in the world, and a White Paper of the British Parliament rates alcohol as the third largest killer of mankind. [More…]

• That does not measure the amount of agony and anguish that alcoholism causes to human beings who suffer from it, and their families. [More…]

• It seems ironic to me that we still allow that drug, the greatest killer drug of addiction known to man, to be advertised on television, on radio and in the newspapers. [More…]

• Maybe we will reach a stage of sanity some day where we can recognise the irony and the insanity of allowing the third greatest killer of man to be advertised freely so that young people might be induced or seduced to consume it. [More…]

• Examples which come to mind are accountancy and management. [More…]

• There appears to be no reason why a young man or woman trained at a school or technical college for one or two years to acquire skills in a particular vocation cannot be as fully competent as a tradesman, technician or clerk after one year of job experience as would be an accountant after one year of job experience following the completion of his academic course. [More…]

• I am a once a year man in that respect. [More…]

• A little over one million man days were lost last year through strikes. [More…]

• Through the unemployment policies of the previous Government about half a million man days were lost every week. [More…]

• Last year in New South Wales alone 1.9 million man days were lost through industrial accidents. [More…]

• New South Wales alone was 1.9 million man days. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman is sincere and believes that lost production ought to be attacked, why does he not speak about the negligence of employers which allowed such accidents to occur? [More…]

• He is beset by this mania he has for seeing every strike as some kind of a left wing communist plot inspired from overseas. [More…]

• On 27th of this month I hope to be meeting the world authority, Mr Lewis Weeks - the man who advised Esso-BHP exactly what to do and where to look in the young sediments off-shore in Bass Strait. [More…]

• Not only were they bereft of integrity, they were a manifestation of the shame of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• I will admit that at last from the ranks of Tuscany has emerged a man who is like Astur, and that man sits at the table. [More…]

• I say to the Minister that many men respected Marshall Rommel and there were others who did not. [More…]

• But as the Minister he is in command of the taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• To what extent will he blame some public servant and to what degree will he punish him for his failure as a technical man? [More…]

• He has done this with all the charm and savoir-faire of Dick Turpin - I think that was the gentleman’s name - or Kelly who had in common with the Minister the charm which came originally from the Emerald Isle. [More…]

• Is there any man in this country to whom we should look as being more experienced in this field of activity than the Leader of the Opposition? [More…]

• Even less forgivably he tried to associate with his assertions the Commissioner of Trade Practices, Mr Bannerman, who made it cleaT in a report tabled recently in this Parliament that he for one would have nothing to do with the proposition that restrictive trade practices and inflation were matters which could be divorced. [More…]

• In his report Mr Bananerman said: [More…]

• It is not hard for the mechanism of naming a used car lot or a radio and television repair man to be evoked effectively at State level, but there is an abundance of evidence to show that the interests of consumers are abused by organisations of a scope whose power, influence and standing in our community enable them to ignore being named by a consumer bureau in its report to a State parliament. [More…]

• Is he the type of man who should be given such power? [More…]

• So Thales, not being a man connected merely with the stars, went out and hired months in advance all of the olive presses. [More…]

• So when it came to the olive crushing season there was Thales in command of all of the olive presses. [More…]

• Fifteen centuries later that Constitution was to influence heavily, of all things, the Sherman Act in the United States of America. [More…]

• Dealing with our own Anglo-Saxon forebears, in pre-Norman times this was an issue. [More…]

• A man sold his business. [More…]

• A man engaged an apprentice. [More…]

• I should like to remind the honourable gentleman that in the current Trade Practices Act, the most important man in the legislation is the Commissioner of Trade Practices and I cannot find set out anywhere in that Act the qualifications of the Commissioner of Trade Practices. [More…]

• A man called Hughes - a communist - was in charge of that ballot machinery. [More…]

• Let me say in all fairness - I want to be fair in this - that I do not have evidence that the man to whom I have referred as having stood as a Hughes-Evans candidate has maintained those communist sympathies. [More…]

• Let him come out like a man and maintain his anti-communist stance instead of this deferment of his real feelings for party political purposes. [More…]

• I believe that the Government and I are entitled to an apology from Mr Martin, and I say to the Master Builders Association, through you, Mr Speaker, that it would be very good if it curbed the behaviour of this belligerant spokes man whose attitudes have contributed so much to industrial strife and the suffering and inconvenience of the public in the city of Sydney. [More…]

• The Division of Soils studies the effects of man’s activities on soils, and their management for the production of crops, pastures, and forests. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who asks the question came into this place with the reputation of being a free trader. [More…]

• It shows how quickly a man can be corrupted by joining the Liberal Party. [More…]

• The consequences of this action is that it is the small man who fixes the price, not the big man, and big business is quite happy with price fixing because it knows that its level of profit will be maintained. [More…]

• This is what he said in the interview: the major problems of medical politics are our dilapidated plant, our failure to provide staff adequately to man even the existing service, our disproportionate dependence on immigrant doctors and the rising tide of medical emigration. [More…]

• At the present time a man with a wife and 2 children in receipt of $70 a week pays $76 a year net of tax concessions for public ward and medical insurance in New South Wales. [More…]

• Even the Opposition spokesman on health and welfare, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) has said - and I have the statement here if anyone wishes to contest it - that our scheme is not nationalisation. [More…]

• He is a notable man. [More…]

• Would he say that he was a corrupt man, even though he was a Liberal before he became a judge? [More…]

• We have one commissioner, Mr Bannerman, a fine public servant. [More…]

• He is one man. [More…]

• Because of the increased amount of work in large measure that the Commission will have, the proposition now is not to have one man but to have many men, several men, doing the work, because there is wisdom in collective thinking, in groups of people, committees, working together and exchanging ideas. [More…]

• The Opposition does not criticise him because he was virtually its man, and a good man. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman is prepared to say that there are Australian citizens who would perjure themselves and who would accept high office on a tribunal such as the Trade Practices Tribunal and would then deliberately prostitute that office, he has an obligation to stand now and name in advance those persons so that if they are to be appointed the Government will be able to have the benefit of his knowledge. [More…]

• If he does not have any such information - I seriously suspect that he does not have it - he should be man enough to withdraw the imputation that those who will be appointed to this tribunal are in that category. [More…]

• In other words, I am appealing to him to act like a gentleman and to act with responsibility in respect of this important legislation. [More…]

• That is how it has happened; the small man could not compete because he could not buy in bulk or at a price even remotely close to that paid by the big retailer. [More…]

• If there were any validity in their arguments, surely they would want to see legislation come before this Parliament which would protect the people of Australia - not only the consumers, of course, but also the people who manufacture goods. [More…]

• As he is a very big business man and somebody representing big business in his country, he held that this was in the interests, not only of the consumer but also of business as a whole. [More…]

• I believe that the carrying and putting into operation of this Bill will be of benefit not only to the consumer and the manufacturer but also to the country as a whole. [More…]

• I must say on behalf of the Government that it is a bitter disappointment to me that the Senate saw fit to reject the 6 clauses dealing with amalgamation because one of the things that is plaguing industrial relations today is the demarcation dispute which arises as a result of having too many unions and which cause employers to be the innocent sufferers and bystanders in these stupid, inane disputes over which union shall cover which particular occupation. [More…]

• In West Germany there are 16 unions for 61 million people. [More…]

• But we never see demarcation disputes in West Germany - disputes as to which man will pull which cord or touch which button. [More…]

• He is an enthusiastic man. [More…]

• At a large public meeting held Tuesday Deniliquin following a Murray Electorate Council Meeting of the Country Party, Jerilderie man, Mr Bruce Jeffery, was re-endorsed to stand at the State Election to be held on 17 November. [More…]

• I would assess - certainly it is the emphasis given by the Settlement Division of the Department of Immigration - that a man ceases to be a migrant when he becomes a citizen of Australia. [More…]

• He was bom overseas and has been a distinguished member of this Parliament and a citizen for a great many years. [More…]

• In relation to the specific question asked by the honourable member, my information is that Dr Shapiro has been a distinguished member of the Australian community and a citizen for a great many years. [More…]

• I would say that when the man is a citizen, he has ceased to be a migrant, a new Australian or a newcomer. [More…]

• Many people who start out to build a home are able to arrange their finance and their builder before the title to their block of land comes through. [More…]

• have found that titles officers claim that the State governments have insufficient money to enable them to employ extra staff to man their Titles Offices adequately. [More…]

• The manner in which the Minister tried earner this year to put his electoral Bills through would indicate to the contrary. [More…]

• It indicates that the man who possesses the greatest expertise in exploitation and gerrymander is the Minister for Services and Property. [More…]

• Briefly I should like to answer some of the accusations which, unfortunately, have been made by the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh). [More…]

• I recall very clearly how in 1969 a man, who later became Federal President of the Australian Labor Party and is now the member for Lytton in the Queensland Parliament, Mr Tom Burns, tried 3 weeks before the election of that year to make a big issue of the claim that I was engaging in illegal practices. [More…]

• I am prepared to swear to that on the biggest stack of Bibles the honourable member for Bowman possesses. [More…]

• In 1969 a Labor alderman, after the Labor Party had tried to bring up the point that the honourable member for Bowman made, said to me: ‘That little effort was worth 500 votes to you. [More…]

• Now that the subject of politics has been raised, I remember how during the 1966 election campaign a Labor alderman ran one of my workers off the road in a car at Stones Corner. [More…]

• He was a big man. [More…]

• Then we have an article entitled ‘Those Green Bans’ by a man named Thomas and finally an article entitled ‘Strangling the Unemployment Ghost’ by a man named Jack Mundey, a communist, who is leading the disruptive tactics in the building industry and who is in cahoots with the Minister. [More…]

• It is true that with the existing tapered means test and the increase in the ‘free area’ to $20 it is still possible for a man to earn something. [More…]

• A man traditionally is the breadwinner. [More…]

• It is a terrible hardship for a man who has lost his wife - even by desertion and much worse if he has lost her by death - to find that he is placed in a financial position in which he has to break up his young family and perhaps lose contact with his dependent children. [More…]

• We do not know how many people would be in the same category as the man to whom I have referred. [More…]

• Nevertheless I have struck cases in my own electorate which are very sad, and the man concerned is in a very difficult position. [More…]

• They do not number very many in terms of voting power. [More…]

• The woman has a problem in earning an income while she looks after the house and the children. [More…]

• The man has the problem of paying for the housekeeper and child-minding facilities while he earns an income. [More…]

• A woman, if she has one dependent child, can work and earn up to $26 a week before the benefit of $32 a week is reduced. [More…]

• The man - nothing. [More…]

• The man is not even allowed child-minding or housekeeper services as tax deductions. [More…]

• The single male parent usually has a greater earning capacity than has the woman so the general benefit level cannot be applicable. [More…]

• Good grief, does not such a man even get the briefest of representations by his own authorities, the Repatriation Department? [More…]

• As one man put it to me, it is nothing but money-grubbing. [More…]

• People may forget such a man, but governments should not. [More…]

• This is in respect of the case where there is no possibility of the man being rehabilitated or undertaking any form of employment. [More…]

• The Minister quoted the case of a man with a wife and 2 children in the State of New South Wales, earning $70 a week and paying $77 a year for medical and public ward hospital insurance after tax. [More…]

• There are many hypothetical inferences. [More…]

• The only man to stand up to this medico-political pressure - the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) - was quickly deposed when he attempted to reform the system. [More…]

• A man on the minimum wage and with a wife and one child to maintain will not have to pay anything. [More…]

• A man with 2 children will be able to earn $64.50 and pay no levy; a man with 6 children will be able to earn $82.10 and pay no levy. [More…]

• I wish members of the Opposition would get in touch with ex-servicemen’s organisations in this country and tell them what they think of the doctors and the staffs that man our repatriation hospitals. [More…]

• This strike - one of many being allowed to drift on; or perhaps it is inspired by Labor Party supporters - illustrates the insincerity of the Government which refuses leave to honourable members to talk about such problems in this House. [More…]

• Mr Bob Hawke, the man who wears or attempts to wear 2 hats, one as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the other as President of the Australian Labor Party, recognises the dispute as being one of national importance. [More…]

• In all conscience, I appeal to the Minister to reject his Utopia of national conferences and to be a man and come among men. [More…]

• Does he agree that Australians have a long tradition of horsemanship, running from the stockman to ‘The man from Snowy River’, the Light Horse and beyond? [More…]

• Does he realise that, while the racing tradition is still vigorous, the majority of urban Australians have lost touch with the remainder of this tradition so that many city children have not even had the opportunity to touch a horse, much less ride one? [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister see any wrong in using a man paid by Commonwealth funds for resolving problems within his own Party? [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman wishes, he can put a question on the notice paper about that matter. [More…]

• It is not so long ago that there was on the staff of a leader of a political party which is not overtly represented in this House a man who was the federal secretary of that party; that is, a member of a party leader’s staff was doing something for the party outside the Parliament. [More…]

• There are around the country a very great number of people who want to get in touch with me as Prime Minister or as Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Federal Parliament and it will help me to have Mr Young having many of the interviews with them. [More…]

• Since Labor came to power it has never been more difficult for the working man to finance the purchase of his own home. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to set out in a definitive manner what its intentions are is clearly creating considerable uncertainties and manifold confusion among home buyers. [More…]

• To suggest that in the last 5 years it has been easy for what is called the small man to buy a house is a travesty of the facts. [More…]

• He is a man, as it were, bred and reared in the same locality as I was - Redfern - and will understand what I mean. [More…]

• The proof of the pudding of the Government’s failure to implement its policies and to manage the economy effectively is that the economy is now in an awful bloody mess. [More…]

• When we have a look at the conditions that exist today how many people do we find who are disenchanted with the activities of the Labor Government and the solo efforts of the 27 members of the Cabinet, each moving off in different directions at the same time? [More…]

• I believe he was rebuked - I hope he was not, because I would never rebuke a man as kind as he is - by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) for his statements in which I think he believed, although he was probably wrong. [More…]

• If we get into a position where shortages of supplies in the community develop, that is when demand is too high and supplies are too low, then no matter what economy-even in a communist economy - the price of goods and services in real terms will inevitably rise. [More…]

• As an illustration because the interest rates on housing authority loans have been driven to a relatively low level it will mean that money will not be attracted into the permanent building societies or into the savings banks. [More…]

• Demand under present conditions will remain high and increasing. [More…]

• That has meant, as my colleague the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) has said, that a man who borrowed $14,000 for a home in June 1973 will now have to pay 24.3 per cent or $26.22 a month more. [More…]

• How does this help the working man? [More…]

• The honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) raised the point of a man deserted by his wife and left with 5 children, who receives $65 a week and pays $16 a week rent for accommodation for himself and his children, leaving $49 a week for all of them or a little over $7 for each of them. [More…]

• A woman in the same position without any other means besides income who is deserted, would attract a pension benefit of $45.45. [More…]

• One of the galling things which the honourable member for Mackellar discovered, and which I have discovered, is that resources are limited but demands are unlimited. [More…]

• Department is a man of excellent reputation. [More…]

• That just shows the hypocrisy of the right honourable gentleman. [More…]

• Nothing is more glaringly obvious than that he is the one man who is qualified by knowledge and practical experience to understand and to present to this House realistic proposals that would lead to effective decentralisation and a stimulation of industries beyond the metropolitan areas. [More…]

• I should like to read from a letter that was written to me by a public spirited man, Mr Ray Lloyd, of Wangi Wangi, who says: [More…]

• I had some regard for the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh), but after tonight’s performance I think he is a fool. [More…]

• I refer to Mr Giles, the Chairman of Directors of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd. [More…]

• He is a man who lives in a city and has mainly city interests, but he has some understanding of the interests of the nation. [More…]

• He was a fine, affable, very sincere and highly respected man. [More…]

• Jack O’sullivan was a man who had the complete confidence of members of all parties in the State in which he was Director. [More…]

• I have heard some rather strange addresses in this chamber over many years, but the last one really takes the cake. [More…]

• It was members of the Country Party and some of our colleagues in the Liberal Party, headed by the honourable mem-., ber for Gippsland (Mr Nixon), who secured it, although the first man to rush outside and claim credit for it was the honourable member for Riverina, who is the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby). [More…]

• A man has, and subject to the requirements of public safety should always maintain, the freedom to withdraw his own labour. [More…]

• This is a human freedom which I think honourable members on both sides of the House would support. [More…]

• The man aspiring to be Prime Minister of this country has argued today against letting the people have a chance to decide what their legislation shall be. [More…]

• Let honourable members look at the fourth edition of ‘Australian Senate Practice’ by Mr J. R. Odgers, an eminent authority, the Clerk of the Senate, one of our most notable public servants and a man skilled in the standing orders on constitutional matters. [More…]

• This is the man whom the Minister said has been working in the Department. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party has been making categorical statements that the Government is following a certain line of action, and he misled the meat industry into believing what he said, stirring them into a frenzy of hatred for the Government, but the manifestation was not realized. [More…]

• The credibility of the man who did that is seriously under examination by the whole rural electorate, reinforced by his attempt to do the same thing in regard to sugar contracts with China and wheat sales to Egypt. [More…]

• The point I raise is that it is not the service outside Australia or in its territories in time of war which counts, but it is the enlistment and preparedness of a person to serve outside Australia and not necessarily such actual service which determines whether a man received housing loan assistance then and receives it to this day. [More…]

• Many men, who enlisted as being prepared to serve outside Australia but who did not serve outside Australia, still qualified for a loan. [More…]

• I understand also that many women who served in a war zone, such as Papua where obviously they were serving under extremely arduous conditions, did not receive the benefits which men alongside whom they were serving did in fact receive. [More…]

• I refer to a case of a man who volunteered to serve overseas but was not posted overseas. [More…]

• This man, who worked on the home front, is eligible today under the old regulations for housing benefits because of the nature of his enlistment but not his service. [More…]

• But I think that the honourable member for Chisholm, in fairness, must agree that the Australian Labor Party has led the field in eliminating areas of inequality between man and woman in our country and in following the principles of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]

• This man, who has been depicted by the misleading media and anti-Labor politicians as a fumbling, irresponsible failure appeared on television recently, and he wiped the floor with his critics, slaughtered his opponents and finished with the greatness of Gala Supreme. [More…]

• The considered opinion is that there is an open and shut case of bribery and that if this candidate happens to win the seat of Murray he has Buckley’s chance of surviving an inquiry by the Court of Disputed Returns, because there is clear evidence of this man’s offering the Labor Party candidate a bribe and asking whether $1,000 will be sufficient to get Labor Party preferences to destroy the Liberal Party candidate in the State seat of Murray. [More…]

• They decided that they could not endorse a Country Party candidate so they left that meeting and went to a public meeting and endorsed that same man as the independent Country Party candidate. [More…]

• That is the Country Party for you and yet the Leader of the Country Party comes in here today and tries to smear a Minister - an honest man - because he happens to use his public office to support a candidate in another seat. [More…]

• The expressions contained therein are really his expressions and clearly indicate the humanitarian aspect that this man has already shown in the case of the underprivileged and the disadvantaged. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), who preceded me in this debate, has informed us that in the United States case, Wesbury v. Sanders (1964) the then Chief Justice of that country, Earl Warren - a man more noted for his political judgments than his knowledge of jurisprudence, as will become obvious - ruled that the relevant part of this Article should be interpreted as meaning that in United States Congressional elections - to use his own words - one man’s vote in a Congressional election (in the United States) is to be worth as much as anothers’ [More…]

• The people of Australia want to know that their funds are being spent properly and that their Prime Minister is a man of dignity with some decency in his makeup. [More…]

• How can a man be so irresponsible and so inconsistent in such a short space of time? [More…]

• I just cannot understand the attitude of a man whom I would call a close friend, a former resident of my great electorate. [More…]

• 1 man in this country. [More…]

• Any man who has had any success has planned. [More…]

• Dr Forbes on Thursday told the House: 1 want to put this statement by the Prime Minister on record so that the Australian people will know what an arrogant, foul-mouthed individual is this man who masquerades as a statesman.’ [More…]

• He is not the offended man. [More…]

• He is not the gentleman who is humiliated by all of this. [More…]

• They were the outpourings of a man whose mind knows no boundaries. [More…]

• They know that if a man or a woman comes into this Parliament and is subject to character assassination, that person does not have the courage and the freedom at all times to pursue the issues that he or she feels ought to be pursued in the way that they ought to be pursued. [More…]

• This is not a place to speak to the record of a man, and I do not. [More…]

• But those of us who have served in the Parliament for, I think it is, about 16 or 17 years with Jim Forbes, the member for Barker, know him to be a man of immense personal standing and of very great personal characteristics and courage. [More…]

• There may be some of whom I have not enough personal knowledge to have a personal liking for them, but I have a great respect for many of them. [More…]

• I am ashamed that they allowed themselves to be manoeuvred into a political position of being prepared to abandon the parliamentary institution in order to protect a leader who acted so reprehensibly in their interests last week and again on Sunday of this week. [More…]

• How any man could, on the Thursday, do what he did is difficult to understand, but in relation to the Thursday I am prepared to say that the Prime Minister was in some way activated and lost control of himself and therefore said words that he would not otherwise have used. [More…]

• We know that if a judge has before him somebody who has a responsibility for law enforcement, such as a policeman or a lawyer, who has broken the law, the penalty imposed is severer because that person should know better and should give good example. [More…]

• One of the simplest ways of character assassination is to allege that a man is drunk. [More…]

• So that when an allegation is made, whether it is true or false, it can be printed without any recourse through the law for the man traduced. [More…]

• What I do is criticise the man who triggers it off and causes it to be reported and who deprives an honourable member of his right to correct the allegation. [More…]

• The reason that the Privileges Committee has been set aside cavalierly is to protect one man, and that one man is the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Most times it has been ignored because we did not want to make an issue of it but today, because of the action of his own Party in protecting him in this manner, I am bound to say that I have never seen in this Parliament a man so willing to abandon for his own self-protection all the forms of the House. [More…]

• Many of us here will remember the night he threw water on the present Governor-General. [More…]

• Many members here will remember the night that he accused my colleague, a former Prime Minister- he was not Prime Minister at the time - of a matter against which the honourable gentleman could not adequately protect himself. [More…]

• There have been many other occurrences and they have culminated in this event. [More…]

• I am not proud of the performance of the Parliament today in using numbers to prevent this matter going to the Privileges Committee. [More…]

• There was an uproar in this Parliament during the afternoon as you, Mr Speaker, know only too well because you warned a number of us on many occasions that we had better restrain ourselves. [More…]

• Over the years no man has been more vile in making insinuations against members of this Parliament and in vilifying them than has the Prime Minister. [More…]

• He quite obviously is not a man who is prepared to let independent judgment determine the ruling of the day. [More…]

• If I say something unmannerly in this House or something that is out of order I will withdraw it. [More…]

• Who is the big man in this case? [More…]

• The Ministers agreed that they were opposed to the uncontrolled harvesting of kangaroos and related species; that for conservation purposes selective culling or harvesting of certain species of kangaroos may be a legitimate management practice; and that a scientifically acceptable range of data gathering and control measures be drawn up to regulate culling or harvesting throughout Australia in the interests of conservation of the species and the general environment. [More…]

• To implement this latter decision the Ministers set up a working party of officers from my Department, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and each State and Territory wildlife authority to report on techniques of data gathering, man agement and conservation of kangaroos and related species throughout Australia. [More…]

• I have read the report of the working party and I find that it endorses most of the recommendations with respect to kangaroos which were made by the Joint Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation of which I was Chairman in the last Parliament. [More…]

• But I also agree with that part of the report of the working party’s submission which stated that the object of fauna conservation was to ensure the survival in reasonable numbers of all of our native fauna in the presence of man and his activities. [More…]

• What the House must realise is that with those remarks the Prime Minister also attacked the integrity of the United States Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger, a man whose achievements in the field of foreign relations, to put them at their minimum, have not only been more significant but also infinitely more successful than have the Prime Minister’s. [More…]

• Our predecessors pursued the fruitless idea that one quarter of the world’s population could be ignored and that there could be recognised as the President of the whole of China a man who has not set foot on the mainland since 1948 or 1949. [More…]

• One saw in the inferences that could be drawn from the Prime Minister’s speech today the degree to which this man, strutting the world stage much like a peacock, attempts to influence others and to persuade himself but lacks the substance to back his arguments. [More…]

• How is that for the style of a man who is the Prime Minister or Foreign Minister? [More…]

• What a way in which to treat the Foreign Minister of our closest neighbour and a former chairman of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. [More…]

• Indeed, this seems to be the pattern of the man’s behaviour in the foreign policy arena. [More…]

• Having offended so many, he then seeks to pour oil over troubled waters and to try to reconcile a country’s attitude to himself and to his Government. [More…]

• Indeed, one of the basic problems of the man is that he fails to appreciate the elements of diplomacy itself. [More…]

• How much better our foreign policy would be if any of these qualities were possessed by the man who was Foreign Minister and today is Australia’s Prime Minister. [More…]

• The transference of oil search to the remoter depths of the ocean is the measure of man’s frantic search for this limited resource. [More…]

• If one is to believe the old saying that man does not live by bread alone one has to express one’s disappointment over the allocation in the Budget to recreation and sport. [More…]

• Man’s physical and mental capacities are not oppos ing but complementary factors. [More…]

• In the largely sedentary working life of the average Australian worker ever increasing demands are made on the mind while physical capacities become atrophied. [More…]

• With this certain increase in leisure time and with the equally strong desire of man to escape, however temporarily, from a highly industrialised and urbanised routine existence it is our responsibility to recognise, for the first time in the history of Australia, that recreation, sport and travel should constitute an integral part of our life. [More…]

• Leisure should be more accessible than that if our resources are to be available to as many as wish to use them and concentrated over-use is not to diminish their utility. [More…]

• It is most unfortunate that the Minister has taken 4 pages of his statement in criticising Professor Pollard, a most distinguished man, a man who has tried to do some real research in this area in which the Minister is interested. [More…]

• Mr Withnall is a legal man and I imagine he knows what he is saying. [More…]

• What did Mr Ward, another legal man in the Territory, say? [More…]

• Undoubtedly the collective wisdom which will be brought together in the executive of the Constitutional Convention should arrive at a better and more balanced decision and one which will carry more force in an Australian referendum on the subject than a decision of one parliament or one man, the Prime Minister or the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• Maybe that same kind of foolish wide actuates even the Prime Minister, although we know that the Prime Minister, of all the people, is a modest man and is quite devoid of any feelings of pride. [More…]

• Mr Chairman, I am sorry to say it but I really believe that this man must go. [More…]

• This man, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on behalf of the Labor Government has just provided a closure for us in the middle of a debate on the Defence estimates. [More…]

• This man, who tells us that the statement he made yesterday is not really a statement on new policy, opened his statement by saying that the purpose of the statement was to acquaint honourable members with details that had not been previously announced. [More…]

• If one thinks this is unusual it is interesting to note that Rear Admiral Crabb found it necessary, in correspondence to Australian daily newspapers, to comment on the fact that this man, this Minister for Defence, disclosed in public statements confidential material - material which he now holds to be confidential. [More…]

• He would not disclose it to the honourable member for Barker but he was prepared to disclose in the Parliament and in speeches, specific statements from the strategic assessment which this man promulgated to the world at large. [More…]

• That, of itself, should be cause for this man’s resignation. [More…]

• He speaks of the greater necessity today than ever before to maintain out alliance with the United States, and yet the Minister for Defence, this man, suggests that there is no forward defence threat. [More…]

• Because he persists in his pomposity, the only solution for the defence of Australia is that this man should resign as a protest at what his Government has done to him, if he seriously believes in the statement he made tonight that he is advancing Australia’s defence cause instead of destroying it. [More…]

• I thought that it was a despicable twisting of statistics to try to cast aspersions on a man whose integrity in this place is without parallel. [More…]

• a man whose integrity in this place is without parallel. [More…]

• I was amused to hear the honourable gentleman talk about his poverty and say that he had to draw on his own limited financial resources to carry out his own inquiries and to put this series of advertisements in the newspaper. [More…]

• No one in this Parliament is as wealthy as the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• I know that the honourable gentleman - this poor man - has such a fabulous property in Sydney and the grounds are so large that he must be the only person with grounds large to run his own kookaburras. [More…]

• The point I am making is not that the kookaburra woke up to the Leader of the Opposition, as most other people have already done, but that the honourable gentleman’s elaborate and expansive private grounds are such that they are able to provide shelter for kookaburras. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman talks about twisting the Prime Minister’s tail. [More…]

• But my first comment about the wheat industry is to note the deficiencies of appointing as Minister for Primary Industry a man who had not previously been a spokesman on primary industry. [More…]

• The legislation now before the House in fact reflects the unfortunate consequence of appointing as Minister for Primary Industry a man who had not been a spokesman on primary industry and who apparently had had little interest in wheat matters when previously they came before the Parliament. [More…]

• The only basis under a Cabinet system of government existing in this country on which any man, as a member of Cabinet, can accept a decision by the Government is that he is in agreement with that decision. [More…]

• Any one of those 3 positions can be taken by the Australian people but as far as I am concerned a man who is a Minister, if he is unsuccessful in Cabinet, cannot say that he presented some alternative point of view and really is sympathetic to the rural industries, because it just is not a fact under our Cabinet system. [More…]

• If I had been able to make better judgments I would be a much richer man than I am. [More…]

• AH he wants to do, poor simple man, is to grow wheat as cheaply as he can - he is a pretty good wheat grower - and feed it to his cattle and turn it into beef, which the world wants. [More…]

• In the past economic progress has consisted in the kind of slogan that was used in the United States of America - ‘go west young man’. [More…]

• In our great country, with all its potentialities for expansion and with all its glorious future, the slogan now is ‘Go into the government young man’. [More…]

• Apparently you do not go to a man any more and say: ‘Give us a donation’ and it is physically handed over. [More…]

• It was a fund raising scheme concocted by the Premier of South Australia, not, I might say a man of my political colour but a man of the political colour of honourable members opposite. [More…]

• Let us take the case of a young man who has raised enough money to put down payment on a partly cleared block of bush land. [More…]

• But by hard work this man earns extra money, perhaps as a shearer, perhaps as a fencing contractor or by doing other similar work, and raises enough money to employ a contractor to clear the rest of his block and make it an economic proposition. [More…]

• I want to emphasise that a young man in that position is able to do this only if the money he pays to the contractor is fully deductible in the year in which he pays it. [More…]

• It will not be impossible for the man who does not have to earn his living off the land to spend this extra money on fodder storage, water conservation and soil conservation. [More…]

• This legislation will destroy what was a realistic and achievable dream of many young Australians. [More…]

• I will not particularly enjoy the next matter I want to raise, lt deals with a very dear friend of mine, Mr Jack Hallam, with whom I was brought up in the town of Griffith as a young man and with whom I have stayed on a number of occasions. [More…]

• The attack on 2 outstanding members of Parliament without a tittle of supporting evidence is bad enough, but to go into the gutter to attack the wife of a man in public life is to strike an all time low in Australian politics. [More…]

• Mr Jack Hallam, MLC, has described the charges as the product of a totally dishonest and cowardly man. [More…]

• He came in here and put in a man’s wife by saying that she offered something. [More…]

• He was a man of great vision and idealism. [More…]

• Undoubtedly there was something in his character and, may one say it, his Scottish upbringing that gave currency to the popular view of him as a severe man, as a moralist. [More…]

• He was a convinced, practising Christian; he worked for many years in the resettlement division of the World Council of Churches. [More…]

• Throughout his life there was a touching and unmistakably upright quality in all he did, a palpable sense of honour and rectitude, that informed his decisions and commanded admiration. [More…]

• It is in the spirit” of these words and in the overriding concept of service that I want to pay a warm tribute on behalf of the Opposition to a great Australian, the late John Dedman. [More…]

• He was a man who gave unstintingly in distinguished service to the Australian nation both in peace and in war. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has indicated, John Dedman will be remembered for his administration of a number of difficult portfolios during a period when this country was under very severe test - the war and early post-war years. [More…]

• John Dedman was a man of considerable determination and singularity of purpose. [More…]

• Many Australians today will not remember the far-reaching reconstruction of Australian industry and the exigencies borne by the community in general during the war and post war periods. [More…]

• The fact that John Dedman was responsible for administering many of the policies which called for community sacrifices in no way diminished his popularity. [More…]

• Moreover, he was a man of considerable compassion and concern for people. [More…]

• He was a great churchman and an elder of the Presbyterian Church. [More…]

• As the House will be very much aware John Dedman was a regular visitor to Parliament in recent years. [More…]

• Many honourable members knew John Dedman personally because of his continuing interest in Australian political life. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to place on record my respect for a man wise in the affairs of men and genuine in his continuing and active concern for this country’s welfare. [More…]

• His maiden speech, delivered in this House on 19 April 1940, indicated at that time John Dedman’s future role. [More…]

• It was a speech which dealt in a purposeful and unembroidered manner with Commonwealth finance and the utilisation of Australia’s manpower, capital and natural resources. [More…]

• History recalls that John Dedman approached each one of his many public assignments in that spirit. [More…]

• Perhaps the greatest tribute can be ascribed to the fact, that as a man charged with implementing a series of austere and restrictive policies, he held during his life the highest degree of public admiration and respect. [More…]

• John Johnstone Dedman was a remarkable man with a humble background who distinguished himself as a very great Australian. [More…]

• I think that all of us must feel a tinge of sadness because John Dedman was one of the most familiar characters around this House over many years. [More…]

• While I was in the Ministry and had reason to be here during recesses there were many occasions when I would have lunch with John Dedman. [More…]

• I admired the way in which he faced up to many of the great problems and difficulties then. [More…]

• But probably what 1 admired most about him was that he was a very kindly man and he never had a bad word to say about anyone. [More…]

• John Dedman also had the enormous task of developing policies for post-war reconstruction. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister said, he was a man of big ideas; he had his objectives and great determination. [More…]

• I feel a great deal of sadness at the loss of a man who distinguished himself as a truly great Australian. [More…]

• On behalf of the Corio electorate, which John Dedman represented so well, I would like to add my tribute to a man whom I did not know personally until I was elected to this Parliament; he had moved out of the Geelong area some years earlier. [More…]

• But during the period for which I have been a member of this Parliament John Dedman was here constantly and always tendered valuable advice when it was wanted. [More…]

• In 1949 during the general swing against Labor, John Dedman lost his seat to Mr Hubert Opperman, now Sir Hubert Opperman. [More…]

• But he had and always will have the respect that goes to a man who puts his country before himself and whose achievements will grow in recognition rather than diminish. [More…]

• The member who preceded him - now Lord Casey - was appointed to a diplomatic post and John Dedman won the subsequent byelection. [More…]

• But, more importantly, he was and will be remembered as a man who in his own lifetime was able to achieve those things that most of his fellow man and a lasting monument of achievement to his nation. [More…]

• I knew John Dedman for the past 15 years. [More…]

• He was a gentle and sincere man with an enlightened and progressive approach to politics. [More…]

• I had not realised the depth of his progressive thinking until I became Opposition spokesman for urban affairs and regional development some 4 years ago. [More…]

• It was then that I began examining some of the proposals John Dedman made when he was Minister for Post-war Reconstruction in 1948. [More…]

• Since being appointed to my portfolio I have delved further into the work which John Dedman initiated, and I have found that some of the principles which he espoused are valid today. [More…]

• As far as holding up any appeal or frustrating in any way whatsoever the right of appeal of the gentleman in question, let me very briefly trace what has happened. [More…]

• There is nothing to stop that man lodging his appeal immediately and giving reasons why his licence should not be cancelled. [More…]

• We previously debated, in the context of this ‘no increase in income tax’ Budget, measures to increase indirect taxes - the excise taxes on the ordinary man’s petrol, cigarettes and drinks including, as it will work through the system, his beer. [More…]

• But many other members of the Australian public at this moment are paying higher charges for their hire purchase contracts. [More…]

• What does that mean to the ordinary man in the street who is unable to purchase a large expensive item in any other way? [More…]

• In other spheres such as building I am not quite sure what decision this Government of great decision, speedy decision and compulsive decision when it comes to airports, has yet arrived at in relation to finance for home purchase - but many people are already paying for bridging finance and other supplementary finance higher rates of interest for their loans. [More…]

• These are major imposts on the man in the street - the average voter - in addition to the direct imposts I have mentioned on his petrol, cigarettes and drinks which are for all practical purposes equivalent to increases in taxation. [More…]

• If a man like Mr Dunstan - a Labor Premier who made a promise on Mr Whitlam’s behalf - can be dishonoured, what are the limits to political treachery and the lack of political integrity? [More…]

• The tax system, as it bears upon the young family man, is in grave and urgent need of reform. [More…]

• I have a copy of a letter which came into my hands during the election campaign showing that the Premier of South Australia, claiming to be the Chairman of the Australian Labor Party Federal Election Finance Committee, wrote to members of the wine industry asking them to forward donations upon the basis that they would send that money to the Labor Party on hearing that the Prime Minister had given an unequivocal assurance during the election campaign that any government led by him would abolish the excise and not replace it with a sales tax or any other imposition. [More…]

• At the time I called the Premier of South Australia a law broker and a man who was prepared to go out into the electorate and seek contributions to election funds in exchange for legislation. [More…]

• It is these incentives which have enabled the farmers to survive these droughts and to survive the vicissitudes which will always be a problem for the man on the land. [More…]

• It is not a thing I- that is Mr Dunstan, as a leader and an honourable man - would have done to anyone else in any circumstances.’ [More…]

• I think most honourable members on either side of the chamber regard me as being a reasonable man. [More…]

• But the United Kingdom has served and still serves traditionally as the base from which so many of our actions in the international arena began. [More…]

• Whether the Government in office is of a Liberal-Country Party persuasion or of Australian Labor Party persuasion, it is necessary to recognise that there are certain posts around the world where there is a distinct advantage in having responsible for the command of that post a man who has some understanding of politics and government in Australia. [More…]

• However, equally it is true that whoever that man might be, he needs to depend significantly on the advice given to him by the full time officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs whose expertise is beyond parallel and whose ability to give him the diplomatic and international overtones which are necessary in the exercise of his functions is of vital importance if he is to undertake his job properly. [More…]

• It takes longer to build a ship, to train the men who man it, to construct naval dockyards and to employ the labour force involved than it does for any requirement of any other arm of the Services. [More…]

• For instance, a man with a wife and 2 children in New South Wales receiving $400 a week pays about only $53 a year after his taxation concession for private ward and medical insurance. [More…]

• Whitlam hires TV man- [More…]

• The honourable member for Fremantle is a man who has, for many years, devoted con siderable attention to education. [More…]

• Teachers lost thousands of man hours because they were forced to spend time on clerical and ancillary tasks. [More…]

• Queensland receives almost $10m; New South Wales, $5.5m; South Australia, $4.5m; Victoria, almost Sim; and Tasmania, $154,000. [More…]

• The total amount provided for health is more man $8m, and Western Australia receives approximately half of that amount. [More…]

• If we add on to the amount to be spent by the Commonwealth the amount which the States are spending the total expenditure is probably nearly $1,000 per year per head for every Aboriginal man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• In view of the fact that many Aboriginals do not participate in the program at all, the average for those who do participate would be much higher. [More…]

• Here was a case where there was certainly need for legal assistance for this man. [More…]

• Obviously he resigned under pressure from the chairman of the Council. [More…]

• He may be called a banker but he could not by any such stretch of the imagination be called a man who knows anything about Aboriginal affairs. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether a retired Arbitration Commissioner of dubious expertise in the field of economics and a bright young man from the field of university Labor politics, now an adviser to the Prime Minister, are regarded as fit and proper persons to participate in a report which apparently took 16 days to produce and which purports to advise the Government on important matters relating to the persistent inflationary situation which is tearing the fabric of our society to ribbons. [More…]

• I must say that I was surprised that a man of his position and with his authority would suggest that Western Australia would be better served if it were able to raise its own defence force. [More…]

• The honourable member for Farrer has the gall to read a sermon to the Government on what should be done with relation to oil exploration, but he is the guilty man. [More…]

• It is an absolute disgrace, and the honourable member for Farrer is the guilty man. [More…]

• He is the man who made the deal with Sir Henry Bolte. [More…]

• This is the man who was responsible for the present Act and for a situation whereby, out of $841m spent on petroleum exploration, $4 19m will go, either by cash payments by the State and Federal governments or by taxation concessions into the pockets of the overseas oil companies and not one red cent, not one share, will be retained for Australia. [More…]

• The little man is wondering whether he should develop some lease that he has sat on for years and now sees no future prospects of making a go of it. [More…]

• I would like to see a curfew introduced at the Perth airport, as would the honourable member for Swan, but I am afraid that at this stage he is the odd man out. [More…]

• I still see as one of the major problems facing agriculture in Australia the question of how the minimal living area for a man, his wife and his family is to be determined. [More…]

• I believe that he alone among the Labor Ministers has a genuine understanding and a genuine sympathy for the man on the land. [More…]

• In every scheme that the previous Government introduced it always seemed to cater for these people first and to consider the man on the land later. [More…]

• The loss of employment to many persons would be difficult enough without being labelled by participation in a retraining scheme for persons unable to obtain suitable alternative employment. [More…]

• There must be room to manoeuvre. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that schemes for rural reconstruction are necessary but I conclude with the words of Rachel Carson: The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man’. [More…]

• Most of us recall Sir Charles Adermann as a man of outstanding integrity and deep personal integrity. [More…]

• I thank the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) for his recognition of the great attributes of Sir Charles Adermann and I might remind him that we have his son in this House who has proved on many occasions that he is not frightened to take on a fight. [More…]

• The man in the second classification, who is a merino breeder and who is interested in purchasing rams, is opposed to the export of merino rams for the simple reason that it is best for him to be able to obtain his sheep at a time when there is a surplus of stock. [More…]

• The position of the Commonwealth has been complicated by a tragic event, namely, the recent death of Dr Clark, who was the key man in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in the locust campaign. [More…]

• The Commonwealth, I think as long ago as 1964, embarked on an anti-locust investigation in the CSIRO and brought in advice from overseas, where for many years there has been an anti-locust establishment which more recently has been taken over by the United Nations. [More…]

• The honourable member is an honest man. [More…]

• They are being hypocritical when they come into this chamber and say that there is no difference between the child of a rich man and the child of a poor man. [More…]

• The children are the same; but honourable members opposite are fooling themselves, although they are not fooling the people of Australia, when they say that there is no inequality between the child of a man on $50,000 who chooses to send that child to Melbourne Grammar or Sydney Grammar and the child of a bus driver on $80 a week, $100 a week, or whatever it happens to be who has to send his child to a state school. [More…]

• Indeed, in the remarkable contribution which he has made towards unifying the country since he has taken up his present responsibility, I believe there are signs and symptoms of a man who is a great leader at a time when his country needs him. [More…]

• But of course history will record that the man who was responsible for making the issue of the cities a national issue was the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), so ably assisted by the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren). [More…]

• We will have effective decentralisation, we will guarantee the opportunity of the man on the land, the proprietor of the family farm, to stay where he is only through policies of concentrated development which scatter growth centres across this country on a systematic basis so that appropriate opportunities for recreation, for employment and for education are accessible to Australians wherever it is they may live. [More…]

• This had a remarkable effect particularly at a time when everything was going against the man on the land - prices, seasons and everything else. [More…]

• Many people naturally are associating themselves with the concept or with having thought of the concept of developing Albury-Wodonga in a population and economic sense in order to diminish the growth of Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]

• There are many people who fought over a long period of time to gain more facilities in the AlburyWodonga area. [More…]

• He would be a happy man if he were alive today. [More…]

• How could the Defence Minister boast that he identifies himself with the Australian fighting man when he has proved himself to be the greatest .sham fighter of all time? [More…]

• We can take it for granted that there will be continuing inflation because of mismanagement, and if that is so is it fair to pay a man market value as of today, in say, 8 years time? [More…]

• I am not very sure whether either of them any more could be realistically described, as the honourable gentleman who led for the other side described them, as consumer oriented market economies. [More…]

• If one goes and asks not so much the man in the street but the woman in the shop whether she is satisfied about prices one will inevitably get the reaction that she is not. [More…]

• Have any of those answers been given by the Treasurer, the man who as Treasurer of the Government would be responsible for initiating those policies? [More…]

• Let me remind the House that when this matter came up - and I put the exact date - in November 1951, when there was a takeover proposed of an Australian broadcasting network by foreign interests - this was the worst kind, the most obnoxious kind, of takeover - the Labor Party in this House supported it and voted for it to a man, because they had a dirty, underground arrangement that the London ‘Daily Mirror’ would take over the Macquarie broadcasting system in Australia and it would become a media propagandist for the Labor Party. [More…]

• A man could be extradited to Russia on some kind of trumped up extraditable crime and then he could be sent to Bulgaria and tried for a political crime in Bulgaria. [More…]

• The man has gone abroad. [More…]

• We would not consider this a serious crime and yet it is the kind of crime for which the Attorney-General can now consent to a man being tried and convicted, really on political grounds, by some communist court. [More…]

• A man sent to Bulgaria could be tried and convicted for a political offence - and wc know the kind of political offences which arc capital or near capital offences under the laws of Communist countries. [More…]

• Then there is the third point of allowing the Attorney-General to have a discretion which he could not exercise because of our courts but which now can be exercised because the man is out of the jurisdiction of our protecting Australian courts and our protecting Australian system of justice. [More…]

• The situation which already has been explained quite clearly to this House is that the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) said, at least on 31 August and by his own admission on many occasions before, that the Government had decided to take certain action. [More…]

• A man with no authority makes a statement that the Government had made decisions! [More…]

• I believe that the good book, from which the honourable member frequently quotes in this place, says that he who looks after a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his own heart, so I do not really hold much hope for improving the morals of people by making another method of birth control more freely available than in the past. [More…]

• However, I would point out that vasectomy is not performed by responsible doctors in any State of this country unless they are satisfied that it is the best solution possible to the patient’s problem, and it would be extremely unlikely that a young man who [More…]

• He is a man who has had a sincere and genuine interest in Aboriginal affairs, probably for as long as the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I gauge from his reaction that he is a very distressed and unhappy man because of the way in which he has been treated just to preserve the status and position of Dr Bustard. [More…]

• Dr Bustard has been reinstated, whilst Senator Georges has been sacked as the chairman of a company in respect of which he was given a charter to try to overcome some of its difficult economic and financial problems. [More…]

• This adds up to 200 million man-hours of production lost in one year. [More…]

• Did honourable members opposite raise the fact that by the stroke of a pen their Government denied the production of goods and services in this country to the tune of 200 million manhours in one year? [More…]

• Does the honourable gentleman know that they exist? [More…]

• He talks about the shortage of manpower. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who claims to represent the farmers of Australia will not come into this House and tell us that he will be prepared to support a proposition to ban the export of Australian meat to ensure that the price to consumers drops. [More…]

• The man in the street knows it, but the erudite gentlemen who sit opposite do not. [More…]

• When we talk of the shortage of manpower we are really talking about the shortage of tradesmen in Australia. [More…]

• It is quite true, as we on this side of the House have said, that there is a growing shortage of goods, but there is also a growing record production of goods in the field where these twin forces are causing excess demand. [More…]

• But why does the Opposition not criticise the middle man? [More…]

• Opposition members all the time are casting doubts on the level of retail prices; but let us look at one factor alone - the middle man. [More…]

• These are the fields - the fields of the middle man - that we must get into. [More…]

• However,1 regarding clause 2 (c), I strongly support the amendment and read again briefly what two legal men in the Northern Territory and one professional man had to say about it in the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]

• Undoubtedly the collective wisdom which will be brought together in the executive of the Constitutional Convention should arrive at a better and more balanced decision and one which will carry more force in an Australian referendum on the subject than a decision of one Parliament or one man (the Prime Minister) or the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• Only the Opposition, which is building a straw man for the purpose of knocking him down. [More…]

• The Committee made a considered report, containing many pages, which I would assume has been read by some members of the House. [More…]

• The Government was pleased to show in this way that it had the interests of self-employed persons, for example the man on the land or the small businessman, in mind. [More…]

• Many of them did not ask for that. [More…]

• I place on record that the Minister, who is an honourable man and who does a splendid job in education, wants to have a splendid commission, but the Opposition is denying him that. [More…]

• I think the reconstruction scheme is catering for the problem where a man has to go right out of the industry. [More…]

• But the area where the honourable member for Franklin comes from has about 70 per cent of the apple growers in Tasmania. [More…]

• I have no reason to doubt that the Australian public servant is as diligent and effective during his long hours of duty as it would be possible for any man or woman to be. [More…]

• The Government health scheme would benefit only pensioners, migrants, indolents, no-hopers and alcoholics, the Liberal Party welfare spokesman, Mr Chipp, said yesterday’. [More…]

• I cast no reflection on the young man who was at the Press conference and wrote this article. [More…]

• It does not offer an opinion as to how that nationalism should be manifest. [More…]

• The Government obviously believes that an expression of nationalism should be manifested in a new anthem. [More…]

• The satisfaction of one man’s ego should be submerged and the genuine expression of the Australian people should be allowed to declare itself. [More…]

• There is nothing in his motion to that effect, if we support this motion today we would be voting to require a total vote of the Australian people to decide the question - that is, every man, woman and child in the country. [More…]

• I imagine that my friend, the Treasurer (Mr Crean), might go for ‘If I were a Rich Man’. [More…]

• Without doubt, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) would get back to ‘Gentleman Jim’. [More…]

• The motion moved by the honourable member for Warringah deserves to be treated with a certain amount of ridicule because it is an impossible proposal embracing, as it does, every man, woman and child voting on every suggestion - good, bad or indifferent - which will be presented to and decided on by the Australian people at tremendous cost. [More…]

• The action that has been taken is carrying out an unmistakable mandate given by the Australian people. [More…]

• In many instances we share common ancestors. [More…]

• Irrespective of what the Tories opposite say, I believe that every Australian - man, woman and child - will endorse our action as being appropriate in this age of changing times, advancement and Australian nationhood. [More…]

• Let us hope that Mr Whitlam is man enough to admit that he has made a mistake here. [More…]

• Is the Government man enough to admit its mistake? [More…]

• There is a story about the man- the better bugler- with the 4 B’s, but I will reserve that for another occasion. [More…]

• Normally a cautious man would look to see the criteria that the Minister would have to have regard to in fixing that rate. [More…]

• I have received estimates from various funds of what it will cost a family man in addition to the 1.35 per cent supertax he will be forced to pay on his taxable income to insure for his wife, family and himself for intermediate or private bed accommodation in a private hospital. [More…]

• Does he seriously suggest that a Melbourne man who wants to be treated in the Mercy Hospital and who goes into a public ward - presuming it is half pub- lie and half private- will be able to be treated by the doctor of his own choice? [More…]

• Does the Minister really suggest that a woman in a public ward would be able to have a doctor of her own choice attend her and deliver her baby? [More…]

• So doctors now, I think, can take little comfort from the Prime Minister and the confirmation by his hatchet man - the Leader of the House - who confirms that that would be a good thing. [More…]

• Let us look at the young family man on a middle sized income. [More…]

• That man wants his wife when she has a baby to go into a private ward or an intermediate ward. [More…]

• That man wants his wife or his children to have intermediate or private ward accommodation. [More…]

• Can that man afford - on top of that tax and on top of other rising costs caused by inflationary tendencies - to pay another $80 or $120- whatever the figure may be - a year for that privilege? [More…]

• I suspect that that man will be deeply hurt, and most hurt of anybody, under this scheme. [More…]

• I have questioned many people, people in the category of the man in the street, about Labor’s proposals and the existing scheme. [More…]

• In South Australia the figure was 35 per cent, in Queensland 39 per cent, in New South Wales 41 per cent and in Tasmania 42 per cent. [More…]

• So much for the mandate that the Labor Government says it has to bring in this health scheme. [More…]

• On the figures supplied to me as at IS August 1973, the estimated cost of health insurance to a man on $70 a week is 62c a week; under the new scheme it will be 88c a week. [More…]

• It costs a man earning $120 a week 52c a week as at 15 August 1973 and under the new scheme his cost is estimated at $151 - 3 times the present cost. [More…]

• Many Commonwealth car drivers tor example, will be worse off. [More…]

• Take a man on $11,000 taxable income, for example, a married journalist. [More…]

• So how can the Labor Government maintain that the average man will be better off? [More…]

• Previously a man has been able to have an operation and all the associated procedures at a cost of no more than $5. [More…]

• For many years people in the Public Service, like quarantine officers, have had to give a 24-hour service. [More…]

• Yet we are asked to believe that immediately the method of pay ment of a doctor is changed and one does not rely on his human charity to work for nothing for those who are deprived financially, he loses his dedication and becomes cynical and mercenary. [More…]

• My experience is the reverse - that the man who is cynical and mercenary is the man who is crying the loudest - in the Society of General Practitioners in particular - about his civil rights to charge what he likes and saying that medical care is not a right, it is a luxury, and that those who want it must pay for it. [More…]

• He was a very difficult man with whom to discuss any one point to which he objected. [More…]

• He referred to the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) as a hatchet man and then went on - quite incorrectly - to use phrases such as socialised medicine, nationalising doctors, nationalised medicine and the socialist Minister in Canberra. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that very many doctors reject the specious arguments of their professional association and recognise that the scheme proposed by the Government will benefit patients, doctors and the Australian community. [More…]

• The AMA claims that the rich man and the poor man are equal under the present health insurance scheme. [More…]

• It just so happens that the rich man is left with more money after paying for his essential outgoings. [More…]

• No amount of word play can hide the fact that under the present health insurance scheme the rich man, because of the value of his taxation deductions, pays comparatively less for his health insurance coverage than does the poor man. [More…]

• This is the man who was a Minister for Repatriation - a Department which in the main has salaried medical staff. [More…]

• For the average man, contributions are not voluntary, but are simply another tax which he has to pay in order to qualify for the subsidies which are paid directly out of Australian Government revenue and to which he has contributed as a taxpayer- He cannot receive the benefits unless he is a member of a private fund. [More…]

• For example, if a man earns $120 a week gross the present rate is 52c, whereas the new levy will be $1.15. [More…]

• I am told that in his electorate the Minister is believed to be quite a phony person; that he says all kinds of things; that he makes all kinds of promises; and that he holds himself out to be a humane man. [More…]

• I share the opinion of many people in Australia that this man has no conscience whatsoever in matters of personal integrity. [More…]

• In fact the economy of Toowoomba - and of Queensland as my colleague the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) reminds me - depends to a large extent on this magnificent family partner ship. [More…]

• I know, Mr Speaker, that as a man of outstanding integrity and character you would be interested to know that the Toowoomba Foundry maintains in Toowoomba for the exclusive use of its employees 19 acres of oval with a clubhouse, and the oval is equal to the very best in Queensland. [More…]

• Only recently many Queenslanders were dismayed at the ruthlessness with which the Bjelke-Petersen Government - apparently the honourable member for Darling Downs thinks that great democratic government in Queensland is a wonderful government - bludgeoned through the State Assembly a resolution opposing the conferral of powers sought by this Federal Government under section 128 of the Constitution. [More…]

• I say that for a man who is supposed to be a responsible premier in the State of Queensland- [More…]

• Is it not unworthy of Australia as a nation to have varying laws affecting the relations between man and man? [More…]

• The scheme is badly based and it is a bad scheme which will operate to the disadvantage of a great many people and organisations. [More…]

• The scheme will also operate to the disadvantage of many single taxpayers who at present pay only half the rates that are paid by a married man with a family. [More…]

• Under this scheme single taxpayers will pay the same rate as a married man with a family pays. [More…]

• The dishonest man who helped in the preparation of this dishonest document is now dishonestly advising certain spokesmen of the Opposition. [More…]

• This view has been strongly attacked by the chairman of the board of the largest religious hospital in Queensland - a man with long experience in the management of a private religious hospital in the context of a free public scheme, a man whose opinion is formed by experience and not by sectional fantasies. [More…]

• The Ontario Health Minister - the man who will be running the scheme, the equivalent of our Minister for Social Security - is quoted as having said about the scheme: It is up to the politicians to reform the monster before it bankrupts the economy and destroys itself. [More…]

• I personally find quite unacceptable a system whereby the man who drives my Commonwealth car in Sydney pays twice as much for the same family cover as I have, not despite the fact that my income is four or five times higher than his, but precisely because of my higher income. [More…]

• They would still see a constant repetition of the example I quoted in my 1972 policy speech - the example of a car driver paying twice as much for the same family cover as a man whose income is four or five times higher than his. [More…]

• It is only our insurance program which will ensure that a low income earner will pay less than a middle income earner and that a mididle income earner will pay less than a wealthy man. [More…]

• This man expressed what he felt about a Commonwealth hospital, and what was the response? [More…]

• This is a situation which no management, quite properly, will tolerate either now or in the future. [More…]

• Members of this House should not stand by and allow this man to impose his own personal whims and wishes on the commercial media of this country. [More…]

• The predicted requirements for tradesmen for the 31,150 man Army can generally be met from apprentices already undergoing courses at the Apprentices School. [More…]

• In those trades where deficiencies exist, use will be made of the existing Adult Tradesman Scheme, to make good the shortfall. [More…]

• The consumer, when he or she looks at the saleyard prices of cattle, believes meat prices ought to be lower, but when the cattleman looks at the retail price of, say, steak and other meats he thinks that he should be getting more for his cattle. [More…]

• In other words, who is getting the rakeoff in the middle man area? [More…]

• If that kind of action were taken by a man outside this place, anyone would have no hesitation in calling that man a liar. [More…]

• This is a carte blanche for ignorant speculation by one man with taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• It is proposed, as those who, unlike the Leader of the Country Party, have done their homework will know, that the Chairman of the Authority will be a full-time Chairman. [More…]

• I have great hopes that this man will be one cf the top mining men in this country. [More…]

• not referring merely to the fact that the Chairman of the Authority should be a full-time Chairman and a man with mining experience but to the concept of this Bill which seeks tq ensure that Australia’s national interest isproperly served. [More…]

• The non-renewable resources of Australia consist of natural materials and energy sources which have been created by nature and which cannot be replaced within the lifespan of the human species on earth. [More…]

• Until proven sources of perfect substitutes for these non-renewable resources have been discovered in natural form or through technical synthesis, they should be husbanded as if they were irreplaceable and essential to man during his lifetime on earth. [More…]

• Land in its natural state is of great value for the perpetuation of the millions of species from which man continues to learn so much about the earth. [More…]

• Many scientific and technical discoveries have been made by man through his study of species in their natural habitat. [More…]

• There would not be a man in this House who would not be afraid of our resources being expended to a point which would bring this country into danger. [More…]

• As one who has lived all his life in a mining environment, I want to stress again the desolation, the despair, the uncertainty, and the insecurity of the little man in those areas. [More…]

• One trade union man was even prevented from returning to Mount Isa to visit his wife and children. [More…]

• Not many Australians today are aware of the fact that although we have spent more than $400m on the search for petroleum we have not got one share in the natural resources which have been discovered. [More…]

• They are not manufactured or invented by man. [More…]

• It is because of today’s technology that they are able to be gathered for the benefit of mankind. [More…]

• I hope that natural gas and petroleum products will keep Australia going for many years without having to resort to the use of nuclear power because I can see problems in the disposal of nuclear waste. [More…]

• And it appears to me at least that they are going to be blamed for this - that probably it will take until 1980 or the early 1980s to achieve our aim because of pressure of resources, both man and materials. [More…]

• But, when he was proved wrong and when the man he had quoted, Professor Parkin, advocated a ‘no’ vote, the Prime Minister went to the lengths of describing these professional people as second raters and third raters. [More…]

• It is completely disgraceful that a professional man should be held up to this kind of vituperation by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• How could they trust a government led by a man who, at the last moment, in this House, said things which were untrue in order to bolster up his case before the people and then, when he was caught out, endeavoured ignominiously, meanly and horribly, to cover himself by vituperation, by slander and by trying to take away the reputations of professional men who are leaders in their field but who, like every other professional man in any field, are at the mercy of someone who holds - temporarily, I hope - the kind of authority the Prime Minister still wields in this place and in the country. [More…]

• The situation with the Gardos family - the man, the wife and the son - is that they came to Australia in 1957. [More…]

• If a man who has been injured is seeking his remedy by way of damages to compensate him in a simple motor car case, it is a poor consolation to him to know that eventually the courts will get round to deciding the matter. [More…]

• The measure of whether a man received damages or not depended upon whether the accident took place on this side of the Australian Capital Territory-New South Wales border or on the other side of that border. [More…]

• The whole concept that the States of Australia and the Territories should be regarded as though they were France against Germany or the United States against the Argentine seems to me to be offensive in its absurdity; but we are stuck with it. [More…]

• The lawyers do their best to try to make it work, but it is an expensive and inefficient way of applying the legal solution to man’s social problems. [More…]

• I have in mind one man with whom I played hockey for many years. [More…]

• I have seen in the year that is behind us many moves which could be interpreted in that way - moves which on the surface seem fair and reasonable and attractive enough but when they are put together into a pattern seem to move towards this funda mental Government objective of destroying the Australian States, destroying every other form of democratic government and centralising everything here in Canberra in one House of Parliament so that the man who obtained the Prime Ministership by some quirk or chance of fate will be able to perpetuate his power, be able to over-ride everything in the Constitution and have complete control of the whole Australian economy, social structure, family life and everything else that one can imagine. [More…]

• For example, a man with a wife and two children in the State of New South Wales earning $70.00 per week gross would pay about $77.00 per year for medical and public ward hospital insurance after tax concessions are claimed. [More…]

• Under the Australian Health Insurance Program a man earning $70.00 a week will pay about $33.00 per annum by way of levy. [More…]

• A man earning $400 a week will pay the maximum levy of $150 per annum. [More…]

• Where a business man is accompanied by his wife on an overseas trip, the expenses of both husband and wife fall for consideration under this general provision. [More…]

• The late honourable Donald Alastair Cameron, O.B.E., was a man of very strong character. [More…]

• That he was able to hold the Federal seat of Oxley as long as he did, even though the area had large coalmining and industrial development, shows his personal attractiveness as a man. [More…]

• Indeed a lesser man could never have held the area so long and so well for his Government. [More…]

• That backlash was the dissatisfaction of two other unions led by that very militant man, Slater, who was determined to get into politics and at that stage suffered a disappointment. [More…]

• He should not bring in the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) as a hatchet man to force these measures through without adequate time for members to read the Bills and without adequate discussion of their implications. [More…]

• Can honourable members imagine a man sitting up on the ninth floor of the Treasury building - or are there only 6 floors; whichever floor he may be sitting on - saying: ‘I believe that local government in Western Australia, out at Mukinbudin, would be better off by my wisdom than that of the local people*. [More…]

• Fear and mistrust of the common man have always been a Tory characteristic. [More…]

• This is the man who cannot speak. [More…]

• He disputed the Chairman’s ruling on one occasion. [More…]

• Only a few moments ago an honourable member on this side of the House said that it is a service to the Parliament and to the nation to gag him and to gag him on as many occasions as possible. [More…]

• Now to the ratepayer, to the man in the street, this will be quite a big saving. [More…]

• It is also interesting to look back on the speech made at that convention by one who was not of my political persuasion but who, I am bound to say, is a man for whom I have always had the utmost affection and admiration. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman intruded into a preface to a question a reference to a man in a way that he knows would not be tolerated in this House or in a former lowlier House, of which he was a member. [More…]

• The principal promoters are a man by the name of O’Shannassy - a well-known Communist - and Dr Peter Hughes, the President of the Liberal Party in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• In the course of his rather extraordinary and emotional response to my question he imputed the allegation that a man who is on his staff, whom apparently he can name and I cannot, had been charged in some way with complicity in a conspiracy to which he, the Prime Minister, referred yesterday. [More…]

• The Opposition Parties welcome the statement of the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) and the report which has been prepared on the development of the National Archives by Dr W. Kaye Lamb, a man of international experience and a reputation in the field of archival services. [More…]

• He was the teller who would not let a man escape the use of the ruthless guillotine against a Labor Opposition. [More…]

• By heavens, Don Bradman was a record breaker in his time but he had nothing on those opposite. [More…]

• So when honourable members opposite speak of what ought to be done, when the Deputy Leader of the Opposition asks for these great reforms, while I am a terribly sympathetic man I am not unduly moved. [More…]

• Now it is proposed that there be a quarter of an hour less for no other reason than to satisfy the over-weening vanity of this - I was going to call him a clown, Mr Speaker, but you would regard that as unparliamentary - man, the Minister for Services and Property. [More…]

• Surely this Minister must go down as a yes man. [More…]

• At the same time people genuinely wanting to come to Australia have great difficulty unless they can satisfy many of the qualifications laid down, and in some cases that is almost impossible. [More…]

• It will have a deep effect on many sections of the community. [More…]

• But the strange thing is that if one analyses the position of the primary producer on this question one will find that it is the small man who will get hit and not the big primary producer. [More…]

• But the small man cannot do that and he is the one who will be first affected. [More…]

• That man has evidently been listening to the Minister for Immigration because I can recall him as the honourable member for Riverina saying in this House when he was in Opposition that the primary producer never got anything from the subsidy. [More…]

• One might say that no man can live on $23 or whatever it will be in a few weeks time - maybe $26 or $27 - and this would be true. [More…]

• He has persuaded other people including business people that he is right wing, a very moderate man, and so forth. [More…]

• I despair of a government that is led by a man who shows so little knowledge of the problems faced by rural producers. [More…]

• Those years of drought and those years of low prices have meant accumulated debts by many properties that are not going to be effaced by one or two good seasons. [More…]

• If this House is to be run by name calling and by having a man like the Prime Minister use one set of words and have every other member of this House denied the right to use those words then this would prejudice the proper function of this Parliament. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s anger came out of the fact that one man’s name was referred to. [More…]

• I withdrew that name and in fact I specifically stated on that same day that no specific inference was intended by denigrating that man as being more aware of or in any way associated with a conspiracy than any other. [More…]

• I find his reassertion of it today personally offensive and personally abusive and I believe that he should be man enough to get up and withdraw what he has said. [More…]

• I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that because the man in angry, because the man is incapable of controlling his emotions and his words, that does not make those words parliamentary [More…]

• Indeed, I believe that the abuse of parliamentary privilege, the use of those words and the manner of his abuse of the privilege reflect ill on the man and his character. [More…]

• If a man who is Prime Minister is unable to control his emotions and is unable to respond in a clear and rational way in this Parliament, if he is unable to use the forms of the House and make correct and proper statements, then it ill behoves him to be either the leader of the Labor Party or the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s use of those words and his making of those assertions, in my opinion, gave the honourable member for Gippsland complete entitlement to call that man a contemptible creature. [More…]

• The words were even more unparliamentary today because of the manner they were reused in regard to a question that I addressed to the Prime Minister last Thursday. [More…]

• The question that I addressed to the Prime Minister in no way imputed any allegation against any man. [More…]

• If this House is to be treated to the spectacle of the Prime Minister losing control of himself - of course we have seen it before - is this man fit to be Prime Minister? [More…]

• I believe that in your refusal, Mr Speaker, to request the Prime Minister’s withdrawal of these words today you are compounding the felony - and it is nearly a felony - of this man’s position. [More…]

• It is important in a place like this and it is important in Australia that we have a man whom we can look up to. [More…]

• Would you look up to this man? [More…]

• It is important that we have a man who uses proper parliamentary procedures and language. [More…]

• Does this man? [More…]

• To my mind this is the critical part of my disagreement with your ruling, Mr Speaker: The man who is Prime Minister should not be given a different right in this House. [More…]

• Indeed the man who is Prime Minister should be required to comply with the forms of the House in exactly the same way as every other honourable member is required to do. [More…]

• What restraint this man has in a crisis. [More…]

• But this is the gentleman who took exception to what the Prime Minister said a few days ago. [More…]

• He said that an honour able member should be able to control his words and he said that the Prime Minister should be a man to whom people can look up. [More…]

• This is a gentleman who said that a Prime Minister ought be be looked up to. [More…]

• Let us look at the gentleman who raised this matter. [More…]

• An allegation was made against a man who did not have the right of reply and who served several Prime Ministers on both sides of the Parliament. [More…]

• That did not stop this great defender of the rights of members of this Parliament - the man who objects now to these words - from attacking a man whose reputation in this country is unequalled probably by any member of the Public Service anywhere. [More…]

• I am used to the contemptible conduct of this honourable gentleman, even so contemptible a creature as the ex-Minister who has asked this question, but he has brought into a question without notice a man of honour and capacity who served successive governments. [More…]

• A man who makes a charge against Dr Coombs in that manner - [More…]

• loss of man hours and earning capacity, and [More…]

• These increases must be considered against the background that the man on the minimum award wage knows that his take home pay despite increases in wages, is buying less and that his standards of living are now falling. [More…]

• The Health Commission has placed an energetic and well informed young man, Mr David Briggs, in the area to oversee the implementation of this farsighted and enlightened program. [More…]

• The man on the land, who is the backbone of the economy and is still the winner of half the export income that Australia earns, has been subjected to the greatest series of insults that have ever been experienced by any sector in such a short period of time. [More…]

• Costs have risen alarmingly not only because inflation is imported, as the Government would have us believe, but also because of the gross 1 mismanagement of the domestic situation. [More…]

• In a sectional attempt to improve the lot of the worker the Govern- 1 ment has penalised the pensioner, the man on s superannuation, the man on a fixed income, the man with life assurance and the man with savings. [More…]

• Man-hours and wages lost are climbing to unprecedented levels and the community is suffering. [More…]

• The Post Office tragedy smacks of non-co-operation, of man’s lack of consideration for man. [More…]

• This is what a year of Labor Gov,ernment has done for the average income earner, and there is no suggestion by the Treasurer that the man on $7,000 is in the lower income scale. [More…]

• There is no secret about the socialist ideology to concentrate all power in Canberra, to get rid of the second House - the Senate - and to make one man all powerful. [More…]

• How can a man sitting on the fourth floor of a building here in Canberra know the best place for a road in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane or one of the regional cities? [More…]

• The Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) is the man who said to the posties: ‘You can have a 5 day week’. [More…]

• He is like the fully clothed man who streaked through a nudist colony. [More…]

• So anyone purchasing a refrigerator manufactured in the United Kingdom will pay more, not less, for it. [More…]

• They are not being manufactured in Australia. [More…]

• Because this man believed that the prices could go up this year he placed orders for his entire reequirements for 1974 during 1973. [More…]

• Let me illustrate by referring to an occasion on which, as an intelligent man, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition could not have believed a single word he said. [More…]

• This is the man who said that a monarchy was irrelevant in today’s situation, so it cannot be that the Prime Minister has suddenly become a monarchist. [More…]

• We have a Prime Minister who wants to orchestrate the business coming before the Senate so that he can falsely present to the Australian people an argument that the Senate is obstructionist, that the Opposition in the Senate is obstructionist and is delaying and refusing the passage of legislation which ought to be passed because of the mandate granted by the Australian people. [More…]

• Is this an Opposition in the other chamber delaying the mandate of the people? [More…]

• He destroyed that reputation in my view, and in the view of many others, in the 20 minutes contribution that he made in the Address-in-Reply debate. [More…]

• He came in with a sort of Mark Anthony manner of saying: ‘I come to bury Ceasar not to praise him’. [More…]

• He spent some time on the speeches that the Prime Minister made on his recent overseas trip - one of his many - and on the adulation, as he put it, that the Prime Minister received. [More…]

• Here is a man who has obviously gone abroad and has talked more than he has listened. [More…]

• Then the honourable member for Fisher turned his attack on the Lord Mayor of the city of Brisbane and alleged that that man had not acted with all propriety in retaining the water in the Somerset Dam rather than letting it go. [More…]

• One of the matters which this gentleman talks about quite frequently, and in his view quite fluently, is that of inflation. [More…]

• As an ex-Treasurer of this country who presided over one of our worst economic periods, a man-made crisis, he would probably know what he is talking about. [More…]

• I believe that the Leader of the Opposition tries to convey to the average man that inflation means high food prices and high land prices. [More…]

• I have some figures which I believe have come from a reliable source which show that time lost through disputes in 1971 was approximately 9.3 seconds per man hour worked whilst the time lost through accidents and so on was approximately 18.72 seconds per man hour worked, which is over double. [More…]

• The figures also show that the time lost in 1972 through disputes was 8.64 seconds per man hour worked and time lost through accidents was 20.16 seconds per man hour worked. [More…]

• There is not only the workman at his bench but also, as they care to call themselves, managers who do not necessarily require training to fill their positions. [More…]

• It is in the area of management and not in the area of diligence by its work force that Australia lacks at the moment. [More…]

• The work force in Australia is probably more diligent and more applied to its task than any other work force in the world, but it is let down badly on the management side. [More…]

• Very few people in Australia can justify bearing the title ‘Manager’. [More…]

• In one case, I asked the Department to give the name of a gentleman in Sydney on whom one of my constituents could call, as that person was going to Sydney himself on a matter on which I had made representations over a period of I think, some seven or eight weeks. [More…]

• The Department willingly gave me the name of a gentleman from the Department in Sydney, but when this constituent of mine went into the office of the Department in Sydney he was informed that there were no papers or representations concerning the application he had made. [More…]

• I hope that the matter will be brought to fruition very quickly and that the man, his wife and family will be allowed to come out and join his parents in this country. [More…]

• It is not up to us to break the poor man’s heart and say: ‘She does not want to come. [More…]

• There are 2 particular ways in which the little man in the productive enterprises has been particularly affected. [More…]

• In an article in the Sydney Sun’ of 12 March 1974 ‘the costs were shown to be of such an order that it would be impossible for a man receiving average weekly earnings of $125 to buy a home using traditional sources of finance. [More…]

• Rather, our action is designed to point at the ill consequences of this Government’s mismanagement of the economy. [More…]

• He is the man who supported a 35-hour week for some industries - in the power and the oil industries. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition can never be said to be other than a versatile man. [More…]

• Surely anybody who has any understanding of primary production realises the problems that are faced by the man on the land. [More…]

• The increase in interest rates has also affected the man on the land. [More…]

• Again, the primary producer has been hit because, at a time when he is trying to battle against increased costs and when there is an inflationary spiral, he is met with increased interest rates so that his payments are increased, placing a further burden on him as he confronts many of the difficulties in his sphere of production. [More…]

• Again, of course, this situation hits the man on the land, and the people in country towns. [More…]

• The true Aboriginal - the man who wants to accept his responsibility and who wants to play his part - is not the man in the demonstrations or the man who is causing all this trouble and confusion. [More…]

• In addition to providing an increase in the pension because of the inflationary spiral, steps should also be taken to stop this inflationary spiral in which case, of course, not only would the pensioner be better off but also every man, woman and child and every industry in Australia would be better off. [More…]

• It is apparent even to the ordinary man who works in a factory that if private industry provides wealth it is the public sector which spends the wealth and if the public sector starts to spend more than the private sector can product, dire results will be forthcoming. [More…]

• The per capita need for water is growing every day as facilities become more available to the average man in the street. [More…]

• In fact, only tonight I was speaking to a man who said that he could organise getting 100,000 gallons of fuel into Alice Springs over that road within 2 or 3 days. [More…]

• We have instance after instance of inefficiency on the part of the Post Office whose performance reflects directly on the Postmaster-General and the government of the day. [More…]

• I notice in the chamber the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) and the honourable member for Bow man (Mr Keogh). [More…]

• It is time the Australian Labor Party replaced the present PostmasterGeneral and tried to put in his place a man who is more capable of administering what is a very difficult department, but one for which the Australian taxpayer has to carry the cost. [More…]

• He is a most diligent man of integrity, has my utmost confidence and respect - so much so that I am seeking to hand over the few audits which are done by C. J. Hurford and Co. to him, due of course, to my lack of time and increasing responsibilities elsewhere. [More…]

• Labor Party in Federal and State spheres has made giant strides in the last few years in appropriating funds to improve trade union education facilities so that the working man may be helped, not hindered, and industrial peace may be facilitated. [More…]

• That is responsibility de jure and the Minister is the man responsible for executing it. [More…]

• Foreign Minister, the man who has said that he has given Australia a new standing in the world and that, in some mystical way, we walk taller? [More…]

• He has been reading too many novels or descriptive accounts of a cricket match. [More…]

• Mr Lee, supposedly a statesman who had doubts about Australia’s policies and a man who we all know enjoys a good debate, was quite definite in describing the Government’s policies in glowing terms. [More…]

• A man like this should not be allowed to remain in power and office. [More…]

• I wonder whether the honourable member could tell us - he seems to be a man in the know - who intimidated Sir John Dunlop into resigning from the board of the Bank of New South Wales after his statement in support of the Australian Industry Development Corporation. [More…]

• This is a man who uttered those dire predictions as to the effect on primary producers of the adjustment of 1.7c per gallon petrol subsidy just a few months ago. [More…]

• He is the man who was the panic stricken Treasurer of 1972 who was responsible for liquidity increasing by more than 17 per cent for the first 6 months of the last financial year - the greatest increase in the post-war period. [More…]

• He is the man who grimly claims that quarterly wage adjustments will lead to inflation and yet he is the same man who last year went on public record in the ‘National Times’ as saying they would not. [More…]

• The tragedy of the Labor Government’s high interest policy is that specifically it is a policy of discrimination against the small man and the average man. [More…]

• This policy, which is supposed to protect the small man, is denying his right to survival. [More…]

• But we have no intention of rushing in with a heavy-handed approach and flattening out the economy with damaging recessionary policies which hit the family man hardest. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite talk about the family man. [More…]

• That hits the unskilled, the low income earner and the’ family man first. [More…]

• I would say that to burden ageing parents with such a family - a man, wife and 5 children would be too much, even if I had the authority to spend Australian taxpayers’ money on such a case. [More…]

• I believe that everybody in the Middle East can be grateful that a man of his experience was able to exercise his influence at that crucial period, and we Australians can be proud of his skills and his services. [More…]

• Why did he remain so quiet when so many things were done which affected the country man? [More…]

• What a remarkable man he is! [More…]

• Socialism is not creative of human endeavour or initiative or of real wealth. [More…]

• The centralist government, a unitary system of government, means one employer, one planner and one controller, all the ingredients of a monstrous totalitarian system of government, examples of which have blotted the modern history of man. [More…]

• Not many years ago a pretty harsh across the board wheat quota was forced upon them. [More…]

• This hit the smaller man a lot harder than it hit the bigger man. [More…]

• There are strong similarities between the foreign policy style and attitudes of the Prime Minister and that of Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister in the early 1930s - a man described as the boneless wonder by Winston Churchill. [More…]

• It would take a man of extraordinary administrative incompetence to achieve a situation where there is a sharp reduction in oil exploration at a time of world oil crisis and when Australia’s proven reserves have only a few years to run. [More…]

• In fact we have government by a 93-man Caucus. [More…]

• They have a complete disregard for the smaller man who is represented at local government and State government level. [More…]

• Again, it would be unfair and foolish to deny that many Australians experienced a sense of excitement in the early days of the Labor Government. [More…]

• It all began with the 2-man dictatorship established by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), for which he reaped a very early reward in the ‘Murphy Affair’. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister had had the wisdom to include ‘his friend’, Senator Murphy, in a 3-man or a 4-man dictatorship, I venture to suggest that we would never have heard of any event called the Murphy Affair, and the Prime Minister would not have faced his first major crisis relating to his credibility in this country. [More…]

• Responsible management, man management, the government of men - call it what you will. [More…]

• That is to say, the 2-man dictatorship was governing in a quite unnatural way without the constant surveillance of the Caucus which in the ‘Labor tradition demands a full say in every decision of government. [More…]

• What happens when a government attempts to govern without restraint and when a Prime Minister in a democracy acts as a dictator in a 2-man dictatorship is that the Prime Minister builds expectations - great expectations - which he cannot subsequently live up to. [More…]

• No man has ever been more generous in expressing appreciation to the Federal Government for its understanding of the havoc caused to Queensland by the cyclones Wanda and Zoe than he has been. [More…]

• It was a clarion call to every able-bodied Western Australian to man the rabbit-proof fence against the marauding hordes from the east, and that was just for openers. [More…]

• Sir Charles Court is surely a man who by any standards has achieved a great deal in terms of what he set out to achieve. [More…]

• I think that he will be remembered by many unionists, who perhaps would not want to say so publicly, as a man who modernised the railway system and increased the morale of railway employees. [More…]

• However much one might disagree with his objectives and methods - in our political system many people do disagree on these matters - it is certainly true that he is a man of tremendous capacity and vigour. [More…]

• Australia has seen a development in which more and more power is going to the centre, to the detriment, I believe, in many cases of good decision making. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you come from Tasmania. [More…]

• I am sure that you will appreciate that point as keenly as does any man in this House. [More…]

• I point out to honourable members that a reading of the policy speech of Sir Charles shows him to be a man who is taking a much wider view today of affairs in the State, going beyond industrial development and so on, in which he was actively engaged previously. [More…]

• He is a positive man, and as leader of a Western Australian government, as I fully expect him to be after the election on 30 March, he will not be, as we have had for the last 3 years, a leader of a do-nothing government but he will be a leader of a vigorous government which is earnestly attempting to find - practical solutions which will increase standards of living in the widest sense. [More…]

• This statement came from a man who was a Minister in the former Government. [More…]

• In recent times the Country Party has been making so many changes in line with its history that I suppose in a way that attitude can be understood. [More…]

• It has a man milking a cow and on the bucket is printed ‘nationalist interests’. [More…]

• If a man is unfortunate enough to be a failure in a city or urban area - if he does not make a go of his business - that is bad luck as far as the Country Party is concerned. [More…]

• But if a man does not make a go of it in a country area the Country Party thinks the taxpayer should foot the bill. [More…]

• He is, as you know, an untrustworthy person, a person whose word cannot be relied on and a man who gets up to every kind of trick. [More…]

• Although the honourable member for Paterson claimed that more man $300m had been withdrawn from the rural community in subsidies, he did not set this figure, tendentious as it is, in its proper economic context of rising rural incomes. [More…]

• The onset of drought and the declining prices caused farm incomes to drop to $885m a year in 1970-71 and many producers faced serious financial difficulties. [More…]

• It was not until on one occasion he attacked the previous Government’s policy in Vietnam and described national servicemen as murderers that I realised that this man was a member of this House. [More…]

• I draw the honourable gentleman’s attention to the fact that when a pyromaniac was burning schools in Victoria one of the schools burnt down was Princes Hill school. [More…]

• I will admit that the builder in this particular case was a man of exceptional conscience; he was a Labor candidate. [More…]

• I notice there is a question on notice and there was also a question without notice from a man whose consistent scrutiny or even ill-will towards Tanzania are known to you all. [More…]

• Again on the question of citizenship, I had a report the other day about a man who was denied citizenship because he made the terrible mistake of parking his car in the wrong place when there were meetings suspected to be mass meetings of the Communist Party in a suburban home - a frightening thing. [More…]

• Then, to confirm absolutely this awful man’s tendencies, he subscribed to the ‘Tribune’. [More…]

• He has come forward and is a fine man, married to an Australian, has children, and has never committed any crime or done anything out of place. [More…]

• Then, we had a man who was not a radical; as a matter of fact I think that he was a Conservative Member of the British Parliament, Mr Malcolm Macdonald, the British [More…]

• If a man with high qualifications comes into Australia and we suggest to him that his only place in the community is digging trenches for the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board, he hates us and he is unhappy and he goes home. [More…]

• Before starting to develop that point, it is interesting to note that the man who is going to follow me in this debate is the Minister for [More…]

• But the man who was taking the keenest interest in what was being said by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) was the man who wrote the policy of the Australian Labor Party on immigration and was refused the right to administer it, the man who was stripped of his position as spokesman on immigration and refused permission on the Opposition side of the House to enunciate his views until the then Government gave him the right to do so. [More…]

• Like the honourable member for Lyne, I too have had many cases of a similar nature brought to my attention. [More…]

• One man cannot pass the employment test and yet a person is prepared to sponsor him, give him a home and give him employment. [More…]

• The big man gets tough. [More…]

• I do not know of any champion rural man on that team. [More…]

• But I hope that the Commission does not dismantle some of the provisions made by this Government in regard to research and promotion. [More…]

• In continuing to award differential pension increases, the Government has maintained a policy which has been followed in Australia for many years and is an almost universal feature of overseas pension schemes, lt has been alleged that this differential amounts to a financial penalty on marriage. [More…]

• Two single people could not beat the system by simply living together as man and wife. [More…]

• It is a very hollow claim when a man, who says he belongs to a party of conscience and social concern, allows his Government to follow policies that benefit the speculators - those who invest in land, precious metals and art works. [More…]

• Are there many pensioners who can invest in land or precious metals or works of art? [More…]

• If we are to gather from the newspapers what the Government’s policy is, far from its being a benefit to millions of home owners as it was announced with a fanfare of trumpets on Tuesday morning in the newspapers, we can well find that it turns out to be the greatest swindle since the South Sea Bubble burst many years ago. [More…]

• In other words, if a man has a working wife her income is added to his income in order to assess eligibility for this tax deduction scheme. [More…]

• Yet, for a married man with 2 children the tax on that amount increased by $3.50. [More…]

• Allowing for the effects of inflation, that man’s real income in terms of purchasing power after tax was up 66c. [More…]

• That was all the increase a working man with 2 children got during the year. [More…]

• I do this conscious of the fact that in recent years public disenchantment has risen wi:h the part played by science and technology in developments of dubious value to mankind. [More…]

• I am not talking only of the more obvious examples, such as military applications, nor even of space research, which though it has an endless fascination for the man and woman in the street has nevertheless come to be regarded by many as an enormously expensive deviation from the search for solutions to mankind’s most pressing problems. [More…]

• After some discussion with and representations to the Minister for Labour he passed the man’s claim on for reference to and payment by the Minister for Social Security. [More…]

• Another area that concerns me, as it must concern many members on both sides of the House if they operate properly within their electorate, refers to the number of problems that are brought to the attention of members of Parliament by members of the returned Services - those who are in receipt of totally and permanently incapacitated pensions, temporarily and totally incapacitated pensions and 100 per cent pensions. [More…]

• I cannot understand how it can be suggested that a man of 60 who has been on a TPI or TrI pension has suddenly improved in health to the stage where he can return to work. [More…]

• Surely it is about time the situation was examined and it was determined that once a man reached a certain age his pension level could only be increased, not decreased. [More…]

• It is time there was some hard line policy that when a man reaches a certain age his pension should not be reduced because through the use of good medicine his health has slightly improved. [More…]

• On the board of directors of four of those companies was a man named J. O. Bovill, together with two prominent men who have been sought by the New South Wales Government and who are now in South America. [More…]

• Even the coldest hearted Liberal must have been impressed with the speech which that sincere man gave at the luncheon in the parliamentary dining room yesterday. [More…]

• Senator Hannan has always been regarded by most members of the Labor Party as being a very truthful man. [More…]

• Mr Bill Haworth is another man who is reported as intending to join Senator Hannan’s National Liberal Party. [More…]

• I make no reference to him being allocated a job in the manner indicated in the remarks of the honourable member for Boothby. [More…]

• Mr Fred Chaney, a man for whom I have great respect, received from the Liberal Government an appointment as administrator of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• No self-respecting Speaker of this House and no man with your responsibilities, Mr Speaker, could have taken any other action than to have removed from the Hansard record some of the most despicable words ever used by a Leader of the Opposition and the leader of a party about one of his own members in this Parliament- [More…]

• But the average weekly income of a man earning $4,000 a year would be approximately S77. [More…]

• But on 14 February this year the national president of the Housing Industry Association - a man with a very sound knowledge of matters relating to this industry which is critical to Australia - warned that this country faced a crisis in housing not paralleled since the immediate post-war period. [More…]

• To prove the substance I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which shows that the greatest benefit of this loan deductibility will be to the single man and not the man who has dependants or family responsibilities. [More…]

• I find it difficult to believe that the honourable member for Herbert, as the Opposition spokesman for housing and as a man who has taken some trouble to inform himself on the problems of the housing industry could have been shown these proposals before they were announced by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I do not believe that he, as a man of honesty and some compassion, would have associated himself with a hoax of that kind. [More…]

• The Liberal Party is now promising govern ment assistance for couples buying their first home in the certainty that, if it were returned to office, there would be no homes available for very many of those couples as there were no homes available for very many of the couples who wanted them throughout the last 23 years. [More…]

• But what is this stupid man’s response, the response of this Minister for Minerals and Energy? [More…]

• But the man who has the ministerial responsibility for seeing it goes on is discouraging it and is crippling it. [More…]

• Nowhere is this clearer than in meetings of the Committee of Twenty and meetings of such bodies as the International Monetary Fund, because so many of our problems of high prices in this country are directly related to the world financial situation. [More…]

• In this country the top financial man is the Treasurer, and he is the person who should attend the meetings. [More…]

• I do not know of any champion rural man on that team. [More…]

• The Minister is an intelligent man but he has an extraordinary capacity to oversimplify and to exaggerate a situation. [More…]

• All the channels had dried up, and he was a deliberate party, with his colleagues, to accepting that there would be an imposition of 24 per cent on many items of machinery through hire purchase and other loans. [More…]

• He accepted it and in doing so was a guilty man. [More…]

• I have come to the conclusion that the only man who has been suspect in the present situation is the honourable member for Angas because he has been most concerned. [More…]

• I want it to be quite clear that the only man out of step in this debate has been the honourable member for Angas. [More…]

• I believe that foreign aid should form a lesser part of conventional foreign policy and form part of a multilateral approach to the solution of the problems that threaten man’s survival - economic growth, distortion of the consumption of the earth’s resources, distortion in income distribution and the world’s ever-increasing population. [More…]

• This is what has happened and I was wrong, because one of the long term senators from Queensland was not an honourable man and he has taken the bait. [More…]

• If Minister Grassby is not prepared to make same allegations in places where he can be sued for damages or accept my repeated challenge for a public debate on the issue request if minister could be asked to be man enough to withdraw accusations and apologise. [More…]

• He is a magnificent public relations man. [More…]

• Yet .it is in the nature of man, fortunately, to try to overcome problems and to find a new and better way. [More…]

• I noted the other day a Dow Jones report of a suggestion by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund that serious consideration should be given to recycling Arab oil earnings. [More…]

• He put forward the view that the IMF, as the middle man, should encourage the Arabs to invest their earnings in their customers’ countries. [More…]

• The only other thing I want to say is that several honourable members have expressed their confidence in the man who will be recommended to the Governor-General as the first Director-General of the Agency, namely Mr L. W. Johnson. [More…]

• I am sure that Mr Johnson and the Agency in turn will pay great attention to the views which have been expressed on both sides of the House in this debate and will find in them a good deal that is helpful in the very challenging task of beginning the overseeing of the improvement in Australia’s aid performance. [More…]

• 1 talked to the former owner of the island who unfortunately has passed away, a very interesting man, Mr Eric Mclllree. [More…]

• Apart from that, of course, it is represented by my dear friend and colleague, the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), a very sober, quietly dressed young man. [More…]

• Conservation is the wisest possible use, over a long term, of all our national resources for the benefit of man and his interdependent environment. [More…]

• It is also the enrichment and elevation of human experiences. [More…]

• I think it is appropriate that we should pay a mark of respect to President Pompidou, an esteemed statesman, a statesman by any standards, a man who had reached the pinnacle in his own country and as an international leader, a person capable of giving to the modern world a modern image, and a man who played a gigantic part in the task of building up modern Europe and giving it unity. [More…]

• President Pompidou was famous for many contributions to contemporary French life. [More…]

• His death this week robs France of a man gifted in sophistication, charm and ability. [More…]

• His ability to control these forces were an accomplishment of supreme tactical skill which would have many admirers in this chamber at the moment. [More…]

• Although there have been differences between Australia and the French Government in recent years, the tragic passing of this great man robs France of a gifted President and the world of an outstanding figure particularly now when the role of Western Europe in the world is undergoing great changes. [More…]

• Is there in Dublin a man named Brennan who is titled Australian Ambassador to Ireland? [More…]

• For what period of time does the honourable gentleman believe that we will continue to have 2. ambassadors to Ireland? [More…]

• Firstly, it is a small man’s industry. [More…]

• It has traditionally, as a small man’s industry, been the source of protein and of a significant part of the diet of many coastal peoples living around the world. [More…]

• It is the Australian Government’s hope that a bilateral fishing agreement will be ironed out between the Australian Govern- ment and the Papua New Guinea Government which will allow for the rational management and husbandry of the fishing resources in the areas’ which lie in common ground between the- 2 countries. [More…]

• In speaking about the Gulf of Carpentaria I would like to pay a tribute in passing to the fishermen and others who operate from the Karumba area, which was devastated a few months ago by the worst floods in the history of the white man in that area… [More…]

• The Government put forward a proposition that would outlaw gerrymanders and enshrine in the Constitution, if the people approved of it, the principle of one man one vote and the principle that electorates should Le as near as practicable equal. [More…]

• The Opposition is entitled to say that it does not believe in electorates being as nearly as practicable equal, it is entitled to say that it does not believe in the principle of one man one vote - and obviously by its actions it does not. [More…]

• Its whole electoral system rests on the principle of one man one vote not being so. [More…]

• There are 200,000 people involved and they have only one man in the entire Parliament and no State or local government. [More…]

• He stands for the policy of the past - the policy that judged a man on his complexion, on where he lived or on his beliefs. [More…]

• This is obviously a call for the restoration of racist policies which would align Australia with South Africa, apartheid, Rhodesia - I think it goes further than that; Nazi Germany. [More…]

• We have always been a country of fair go and fair play and the nondiscriminatory policy puts the onus on the man as he is and not what he purports to be. [More…]

• Mr Knox made a statement to which the honourable member for Bowman referred and to which I have referred. [More…]

• They have no intention of giving consideration to your performance as they ought to do. [More…]

• The Speaker is the man who should sit in this chamber and act objectively and fairly while occuping, in a parliamentary sense, a judicial office. [More…]

• You try to be the witty man and you try to be the man who succeeds, by making a sharp comment, a smart comment or a witticism, over a member sitting in the chamber. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, you are a man who has been elected to the highest office in this Parliament. [More…]

• He did not qualify his withdrawal; he did it openly and frankly as any man would. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, you would not even allow a full and proper examination of the rights of one of the members of this House because you wanted to shelter and protect the Prime Minister who, I believe, then commenced an operation which highlighted the lack of integrity standards and principles of this man. [More…]

• On those grounds we should have censured you, Sir, but we were prepared to accept that you were trying to do the best you could in your circumstances, but today this performance from you of trying to make the honourable member for Mackellar humble himself and plead with you for mercy was beyond any redemption whatsoever. [More…]

• They all voted for you and said what a remarkable man you are. [More…]

• It is because they know he is the fairest and the most just man on this side of the Parliament for the position. [More…]

• Indeed, for many years the north west electorates were pocket boroughs for the Labor Party. [More…]

• Now, for the first time that the Liberal Party has taken all the north west seats in the Upper House and the Lower House, it is called a ‘gerrymander’ and there is something wrong with the situation. [More…]

• He was a very great man. [More…]

• Dame Dorothy Tangney was the first woman senator in Federal Parliament. [More…]

• I have no quarrel with the Distribution Commissioners over the name O’Connor, because after all C. Y. O’Connor was a great man who made it possible for the goldfields to come into full operation at a much earlier stage than otherwise would have been the case. [More…]

• That is why it is a perfectly respectable argument to advance that there should be a policy of one man one vote, one vote one value. [More…]

• The best way to describe the situation is to compare the Australian Capital Territory with Tasmania. [More…]

• Tasmania has a population of slightly below 400,000. [More…]

• Whereas the Australian Capital Territory has one full time politician representing 200,000 people Tasmania, with twice that number, has 10 senators, 5 members of the House of Representatives, 35 members of a lower State House, 19 members of an upper State House and, although I do not know the precise number, more than 500 aldermen. [More…]

• In these days when people talk about one man one vote, one sees how that ideal is certainly not achieved in a comparison of this sort. [More…]

• It is a manufactured figure, created to try to put the fear of God into Australians to make them think they are losing control of their own resources. [More…]

• Of course, we know that even the Minister’s own Department could not put up with this and, as a result, a top-level man from the Bureau of Mineral Resources produced figures showing that only 35 per cent of Australian mineral production was in the hands of overseas companies. [More…]

• The Minister is a man who has a considerable grasp of economics, I believe. [More…]

• Those extreme circumstances might have been created by that record in the eyes of many people: They were created when a Prime Minister took an action that was designed to rig a House of Parliament. [More…]

• Any person who regarded this Prime Minister as a man of principle will know how to regard him now because he has written his own epitaph to these particular matters. [More…]

• It was this extreme action placed on top of everything else that caused the Opposition to determine that methods of deceit and Tammany Hall approaches should not be allowed to succeed for one moment in Australia. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maribyrnong, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who has done more than any man I know to subvert one decent environmental organisation in Australia thinks that this is amusing, but he will not be in this Parliament after the business either. [More…]

• He is the man who was so united with the Australian Country Party, his colleagues in opposition, that the Country Party members crossed the floor to vote against him. [More…]

• We have the great unified, scattered, patched, many named collection of hotch-potch opposition groups. [More…]

• It opposed to a man what would have been a most valuable anti-inflationary weapon. [More…]

• Inflation in Germany is conservatively estimated to increase by 8.5 per cent. [More…]

• As a man who is undoubtedly best known for his great loyalty to Mr Gorton, it was interesting to hear this from the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]

• You are a very witty man with this ambassador. [More…]

• The right procedure is to have one man official offices. [More…]

• It is quite clear that we could retain all offices as official offices if we had a one-man classification within the Public Service structure. [More…]

• Within the structure which the previous Government ran along with for many years it has always been necessary for more than one officer to staff an official office but if an office is nonofficial it may be staffed by one officer. [More…]

• We have a scapegoat Minister, a man who obviously instructed one of his officials to arrange a meeting with the National Standing Committee on Private Hospitals. [More…]

• What can the people of this country expect of a Government when one of its senior ministers - the man who is considered by some to be the next leader of the Australian Labor Party - when faced with a tight situation resorts to desperate measures? [More…]

• There are many calls on a man who has been GovernorGeneral or on a woman who is the wife or widow of a former Governor-General arising from the position they have held. [More…]

• Let me give one example of a cattleman with a medium sized property in the Carpentaria shire, near Normanton which is a small town in the Gulf country. [More…]

• The man is in his sixties. [More…]

• When I last saw him a couple of weeks ago, in the township of Normanton still surrounded by water, he told me that he had lost everything. [More…]

• No doubt, like so many of his neighbours, he faces a recovery situation that is even tougher than the challenge when he first went into the area. [More…]

• The tragedy of the situation is that this man asked me whether he could qualify for a pension. [More…]

• What good is that to such a man? [More…]

• He is the man who actually compiled the report to which I referred. [More…]

• Because of man’s psychological make-up, he is king of his house. [More…]

• He was an ill man. [More…]

• He drove himself very hard in a cause for which he had worked in quite a dedicated manner over a number of years. [More…]

• These levee banks have withstood probably the greatest flood that has been known in the history of the white man. [More…]

• In regard to the depression that has in its grip the north-western parts of Queensland, I thought I heard the Minister for Northern Development refer to the shire chairman in Normanton when he was referring to the serious losses which had been sustained. [More…]

• Here is a man with a family who is just one of many people who built up a substantial property - not a great and privileged company but a little man who eventually got together a fairly substantial property - and who has come to the Minister asking if he can obtain relief or a pension. [More…]

• I can mention many such cases to honourable members. [More…]

• He has to meet the demands for repayment on his plant which are coming in fast and furiously. [More…]

• That man, through no fault of his own, is completely immobilised. [More…]

• Surely to goodness he should have funds made available to him on the same basis as the small business man. [More…]

• That man eventually will be wiped out unless some assistance is forthcoming quickly. [More…]

• As I say, the man I could most recommend to have conferences and consultations with the Minister would be either the Mayor of Mount Isa, Angelo Bertoni or the State Labor member, Alec Inch - not me; I am not looking for the job. [More…]

• It is unusual because it means that the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General - both senior legal men and both men who one would hope have some reasonable understanding of the law and constitutional practice - were prepared to condone the continued occupancy in the upper chamber of the Australian Parliament of a seat by a man who they now contend at the time of his occupying that seat was occupying an office of profit under the Crown. [More…]

• In fact they are more culpable because it was through the direct act of both of them that this man, if he was in fact a senator at the time of his appointment, was sitting and participating in debates. [More…]

• I will leave members of the Opposition to reconcile themselves to the view of the man who led them for so long. [More…]

• He is not a man about whom Supply should be stopped. [More…]

• They say it is dirty and unprincipled that the Government should appoint the man whom they have held up in the country for years as the saviour of all that is good and decent. [More…]

• This man, because of his unreasoned drive to get his own way, his obstinacy, his impetuous and emotional reactions has imposed strains on the Liberal Party, the Government and the Public Service. [More…]

• What clean hands that man has! [More…]

• The fact is that we picked the wrong man for the job and it is time we faced up to it. [More…]

• It is a time-honoured tradition in politics that a man who has given his life to public service in the parliamentary arena is altogether entitled to spend his last years in some other place. [More…]

• Inevitably such a man is sometimes living in the shade and takes himself off, properly, to other places. [More…]

• He is not fit to call himself a man of letters. [More…]

• A government which cannot command a majority in this place must go to the people. [More…]

• The honourable member for Petrie and I are lucky that our views have been reinforced by those of a man who is far above cheap, nasty politics such as we have seen in this chamber this afternoon. [More…]

• Mr friend, the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) was for years the Chairman of the Public Works Committee. [More…]

• One does not often see him angry in this House, but today his voice was shaking with anger at the realisation that the Committee, of which for so many years he has been a highly respected member and past chairman, would be prostituted for a small political gain. [More…]

• They would have been presented in any case because Mr Gross, the man who is responsible for handling this matter in the Department, and myself worked on the assumption and the knowledge we had about the report and decided what we were going to do with it months ago. [More…]

• My Party congratulates the Minister for Education upon his meaningful contribution and thought to promoting the idea of education of the whole man and woman. [More…]

• Not only is it essential that man be educated in how to earn a living but also it is terribly important that he learns the complete art of living. [More…]

• Many people are concerned that unless something is done, as has been indicated by the statement prepared and delivered by the Minister, in the years to come even the very simplest of jobs that requires technical knowledge will not be able to be carried out because there will not be enough tradesmen. [More…]

• At present Australia has no national institution which teels the story of Australia to Australians - the history of aboriginal man, early white settlement and discovery, the gold rushes and so on, through to modern times. [More…]

• The story of Aboriginal man is an important one and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) joins me in announcing that priority will be given to examining the possibility of establishing a gallery of Aboriginal Australia. [More…]

• A separate announcement will be made concerning the specific terms of reference and membership of the separate committee which will report to the main committee and be linked to it by Professor Mulvaney, who is Deputy Chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and is well equipped to perform this function. [More…]

• Governments and man in modern societies must continue to search for ways to integrate the arts into society and to involve the public closely with the cultural life of our communities. [More…]

• The paradox is that it has occurred at a time of rapid world urbanisation, technological change and automation, when the machine is changing human patterns of work and play. [More…]

• Many smaller operating professional groups are working energetically for the arts in our community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, this man who is supposed to lead the destiny of this country, this man who is supposed to provide leadership, this man who has that duty entrusted to him apparently does not know to this moment whether he will have an election. [More…]

• How can the people of Australia have confidence in a government which is being dishonest in every promise it has made, which has been shameful and deceptive in its actions, which appointed a man as Ambassador to Ireland on 14 March and had not disclosed it by 2 April and it was only by the efforts of a pressman that the ambassadorial appointment was disclosed? [More…]

• The Attorney-General knew, the Prime Minister knew, yet they allowed that man to sit in the Senate and never raised an issue about it. [More…]

• This man, the leader of this country, is going to ask the Australian people to allow him to continue to lead this country. [More…]

• He deserves his fate when he supports a man who is able to contemplate a national election in which political opportunism, conspiracy and skulduggery are applied against a man who has the right to present himself to the people for election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Sydney is a man of wide parliamentary experience. [More…]

• The Speaker, of course, not only presides over the debates in this House but also is associated, in conjunction with the Clerk, in the management of all other affairs of the House and of the Joint House Department which call for his day to day action. [More…]

• But on this occasion the qualities which my colleague the honourable member for Flinders has expressed as being necessary in the person who is the Speaker in this chamber have been demonstrated to be lacking in many instances in him who is the Labor Government’s nominee. [More…]

• It is interesting that within the Labor Party Caucus obviously many felt that they did not have confidence in the honourable member for Sydney. [More…]

• Of course, not only one person contested that position; there were a number of persons, all of whom obviously believed, as they offered themselves as candidates for election as Speaker, that either they had better qualities or that the man who is the nominee of the Government is unsuited to hold the position of Speaker. [More…]

• In other words the man who is charged with the responsibility of custodian of parliamentary practice in this place has permitted that practice to be distorted and abbreviated in a manner which is. [More…]

• He is a man with long experience in parliamentary procedures not only in the Federal Parliament but also in a State parliament. [More…]

• He is a man who in his attendance to the duties of Deputy Whip on our side of the Parliament, both in government and in opposition, has demonstrated a capacity to participate in parliamentary debate which puts him in a position of considerable distinction among all honourable members from both sides of the chamber. [More…]

• They believed that you were a man of honour. [More…]

• We are here this morning to choose the man - or perhaps the woman - to preside over this House. [More…]

• This is the man who got up as the great proponent of the rights of the honourable members of this House. [More…]

• At that time, I told you that we had no experience of you as a Speaker but that we admired you as a man and admired your characteristics as a man. [More…]

• We felt confident at that time that you would conduct the Chair in a manner which was suitable to the best traditions of Parliament. [More…]

• He was a very uninhibited man, informal in his approach. [More…]

• I clearly remember when I was a schoolboy his visiting my area, meeting countless school children, going from one school to another and being happy to shake hands and to speak to as many people as possible. [More…]

• He was a senator for Tasmania for 24 years from 1944, sitting for 20 of those years on the front bench. [More…]

• He had been successively an Australian public servant, an accountant and the law partner of a Premier and a Chief Justice of Tasmania. [More…]

• Indeed, he was for long affectionately known as Labor’s man of distinction. [More…]

• Therefore, I did not have the advantage of close personal relationships with Senator McKenna but whenever I met him I found him to be an extremely charming man, a very sincere man and a man who commanded the respect of both Houses of Parliament and of all parties. [More…]

• Whenever I heard him spoken of it was in terms of great admiration for the qualities the man possessed. [More…]

• He was an able man and certainly deserved the high position that he earned in the Labor Party over the long period of 24 years that he was associated with the Parliament. [More…]

• He will always be remembered with a great deal of respect as a man who was very generous in his friendliness to members of the Opposition and a man who made an outstanding contribution to his party and to the Parliament. [More…]

• There are survivors of both the Curtin and Chifley Ministries - Norman Makin and Francis Forde. [More…]

• He was a man with high qualifications in law and accountancy. [More…]

• He was also a man of very considerable political wisdom and, as I remember them, his contributions in the Parliamentary Labor Party were always pointed. [More…]

• Nick McKenna was a friendly man and ‘he had a great sense of humour. [More…]

• As one who has spent all of his time as a member of this place on the back bench, I feel that that must be a marvellous tribute to any man. [More…]

• Joe Sexton was the kind of man who forms the backbone of political parties and, it should be said, of this Parliament - men who are hardworking and never self-seeking. [More…]

• Joe Sexton is well remem bered by those of us who knew him as a very pleasant man. [More…]

• The Prime Minister very aptly described Joe Sexton as a good Australian and a modest man. [More…]

• He was a quiet man in this Parliament. [More…]

• I found him to be a pleasant man. [More…]

• Joe Sexton was a man who never forgot what motivated his political activity and the activity of many others. [More…]

• As has already been said, he had a very sincere manner. [More…]

• But this temporary unpopularity was responsible for the defeat of the man we are honouring on this occasion. [More…]

• The honourable member for Corio is a man of sound judgment. [More…]

• One expects him to be a man of that character because in 1967 he was elected by the people of Corio, an area renowned for sound judgment, discernment and discrimination. [More…]

• But we who have been in this Parliament must pay a tribute to him for his outstanding qualities - for the manner in which he has tried to keep the business of this House proceeding along correct and proper lines and for the fact that he has given great consideration to the Standing Orders of the House. [More…]

• It is ‘important however that we consider not only the qualifications of the man but also the qualities required of the position. [More…]

• We recognise that the honourable member for Corio too has a knowledge of the Standing Orders of this chamber and has done his best in the circumstances when he has been in control of the chamber; but the position, Mr Speaker, is that he who is elected serves first as your deputy and secondly as the Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• It is of concern to us on this side of the House that when we are electing a Chairman of Committees we recognise that there should be an adequate availability of Committee procedures to permit an adequate consideration of the legislation which comes before this chamber. [More…]

• We believe it is quite critical that a man should be appointed to this important position in this chamber who is able to ensure that the parliamentarians of this place, all of whom are meeting for the first time in the 29th Parliament but some of whom are meeting for the first time ever in the House of Representatives, are given during the life of this Parliament an adequate opportunity to debate all those pieces of legislation which come before us. [More…]

• The way in which we on the Opposition side believe this can best be ensured is by appointing the honourable member for Lyne to the position which this House is now considering - your deputy, Mr Speaker, and the Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I am surprised that the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair), a man with long experience in this Parliament and a man who is to boot a lawyer, albeit a bush lawyer being a member of the Country Party, dared to assert during the course of such a debate as this when we are speaking about the attributes of 2 people that the Chairman of Committees in some way, whether he was acting as the Chairman of Committees or as the deputy for the Speaker, had some sort of influence on the procedures of this House. [More…]

• I am very sorry to hear such a statement from such a learned gentleman. [More…]

• In other words, the Chairman of Committees, whoever he may be, and the Speaker in this place, whoever he may be, operates within Standing Orders that were brought about by those who now find them very uncomfortable because they did not expect to sit on the Opposition side of the House, where they will probably sit for the next quarter of a century. [More…]

• He is the man who supervised the greatest decline in housing and the steepest rise in interest rates in Australia’s history, and he is talking about having an inquiry. [More…]

• We know that Mr Johnson is a very busy man extremely dedicated to his portfolio and we really appreciate his attendance with us today. [More…]

• The Federal Treasurer is a man who over a period of many years has championed, together with his Labor Party colleagues, the cause of low interest rates in this country. [More…]

• No man has reformed more rapidly since going into opposition than has the honourable member for Mackellar. [More…]

• We have heard once again the parliamentary would-be funny man giving his opinions on what other people are supposed to be doing. [More…]

• I substitute it by saying that he is a funny man, but on the national scene he is a man of no real consequence. [More…]

• I have already withdrawn it, Mr Deputy Chairman. [More…]

• I am telling this man who stands up and every time, for the sake of his cheap two bit humour, considers that he can- [More…]

• No man in his House has represented an electorate with more sincerity and more purpose than has the honourable member for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• But why take away the right of a professional man to work on his own initiative, driven by his own incentive, stimulated by both competition and altruism to improve his knowledge and to improve his techniques and thus to care the better for sick people? [More…]

• This Labor Government, when faced with any kind of problem, obsessively and maniacally turns to socialism as a solution. [More…]

• Human nature being what it is, as soon as the rights of a professional man to practise in a free competitive society is taken away and he is forced to work in a government machine, creative achievements, ingenious new techniques, and the exploration of the perplexing problems of mankind will not be forthcoming and we all will be reduced to the level of mediocrity - [More…]

• I refer to his speech about the Labor health scheme meaning disaster not only for every man, woman and child in Australia but for generations yet unborn, generations not yet thought of and, one gained the distinct impression, even generations long since perished. [More…]

• The man who has moved this motion - the Treasurer at that time - gave pensioners an increase of 50 cents. [More…]

• He is a man who is greatly concerned about inflation! [More…]

• The man is under great stress. [More…]

• Sitting behind him is another man. [More…]

• The record shows that although the absolute number of stoppages has increased with the full employment that we have pro duced - this has happened under regimes throughout the world when full employment was produced - the absolute number of man hours lost has gone down. [More…]

• One of the reasons for these stoppages is, of course, that unless an industrial dispute occurs many of the arbitration courts cannot hear a case. [More…]

• The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) would uphold the right of the beef cattleman who is not getting any money back for beef when he takes it to the market to refuse to sell that beef. [More…]

• I resent the implication that a man refusing to sell his labour is acting against the national interest. [More…]

• We believe that it is the duty of a national government to increase and improve the public sector, and we will look with sympathy at any encroachment that our efforts make on a man’s private practice, but we are offering an alternative. [More…]

• The man who has moved this motion - the Treasurer at that time - gave pensioners an increase of 50 cents. [More…]

• He is a man who is greatly concerned about inflation ! [More…]

• But the final blow for this Mr Average Man is the pressure put on him by this Government in increased interest charges. [More…]

• Honourable members will be aware of the speculative practices followed by some importers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in the weeks prior to annual Budgets. [More…]

• Irrespective of whether it is an importer, wholesaler or retailer who actually takes the profit it is the consumer, the man in the street, who foots the bill. [More…]

• No working man of woman can increase his or her income at the drop of a hat, but flat owners can grab all that the traffic can bear without any restraints at all. [More…]

• Bill Vines was a lonely man when he leant on the Liberal and Country [More…]

• And it is being taken by a government which professes to look after the little man and the needy but which in fact has turned its back on them and is leaving them without any hope or arrangements, and it has certainly broken its promise. [More…]

• He is a man who has had an enormous wealth of experience as an employer of labour in the furnishing industry, and he was able to bring to the Committee the knowledge gained from many years’ experience of the industry which he so capably represented. [More…]

• There are many problems of migrants which the Department of Labor and Immigration is illequipped to deal with. [More…]

• There are many problems for migrants settling in Australia, and matters which to them appear to be difficult and which cause concern to them are matters that we might take for granted. [More…]

• The Minister is running the risk of having the allegation made - I would hope it is not true - that the Government is concerned about the migrant community only insofar as it can provide people for jobs and to man Australian factories. [More…]

• How does one make a judgment between a man who has lost a job, a man who wants to upgrade his skills, a women who has a low grade job because there has never been an opportunity for training, somebody not yet in the work force such as a single mother who wants to join the work force, if there is only one place available for people from all these different categories? [More…]

• We know that a man named Barton has defeated the efforts of the Commonwealth to have him extradited back to New South Wales to stand trial after fleecing shareholders in the Australian community of approximately $22m. [More…]

• I wonder whether the honourable member for Wentworth and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry will be able to ease my mind as to whether this legislation would break down if Barton were to be brought into court in Brazil in relation to his extradition to Australia, with his skilled and wise lawyer, Mr Gruzman, Q.C., who recently flew to Brazil to interview him, and if Barton were to say: ‘I have Margaret Abertito in the family way’. [More…]

• I hope that the former Solicitor-General will be able to advise me on that aspect because I think many Australians would like to know. [More…]

• It is a bit of hypocrisy that the laws of Brazil prevent a man from being extradited, no matter how serious the crime he committed in the country seeking his extradition, because he climbed into bed with a girl who now says that she is pregnant to him. [More…]

• The honourable member raised many points. [More…]

• But the measure is a small step towards achieving something that was expressed many years ago by a prominent American politician of the 1940s - a man called Wendell Wilkie - who spoke in book form and in other forms of one world. [More…]

• I look to the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock), a man who comes to this House with some experience in these matters. [More…]

• I am a reasonable man. [More…]

• I concede that on occasions the Minister can be a reasonable man. [More…]

• I think that my colleague is the appropriate man to table it if it needs to be tabled. [More…]

• In that quarter 2.5 million man days were lost, running at the rate of 10 million a year; $45m in wages was lost in 3 months, running at the rate of $180m a year; and 77 per cent of the time lost in that quarter was lost as a result of strikes over wage claims. [More…]

• It was not lost over managerial policy. [More…]

• For the purposes of comparison with recent times, more man days were lost then than at any other time for many years. [More…]

• The significant thing about the time lost is that 71.3 per cent of the man days lost were lost in respect of wage disputes centred around price movements. [More…]

• It is of no use for the honourable gentleman to blame the national wage case for any of the inflationary trends that now occur, because the national wage case decision was to increase the minimum wage by $8 a week, and both the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) on 3 May went on public record applauding that decision, saying that it was a proper decision. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that he has presided over the greatest deterioration in industrial relations, in terms of strikes and man hours lost, in the term of any Minister in the parliamentary history of this nation. [More…]

• In yesterday’s debate on the establishment of the Joint Committee on the Parliamentary Committee System the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) put the view that there was a need to curtail the excess expenditure of man hours and funds as a result of cross-purpose investigations by committees in the 2 Houses. [More…]

• They deliberated on this question and to a man and to a woman they said that in no circumstances would they agree to any significant extension of their term of office, and that they were elected by the people of the Northern Territory for 3 years. [More…]

• loss of man hours and earning capacity, and [More…]

• It was not until 1970-71 that productivity regained and passed the level, in terms of tons per man hour, that it had reached in 1966-67. [More…]

• The level of these and other disputes on the waterfront can be illustrated by the fact that in the first 2 months of this year 100,000 man hours were lost as a result of unauthorised stoppages, compared with 40,400 for the same period last year. [More…]

• I am not pretending that all waterside workers are in this category, or that even many of them are; but this is a classic case of lack of discipline. [More…]

• The foreman was asked why he started this drunken man on this day. [More…]

• The foreman replied: [More…]

• As a matter of fact, I should not start him, but under the new system the man is supposed to be paid for the full shift irrespective of whether he works it or not. [More…]

• A man looking over Lake Burley Griffin does not understand the problems of people in inner metropolitan Sydney. [More…]

• If the basis of the status of a man is that he can earn a higher income than his wife when this situation is maintained by the artificial and unjust construction of lower rates of pay for females it does not say much for the man as a person. [More…]

• On the other hand, ‘equal share’ becomes mixed up with all sorts of philosophies - many of a socialistic nature - which ignore the need of man for an incentive to give of his best. [More…]

• This would have the effect of rendering the timber industry at Maryborough nonviable, and a further 700 to 800 jobs of an otherwise permanent nature would be in jeopardy. [More…]

• It has been milled for the crop, not the capital - so much so that today one can fly over the island and find little evidence to establish that white man is even there. [More…]

• The need to get on with the job of producing man’s requirements is a continuing one. [More…]

• That he should exercise thought and responsibility towards the environment in the process goes without saying, but in the final analysis man must eat and be sheltered. [More…]

• Too many persons, chiefly of academic background and blinded by their own erudition, display small sympathy for those engaged in the more modest pursuit of making homes, establishing careers and maintaining a life style based on secure employment and stability within their community. [More…]

• To have this commodity priced out of reach of primary producers must have a serious effect on the viability of many properties. [More…]

• If the honourable member does not substantiate his evidence by presenting it to this House, then he must stand discredited in the eyes of this Parliament and he must stand discredited as a disgrace to the Australian wool industry, as a man who has been long involved with the industry and as a man who has contributed to it. [More…]

• So the statements that have been made were not made by a man who knows nothing about the industry or the seriousness of the situation in which it . [More…]

• In the same ABC program last Friday, the Chairman of the Australian Wool Corporation, Mr Maiden, was asked about the honourable member’s allegations. [More…]

• Mr Maiden is a man of great distinction with a great administrative record and an impeccable reputation - [More…]

• I also believed at the time that members of the Corporation solidly supported to a man the decision to hold the wool sales in the best interests of the wool industry. [More…]

• What has happened is that specifically, with the exception of Mr Nevile and the Chairman, the persons referred to were the nominees of the 2 principal wool growing organisation in Australia. [More…]

• Their appointment to the Corporation was in accordance with the legislation which, in that respect, the Minister, who was then the principal spokesman for the Opposition on matters affecting primary, industry, supported. [More…]

• I suggest that the man himself needs to be a little more constant in the way he demonstrates his attitudes in this place. [More…]

• By the honourable member for EdenMonaro initiating allegations on 16 July in his Address-in-Reply speech, by the Minister for the Northern Territory taking the matter up in his reply to a question last Thursday and by the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) pursuing it here and outside the Parliament, this Government is throwing doubt on the credibility of every man appointed to any statutory corporation. [More…]

• I am glad the honourable member for Casey referred to that gentleman. [More…]

• By the manner in which he has made specific charges, which are unsubstantiated, against individuals he has followed a procedure and a practice which have been universally condemned and he has claimed that there is a basis on which the charges should be made. [More…]

• The whole of the basis by which an innocent man is presumed to be innocent has been sought to be reversed by the charges made by the Minister for the Northern Territory and the honourable member for Eden-Monaro. [More…]

• In fact, the Minister did discuss the appointment with the AWIC and could not accept its nominee because that man had told many people that he could not work with the Chairman of the Australian Wool Corporation, Mr Maiden. [More…]

• Dr Coombs had been actively associated with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in the 1950s and was a man deeply committed to the encouragement of Australian cultural life and to the recognition of her cultural identity. [More…]

• He was thus very well fitted to undertake the chairmanship of the Council. [More…]

• This sort of requirement immediately eliminates the little man. [More…]

• It is very sad to see a man leave retirement too late. [More…]

• There is nothing sadder than to see a man grow old in this House and have few years left to him. [More…]

• The plethora of rural subsidies and the granting of loans at subsidised interest rates to rural producers at the expense of everybody else in the community, of course, are completely orthodox to a Country Party man. [More…]

• Who could charge that this man was appointed by a Country Party Minister because he may have had Country Party affiliations? [More…]

• Here is a man who has proved himself over a long period of years to have capacity and knowledge of the Australian wool industry. [More…]

• He is a man who has given long and distinguished service to public life in more ways than one. [More…]

• But I would like to know from the Prime Minister under what authority this man went to the Philippines and say that if we, as government employees, public servants or Ministers literally spoke out of turn we would be sacked immediately? [More…]

• Is he a spokesman for the Australian Government? [More…]

• I recall visiting South East Asia not so many years ago with a parliamentary delegation. [More…]

• The then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman met the delegation. [More…]

• I recall very vividly that this man, after discussing many subjects, said: ‘Australia is very fortunate that it has no racial problems. [More…]

• This matter concerns me as I know it concerns many thousands of people outside this chamber. [More…]

• In relation to the latter part of the statement, will the honourable gentleman agree that the only way to achieve wage restraint by ‘workers like you and me in the community’^- to use his words - is to have a national conference asking wage setters, price setters and government, which is the collector of great chunks out of a man’s pay packet, to exercise restraint? [More…]

• Last week in this House a matter of public importance was raised concerning industrial unrest and the difficulty that was causing many people in many different parts of Australia. [More…]

• In that debate it was pointed out that in the first quarter of this year a record 2.5 million man days had been lost, 592,000 men had been involved and $45m were lost in wages as a result of the strikes. [More…]

• In April alone 936,000 man days were lost, involving more than 600,000 employees. [More…]

• In the first 4 months of this year 3.4 million man days have been lost and $63m has been lost in wages - coming out of the pockets of the people involved. [More…]

• In the first 4 months of this year nearly 1,000 disputes have occurred involving approximately 1 million employees and the loss of 3.4 million man days and $63m in wages. [More…]

• I will say again, as I have often said in this Parliament and out of it, that although the honourable gentleman has a few blind spots - the one that I am now discussing happens to be one of them - generally speaking and curiously enough for a man who was educated at Melbourne Grammar and finished up in Oxford, a man who has had all the advantages of being the only son of one of the richest squatters in the Western Districts of Victoria, he does seem to know more than any of the other honourable members on the other side of the House about labour relations. [More…]

• I must say that when the honourable gentleman talks about the number of man days lost in March I have to agree with him. [More…]

• It was, if not an all time record, a record for very many years. [More…]

• I do not dispute the number of man days lost as indicated by the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]

• The honourable member said that the number of man days lost was 2 million. [More…]

• In saying that I did not dispute it, I did not want it to be understood that I agreed with what he said; but the number of man days lost was a lot. [More…]

• No, 2 million man days were not lost in the metal trades alone. [More…]

• Perhaps 2 million man days were lost right throughout Australia. [More…]

• As I have said, I cannot verify the figures, but I know enough about the figures to know that the number of man days lost was too high and that the number of man days lost in April also was too high. [More…]

• In that instance 980,000 man days were lost. [More…]

• What the honourable gentleman always conveniently overlooks and what everybody else who criticises the amount of time lost through strikes overlooks is that when the Labor Government came to office the number of people registered as unemployed, translated into the number of man days lost to the production of the country, represented no less than 51 million man days per annum. [More…]

• The honourable member can complain, as he has every right to, about the fact that more than 2 million man days were lost in one month, which was the worst month, but he has to remember that when he and his colleagues banded over the running of the economy to the Labor Government the area of unemployment was so high that it represented in lost productivity the equivalent of 1 million man days a week. [More…]

• So productivity has in fact increased considerably in many areas. [More…]

• In the case of the coal miners I should say that the output of the coal mining industry per man is now more than double what it was a little more than 10 years ago. [More…]

• I think that the honourable member for Wannon quite clearly explained to the House and to the people of this country that there are differences between the statistics of man-hours lost through industrial disputes under this Government and those of man-hours lost due to similar industrial situations when the Opposition parties were in government. [More…]

• The figures for man hours lost in it would not be included in the official figures which are available. [More…]

• They are examples of the number of man hours lost due to strike action which would not be included in those official figures to which I referred. [More…]

• Another example is the strike by the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers which upset the whole of Tasmania and caused unemployment. [More…]

• The whole thing is taken out of perspective when one talks about the number of man hours that have been lost. [More…]

• In regard to man hours lost, prior to 1972 approximately 3 million man hours were lost due to industrial disputes. [More…]

• For every 66,000 persons unemployed about 13.7 million man hours are lost. [More…]

• This will mean that instead of the small man - the person who substantially we on this side of the Parliament represent - being able to maintain his effective operation, he is likely to go out of business. [More…]

• Without going into the matter in great detail, the point I make is that the policies of a credit squeeze and high interest rates are particularly penalising the small business man - the man with less than 10 employees and the self-employed person. [More…]

• If we are going to determine our law by prejudice, by instinct, by volition, or by spontaneous response, then, as the great Edmund Burke reminds us, we will finish in disaster because man cannot enjoy the rights of a civil and an uncivil society together. [More…]

• My friend the Minister for Manufacturing Industry is a man - I say this in no patronising sense - of immense compassion. [More…]

• He is a man who, with respect, is prepared to recognise that where merit of argument does exist there is absolutely nothing to prevent him from accepting the argument. [More…]

• A man or woman goes to court to have his or her rights litigated or responsibilities settled, not to have some dry jurisdictional problem settled. [More…]

• This was no ordinary man. [More…]

• The Minister for Manufacturing Industry, who is sitting at the table, held the portfolio of Minister for the Capital Territory but the Government had to transfer him to another portfolio so that he could continue to hold the pocketsized borough, the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The people living in the outback are burdened - I use the word ‘burdened’ selectively because the legal system regrettably is far too costly for the average man - with court problems. [More…]

• When a man changes his mind and says: ‘Yes, originally I thought that was good but, on reflection, I recognise that it has flaws and is not so good,’ I give full marks to him. [More…]

• It was the case of a workman who was electrocuted. [More…]

• Mr Justice Windeyer had this terribly complex but fascinating problem, from the point of view of lawyers, which was posed by the fact that the man had been electrocuted in South Australia and that he had been driving a truck, the ladder of which had extended and come in contact with electric wires. [More…]

• The man was very badly hurt. [More…]

• Unlike Liberal Ministers of days gone by, I am a busy man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Griffith has raised one or two issues which are quite important and which I know the Minister for Services and Property will answer because he is a man who has sought to do a great deal for members. [More…]

• He is a man not of the type that he has been alleged by the Minister for Services and Property. [More…]

• Within a few days that unfortunate old man died of pneumonia. [More…]

• Of no little interest is the proposal for a mechanism for the participation in major Australian development of the ordinary man in the street, referred to by the honourable member for Henty, through the Investment Bonds of the National Investment Fund. [More…]

• I was keen then - I am still keen, and the cynical might aver that I am idealistic enough to want to see the small man get a stake in the ‘big time’. [More…]

• I stress again that I believe that this is a marvellous opportunity for the ordinary investor - the ordinary man in the street whom the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards) mentioned during his speech - to organise his assets not only for his own benefit but also for the benefit of the country. [More…]

• Many examples exist of government enterprise working in conjunction with private enterprise, and I believe that in a balanced type of society - the sort of pluralist society, both economically and socially, in which we live - we should be encouraging that sort of investment. [More…]

• McEwen being the name of a very able and talented member of the Menzies and successive governments and a man who made immense contributions towards the development of this country. [More…]

• Honourable members can take it that that view, whilst not accepted at that time by the department controlling trade, is now without qualification accepted by Sir Alan Westerman. [More…]

• Westerway’s appointment was an appointment of a very competent man. [More…]

• The same man, two or three years ago, said that such charges, if they were brought in, would be inflationary. [More…]

• The Special Minister of State has always given me the impression of being a reasonable man. [More…]

• Indeed, I suppose that it could be said that he is the personification of a reasonable man who would appear on the Clapham bus. [More…]

• The Australian people today can see for themselves very quickly just how much better this man and his Government have proved to be, when they bring in proposals such as these to increase charges - charges that we all have to meet and charges that underprivileged people, more so than others, have to meet. [More…]

• After that admission, I wonder why the Government is persisting with these Bills and its proposal to increase these charges when, in the view of the second highest man in the Government, the proposals will not be able to deal with the problem of inflation. [More…]

• The Government already has appointed Mr Kennedy as Interim Chairman of the proposed postal commission and Mr Gibbs as Interim Chair man of the proposed telecommunications commission. [More…]

• Does the Minister see any justice in a man who has been deserted by his wife and who has been left with 4 children to care for receiving no assistance under the social welfare program of the Labor Government? [More…]

• Of all taxes paid by the working man under the last Labor Government, 41 per cent were indirect taxes. [More…]

• The tax payable on those things is inequitably spread amongst the community because the working man or the pensioner pays just as much indirect tax on a packet of cigarettes as the millionaire. [More…]

• Let her justify to the pensioners of Henty the Government’s action in making the working man and the pensioner in her electorate pay an increase of 24 per cent in indirect taxes compared with the average payment when the Liberal-Country Party Government was last in office. [More…]

• I will illustrate how ridiculous and absurd the present situation is for a married man on the minimum wage and with 3 children. [More…]

• With child endowment and free health insurance less income tax, the net weekly income for a married man - if he is working - on the minimum wage is $69.40. [More…]

• So, a man gets about $10 more if he does not work. [More…]

• when a man and his wife are thrown out of employment for any reason whatsoever, this community can then abandon the family, their house payments and their whole way of living and give them a sustenance on which to live. [More…]

• Honourable members cannot expect one man to deal with the lot of them. [More…]

• He said, as I remember him - and I quote figures roughly - that the minimum wage is about $68 a week now but a man with a wife and 3 children can get $70 a week on unemployment benefit. [More…]

• Not he nor anyone on the Opposition side, nor anyone on this side of the House, should feel any satisfaction with a situation where a man, with a wife and 3 children, on unemployment benefit and thereby getting more than the minimum wage, is still below the updated poverty level established by Professor Henderson. [More…]

• He accepted the situation like the man that he is. [More…]

• As to the second question of the employment of the lass concerned, I repeat what I said last night: Without casting any particular aspersions upon the woman concerned, I do not believe that any person who had a background such as that woman possesses should be thrown into a situation in which she has to work, like it or -lump it, for the man - seeing that the Minister has mentioned the name of her previous boss - who actually defeated the man for whom she worked. [More…]

• Surely a reasonable man - ‘most of us here at least claim to be reasonable men - would appreciate the fact that the Committee was given a matter almost of days to prepare its report but before the report is received there is a rush election. [More…]

• Knowing the anxiety of the man most concerned, the honourable member for the Northern Territory, who is the spokesman for the people of the Territory, to see the Legislative Assembly appointed with a new membership - I particularly avoid using the word ‘powers’ because after all we do not know what powers the Legislative Assembly will have - I would like to make it clear to the House and to the people of Australia that had there not been a danger that actions taken by us may have been interpreted as being obstructive, we would have done everything possible and, in fact, would have insisted on a referendum being held to ascertain how the people of the Territory themselves felt about this matter. [More…]

• To them I say: They can jolly well laugh me out of court if they wish because I believe that every fair minded man and woman in Australia must consider some ways and means of encouraging and improving the general standard of production output in Australia. [More…]

• When my colleague, the former Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, announced the election date in 1972, the then Leader of the Opposition in one of his typical performances rose and said: Well, 2 December is the anniversary of Austerlitz’. [More…]

• The proper comparison so much closer in time and place is with a man named James Scullin, who was Labor Prime Minister of Australia in 1931 in the life of the Twelfth Parliament. [More…]

• It is led by a man who 3 months ago lent his picture to the statement ‘Only Whitlam has reduced inflation by one third’. [More…]

• Either he is extraordinaily ignorant of the files on record in his Department on this subject, or he is plainly trying to delude himself and probably those in the Caucus who elected him to the Ministry that he is a man of great initiative and enterprise. [More…]

• It is a policy which spells disaster for the man on the land. [More…]

• The man who must be held responsible for that scare campaign is the President of the Bank of New South Wales, Sir John Cadwallader. [More…]

• Sir John Cadwallader is chairman and managing director of Allied Mills Ltd. [More…]

• It has a near monopoly of the milling of flour in New South Wales and is responsible for almost half of the bread manufactured in Sydney and the metropolitan area. [More…]

• He is a man of integrity and honesty. [More…]

• Perhaps he has spent his money unwisely on turtle farms and a few other things but on this occasion I think that he would at least paup like a man of honour. [More…]

• However, Mr Snedden was the man who campaigned on the necessity of pruning the expenditure side of the Commonwealth’s Budget. [More…]

• The little man is being hit already by the Government with higher charges for cigarettes, spirits, telephone calls and postage stamps - almost everywhere he turns. [More…]

• I received a letter from a man who was stimulated by some of the statements made by members of the Opposition during 1973. [More…]

• The man said that his wife had recently been ill. [More…]

• The whole affair cost the man about $95. [More…]

• It is regrettable that many Australians are not yet fully apprised of what all this means. [More…]

• One can conceive of the average taxpayer in this country - the average family man with 2 children - on a conservative estimate being up for something like $100 extra, or probably more, over and above the insurance levy which he has already paid to the Government fund by way of an insurance levy. [More…]

• Here we have a man, one who understands this and who has some practical experience in the medical field, saying that he has not got strong feelings about the proposals that one of the Government’s senior Ministers is advancing and has been trying to force upon the Australian people for the last three or four years. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to come clean on this issue, as a fellow Queenslander, a man who was born in a part of my electorate, to tell the people what is in store for them. [More…]

• Two million man days were lost and $37m was lost in wages largely as a result of activities in one industry. [More…]

• Anyone who votes absent in that union is a marked man and nobody does because he knows that it would indicate him immediately as against the hierarchy and against those in control. [More…]

• There should be throughout the world some kind of protest on behalf of this distinguished and heroic man. [More…]

• First, we are asked to arrange a consultation with the Ambassador of the USSR in Canberra and the Department of Foreign Affairs in order to obtain information and to take steps necessary to prevent cruel and inhuman punishment. [More…]

• The honourable member for Darling Downs quoted Lord Rosebery as saying: ‘He who wants to serve his fellow man cannot serve him in any better way than by engaging in local government.’ [More…]

• The newspaper reported on the visit of the Premier of Queensland to the local government conference held at Wondai and the reaction of the Mayor of Bundaberg, Alderman Nielsen. [More…]

• Alderman Nielsen said that the Premier was inclined to have handed out a threatbut stated that local authorities were quite capable of making up their own minds on the best interests of local government. [More…]

• What a pathetic man the Minister turns out to be when he is under fire. [More…]

• He told the House an untruth because Senator Marriott of Tasmania rang him well before the election and complained that the entire secretarial typing pool in Tasmania had been allocated to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Wales Parliament an active, effective man in Mr Michael Cleary as the new MLA for Coogee. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman had been speaking in the nineteenth century there may have been some merit in his analogy between a worker and an article which could be bought and sold. [More…]

• Certainly, we on the Opposition side do not believe for one moment that an employee, a man or woman of the work force, is to be regarded as a chattel, to be bargained for and sold. [More…]

• You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. [More…]

• You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. [More…]

• You cannot help a man permanently by doing for him that which he can and should do for himself. [More…]

• But when we bring it in at last it is rejected, and among those who support the rejection is the man who previously was happy to bask in the credit for making the concrete proposals. [More…]

• If this were just a matter of one man’s self-delusion it would not be of much account, but it is a sickness which has infected the whole Opposition. [More…]

• How many times do we have to win elections before the Opposition will accept the people’s verdict? [More…]

• He said that this process engaged all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction and did it in a manner which not one man in a million was able to diagnose. [More…]

• We believe that there should be a reduction in the rate of taxation, which is imposing an increasing burden upon the ordinary working man and woman. [More…]

• As salaries go up and as taxes increase proportionately, is it little wonder that they demand more and more wages to try to offset that disability. [More…]

• For many years I have been depicted as an anti-freeway man. [More…]

• Because I have expressed doubts about freeways at times when the popular belief was that freeways would cure all our traffic ills I was also depicted as an anti-car man. [More…]

• Ideally one would hope that the automobile could be replaced by another form of transport but at this stage of twentieth century man’s development such a hope is unlikely to be fulfilled. [More…]

• We have to face the fact that however much we may work towards replacing the motor vehicle it is with us for many years to come. [More…]

• These include the training of young workers, environmental cancer, skin cancer in Australia, viruses and cancer, appli-cation of present knowledge to cancer man agement, professional education, social problems of cancer and health screening. [More…]

• I seriously suggest to honourable members that the time has come to put their philosophy aside and realise that, as I have said once before in this House, man must eat. [More…]

• The former parliamentary retiring allowance scheme did not provide a retirement benefit for a man under 45 years of age. [More…]

• Further, although some commentators have also poured a bucket on these proposals, as the Minister is a fair man, not to say a statesman, would he arrange for these views to be drawn to the attention of Mr Justice Moore, since presumably only parties to the original wage hearing are in a position to. [More…]

• I do not think that many State Departments of Highways and Departments of Local Government, or indeed their Ministers, or many shire councils or municipalities around the countryside are happy with this arrangement. [More…]

• There is not a man sitting in this Parliament who would not subscribe to that policy. [More…]

• The individual must be able to say that he wants to have in local government man X, woman A, woman B or whoever it may be. [More…]

• If the legislation is passed, it will be an attempt to convert the Minister into a man with the powers of Caesar. [More…]

• You will remember, Mr Chairman, that last week we took the decision that we would forgo the proposed rise in our parliamentary salaries. [More…]

• So if you would, Billy, please come in here and act like a man. [More…]

• Too many councils and shires in Australia have provided no remuneration for their aldermen and councillors. [More…]

• Every” man is worthy of his hire, and if we are to attract men and women of quality to participate in local government we must ensure that they are compensated adequately for their time and efforts. [More…]

• It is absurd and, indeed, unthinkable to have rapidly expanding cities or shires with budgets of, say, 10m to S50m with a mayor and 8 aldermen as directors receiving a collective maximum of SI 5,000 to $20,000 annually, as is often the case, and with many of them putting in up to 30 or 40 hours a week individually. [More…]

• A man has his job. [More…]

• For that man there may be no help available. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, you do not need to be reminded, because you are the man who always chairs the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the House, that on a number of nights in the last couple of weeks a battle has been waged between the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) and me. [More…]

• Remember that the greater the variation the more the value of a man’s or woman’s vote is diminished or inflated. [More…]

• I was told by my father as a very young child: ‘The most important man in any organisation is not the president, is not the secretary. [More…]

• He is the most important man in the Labor Party. [More…]

• They have internal fracas within their own Party and they do not even trust the quality of their one man Government much longer. [More…]

• This is the man who has just said it was not fair. [More…]

• In opposition it has opposed the Government’s legislation and ignored the mandate given to the Whitlam Government in 1972. [More…]

• That is what the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review has described as a gerrymander. [More…]

• I did not think anywhere hidden in the Liberal Party was a man with his intelligence and foresight. [More…]

• Whilst most Liberals know when to get out of the wet this man has done it on principle, and that is so different from other members of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• But, of course, this Prime Minister is not a man cast in the mould of those great Prime Ministers of former years. [More…]

• To a man and a woman, the Opposition totally rejects the Bill before the Parliament. [More…]

• That statement was made by a man who played a very important part in framing the Constitution of the United States of Amenca. [More…]

• -Mr Chairman, so far this debate has been quite notorious because so many speakers have spoken in favour of the principles of one vote one value but at the same time have expressed their intention to vote against the principle which they have espoused. [More…]

• He is the one most important man’ is the message he gave us. [More…]

• In every single case that has been before the United States Supreme Court it has made the same decision- that the democratic concept will not tolerate the gerrymandering of politicians. [More…]

• They have used the argument about the man in the country, which was argued in 1902 when there were no telephones, no trains, no motor cars, no communication between the citizens of the outback of this great nation. [More…]

• He is a man who comes here and says: ‘It is all right to represent 120,000 because I am in the city but, of course, if you are in the country you can drop it down to 80,000. [More…]

• -Mr Acting Chairman, we have just heard the usual diatribe from the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) on matters affecting the Country Party. [More…]

• That is the purpose of the legislation, and the Minister for Services and Property is the guilty man. [More…]

• I think Senator Withers is a very lucky man to have the benefit of having had the opportunity to talk to his father and learn some of the antics of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• I shall tell the Joint Sitting the name of one man who is a registered surveyor in Queensland- none other than the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Clem Jones. [More…]

• Many many years ago a man called Voltaire described how words were invented to hide the real thoughts of certain spokesmen. [More…]

• Many measures that concern the people of the Australian Capital Territory are debated in that chamber but the people of the Australian Capital Territory do not have a representative to participate in any debate in the Senate, as they ave no opportunity to send a man or a woman to express their point of view in that chamber. [More…]

• There is one man on a meteorological station on one island. [More…]

• These are about the man who spent his entire time today accusing me of not being interested in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Apparently, if we follow through the reasoning of the honourable member for Moreton, all wisdom ended with the Neanderthal man because anything that came after that is a shocking modern device cooked up by left wing socialists. [More…]

• I call them Piltdown men advisedly, because it may be remembered that the Piltdown man was constructed artificially. [More…]

• On the last occasion the Country Party managed to talk out the time allotted for consideration of the legislation so that it would not come to a vote. [More…]

• I am reminded of the speech made tonight by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), who is a man for whom we have a great respect, a man who is a great traditionalist and a great speaker in this place. [More…]

• But I am afraid that I can never quite get over the worship that the honourable member and so many others opposite have for the Constitution. [More…]

• Take the position of a man with a wife and 2 children in New South Wales who wishes to cover himself and his family for intermediate hospital and medical cover. [More…]

• A man in this position who earns $80 a week after tax pays over $2 a week for his health insurance cover. [More…]

• But a man earning $300 a week pays only a little over $1 a week for his health insurance cover. [More…]

• The wealthy man gets at least a $45 subsidy each year. [More…]

• Let us not have any argument that because a wealthy man, or a comparatively better off man, pays more tax, he is entitled to more. [More…]

• We do not argue that because a man earns more income and therefore pays more in tax he should pay less for the use of a social utility such as public transport or that he should pay less for a loaf of bread or for anything that he uses in the community. [More…]

• Because of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of human nature, as soon as the rights and incentives of the professional man to practise in a free, competitive society are taken away and he is forced to work in a government machine, creative achievements, ingenious new techniques, break-throughs in knowledge and further explorations of the perplexing problems of mankind cease and we are all reduced to a level of mediocrity. [More…]

• It goes further and says to the man whose wife is working: ‘We will not only take 1.35 per cent off your income in tax, but we will also take it off your wife’. [More…]

• The man who runs the Ontario health scheme- nowadays Canada is the criterion for all things, and Ontario is the place from where a lot of this health scheme was taken- said this: [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that if these Bills are passed, as the march of numbers means they will be, it is certain that every man sitting on the Government side of the chamber who votes for them will rue the day, because it is an absolute certainty that each generation will pass on its achievements or its failures. [More…]

• How could a man say that and believe it- one would expect a Prime Minister to believe what he is saying- and within 7 months escalate his estimate from being cheaper than the present scheme to 2Vi times the cost of the present scheme? [More…]

• Under the Labor scheme, if it had started on 1 July of this year, a family man with a taxable income of $2,500- that is a man who earns only a little more than $50 a week- would have to pay a special taxation levy of 1.35 per cent. [More…]

• Under the present subsidised health benefits plan- imperfect though it is- with the recent alterations, a family man can earn up to $3,500 and be completely covered for hospital and medical benefits with the Government paying his contributions and he still does not have to pay any special tax levy. [More…]

• The newspaper report states quite clearly that the health bill for the average family man will increase by 82 per cent. [More…]

• Mr Acting Chairman, the Government should stop its senseless, socialist stampede for a costly, unworkable scheme that will reduce health care standards, reduce freedom of choice and put many of our hospitals at peril. [More…]

• That is human nature. [More…]

• Even the members of the Opposition have confessed that their scheme leaves many people out in the cold. [More…]

• The very basis of the program submitted here by my Party is to make sure that the hard-working family man is not plunged into poverty through his inability to afford health insurance. [More…]

• Too many Australians- more than a million in fact- have no protection against the high cost of illness and injury. [More…]

• Too many Australians, particularly those who live away from the centre of our major cities- I thought that the Country Party would have looked at that- have inadequate access to high quality hospitals and medical services. [More…]

• Too many Australians suffer from a system which makes it cheaper for a wealthy man to insure himself against medical charges than for people who are not wealthy. [More…]

• One woman said: ‘Why watch that bunch acting like children when you can see the real thing in “Romper Room”?’ [More…]

• However, according to this newspaper man, one person, the secretary of an old age pensioners’ society, watched the telecast from beginning to end. [More…]

• You will have a black man to look after you’. [More…]

• They ought to be on their knees and thankful for having a man of his competence in this place. [More…]

• -Thank you, Mr Acting Chairman. [More…]

• It is not the private life of a man in public life when he is able to fiddle the mining shares, but I will make these references - [More…]

• The influence of the man is such that every night, when I go down on my knees and say my prayers, I say: ‘Please God, may the Labor Party never take Senator Keeffe away from North Queensland’. [More…]

• We heard this great hymn, this great tirade, this great deceit- a grand deceit among many grand deceits- of telling the Australian people that this country was being sold down the drain, that it was being sold out to multi-national companies, and all the other things- the type of thing that Senator Keeffe raised tonight- that Government supporters throw into the ring. [More…]

• I do not say anything personal against him, but he is now identified in foreign money markets as the man who has brought this country to the status of a banana republic. [More…]

• Government supporters would have you believe that they have won the support of the average working man, the small miner, the fellow who slaves underground. [More…]

• It is quite a remarkable thing that in the electorate of Kalgoorlie there was a tremendous swing in votes against a man who was highly regarded in that area but who had one great burden to carry. [More…]

• The Government has succeeded in destroying the hopes of that man. [More…]

• It is a report which was prepared quite hurriedly by one man. [More…]

• Obviously there are very many errors in it. [More…]

• But the fact is that today, 23 August, the Parliament is assembled in the form of the House of Representatives and while this House is assembled, with all its members here, if there is no discussion of the major matter occupying the attention of every man, woman and teenager in Australia, it will be an abandonment and an abdication of the true role of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Treasurer of this country (Mr Crean) is a broken man. [More…]

• -One reason why we should have a debate on this matter is that the Treasurer is a broken man. [More…]

• What an extraordinary performance we have had from the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns). [More…]

• Question time has been dispensed with- a very rare performance in this House. [More…]

• Obviously he is the man with all the executive power while the Prime Minister is nothing more than a constitutional mark. [More…]

• Why does he not stand up like a man and state in debate - [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman has asked me whether I disagree with his actions. [More…]

• The answer is yes, I do disagree because he shows himself to be a man convinced of his own lightness above all things. [More…]

• I know that you are a fair man and I know that you realise that I am a member of the Privileges Committee. [More…]

• He was a man I knew well, a man I admired, a man whose personal qualities of integrity, compassion and sturdy common sense earned him the confidence and affection of all who had the privilege of working with him. [More…]

• We believe in the individual human worth and dignity of every man, woman” ‘and child, regardless of race or colour . [More…]

• We know -that in-.their daily lives New Zealanders are decent, humane. [More…]

• I have no doubt that Norman Kirk ‘s relentless capacity for work helped shorten his life. [More…]

• He was a man who believed deeply in the essential goodness of the ordinary man. [More…]

• He was a man whose own goodness and decency were reflected in the quality of his public life, in the greatness of his leadership and in the dedication he showed in all his words and deeds to the welfare of his country and its people. [More…]

• He was, I think, in every sense of the word, a fine man. [More…]

• People at my age, or perhaps even older, realise just what a young age it is for a man to die. [More…]

• But, as these things must happen, another man has been elected to lead the Labour Party in New Zealand. [More…]

• He was a man who won this respect by bis sincerity and through the confidence that he was able to engender in people. [More…]

• I had the opportunity to meet him briefly on a number of occasions and I must say that I was impressed by the stature of the man. [More…]

• Typical of the late Norman Kirk,-the New Zealand Prime Minister took a Sunday off to entertain us. [More…]

• He was a man who was highly cultured and yet, as the Prime Minister has mentioned, he had very little formal education, leaving school at the age of twelve, By occupation he was a train driver like the late Ben Chifley. [More…]

• He was a man, as the Prime Minister also mentioned, who had great concern for people of all races, irrespective of colour, right throughout Asia. [More…]

• His wife- I mention this fact because our condolences go to Mrs Kirk- is a very lovely woman, who was completely dedicated to the work of her husband. [More…]

• I should like to express very sincere sympathy to her, to the nation of New Zealand, which has lost a very great leader, and, for that matter, to the whole of Asia, for this man understood the great problems of the region and was working towards overcoming, and was doing a great deal to overcome, those problems. [More…]

• He was a charming and scholarly man and a very distinguished servant of this Parliament, as the Prime Minister has quite rightly pointed out. [More…]

• He was also an outstanding citizen of Tasmania. [More…]

• I personally am very grateful to him for the many hours of conversation I had with him. [More…]

• He understood and, indeed, wrote about its great history and the tremendously important part it played in the development of Tasmania. [More…]

• If that is the case, is the Treasurer prepared to impose a head tax of $8 on every man, woman and child in Australia to enable the wages and salaries of other Australians to be transferred to this sectional interest? [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman gives me the details of the case, the name of the individual, I will certainly see whether there have been unjustifiable delays and whether the man concerned is eligible. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, we know precisely what the Special Minister of State (Mr Bowen) was proposing and this man, the Minister for Minerals and Energy, who, the Prime Minister’ told us this afternoon, was going to be Acting Prime Minister of Australia for eight or nine weeks, did not have the wit to carry out the Government’s strategy on this matter. [More…]

• Yet this man, who so inadequately defended his Government against the very well mounted attack by the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) earlier this afternoon, is to be left in charge of this country as the Acting Prime Minister to blunder round as he has in his portfolio of Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• He is a man who comes second only to the unions, the left-wingers and the communists as being responsible; for the situation we find ourselves in today. [More…]

• Malcolm Fraser) who is a man of some substance, not the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) who is another man of substance, and not the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) who is a man of substance too, who supported its introduction but none other than the most junior person sitting on the front bench, opposite, a man who got there only by the skin of his teeth and because he happened to have, dinner at the lobby with Mr Snedden the day before he selected his front bench. [More…]

• However, Mr Snedden was the man who campaigned on the necessity of pruning the expenditure side of the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]

• This has had a detrimental effect on many industries, not only in my electorate but in aU country areas. [More…]

• Only recently I heard something which was most disturbing, and that was that a man who owns a petrol station had additional tank capacity installed at his station to build up a reserve so that in the event of any industrial difficulties he would have sufficient fuel to carry on for some time. [More…]

• Firstly, the refusal to supply extra petrol impinges upon the freedom of the individual- a man in business -to obtain the supplies he desires and needs. [More…]

• The words of that distinguished gentleman were that if the left wing of the communist unions obtained control of the power union, the transport union and the supply union it could bring this country to its knees. [More…]

• Only one man, Dr Cairns, with the support of his Caucus mates, bears the responsibility. [More…]

• Any other man would be ashamed of himself. [More…]

• Why is there an acknowledgement by the President of the Australian Labor Party, the same man being President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that this Budget will not reduce the level of unemployment; this Budget will increase unemployment; and this Budget will create greater inflation- inflation of at least 20 per cent? [More…]

• Strikes: The figures we had at that stage were 4 million man days lost for the first 5 months of the year- the greatest loss of man days since the Depression. [More…]

• He is the man who will be Acting Prime Minister ‘ of this country for 10 or 1 1 days. [More…]

• The only memorable thing I suppose is that he was trailing his coat, gyrating in his seat and taunting you, Mr Speaker, in his usual manner. [More…]

• He is a man without matter; a man without manner. [More…]

• The normal procedure with a censure motion is for the man who seconds it to follow the mover immediately. [More…]

• We would have been having a debate on the economy and on the Budget in the proper place, in the proper manner and at the usual time. [More…]

• The Parliament and the nation have had the opportunity to know how empty he is, how vapid are his views and how phoney is the policy of the man who did not lose the last election. [More…]

• He is a man who takes 3 days to go 60 kilometres in an Avis car to his own property from the nearest aerodrome. [More…]

• He is the man who suggested in the first place the levies that have been imposed on shipowners. [More…]

• The representatives of the Tennant Creek Town Management Board expressed some doubts about the successful recruitment of staff to man the new hospital. [More…]

• Any person who took an interest in aid programs over the last 6 months would know that the Government has been shovelling money out like a man with a dozen arms trying to get up to the amount that was allocated. [More…]

• Those who have known him would hesitate to describe him as being a man of milk and water political conviction. [More…]

• It violates a very basic principle that I regard as being of paramount importance, the basic principle of human rights, of personal freedom, the right of the individual to privacy in personal matters. [More…]

• Why not the man in the street? [More…]

• Why not index every man, woman and child so that we can put a tab on everybody? [More…]

• I think that quotation sums it up, because if a man were roguish enough there would be no committee or no system that would enmesh him. [More…]

• I know that he is a learned man who won his way through educational institutions on scholarships. [More…]

• When he stands for election as a member of Parliament, as part of the democratic process, this man can be blackguarded and pilloried by mean minded candidates who happen to be standing against him. [More…]

• This would be totally unfair to many members of this Parliament who have had the capacity to achieve something in the community. [More…]

• Does the House seriously think that the process of finding good quality candidates will be improved by the thought that any man who deigns to stand for preselection for a political party will be subject to undue inquiry into his privacy? [More…]

• The third one the Minister appointed was a man called Mr Mundey. [More…]

• I do not think anyone would accept that one should properly think that this man, Mr Mundey, is anything other than an enthusiastic amateur. [More…]

• As I said last night, and I repeat, I think Parliament, not the Opposition, deserves a proper answer from the Minister as to why he appointed this man. [More…]

• If this man did not conform with the definition that Parliament imposed in the appointment of 2 extra people, Parliament is left with little other way of thinking than that the Minister appointed him on a personal buddy-buddy relationship, which is exactly what I said last night. [More…]

• The Minister cannot have appointed Mr Mundey because he thought he was a properly qualified man in the two fields specified in my amendment and accepted by Parliament. [More…]

• I would like to know also by what method of ministerial machinations or mental processes the Minister arrived at the incredible solution that when Parliament empowered him to appoint two additional members to the Advisory Council of the Cities Commission, who were to be two trained and competent people in the fields of the environment and conservation, it empowered him to appoint this man to that job. [More…]

• I have tried not on one occasion but at least on several occasions to try to educate this dull man from the other side of the Parliament. [More…]

• In the 23 years in which the Government of the Party which the honourable gentleman opposite, who represents a rural seat, supports was in office, the proportion of the Australian population resident in non-urban areas fell from 31 per cent to 14.7 per cent. [More…]

• Not only do I say that, but such a great Australian as Patrick White, when asked to nominate the man he thought was the greatest Australian, said that in his view Jack Mundey was that person. [More…]

• He has taken positive action on many occasions to save many beautiful things in Australia. [More…]

• We will work with all those who want to protect those parts of our heritage that have been created by man or nature and are unique or are things of beauty. [More…]

• Measured by articles handled per man hour, productivity at the Sydney Mail Exchange fell by about 10 per cent absolutely between 1964-65 and 1972-73. [More…]

• But he is still in good company, because he was supported in 1971 by the then Leader of the Opposition, the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who, it will be recalled, during the last election campaign had this to say: ‘I am the only man in Australia who can reduce inflation’. [More…]

• I think that in fairness to the people who work in the Redfern Mail Exchange I should say that the number of man days lost through strikes in that mail exchange is lower than the national average. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that there are fewer man days lost in that exchange than is the national average. [More…]

• I refer, as did the honourable member for Gippsland, to the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns), that man of great moment who supported the view that the increases were not anti-inflationary but would be inflationary. [More…]

• This shows the hopeless mismanagement from which we suffer under this socialist Government. [More…]

• -I know that the honourable member for Hunter is a fair man so I ask him: What is fair? [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman said that at long last he thought that people in his electorate seeking telephone connections were getting a fango. [More…]

• The performance in South Australia has been second to none but now, for the first time in my experience of the last 10 years, the fringe areas of Adelaide are suffering. [More…]

• Mr Milton Stevens was the departmental man there. [More…]

• Let us give the man in the town and the man in the country the right to be the man who makes the decision so that he is not bound down by some bureaucratic struggle that eventually has to be referred to Melbourne to be interpreted. [More…]

• -Before dealing with the matters I intended to speak on, I want to deal with an extraordinary statement by the previous speaker, the member for Eden Monaro (Mr Whan), a man whose training I thought should provide him with knowledge enough to know better. [More…]

• But if a person does this he should be man enough at least to admit an error if it has occurred. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman was informed that I would raise something in relation to him and the honourable member for Bowman is not here. [More…]

• If nothing occurs I will continue with my representations to the Commonwealth Police at least to interrogate me and the honourable member for Bowman and to request him to bring forward the evidence on which he has made his most precise and what I regard as quite serious allegations. [More…]

• Excluding any permanent arrangements for extra secretarial assistance at appointed times, what were the total extra man hours given by way of extra assistance to- [More…]

• We think that in Australia our agriculture is best advanced by ensuring the continuation of the owner operator- the man who owns his own bit of dirt, the man who uses his own hands and works on his own property. [More…]

• He is the man we are going to help to survive. ‘ [More…]

• But this is what the Government is asking the man who has converted to LPG to do. [More…]

• Embedded in this legislation is a clause which makes it almost impossible for the ordinary man who owns a vehicle in the city to convert to LPG. [More…]

• Every person who uses the centre of the city, whether he be a business man, a shopper or a passer throughthis means all the people of Sydney from time to time- has to be concerned with the use of LPG in place of petrol. [More…]

• In the twentieth century one of the great things that will concern man and society is the problem of pollution. [More…]

• Historically pollution has been tolerated by society where resources have been judged to be too plentiful to be greatly damaged or dismantled by it But one of the great causes of pollution, as was commented on by various speakers, is the serious problem which arises from the pumping of raw sewage from pipes located close to or on our beaches. [More…]

• Not only is sewage in many instances untreated but a large proportion of the population of our various metropolitan cities and towns is not even connected to a sewerage system. [More…]

• -As the member for Lyne said, his credibility is in question, and I think we appreciate that remark coming from a man of his outstanding honesty and integrity. [More…]

• I submit that in the final analysis if the Prime Minister wants to go running around Queensland making statements which are inaccurate and totally off-beam, setting out to humiliate a great man, it should be the Prime Minister who carries the can. [More…]

• And this from the Party claiming to speak for the working man! [More…]

• There is no more certain way to impoverish a man and his family than by taking away his job. [More…]

• Even if a man loses his job for a few months, it is a setback of major proportions. [More…]

• But the number unemployed is many thousands more today than it was then. [More…]

• In other words he had achieved a situation in which the unions- the working man- had less bargaining power. [More…]

• Of course there was demand inflation. [More…]

• Let us examine the causes of the demand inflation which was with us until a couple of months ago. [More…]

• First there was a reservoir of demand built up. [More…]

• Unemployment was deliberately created by the Liberal Party to put the working man in his place. [More…]

• Secondly there was the failure of previous governments to provide a manpower and training POliCY to allow sufficient skilled manpower to be available to produce the goods and services required by the community. [More…]

• The Chamber of Manufactures and the Bank of New South Wales, two reasonably regarded nonsocialist organisations, conducted a survey earlier this year with respect to productive capacity. [More…]

• -First of all, I should like to congratulate the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) who made his maiden speech tonight. [More…]

• I am quite sure that this young man will make a very great contribution to this Parliament and also to his own electorate. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign, because I am a man who has no particular bias about where he places his advertising, I placed my radio advertising with 4KQ, the Labor controlled radio station in Brisbane. [More…]

• It would seem to me that surely even in a Labor administration they should be able to resolve their differences so that one man may be given the responsibility. [More…]

• But I, and I am quite sure many thousands of others, have never accepted the principle laid down of the price being set by the Government. [More…]

• I was absolutely staggered to hear that said by a man who represents a large wool growing area. [More…]

• He was man enough not to criticise his own colleagues. [More…]

• That really did not help much in assisting the small man on the land. [More…]

• Again I just repeat this fact: If we did not have the income from the commercial man using telephones in the cities we would not have been able to get any development of the country services. [More…]

• If we were to charge on the actual cost of usage we could really decrease the cost to the city man. [More…]

• A married man now earning $10,000 per annum, will, on the same basis, see his real income decline by 3.5 per cent. [More…]

• He was a man who was very much endeared to the people of Mt Isa. [More…]

• I am sure that you will not mind, Mr Deputy Speaker, if I make a very brief mention of this very splendid gentleman. [More…]

• There can also be the associated problem of ensuring that any insecticide used does not have any residual effect on man or beast. [More…]

• My colleague, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), drew the attention of the House to the great problems created for defence manoeuvres because of lack of suitable fuel- [More…]

• Excluding any permanent arrangements for extra secretarial assistance at appointed times, what were the total extra man hours given by way of extra assistance to- [More…]

• Mr Milosevich then abused the foreman and said the job would be closed for 10 years. [More…]

• There is also further evidence in Mr Justice Franki ‘s judgment that the unions had demanded other payments. [More…]

• Eventually the company agreed’was forced’ might be a more accurate descriptionto re-employ the man who had been dismissed, and $20,000 was demanded. [More…]

• In fact on that occasion no money was paid, but the demand was made. [More…]

• Any red blooded man will defend himself against attack. [More…]

• I have some reservations about the National Capital Development Commission’s attitude on the new and permanent Parliament House because the Commission has changed its mind so consistently in the past that I am at a bit of a loss to know what its policy might be now. [More…]

• I have always been a Capital Hill man because the faith to which I belong always believes that a hill is the best place for real estate. [More…]

• I contend that the new and permanent Parliament House should be built in a place where it can be seen by all and where it would have the dignity that should be associated with a building of this kind. [More…]

• This man was a farseeing man and apparently did not believe in temporary measures for the sake of expediency. [More…]

• The difference in cost between such a building and a permanent building would be very small. [More…]

• The fact that the Minister for Northern Development is the man who happened to have an interest in nitrogenous fertilisers and defended their use so vehemently may well have had something to do with the undertaking by the Government that, with respect to nitrogenous fertilisers at least, it was to keep up the program that we initiated. [More…]

• What the new capital gains and unearned income taxes mean is this: A man or woman will work for a living and they will pay very heavy taxation on their earnings. [More…]

• He is the silent man of Cabinet. [More…]

• Yet, he has allowed new taxation blows aimed at the mining industry that will greatly affect the profitability, and indeed feasibility, of many new projects. [More…]

• -The division of Bennelong was created in the 1948 redistribution carried out by the Chifley Labor Government and from 10 December 1949 until the dissolution of the 28th Parliament it was represented in this place by John Oscar Cramer, a man who came into this Parliament after a very long and distinguished career in local government in Sydney. [More…]

• He had served for a lengthy term as Lord Mayor of North Sydney and also for a period as Chairman of the Sydney County Council. [More…]

• It was announced, indeed trumpeted, by the man who thought that by now he ought to be leading the Australian Labor Party in this House. [More…]

• He may be in a position to explain to us the malpractices that took place in the election in 1966 when, perhaps rightly or wrongly, he eventually became very well known in the House as the third man. [More…]

• He distinguished himself in that sport as one would expect a man of his physical toughness and his mental toughness to do, because rowing is a sport that requires both those attributes, which he possessed and he showed them. [More…]

• He won because the people of his electorate recognised that he was a strong man, a man who had a lot to give and a man who would represent his electorate and build for himself a career in the national Parliament where he could contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• It is great credit to the memory of the man. [More…]

• Sir Eric Harrison was a tough man as anybody who was in the House in his time knows. [More…]

• He was an extraordinarily strong debater, given to the use of very many colourful phrases. [More…]

• He was a hearty man who, after the debate, would be able to join in a joke and in friendship with those whom he had vigorously attacked for their attitudes in the preceding debate. [More…]

• He was a man of great humour. [More…]

• He was a warmhearted man. [More…]

• I think he has been described as a strong-willed, bluff man who liked people and whom people liked. [More…]

• Many members of the House visited the United Kingdom while he was there and knew the warmth of the welcome he gave, his knowledge of the British scene and his capacity to put people in touch with those with whom they wanted to talk. [More…]

• He was a man who had steadfast principles. [More…]

• He was then happy, bright and discussed problems with you in a robust manner, told you where you were going wrong and told you where you were going right. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that Lyn and his family will ease their burden by remembering him as a great man. [More…]

• He is known to those who knew him as a man of integrity, loyalty and faith. [More…]

• He is a true man of singular character and of great straightforwardness, as we all know- never concealing a view and never going round a corner to say what he might have said face to face. [More…]

• He is a man of utter integrity. [More…]

• I agree with the Leader of the Australian Country Party that Sir Eric Harrison was a man for opposition. [More…]

• I always found Eric Harrison a seemingly tough opponent, but in fact a very warm-hearted and courteous man in personal dealings and it is impossible to remember him with other than affection. [More…]

• I believe he was a man who played the game of politics completely and singularly without venom and that was something that was conveyed to one even if he was criticising your position. [More…]

• I think this is the first time I have ever risen to speak on an occasion like this, but I do so for the reason that I believe that the passing of Sir Eric Harrison, a man of great distinction and a great parliamentarian, is something which ought to be commented upon by those who knew him well. [More…]

• There were not so many academics in the Parliament of those days and most of the great parliamentarians of those times were noacademics. [More…]

• It is unfortunate for those who followed that we now have the only other man who I believe was better than Eric Harrison as Leader of the House. [More…]

• Harrison was that sort of man. [More…]

• The fact is that the average Australian family man has been deliberately programmed to accept a reduction in his real income this year. [More…]

• If we can hear the personal views of the Prime Minister designate, Dr J. F. Cairns, in this House today, let the Acting Treasurer now be man enough to tell us what his personal view is, to indicate to the Australian public what is happening in the Caucus and to be prepared in a statesmanlike way to reject the tax and to take it back to the Cabinet that conceived it. [More…]

• -What an amazing performance we have just heard from the Acting Treasurer (Mr Hayden). [More…]

• He spoke about many things. [More…]

• But inflation, under this Government, has done more to destroy the small man than it is possible to imagine. [More…]

• The aged who have saved and invested during their working life to ensure that they will not have to depend entirely on social security payments find the tax man reaping his share, after they have been taxed all the way through their working lives. [More…]

• Ernest Joske was the father of Mr Justice Joske who sat in this House with many of us for a number of years. [More…]

• In that oration titled ‘The Professional Man and his Institutions ‘ Sir Ben amin had this to say: [More…]

• It is worth remembering, however, that the Universities Commission was established in 1959 by the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, who will go down in history undoubtedly as one of Australia’s greatest minds and a man who certainly appreciated the need to establish in this country a soundly based tertiary education system. [More…]

• It is however symptomatic of a trend which has been seen throughout the rest of the western world, in fact the entire developed world today, that university and tertiary education are no longer the right of the few but of the many. [More…]

• I would hope all members of this House would accept that liberty of thought and expression is indeed the breath behind man’s ultimate progress. [More…]

• A man with a family is obviously not able to take one or two years off to go back to university. [More…]

• It is not satisfactory for the man who has to make his way in the world, who already has family responsibilities, who is probably already a partner in one institution or another and who must make the effort in his own time to re-educate himself to keep up with the tremendous strides in knowledge that are taking place today. [More…]

• It has been estimated that since the Second World War man has increased his totality of knowledge by more than he did in the previous 150 to 200 years. [More…]

• Let us face the fact that what we know and describe as beef roads could have been called defence roads, tourist roads or classified as the ordinary sort of road which permits a man and his family to get into their motor vehicle and drive, for instance, from Mount Isa to Brisbane, on bitumen all the way. [More…]

• This is of particular assistance to the ordinary working man who depends on his car to come down to Brisbane! [More…]

• Retailers, almost to a man, refused to collect the tax and the whole matter was becoming unworkable. [More…]

• We have been amazed at the stupendous gall of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), who pretends to be the sole possessor of the secrets of the Temple, a man chosen by divine providence to see the light where for others, mere mortals, eternal darkness reigns. [More…]

• At least, these are the conclusions you should reach if you believe that this self-anointed economic Messiah is the only man able to cure all the ills of a troubled world. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is a fine man and a great success at his job- so great, in fact, that he is likely to retain that position for a long time. [More…]

• And what about sport and receation- leisure in short- which were not even thought of by the Opposition during its cosy 23 years in office, despite their oft heard claim of humane liberalism? [More…]

• In 20 months or so we have begun to melt down the ossified structure of sport and recreation in this country, as we sincerely believe that man does not live by bread alone, that a government should be at least partly responsible for the intellectual as well as physical education and well being of its people. [More…]

• Would the Opposition, given a chance, abandon all these programs, or would it, somewhat characteristically, jump on the bandwaggon it had not even known existed and start demanding a bigger slice of the cake just because the cake now appears appealing? [More…]

• I have letters from relatives of and even some of the very sick people in these homes pleading with me: ‘Please, Mr Cameron, what can be done to stop this man? [More…]

• He appears at times to be a man of compassion, but, at the moment, he is forcing many of these people to an early grave. [More…]

• He is a young man, comparatively speaking in political years, who has made a great impression not only on this Parliament but also on the nation as a whole through his contribution in the administration of his portfolio. [More…]

• You were a miserable failure because you were a hard-hearted man. [More…]

• It is about time that honourable members opposite rebelled against this man because he is monopolising question time. [More…]

• It is about time that honourable members opposite took action against the dreary, dull questions asked on behalf of the Opposition by the Leader of the Opposition and demanded the democratic right of back benchers to ask questions without notice. [More…]

• He is a man of compassion. [More…]

• The environment produced by the billions of years of evolution which has resulted in man in his present state, is being drastically altered in a few decades by man himself. [More…]

• Everywhere the natural systems which evolved with man and of which he is part are under threat. [More…]

• We must make a strong stand in determining that this generation of man will ensure that evolution itself will proceed as much as possible without deliberate or unthinking intervention by man. [More…]

• Over 100 nations have taken action for the permanent reservation of natural areas to represent the range of landscapes and ecosystems within their boundaries, and to protect thenunique wildlife resources. [More…]

• They have assembled professional staff to ensure the effective planning and management needed to consolidate legislation and area reservation. [More…]

• Since the arrival of the white man some 5 species of marsupial and several species of bird have been wiped out. [More…]

• Many other species have been endangered. [More…]

• The Bill proposes the establishment of a professional service to enable the Australian Government, for the first time, to bring a coordinated approach to the management of nature conservation resources in the areas under its direct control. [More…]

• In conclusion I would like to say that this action accords with the sentiments of the Australian Labor Party platform where it is recognised that ‘man lives within and depends upon a complex natural system which must be protected and managed as a whole’. [More…]

• This will deal with important aspects of environmental concern, in addition to nature conservation, aimed at halting man’s unthinking degradation of the total environment, the genesis of life on this planet. [More…]

• The honourable member may be going to Melbourne, but I was surprised and rather saddened by the cheap jibes made by a man who should know better. [More…]

• I support and highly commend the Australian Tourist Commission Bill not because it emanates from my side of the House- the Government side- but because I have the highest respect for the Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart) and also because it represents, in my eyes, another step forward in the right direction in this field. [More…]

• For many years the Commission has been extremely successful in its overseas promotional activities. [More…]

• We heard his phony concern for Tasmania, his propositions which are as shallow as the man himself, the piece de resistance- his attack on the Government for introducing the tree-pull scheme- and his attack concerning the plight of the Tasmanian orchardists. [More…]

• What an incredible man the Leader of the Opposition is. [More…]

• Yesterday he claimed that the $15m for Tasmania under the States - [More…]

• At a time when inflation is at an alarming level and is still rising rapidly, is ripping the heart out of our country, is destroying the savings of our people and is cruelly and viciously striking at pensioners and those on fixed incomes as well as the home seeker,, the primary producer, the working man and the business man, and when a wage-price spiral is wrecking our economy; a Budget is presented to this Parliament which seeks to do absolutely nothing at all to stem the tide of inflation. [More…]

• Under this tax, if a businessman needs a new factory the effect of the capital gains tax on disposal of the old factory could make it impossible for a change of site or change of factory to be made. [More…]

• So, the businessman stays in his old premises under his old difficulties and his productivity is lessened and employment also suffers. [More…]

• The Budget statements tell us that assets subject to the tax will be deemed to have been sold immediately before death and a few minutes after death the death duty man puts his shovel into what is left. [More…]

• Never let that man come into this House again with his pretty words and pious sentiments because he has established his priorities and his credibilities in this Budget. [More…]

• What a magnificent comment that is from the man who leads the Government that has introduced such a Budget as we are now debating and has made so little reform. [More…]

• He is the man who criticised, quite aptly perhaps, what I believe were major attempts to bring about a major change in our tax structure at that time. [More…]

• But the $5,000 a year man today is taxed as if he were the wealthy man of 18 years ago- because the system remains unchanged. [More…]

• While the Government may have good reasons to cut down the tall poppies- the people who are exploiting the community and taking excessive profits out of the system- its method of accomplishing this happens to act against the small man, the little man, the man for whom the Government is supposedly the champion. [More…]

• In its endeavour to bring to heel the small percentage of wealthy people throughout the community the Government is doing great damage to the little man, whether he be a farmer, a small businessman or a private company. [More…]

• I believe labour is the lot of man and that a man should have to be gainfully employed in his society. [More…]

• Judge ElseMitchell has been appointed as Chairman of the Commission- as Chairman of a body for which he has had no training. [More…]

• To appoint a man whose expertise is almost wholly in the law to the chairmanship of a most complex body of this type is rather like appointing an accountant to a supreme court. [More…]

• How would His Honour, who has been appointed as Chairman of the Commission to replace a very great man, Sir Leslie Melville, assess the very technical evidence presented to that Commission by the Federal Treasury and by State Treasuries? [More…]

• I was informed that when the young man went to the airport- indeed, at this point he had already left for the airport- he would be in the company of certain persons with whom he had been associated in the previous week at the University of Western Australia. [More…]

• Obviously no public action was taken by me, if one applies a proper interpretation of those words, because I thought that would be in the best interests of the man concerned and, indeed, of Australia’s policy. [More…]

• I take this course today only because I feel that an experience my own family had recently is one which many thousands of Australians have previously suffered and will go on suffering until something is done about firms such as Melbourne’s quite notorious Milleradio. [More…]

• The circumstances are these: A few months ago a television set in my home stopped working and my wife looked up the Pink Pages of the telephone directory to find a local repair man. [More…]

• She telephoned the firm and a serviceman called at my home, looked at the television set briefly and advised her that it would have to be removed to a workshop so that a detailed investigation of the trouble could be made. [More…]

• We then telephoned a bona fide local television service man who came along, told us that his quotation was free and went ahead and repaired the set for $18.40. [More…]

• Having knocked the man down and half killed him the Minister says: ‘What is the trouble, old fellow? [More…]

• He is typical of many. [More…]

• He has acquired this art over many years and now by the capricious whim of Government, uninformed of the implications of its actions - [More…]

• The complaints are so many that I think a circular will be required. [More…]

• The reaction of people is that we should get on with government and that honourable members opposite should stop playing the man and start playing the game. [More…]

• The Tribunal will consist of only one man, the Chairman of the Remuneration Tribunal itself, Mr Justice Campbell, but assessors can be appointed, as they have been appointed in the past, and the procedure will be the same as for the full Tribunal. [More…]

• Surely it must be clear even to the most obtuse of the Government’s Ministers that it is no real answer to unemployment to take a man who has been working in some special field and offer him employment as a labourer in the building of a swimming pool or toilets in Tasmania or something of that nature, as was referred to by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in this House yesterday. [More…]

• I venture to suggest that by this time next year that unfortunate man will be eating his words, because by this time next year it will be clear, even to the thickest ever crust of mankind, that the fight against inflation must be the sole main objective of government in this country. [More…]

• Mr Hugh Roberton is still remembered with affection, for he was truly a man of the people. [More…]

• Mr Bill Armstrong, gentleman and personal friend, continues his involvement and retains his interest in the Riverina. [More…]

• He was, above all else, a man of the people and his energy, his vitality and his desire to help all must give him a special place in our hearts. [More…]

• It was a pity to see this man who had built up such goodwill fail to identify himself with his supporters in defeat. [More…]

• This was the man who, as Treasurer, introduced the Budget that set in train the inflationary spiral we are now experiencing. [More…]

• The man who is No. [More…]

• But let us acknowledge the fact that he has no confidence in the man who is standing behind him, the man who supposedly was going to be the Acting Prime Minister. [More…]

• Farmer leaders and farmer organisations have a vital part to play, too, in making effective and positive contributions in many other areas. [More…]

• Farmer organisations have a further responsibility to put forward experienced and capable representatives for marketing boards and the like, especially in view of the claim by the current Government that it will choose the best man available, although I am afraid this often merely means a union official rather than a rural producer. [More…]

• I see the honourable member for Wakefield nodding in approval and I thank him because he is an honest man even though he does not belong to our Party. [More…]

• If the Minister were a man of honour he would forthwith correct the very wrong impression he has given. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister reel back in fear of this man? [More…]

• He rushed off a 15-page letter to the OECD demanding that it be included in its report. [More…]

• You are a very confused young man; you choose to be confused. [More…]

• All of this manoeuvring and successive urgency motions have only one purpose, and that is somehow to persuade the people of Australia that we are holding up oil drilling. [More…]

• But the Line was like a man with one arm tied behind his back or, in speaking of shipping, a shipping line with one of its anchors tied behind the funnel. [More…]

• Everyone knows that the Commissioner is a very keen railway man, an able man and a practical man, being able to drive his own engines and so on. [More…]

• I would have thought this man surely would have a broader outlook on the national scene than to hold to ransom the people who do so much business with his State. [More…]

• I am certain that the Commissioner for Railways, who as I said is a very keen railway man, will be very pleased to do some work along these lines. [More…]

• It could be part of its grand scheme of things to prove to the people of Australia that private enterprise and the will of the small man to make his own way, to do his own job and to run his own business or farm is not a practical proposition. [More…]

• The Government would unshackle itself from some of this needless harassment which affects every working man and woman in this country and would step in with legislation with the same boldness which the Government has displayed in ‘bringing to heel’- I put those 3 words in inverted commasthe manufacturers, the industrialists, the foreign corporations and so many others in an attempt to bring about orderly marketing. [More…]

• We might ask: Will the average man in the street be better off through this Budget? [More…]

• Despite the Government’s wishes, our economy is based on personal initiative and corporate enterprise which have given Australia a standard of economic growth that is the envy of many nations. [More…]

• It has used unashamedly every possible means to attack the socio-economic system which in mankind’s long evolutionary history is the only system which is based on an objective theory of values determined by human nature and interpreted by man’s mind, which recognises the intrinsic good and forms from it appropriate value judgments. [More…]

• It is the only system which can safeguard the rights of the individual within society and prevent us all from becoming servants of an omnipotent State ruled by the few and served by the many. [More…]

• Their leader, the most important man in the Opposition, seems almost paranoiac about the subject and appears to treat a difference of opinion as a capital political offence. [More…]

• It will affect everybody but not to the same extent as it will affect the small man- the lower income earner, the battler the fellow that members opposite represent or supposedly represent. [More…]

• If with the superior performance of members from this side of the House we had a few of the numbers from the Caucus Economic and Education Committees we could even reframe the whole Budget. [More…]

• We could rewrite it for Mr Crean, or I am sorry, Dr Cairns who is the man to whom to direct comments. [More…]

• What right has this discredited man to signal calling on an election this year? [More…]

• The Treasurer is a puzzled man. [More…]

• He must be the only man in Australia who does not know the reasons why. [More…]

• Many people in my electorate will be affected in this way. [More…]

• The constituent who raised this matter with me is a man of not independent means although he has never received a pension. [More…]

• But one knows that income tax is stacked so much against the small man that members of the Opposition are only interested in looking after the bigger man. [More…]

• They are not worried about the small man, the average working man, when they say that the Government should reduce income tax. [More…]

• It is only worried about the big man because the system is stacked against the little man. [More…]

• The big man can make his lurks and perks out of the income tax system. [More…]

• What credibility does one give a man who made a statement like that only a few months ago? [More…]

• I now refer to the Australian Country Party’s report circulated in July 1971 which makes reference to Eric Butler, the friend of the honourable member for Parramatta and the man that the honourable member for Parramatta invited to address the Young Liberals in the area to tell them what it is all about. [More…]

• Is it a fact that a young professional man from an eastern European communist country employed by his embassy in a third country recently travelled to an independent state and sought political asylum in Australia for himself, his wife and young family through Australia’s representatives in that state? [More…]

• In the few cases where a rehabilitee would be better off by remaining on his pension or benefit during training, that is a married man with a large family, or for other reasons would prefer to do so, provision has been made for him to elect to have his pension or benefit continued during the training period. [More…]

• Even the current special rate of $60.10 is the equivalent of a taxable income, on the present tax scale, of $69.15 a week if earned by a single man. [More…]

• There was unanimity in the report, of course, because it is basically the report of one man. [More…]

• With its accompanying ill feeling and loss of money and man hours, it is easy to see why the problem was kept alive for 5 years by the previous Government, even after it was made aware of the true situation. [More…]

• It has allowed strikes to take place and also lost man-hours to be perpetuated on demarcation disputes during that period. [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman I know is well noted for his knowledge of the law but I wish he would not show off here because it is not helping me having to compete with a man of his profound knowledge of the law. [More…]

• I will accept that the honourable member for Lilley was commenting in a genuine fashion and that he was not trying to assassinate the character of this man. [More…]

• Apart from holding a wide range of public positions, including presidency of the Council of the Library of New South Wales, membership of the Archives Authority and the Library Board in New South Wales and Deputy Chancellor of Macquarie University, Mr Justice Else-Mitchell is also President of the Royal Australian Historical Society and Vice-Chairman of St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. [More…]

• That is the experience of a man who is supposed to have no particular skill for this body. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lilley also said that he thinks that, as a result of the appointment of Mr Justice Else-Mitchell Queensland, as a claimant State to the Grants Commission, is going to suffer. [More…]

• Yet that man had the effrontery to stand up in this House and deny there was communist penetration and say that the trade union movement had never been in better hands. [More…]

• They have lost their wife- that is perhaps as big a tragedy as can occur to any man- and they then find the position compounded by the fact that their young children cannot be kept at home because they have not the means to do so. [More…]

• If a widow with dependent children is eligible for financial help should not a man similarly situated also be eligible? [More…]

• It does not meet the position of the man who needs to go out to work if his children are to be raised above what is in reality a threshhold starvation level. [More…]

• Let us look at this from a human point of view and remember that a man who has lost his wife should not be subject to the additional strain of having his young family broken up. [More…]

• That definite commitment to give information to me was made publicly in this chamber by the man who at that time was Acting Prime Minister and who therefore had full authority to give it. [More…]

• He made it as a man who has some experience of public finance. [More…]

• I know that I have fought with the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) as I have fought with no other man, especially on a matter which I will not raise today, but I give him credit for having made more advances than any other Minister in the provision of facilities to members of this Parliament. [More…]

• My intention is not to question the validity of the purchase of such paintings as ‘Blue Poles’ or ‘Woman V, which as I understand it is closely identified with the tastes of the Director of the National Gallery, Mr Mollison. [More…]

• He has a great sense of art, but I do not know that he is the best man to send out on a purchasing mission. [More…]

• I think he may very well indentify the art, but we would be much better off with a rather harder-headed man doing the dealing. [More…]

• It was most disturbing to a great many people to read that the agent who sold us one of the works- I think it was de Kooning’s worksaid that we could have got it cheaper if we had sent the right sort of person to negotiate the deal. [More…]

• For instance, the Pram Factory in Melbourne has produced a play called ‘The River Jordan’ which has been written by a man without any formal literary training. [More…]

• I believe that it would be impossible for any man to do more. [More…]

• I man visited the United States of America, Norfolk Island, Fiji, Honolulu, Niagara Falls and Nashville on his visit overseas. [More…]

• If ever we needed a man prepared to come to grips with the problems of this nation it is right now. [More…]

• Well, what a pompous man he is. [More…]

• They want to represent themselves as representing the little man, the poor man, the man the Minister described as the one with the little voice, who is admittedly now dependent on the Government. [More…]

• But if this man’s income goes up by $ 1 to $ 1 37 a week he will then have to pay $35.58 a week in interest alone. [More…]

• One man needlessly unemployed is one man too many. [More…]

• I was astonished to see that such an allegation was made by the Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs. [More…]

• I make allowance for the fact that the honourable gentleman did not have his mind so much on external as on domestic affairs over the weekend. [More…]

• It is astonishing that a man who holds himself forth and is held forth as the spokesman of the Opposition on foreign affairs should be so irresponsible as to make this allegation and should be so ignorant of the processes of the United Nations. [More…]

• The fact is- I would have thought that all honourable members knew it; certainly a spokesman for a major party on foreign affairs should know it- that the President of the United Nations is selected by the automatic election of the nominee of a particular geographic group of United Nations members, each group taking its turn year by year. [More…]

• I claim to have been misrepresented in that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in a reply to a question directed to him by one of his supporters, said that members of the Liberal Party were seeking to find out the identity of the man [More…]

• Surely a man who is in employment is in a far better position than a person who is unemployed. [More…]

• I endeavoured at the weekend to ask the trade union movement whether it should be considering whether maybe some people are out of work because those who are in work are being paid more now than will enable industry marginally to take on another man. [More…]

• In the first 6 months the man to whom I referred would pay $431.34 tax, and in the second 6 months $474.63, a total of $905.97. [More…]

• I have been amazed that in the campaign for wage indexation the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who is not a strong man but merely responds to the forces behind him, has not referred to and made a major campaign of the failure of the consumer index, on which indexation is proposed to be based, to reflect the real cost for the wage and salary earners he purports to represent. [More…]

• The Treasury policies have alienated many Australians and created divisions within the community which should not exist and which should not be tolerated. [More…]

• The Treasurer, expressing the views of his persistent majority of left wingers, must be the most embarrassed man in this Parliament and perhaps the most embarrassed man in Australia today. [More…]

• But, of course, from the point of view of the man in the street the result is the same. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember seeing not long ago during the election campaign those election pamphlets which the Prime Minister authorised saying: ‘Whitlam is the only man to reduce inflation by a third; Whitlam is the only man to reduce interest 3 per cent’. [More…]

• His sincerity and honesty as a man and as a Treasurer are unequalled in this Parliament. [More…]

• The Treasurer is handling a sordid mess left to the Labor Party by the Tories who are now in Opposition and who will remain in opposition for many years to come. [More…]

• A man by the name of Perkins seems to be tied up with both institutions. [More…]

• He is supposed to be secretary of the CAAC which at Government expense during this election campaign circulated letters on the notepaper of the Congress recommending to Aborigines that they did not support a certain candidate and suggesting that he was an ex-policeman who was known to treat Aborigines badly and belonged to a racist party. [More…]

• This man acts in conjunction with the legal aid service. [More…]

• The position of the rich man is all right. [More…]

• But when it comes to the poor man wishing to go to court and to assert his legal rights nothing was done by the former Government to assist him. [More…]

• Man in his obdurate mentality believes that he can rationalise these things. [More…]

• He embarks on grandiose plans to educate the driver, completely oblivious to the fact that the secret of the solution to the problem lies within man himself. [More…]

• You cannot change the attitude of a man who believes that traffic restrictions and safety devices apply only to the other driver and never to himself. [More…]

• This is a basic facet of human nature that seems to be ignored. [More…]

• While we humbug with penalties for drunken driving and while we humbug with penalties for stepping outside the law in respect of traffic safety requirements we only delay the solution to the problem and see so many people so tragically involved in the grim statistics of traffic fatalities. [More…]

• He was talking about a man who was smitten by his boss, worried by his family situation and beset by the problems of the urban environment. [More…]

• The professor said that this man was not going to give this up very lightly. [More…]

• I deal now with the honourable member for Gippsland, the Opposition spokesman on transport. [More…]

• Harold Souter is the man who always advises on approvals; he does not ask for them. [More…]

• In the face of all that, it is quite clear that the Prime Minister was prepared to sacrifice not only a senior public servant but also a man who had been his friend over many years. [More…]

• In order to establish that the Prime Minister’s advice, which he received in both the United States of America and Canada, was accurate one has only to have recourse to any reputable assessment of the supply and demand pattern in uranium use in the decade of the 1980s and beyond. [More…]

• Every reputable assessment of that pattern shows that the combination of the nuclear reactors to be commenced in the decade of the 1980s and in particular the number of uranium enrichment plants required in the Western world to satisfy enriched uranium demand has compelled the international uranium industry to reassess that demand in the 1980s. [More…]

• Quite clearly now the crossover point between supply and demand is roughly in the period of 1982 to 1984. [More…]

• One cannot be precise about this, of course, but clearly in the mid-1980s supply will have overcome demand. [More…]

• It would be a wise man indeed who would assign at the present time a value to natural gas to be produced on the North West Shelf. [More…]

• Let us hope that the Government’s proposal to require determining authorities to give the reason for the decisions following a study of a claim from an ex-service man or woman will prove to be successful. [More…]

• I commend the Minister on these Bills which seek to amend many of the repatriation benefits that are available. [More…]

• I think the Bills indicate the Government’s determination to provide for and to accept its responsibility to those who gave so much in the service of this country and to their dependants who in many cases are left without them and to extend and to expand the benefits that are available to them. [More…]

• I would think that particularly those people who are totally and permanently incapacitated have a right to receive sufficient remuneration so that they and their dependants might live in the dignify one would expect for a man who incurred this type of incapacity in the service of his country. [More…]

• I am certainly not qualified to speak on this, but I doubt if many of the people who are making these determinations are effectively and suitably qualified to determine in this somewhat unknown area of medical science whether in fact a man’s wartime service could have contributed later to the condition in which he finds himself. [More…]

• Would there be any more reason to invest trust in those promises now that that government is in Opposition, more especially when they come from a man who, more than anyone else among the ranks of the Opposition, was responsible for the dishonouring of that promise in 1968. [More…]

• In fact, the former Minister for Social Services who stood here tonight and once again proclaimed the need for compassion, concern and generosity in the provision of benefits under the social services legislation, is the man who ignored the exposure of relative poverty in Australia which was first disclosed in the 1966 surveys and which was repeatedly brought to his attention. [More…]

• How can anything that this man says be taken seriously? [More…]

• I point out that the honourable member for Mackellar, who talks about the need for a supporting fathers’ allowance, is the man who maintained discrimination against Class B and Class C widows who were receiving about $2.75 a week less in pension payments than Class A widows when he was Minister for Social Services. [More…]

• Let me quickly go through a few of the many achievements for which we have been responsible in the period that we have been in office. [More…]

• There is the condemnation of the man who today is the Minister for Agriculture and who has pioneered the measures provided for in the Estimates which we have before us. [More…]

• Of course there are many ways by which and through which he has attempted to persuade country people that he is really sympathetic to them. [More…]

• I need refer only briefly to a mass meeting convened on 19 October 1974 at a place called Fiery Creek, near Beaufort in Victoria, which some 2,000 people from all over Victoria attended, to illustrate the widespread concern that is now manifest throughout the rural community, demonstrating the degree to which this Government has not only completely lost the confidence of rural producers but in fact also has destroyed all prospect for hope and survival for those who live in the country unless there is a marked change of attitude. [More…]

• I think it is important that one realise that the man who at first appeared to be reasonable in his administration of his portfolio, irrespective of the eulogies expressed about him by the Prime Minister this morning, demonstrates that he in fact has intentionally withdrawn the form of assistance which traditionally existed for agriculture and has let down all those in the rural sector. [More…]

• One need only quote to him the statements that he made when in Opposition to show that in many areas he had some sympathy and understanding which is totally absent from the statements being made by the man who today is Minister for Agriculture. [More…]

• It domonstrates that this man is not in fact sympathetic with the rights and opportunities of the family farmer. [More…]

• In the big percentage of rural industries there is a marked downturn in market prospects and if it were not for the prevailing seasonal conditions I am afraid that many of Australia’s rural industries would be in an even greater degree of distress than they are. [More…]

• The previous situation was engendered and presided over by the man who has just sat down- 7,570 farmers so badly off, in such dire economic need, that they had to apply for rural reconstruction assistance in 1971-72. [More…]

• I would not agree to a proposition that would take a man long distances from his wife and family to obtain work. [More…]

• -The honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson), who has just resumed his seat, made reference in his speech to the Labor Party receiving money in the form of slush funds from margarine manufacturers. [More…]

• It is virtually a mythical story that he has from a bad-minded man. [More…]

• He was allowed to stay here for many many weeks longer than he should have been allowed to stay. [More…]

• Mr Utter was to be deported on my order some many weeks ago but he secured the services of Morgan Ryan & Brock, a Sydney firm of solicitors, to represent him and through their efforts he was able to stay in this country for many weeks while he exploited the opportunities which the legal system of Australia gives to innocent people as well as crooks to stop in the country longer than they should. [More…]

• I want to tell the House and the honourable gentleman that this person is a world-wide crook, a murderer, a thief and a con man. [More…]

• They do not want to be deceived, and this applies equally to the woman as to the man of the home. [More…]

• How does the average family man fare in this inflationary trend? [More…]

• How many of them yearn for the return of a Liberal-Country Party Government? [More…]

• I want to join with my colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) in identifying the problem of inflation and stagflation not only as it affects the governments of this country but as it affects the average man and woman. [More…]

• In many cases these people have to sell their homes. [More…]

• But why are so many people in such a difficult position? [More…]

• Under the management of the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson), who is sitting at the table, the interest rate on ordinary building society or savings bank housing loans has escalated, doubled and risen to between 1 1 per cent and 12 per cent. [More…]

• Rates and taxes have been dramatically increased in my electorate due to the inflated land values brought about by this Government’s economic mismanagement. [More…]

• I had a letter the other day from a man whose income is just over $100 a week and who with his wife worked and struggled to build their dream home. [More…]

• He is a man who built his dream home- the home that was to be his castle, that was to give him security. [More…]

• The man’s wife, when she goes to the local supermarket to buy the week-end food, looks at the prices and finds that they too are rising. [More…]

• The Australian Broadcasting Commission has a man there, Mr Scully, but at present to my knowledge no other Australian journalist is posted in Indonesia on a permanent basis by an Australian newspaper. [More…]

• One of the major Australian chains of newspapers tried to station a man there several years ago but decided that it was not worth it. [More…]

• The newspaper argument is that Indonesian news stories are not really in demand in Australia. [More…]

• The cattle man will be able to weather the storm, but what will happen to the contractor, the dam sinker, the railway man who depended on a bit of overtime? [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable members to the address for 1 974 by Mr Knevitt, Chairman and Managing Director of Evans Deakin Industries Ltd. [More…]

• I might say that I have little reason to love the man because, prior to the 1972 election, he came out and condemned the policies of the then Liberal Government. [More…]

• Since introduction of the per capita method of financing the schemes in all States except Tasmania annual production and output per man-shift have increased enormously. [More…]

• Output per manshift has increased by approximately 500 per cent in the last 7 or 8 years and is near to reaching a world record. [More…]

• The production of coal per man in Australia has attained world standards. [More…]

• The upward movement in production and output per man-shift has not been matched by corresponding gains to retired mine workers. [More…]

• I see no justice in the fact that a man who died of a heart attack 5 minutes after returning home would not be covered by compensation but if he had died from the same complaint 5 minutes earlier while on his way home from work he would be covered by workers compensation. [More…]

• I can see no justice in a boy or young man who sustains some injury playing football and who becomes a paraplegic or a quadraplegic- all of us have known examples of this happeninggetting no compensation whereas a young man who arrives at work virtually drunk and who, because of his own indiscretions, injures himself and becomes a paraplegic or a quadriplegic would be covered by workers compensation. [More…]

• It means that some young man or woman who has had a brilliant academic career at school and university and who is just embarking on a career as a doctor, lawyer, architect or in his own business as a carpenter or builder, if struck down with a permanent total incapacity before age 30, his future earning capacity is not taken into account. [More…]

• What does a young man, who has had the training to which I have just referred, earn at 29 years of age? [More…]

• If a man who works with his hands loses one finger, perhaps 8 per cent is fair, but is it fair for a concert pianist or surgeon to be so compensated? [More…]

• Held: for an act to be negligent there must be, not only a reasonable possibility of its happening, but also of injury being caused thereby; on the facts, the risk of injury to a person on the highway resulting from the hitting of a ball out of the ground was so small that the probability of such an injury would not be anticipated by a reasonable man; and, therefore, the appellants were not liable to the respondent. [More…]

• The greatest hazard to modern man, I think, has proved to be the motor vehicle. [More…]

• For example- I hope the House will excuse me for drawing on my own experience- a single-arm amputee really dependent upon manual dexterity to earn his accustomed livelihood, be he labourer or musician, is in need of public assistance, but one who is not dependent on such manual dexterity, even though he was accustomed to making use of it, and who in his normal course of occupation would normally require manual dexterity but is not dependent on it, is not in need of compensation. [More…]

• There are plenty of successful one-armed farmers- farmers who would normally be expected by many to be those who would depend upon their manual dexterity. [More…]

• Man is a most adaptable animal, but he needs an incentive to adapt. [More…]

• I do not speak in any disrespectful way about the occupation of a clerk but as this man sits at a desk all day his broken leg may not necessarily interfere with his work. [More…]

• The Bill seeks to give, and undoubtedly will give, to the Australian people peace of mind and that basic and fundamental right to which they are entitled, namely, freedom from want that afflicts so many people. [More…]

• Undoubtedly anybody would say that this was quite an ordinary case and the carpenter would not be in any way responsible for the fact that the man was injured, but, unfortunately, through some error that was made by his legal advisers, the first court case had to be abandoned and the carpenter now finds himself liable for court costs of $5,300 which he does not have. [More…]

• For the purposes of this Part, where a woman, although not married to a man, lived with him on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis immediately before his death and- [More…]

• the woman had so lived with the man- [More…]

• the man was survived by a child who was a child of the union between that woman and that man and was dependent on that man immediately before his death, then- [More…]

• that woman shall, unless she has re-married, be deemed to be a widow of that man; and [More…]

• that man shall be deemed to have been her husband and she shall be deemed to have been his wife. [More…]

• I think the honourable member of Chisholm tried to suggest that there was some sort of close relationship, a deep personal relationship, between a man or an employer and his insurance company. [More…]

• If a man or a woman of 25 years of age is injured in a way which directly affects his or her earning capacity in the future, why should not the community compensate them for that loss? [More…]

• But let us not look exclusively at the footballer or the ballet dancer; let us take the tradesman. [More…]

• I say that quite deliberately because I know from experience that a doctor may say: ‘Well, because this man has hurt his elbow, he has lost 30 per cent of the efficient use of his arm’. [More…]

• Let us take another case of a tradesman. [More…]

• The guide to the evaluation of permanent impairment issued by the American Medical Association, which is the basis upon which a doctor makes his assessment of impairment shows that either for restricted motion for injury or impairment of flexion or extension of the lumbar region, the loss of impairment may be from one per cent to 9 per cent according to the degree from which flexion moves from the neutral position. [More…]

• So the poor man who has had his back stretched and who might be able to get 45 degrees of flexion simply cannot go back to bis job as a high tower rigger earning big money. [More…]

• Under this scheme that man is limited in what he can recover. [More…]

• They have not realised that they are saying that invalid pensions should be paid at a small rate to a poor man and at a high rate to a rich man. [More…]

• So we are talking about everybody who dies; we are talking about all new qualifying widows, and we are saying that for the future the widow of a rich man is going to get a high pension and the widow of a poor man is going to get a low pension. [More…]

• What about the poor unfortunate man who happens to be changing his job or out of work for three or four weeks? [More…]

• Under the provisions of this Bill, the farmer, the self-employed man, becomes entitled to compensation for the first time. [More…]

• We will be able to go to every Country Party electorate and say: ‘Here we are offering something to you as a farmer, as a self-employed man, to give you compensation entitlements for the first time in your life. [More…]

• In effect it becomes absorbed in, and becomes part of, the new benefit payable as the assessment of incapacity relates to the incapacity of the whole man. [More…]

• It also covers the man who is engaged in subterranean activity. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman would know that if a plaintiff appears in court with a condition and it is raised that there is a pre-existing condition, it is on the defendant to show the extent of the preexisting condition. [More…]

• In other words, if a man has an impairment, to use this blessed word which has crept into our existence, he has to show, if there is an impairment of 60 per cent of a limb, whether there was 30 per cent before. [More…]

• What happens to a man who is employed for one week out of those four? [More…]

• It is just bad draftsmanship. [More…]

• To say what a man and his wife would get if both decided to come into the retraining scheme is like saying that if a man and his wife were both on the High Court they would get about $70,000 a year between them. [More…]

• In the remaining few minutes available to me I want to comment briefly on division 104-3-0 1 of the Estimates concerning wheat research, and I want to submit the proposition that some emphasis in our wheat research in Australia must be given to producing a hard wheat, which is much in demand in the world market because of its high protein content, its resistance to extension, its high water absorption capacity and its high extensibility. [More…]

• Finally, I appeal to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and to the Minister for Northern Development to heed the plea of the Premier of Queensland, that great man, the Hon. [More…]

• As the Minister at the table knows, many thousands of acres of crops may be wiped out. [More…]

• These are fine sentiments and the words would read well in any Party’s manifesto. [More…]

• But that is all they are- words without action- and in the process of implementing Labor’s policies to restructure our society the first casualties have been the very people Labor claims to represent- the low to middle income earner, the family man struggling to maintain a wife and children and the frail aged. [More…]

• If I might just briefly build a word picture, a man draws one of these blocks, gets an advance which he has to supplement with other finance, and then he moves out with his wife and usually three or four children. [More…]

• In the Minister administering that department they have a man well known in the north of Australia. [More…]

• The permanent head of the Department of Northern Development, Mr Livingston, is a recognised authority in international trade, particularly in the sugar trade. [More…]

• The permanent head of the Department of the Northern Territory, Mr O’Brien, is a truly dedicated man as far as the Northern Territory is concerned. [More…]

• If anything bugs a realistic and practical man it is the flights of fancy into which go extremists among environmentalists. [More…]

• The Minister for Manufacturing Industry constantly refers to it. [More…]

• The Prime Minister in answering a question from me last week threw the full onus on to the Jackson committee to reconcile the conflict between himself as a ‘Rattigan man’- his words, not mine- committed to tariff change in the present Industries Assistance Commission style, and the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) who seeks different, more appropriate criteria and a delay in the implementation of the Industries Assistance Commission review program. [More…]

• In the meantime large sections of Australian manufacturing industry are put in jeopardy. [More…]

• Australia for many reasons had been able to contain its inflation and unemployment within reasonable limits until the Labor Government’s socialist policies and programs were introduced and took effect. [More…]

• The Australian manufacturing industry and its personnel are beginning to realise that the long term objective of the Labor Party is control of every industry and every person in Australia. [More…]

• They are beginning to realise that every Labor man has pledged himself to Government control of the means of production, distribution and exchange. [More…]

• In this chamber today the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, in answering a question asked of him by one of his Party members, spoke about the role of the Bureau in terms very similar to those which the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) used 18 months ago when he held the portfolio, and in terms very similar to those which the Minister for Manufacturing Industry himself used when he took up his position a year ago. [More…]

• In Britain and elsewhere there exist small industry councils and national bureaux of this type providing service on technical assistance, trade instruction, subcontract liaison, assistance for craftsmen, business management advice, market and promotional advice, credit facilities and aid for tourism. [More…]

• When one thinks that the trade unions which support the Government are always calling for support of the small man one may well ask: What are we doing about the small man? [More…]

• What are we doing about the small businessman? [More…]

• It was an exercise in politics from a man who has not had much experience in politics. [More…]

• Here it is; the Labor Government sends in to account for this sum a man who does not even know what is going on in one of the departments that he is presently administering, and we are expected to take with equanimity the fact that he proposes to answer for this expenditure in what I would describe as an obscene form of time. [More…]

• Whilst quite obviously I take strong issue with him on certain philosophical approaches which he must necessarily apply to the administration of his portfolio, he is a man who, I believe, is very dedicated to his job. [More…]

• In the last 2 weeks it has been brought to the attention of this chamber that an Eastern European diplomat had the courage of his convictions to go to an Australian embassy and ask for political asylum and that this Government which is prepared to stand up in the United Nations and talk about the freedom of the individual and the need for political asylum, refused that man his individual rights. [More…]

• The same Government is the first one to stand up and say that it stands for the rights of the individual, that it is a government which believes that all nations must base their policies on the principle of independence, and that it is a government which says that all nations must be free and equal; yet when one man had the courage to come forward and ask for its help the Government turned him away at the door. [More…]

• If he is a family man with four or five children he can today draw social service benefits of approximately $70 a week. [More…]

• Criticism was made of the level of unemployment benefits received by a man with a wife and four or five children. [More…]

• The Minister has told me that a man in this position would receive $71.50 a week. [More…]

• The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) alleged that there was no incentive for a man receiving this level of benefit to work. [More…]

• I would like him to indicate how much lower than $71.50 a week he would like the unemployment benefit to be for a man with a wife and 4 children. [More…]

• I can say this: His apparently extravagant, over-simplified and, I would say, grossly distorted criticism stems from a man whom I do not propose to dignify tonight by mentioning his name again. [More…]

• I am a humane man- a tender hearted man- who does not like doing this sort of thing, but we have reached a critical stage now where we cannot any longer allow people from other countries to come to Australia, to flout the laws of this land and to do here that which no Australian tourist could do in their country. [More…]

• However, its smallness and the smallness of the sum it intends to spend are no measure of the importance of this Department because it has the role of trying to draw attention to the greatest crisis facing modern man. [More…]

• The cowboy economist is the man who sits on his horse at the end of the prairie and as far as he is concerned the resources of the whole world are limitless. [More…]

• The Trade Practices Act is acknowledged to be a milestone in the progress towards realistic consumer protection in this country, but I would just like to explain briefly what it means to the man in the street. [More…]

• Until now the boot has been on the foot of the large manufacturer or retailer when it has come to a confrontation with the individual. [More…]

• Manufacturers and retailers have made the rules to suit themselves, and the buyer either goes along with them or goes without. [More…]

• Until now people who have purchased products and brought them home to find that their performance is inadequate or that they are just plain defective have been confronted with the fine print on warranties. [More…]

• I took it upon myself this morning, as part of this emphasis that we give to these matters to contact Mr Rattigan, who is the Chairman of the Industries Assistance Commission, and inquire whether he would be interested in attending and discussing with the Economics Committee of Caucus the overall philosophy and approach of the IAC on these matters. [More…]

• I have also discussed it with the Chairman of the Caucus Economics Committee. [More…]

• At least the Economics Committee of our parliamentary party and our back benchers will have the advantage of close intimate discussion with the man who propounds those principles and who has such a great influence on the discussion of protection in Australia. [More…]

• -A whole range of matters should be discussed in our consideration of the estimates for the PostmasterGeneral’s Department but as each speaker has only 10 minutes it is impossible to deal with many matters in depth. [More…]

• Many Post Office workers are as anxious as ever to give the sort of service for which the Post Office has been known over the years but many seem to be in the hands of radicals who want to use their power to cause industrial trouble and general difficulty for the Australian community. [More…]

• They find it cheaper to fill a bag with mail at the head office in Melbourne and send it to Sydney with a man who distributes it than to use the resources of the Post Office. [More…]

• A man who lives in an area that was to be connected to an exchange was asked by the Postmaster-General’s Department whether he could be included in another area to suit the Department. [More…]

• The man agreed. [More…]

• He is the man who promised specifically and solemnly when in Opposition, in an attempt to win government, that the Labor Party would spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the manpower position in the armed Services has been brought to a much more realistic level when we consider the very high cost of new equipment. [More…]

• The plain fact is that in peacetime in a low threat situation the important thing is to keep manpower to minimum levels commensurate with the basic function of the defence vote, that is, the maintenance of skills and the ability to man the warships and aircraft available to which I referred earlier. [More…]

• That Government called up for service every young man in Australia. [More…]

• Every young man who qualified and who was selected according to his birth date was obliged to serve for a period in the armed forces. [More…]

• Finally, there are financial reasons; a man might be in a position where he has to offload land or some portion of land in order to meet his financial commitments. [More…]

• To indicate the great fairness of this man, I mention that he has given $6m to the Brisbane City Council, no doubt because of the financial mismanagement of that authority under a Labor administration. [More…]

• So, it was most unfair- although I thought the honourable member for Shortland occasionally was honest and charitable- for him to come in here and say that this man had done nothing, when in fact today he had given $ 15m. [More…]

• The present Minister for Urban and Regional Development is a lovable man who endears himself and achieves co-operation. [More…]

• We all have to work together to preserve those things which have been created by man and by nature which are unique or beautiful and worth preserving for posterity. [More…]

• In the light of my confidence in the Treasurer- as a man if not as Treasurer- in view of the uncertainties created by the responses given this morning by the Prime Minister will he advise the House whether he has any intention of resigning bis portfolio or resigning from his seat of Melbourne Ports? [More…]

• The Prime Minister is the man who asked in June: [More…]

• This is the man who described income tax cuts as economic vandalism. [More…]

• The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) is the Minister who not so many months ago was saying that wages do not increase prices. [More…]

• The Labor Party, which claims to look after the ordinary working man and woman of this country, has betrayed them. [More…]

• If a man builds a large dog kennel in the backyard with no intention of putting a dog into it and puts alongside it a massive electric motor with no intention of using the motor, I suppose on one view one could regard that behaviour as picturesque. [More…]

• I do not think anybody in this House would ever deny the claim or contest the view that in dealing with television one is concerning oneself with perhaps the most dramatic and impactive communication technique yet devised by man. [More…]

• I also asked him whether the whole tone of his telex and telegram , messages to the management of 7HO was of a threatening nature. [More…]

• What happened was that the Leader of the Opposition went directly to a commercial management and told it how to run its business. [More…]

• This is the man who, as I said, quite deliberately and blatantly interfered in the internal management of a commercial broadcasting station. [More…]

• As the Treasurer said recently, in current circumstances: ‘One man’s larger paypacket may mean another man’s job.’ [More…]

• The Boeing 727-200, an admirable aircraft and a worthy successor to the long line of Boeing aircraft which have achieved extraordinary safety records and a great deal of efficiency, is making a modicum of intrusion into aerodynamics integrity and requires that much extra skill of the pilot in command. [More…]

• Whilst it is not exposing the travelling public to any great danger, it does call for an additional degree of skill from the pilot I mention in passing that it should not be discounted as a light responsibility to entrust to one man an asset amounting to $8m and a group of people, well in excess of 100. [More…]

• When they were about ten or twelve years of age she found out that her husband, or the man whom she believed was her legal husband, had been married in Greece 12 months before he arrived in Australia. [More…]

• My advice to her was that she should not spend a penny on having the form of marriage dissolved because it was an invalid marriage, that virtually she was like a single woman who had had 2 children out of wedlock and that she was free to marry whom she wished. [More…]

• I saved the woman $300. [More…]

• The first man is Robert Lloyd of Yumali and the second a Mr Aitchison of Mundoora. [More…]

• Furthermore, a man of his voice and style does not need to rely on the Press. [More…]

• So many members of this Parliament accept what is said about them in the Press because they feel that they need to rely on the Press. [More…]

• A family man with a taxable income of $150 a week will receive a similar boost to his income, for which he would otherwise have had to have an increase of 5% per cent in his wages. [More…]

• In particular, is he aware of the fact that his family man who has been on $ 100 a week will not have a tax saving this year but will in fact pay $51.64 more in tax on the modest assumption that his income will rise by 25 per cent? [More…]

• The man who held himself out as not merely the great reformer but also the great performer has not performed in this chamber in the area of international affairs. [More…]

• This would be the level of a needs test for a family consisting of a man, his wife and 2 children. [More…]

• In my long experience in this Parliament whenever a motion of no confidence has been proposed in a colleague that motion has been dealt with immediately; otherwise it allows rumours to spread and it places the name of the man concerned immediately under a cloud. [More…]

• If there is one thing that every member of this Parliament will say, it is that the Treasurer, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, is an honourable and decent man. [More…]

• What manner of man is the Prime Minister to allow this sort of thing to happen? [More…]

• What he has done is to allow him to stew and to carry all the shame and all the discredit for the mismanagement of the economy by this Government. [More…]

• This is related to the man and the blame that is being put on him. [More…]

• Who is the man who said that there ought to be a tariff cut of 25 per cent across the board. [More…]

• A tape has entangled and tripped up a man even more important in the affairs of this world than the Prime Minister, and a tape recording does seem to have achieved some kind of international standing in a matter like this. [More…]

• A man with a wife, 2 children and perhaps one on the way, with a take home pay of $102 a week obviously cannot pay $25 to $40 weekly, even for a modest home. [More…]

• By way of illustration, a man supporting a wife and two children is entitled to maintenance deductions of $832. [More…]

• Many times State governments actively use this situation to their own political advantage. [More…]

• It is good to see that even a Liberal member of Parliament recognises the dynamic task that faces the man in charge of the Greater Brisbane area council and he smiles his congratulations and approval of the job that the Labor Party is doing for the Brisbane City area. [More…]

• Anyone who makes inferences that that man has at any time been associated with the Communist Party is telling deliberate untruths and misleading this House. [More…]

• The question is best considered from the point of view of a union leader- not necessarily the man at central headquarters but the one who exercises shop-floor power. [More…]

• In Sydney’s pilot south-west region, where few community projects have as yet been funded, it is already easier to approve an expenditure of $600 on curtains, $8,000 on renting large new offices, salary for a PR man and money for hiring electric typewriters, than to do what the AAP was dreamily planning to do. [More…]

• What fascinates me when listening to the Leader of the Opposition is not his willingness to be every man’s friend when it comes to tax cuts but his unwillingness to specify in which areas the tax cuts would be made. [More…]

• Last week I asked a question of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in which I referred to Mr Russell Prowse who, I think, is the Assistant General Manager of the Bank of New South Wales. [More…]

• Certainly he is the bank’s public relations man. [More…]

• I understand from a good authority that this gentleman was one of the banking men who worked hard to defeat the Chifley Government in 1949. [More…]

• It may not be well known to the House or to the country that the original proposal for a schools commission was made by a man who stood at this dispatch box in 1945, and that was Sir Robert Menzies, speaking then as the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• My recollection is that he participated in the first major debate on education in this Parliament, together with the late John Dedman. [More…]

• It is not beyond the wit of man to discover ways of extending this sort of genuine freedom of choice right across the community. [More…]

• It is absolutely essential that these children have the opportunity of pursuing an agricultural type of education, bearing in mind that the farmer of the future will be a business man, an economist and a philosopher. [More…]

• As he himself put it, he is ‘a strong Rattigan man’. [More…]

• The Minister for Manufacturing Industry said: ‘Well, anybody affected under this 25 per cent tariff cut decision is entitled to structural assistance ‘. [More…]

• So he asked me what he could do and I have passed on to the Department of Manufacturing Industry a query about the structural assistance that is offered to industries affected by tariff schemes. [More…]

• I have asked: When a man desires to start again and feels that by doing so he will provide employment and productivity that he provided previously, what happens to the plant and the vehicles that he has on lease? [More…]

• I am a strong Rattigan man. [More…]

• The inefficiency of unemployment is a degree worse than any inefficiency the Prime Minister wanted to deplore when he called himself a Rattigan man. [More…]

• He is a destroyera hidden destroyer perhaps- but if we are to take at face value the things he said before he was a Minister, that man, if he was sincere when he became a Minister, would, under cover, without letting it be known what he was doing, have gone out to destroy the Australian economy and create the unemployment which would bring the revolutionary situation which he himself says he desired or said he desired- because those are his own words. [More…]

• He believes in smash and if he can deceive people into thinking that here is a moderate man who sympathises with and understands the businessman’s problems- he is an able man who does understand- I wonder what are his motives. [More…]

• I know he is an able man. [More…]

• I know that many businessmenI think more fools they- take him at his face value. [More…]

• It was named after the man who is or was to be the next Treasurer. [More…]

• This city has welcomed many distinguished and powerful men, but there is within its boundary tonight a man who is not only distinguished but who is also a spiritually powerful man and a man whose presence I think we should note. [More…]

• That man is Cardinal Mindszenty. [More…]

• He is a man who, through his courage, is notable throughout the world. [More…]

• I say that this man is worthy of every kind of support because he withstood torture and imprisonment first by the Nazis- I am not certain of the date- and then by the communists in 1949. [More…]

• This man has withstood a tremendous amount. [More…]

• He is 82 years of age now and understandably is somewhat frail, but he is still alert and still able to bring to us the message of resistance to communist oppression, whether it be on the religious or the secular side because that oppression is anti-religious as well as being a repression of all the things which we consider to be human freedoms. [More…]

• The churches have manfully withstood them, but the communists have contrived to put up puppet priests and puppet bishops who have been the tools of communist policy. [More…]

• For a period of about five months the waste collection contractor experienced difficulty in obtaining sufficient drivers and loaders to man his equipment. [More…]

• Commission the man to determine prices but it has not given him any guidelines. [More…]

• Manufacturing needs confidence; manufacturing needs certainty and the Government should state clearly its objectives and policies. [More…]

• The Opposition is very concerned that no manufacturer as such is a member of the Jackson Committee. [More…]

• Mr Jackson of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd, is a very eminent man, but where is the actual manufacturer who should be a member of the Committee. [More…]

• I think that all honourable members- at least those on this side of the House- were rather amazed at the performance of the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) who treated this matter as being very insignificant. [More…]

• I hope that every Labor man and every unemployed person reads what the Deputy Prime Minister had to say. [More…]

• It was also quite amazing to hear the manner in which the Deputy Prime Minister spoke this afternoon. [More…]

• It is obvious that tensions are building up within himself and his own Party at their mismanagement, ineptitude and inability to cope with the situation which the Government itself has produced. [More…]

• He is the most modest man we know. [More…]

• If such powers have been included where they should not have been included by a previous Government, perhaps it was in error but, as a Minister said, it is a big man who can admit his mistakes. [More…]

• I believe this Bill emanated from the time when a barge operator- I will name him since the Minister no doubt will do so- a man named V. B. Perkins, managed to have his barge operation declared an industrial undertaking. [More…]

• Well, he is a funny man. [More…]

• -Yes, he is a strong man but he gave Mr Fitzgibbons a different impression from the impression he gave to the honourable member for Wentworth. [More…]

• As I said, Mr Prowse has been Assistant General Manager of the Bank of New South Wales since 1970. [More…]

• In actual fact, his main claim to fame is that he is apparently a fairly good public relations man who received his opportunity when he was seconded by the Bank of New South Wales to organise against the Chifley Labor Government in 1947. [More…]

• Mr Prowse wrote some treatises which he sent to the general manager of the Bank. [More…]

• Yet this man, who received his chance because he was put into political organisation against the then Labor Government and who was so heavily identified with political organisation, denied in the Press on 2 May this year that he was politically motivated in his attacks on the economic policies of this Government. [More…]

• As Assistant General Manager he must personally accept considerable responsibility for the mistakes of his institution. [More…]

• For these reasons I do not think that Mr Prowse, as Assistant General Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, is in a position to criticise anyone. [More…]

• Basically he is a public relations man. [More…]

• In view of the history of his bank in recent times and the very serious mistakes it has made in the management of its own affairs- and Mr Prowse is one of the very, very senior officials of that bank- he is not, as I said, in a position to criticise anyone. [More…]

• I have always been one of those who believed that the hope of our society, our universe, was dependent upon a community of nations getting together and wanting, striving for peace for humanity. [More…]

• That dream ended, for me anyhow, about a week ago when the United Nations representatives, almost to a man, stood and applauded a ganster, a thug, a murderer known to the world as Yasser Arafat. [More…]

• I do not think that the body known as the United Nations has ever hit rock bottom as it did last week when a man who has led a bunch of thugs could stand and get the ovation, almost without exception, of the whole of the United Nations. [More…]

• And the United Nations now give a standing ovation to the man behind almost all these barbaric acts- Yasser Arafat! [More…]

• I have a lot of respect for many of the things that Bill Hartley stands for, but I do not happen to agree with him one bit on this issue. [More…]

• I am ashamed that a man who says that he is a social democrat should be supporting these countries of which only one- the Lebanon- is remotely democratic. [More…]

• One is reluctant to find it necessary to isolate the separate category of people and discuss them as though they were a unique human species. [More…]

• We have concentrated on the moral aspects of the relationship between a man and a woman and debated the propriety of extramarital sex. [More…]

• We have concerned ourselves with the need that society has for ensuring that the relationship between a man and a woman is stable and that the family life surrounding them is balanced. [More…]

• But in the midst of those concerns we have largely ignored the needs of the third person- the child born to an unmarried mother, a widow, a separated wife or to a married woman who has a relationship with a man who is not her husband. [More…]

• Even with man’s great intelligence and ingenuity there is one thing that he has never been able to do and there is one thing he will never be able to do, that is, to choose his own parents. [More…]

• We are each the product of a union of a man and a woman. [More…]

• Therefore all human beings in one sense are either gynaecological or geographic accidents. [More…]

• About 20 seconds before I rose to speak I was handed a proposed amendment which I understand is to be moved by the Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Mr Enderby). [More…]

• There is not a man on this side of the House- I hope that there is not one on the other side of the House- who does not regard the continuance of social attitudes towards exnuptial children in the fashion that they have existed up until now as being wrong. [More…]

• It is inconceivable that this man did not know that he was lying to the House when he said that. [More…]

• But for a man with access to all the confidential records of the Government and knowing the economic situation from the inside to have said these things which were so patently untrue could scarcely have been a mistake. [More…]

• He completely answered the charge and is now acclaimed at home and abroad not only as a most outstanding man in his capacity as Minister but also as truthful, honest and forthright in presenting to the people the things that really matter. [More…]

• The people of Australia demand safety and it is not proper for the Minister to make changes to the practised safety provisions of aerodromes around Australia without a proper inquiry. [More…]

• I am told that if there is a breakdown in radio services after 5 p.m. at some airports around Australia, officials do not even have the right to call a technician or a maintenance man and the fault cannot be fixed until next day. [More…]

• He is a union man and the honourable member for Hunter knows it. [More…]

• But if one looks at the record of the Opposition one can see that only a few months ago honourable members opposite were demanding that the Navy be brought in to man ships. [More…]

• I should like to ask the Minister for Northern Development what appreciation he had of the great quality of Fred Haig, the chief man in that field. [More…]

• He was a very good man, and there are not many better authorities in this country on this subject than Fred Haig was. [More…]

• I must take up a couple of the points mentioned by the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh). [More…]

• I am not a betting man but if he would like to have a little wager on the side as to who will win the Queensland elections I will take him on. [More…]

• He was a man of outstanding ability and his contribution to water conservation in Queensland will go down in the records of time. [More…]

• It was a tragedy to this nation for a man so talented to pass away so young. [More…]

• The nation has lost a great man. [More…]

• His performances, his achievements in water conservation, will go down in history. [More…]

• I think the implication is supposed to be that every man has his price. [More…]

• I am not normally an emotional man but I think I would have been a little too emotional on Thursday night to do what my colleague, the Leader of the House, did for me. [More…]

• On all these great issues facing the country the Prime Minister is virtually silent and when he does speak on economic matters, what an unconvincing man he is. [More…]

• I find myself in complete agreement with the man who introduced the first Bill to enact the electoral Act. [More…]

• I appeal to the honourable gentleman to heed the spirit in which this proposal is put forward by the Opposition and to appoint a joint all-Party select committee to examine the provisions of the Electoral Act. [More…]

• Never have I seen a young man so conservative as the honourable member for Benelong (Mr Howard). [More…]

• Why should not postal voting facilities be available to a man on remand at Long Bay Gaol, a man not convicted of anything and who still has all his civil rights but probably cannot raise bail. [More…]

• That man has not forfeited his freedom. [More…]

• The vast majority of these reforms were instituted and were sought in this Parliament as early as 1971 by the man who heads the Australian electoral system in this country, Mr Ley. [More…]

• I should have liked to hear the Leader of the Australian Country Party speak not so much on the Bill but on how he stood over the great man whom members of the Liberal Party will walk through the fires of hell to defend. [More…]

• Minister for Social Security, because I know that it also comes into his portfolio, to look into this matter was that I have 3 instances in my area where the primary producer- the man- may have to leave the district to go to Sydney to find employment. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister is the man who said in the third Chifley Memorial lecture: [More…]

• He is the man who said last week that unemployment in Australia is absolutely trivial. [More…]

• He is being backed up by the Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Mr Enderby)- the brilliant fellow who said that most of Australia’s imports come from overseas. [More…]

• The Minister for Manufacturing Industry is the man who described manufacturers as being frightened of their own shadow. [More…]

• How can we have confidence in a government when the Prime Minister leaves that Treasurer in office for some unknown time and now puts another man in his position, a man of whom he is fearful and about whom he is concerned? [More…]

• If we have to go through this ridiculous performance why is the Prime Minister not game enough, sensible enough, to get the mess straightened out quickly instead of leaving the whole country up tn the air with 2 Ministers, one whom the Prime Minister does not support and one, as I said, whom the Prime Minister is scared of? [More…]

• Anyone with a sense of loyalty to a colleague and any sense of decency and fair play would have had the courage to face the Treasurer man to man, but instead we have had the charade going on for weeks of the Prime Minister pretending to protect and defend the Treasurer while all the time planning to knife him in the back. [More…]

• For a man on average weekly earnings with a wife and 2 children to keep, his proportion of income paid in tax this year will be about the same as that paid last year. [More…]

• Then the man who is now the Treasurerdesignate imposed his view and the views of the other pseudo-Treasurers with him on the front bench. [More…]

• This is the type of performance and type of legislation we can expect from left wing disdain for enterprise and a Cabinet of budding self-styled Treasurers who act on an ad hoc basis. [More…]

• It ought to have seen then that the reductions were going to be necessary, that it was going to be equitable to reduce tax, for reasons which I will come to, and ought not to have been pushed into it, reluctant to give individual taxpayers what the man in the street would call and recognise as a fair go. [More…]

• I point out, however, that in ascertaining the deduction the combined actual income of a man and his wife will be taken into account. [More…]

• A very good example would be the case of a man with a wife and 3 children. [More…]

• A man with a wife and 3 children who had a taxable income of $4,000 a year would receive an actual rebate in tax of $208 whereas a man with a wife and 3 children who had a taxable income of $40,000 would receive an actual tax rebate of $696. [More…]

• So the man today on average weekly earnings can calculate the proportion of his income that is taken in tax, but he does not know what proportion of his income will be taken next year, and he should know. [More…]

• The Government, if it wants to take a higher proportion of incomes into the Government sector should be required to justify the expenditure and not take a higher proportion of every man’s pay packet by stealth. [More…]

• But it is equally important that the tax system be equitable in the manner in which it brings about a horizontal redistribution. [More…]

• Should the tax burden on a single man be the same as that imposed upon a man with a dependent wife and 2 young children? [More…]

• It would appear from the way in which this Government approaches the question that it has the belief that once a person ‘s income reaches a certain level, irrespective of his responsibilities, he should pay the same tax as the man with the same income but with far fewer responsibilities. [More…]

• The family man who is earning, say, $ 10,000 a year should not be as grossly disadvantaged as he is today when his family is compared with a family earning 2 incomes- say $6,000 a year by one person and $4,000 by the other. [More…]

• There are many such families where the contribution in time at work taken on a family basis is not different. [More…]

• The male breadwinner can have the same sort of job in each family, but one man may take all the overtime he can get and may be away from his family for several additional hours. [More…]

• Another man with similar skills doing similar work could say: ‘No, I will not take any overtime. [More…]

• She could work as many hours as those worked by the first man in overtime. [More…]

• I put to him the example of a family comprised of a man, his wife and perhaps 2 children which has a net income of $4,000. [More…]

• I believe that the Government is effectively deluding many people in this respect. [More…]

• It has appeared quite clearly from our experience that man cannot overtake the need to meet the demands of the motor vehicle. [More…]

• The example of the bad effects of early civilisations on land in the Middle East has surely left behind its lessons to mankind. [More…]

• The day has gone when man can simply take unto himself a block of land and exploit its total yield and productive capacity in his own lifetime. [More…]

• It should not disturb man’s relationship to his land or to his sense of private occupancy of that land, but more as an effort to ensure that he is assisted to adopt sensible land use practices in accordance with an overall national strategy and to ensure that the land’s productive capacity is not denied to future generations. [More…]

• Conservation is an exercise in applied ecology to fit man into his environment so as to provide for his needs now and in the future in a manner which will maintain a satisfactory human habitat. [More…]

• He is a guilty man, and he knows it. [More…]

• He has endeavoured, in a most unworthy manner, to find scapegoats in the rest of the administration of the community. [More…]

• It is not just the top man who is jeopardised by this. [More…]

• He was the man who may well have prevented its disintegration at a very critical time. [More…]

• Under the then Government’s policy of what is called the bulldozer mentality, many unique and beautiful things were demolished for what it called progress. [More…]

• It is our Government ‘s policy to try to preserve for posterity things created by man or by nature that are unique and beautiful. [More…]

• I should like to quote to the House- especially as the great man is herefrom a book written by the Prime Minister called ‘Labor and the Constitution’, in which he referred to the Constitution and the role of State members. [More…]

• To bring the matter down to basics ‘the man who pays the piper calls the tune ‘. [More…]

• The man responsible for a decision is a Liberal-Country Party State Premier. [More…]

• Their motivation stems from concern for their fellow man particularly the least affluent members of our society. [More…]

• This concern has resulted in many of the nursing homes incurring a deficit as a result of their operations notwithstanding the frequent generous increases in nursing home benefit rates. [More…]

• to (4) The Department of Manufacturing Industry attaches considerable importance to civil defence preparedness, which is closely linked with the safety programmes and procedures of the Government factories operated by the Department Each establishment has developed plans to be put into effect in emergency situations. [More…]

• Staff are trained to man the plans, including in such aspects as fire prevention, fire fighting, equipment maintenance, first aid and demolition and rescue operations. [More…]

• An example is the savage punitive discrimination in unemployment benefits where a man with a wife and children got much less if he was drawing unemployment benefits than he would have obtained if he was receiving a pension of one form or another. [More…]

• He is a man whom the Prime Minister pursues with fanatical zeal, obstinate purpose and maniacal pride. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the platitudes and sycophantic utterances of this obsequious man we have as a Prime Minister, an analysis of the situation exposes his neat political tricks as being based on jealousy and petulance. [More…]

• Let every man in this Parliament stand up and repudiate any threat of intimidation or violence to the people in this Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• Mr Earl Hoffman, of the Australian Department of Agriculture, is the key man administering this scheme at departmental level. [More…]

• I pay a tribute to Earl Hoffman for the tremendous amount of work he has done on this measure, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’S and so on in this legislation. [More…]

• The State authority in Tasmania that has been selected to handle the scheme is the Agricultural Bank in Hobart, the manager of which is Mr Peter Rowland who is also in charge of several other rural schemes introduced by the Federal Government. [More…]

• He is an expert in this field and a good man for the job. [More…]

• Perhaps it is the object of the Government to make the big bigger and to wipe out the middle man. [More…]

• He is one of those who, in the interrelationship between the man in the city and the man in the country, is dependent on wool as a fibre in its processed form and selling it according to the fashion demands of his clients to his advantage and, I trust, to the advantage of his customers. [More…]

• As to general assistance, this table to which I have referred demonstrates fairly effectively that this Government’s concern is not for the well being of the small man and it is not for the well being of the long term future of the wool industry. [More…]

• It was intended that they be hurt and that when they finally are bleeding, many of them almost near the pangs of death, the Government comes along in its great munificence. [More…]

• Jim Hodge, ‘The Land’s’ Canberra man, said then that legislation to reconstitute the corporation was being drawn up for this session of Parliament. [More…]

• Paul Myers, our man in Melbourne, wrote on October 3 1 that three of the four existing members were ‘near certainties’ to go. [More…]

• In my closing remarks may I pay a fulsome tribute to Mr Von Bibra who now emerges as an industry leader- a man concerned with the industry problem and not the political game that the Country Party has played. [More…]

• It is about time his electorate became aware of the fact that it is being represented in this Parliament by a man, if he be a man, who has no idea at all of the practical side of the business of wool. [More…]

• He has written a few books but he has been completely discredited so many times in this place that I am surprised that he is prepared to come back in here and show his face. [More…]

• What the Minister tried to do was to get onto the Meat Board a person who was a successful beef producer, a man who held a bachelor of agricultural science and who has spent 2 years in the United States of America studying the meat industry. [More…]

• The honourable member for Canning also said that one of the Western Australian members on the National Rural Advisory Council was chosen because he was a typical, ordinary farmer who happened to have done a farm management course. [More…]

• The extra man is to have a technical background and the Minister will select him. [More…]

• I can assure honourable members that I could not name anyone who could have any possible objection to a man of technical background being appointed to the Wool Corporation. [More…]

• When the history of this man is written the thing that will stand out greatest of all will be what he has done for the trade union movement. [More…]

• The other was from Latham C. J., a very fine man for whom I had the greatest respect even though he belonged to the other side of politics at one stage. [More…]

• But there should be no suggestion that somehow pressure has been brought upon the Commissioner of Taxation, a man for whom I have the highest regard as I do for all the officers of the Taxation Office. [More…]

• The John Curtin National Appeal has been launched to commemorate an outstanding Western Australian and Prime Minister, a man who guided his country, so ably, through the last World War years. [More…]

• We now call on all West Australians to support the recognition of this great man. [More…]

• We now call on all West Australians to support the recognition of this great man. [More…]

• I accept absolutely what the Treasurer says for the Treasurer is an honourable man. [More…]

• -Let me repeat what I believe: The Treasurer is an honourable man. [More…]

• The answer is that the man must not have job satisfaction. [More…]

• They had been told in Service training that they would be in command of or would be called upon to lead a certain number of men. [More…]

• This breeds dissatisfaction regardless of how much money the man receives in return for what he is supposed to be doing. [More…]

• The next point which 1 think is important in regard to the Services today is that this Governmentit also did this before it came to officehas successfully made the serviceman a secondclass citizen. [More…]

• Before the Vietnam war the Australian serviceman, when seen in the streets of Australia, was generally given the position due to him, that is, the position of a man giving perhaps the highest form of service to his country. [More…]

• -During and after the war in Vietnam the Australian serviceman became a second-class citizen. [More…]

• In fact, today it is very difficult to find a serviceman on the streets in uniform. [More…]

• We have to give back to the serviceman the dignity and pride that makes him feel that he is doing a worthwhile job for the country and not, as he feels now, that he is doing something that has to be hidden from the rest of the community at large. [More…]

• Minister, in my long association with him, is, both by instinct and by practice, a most courteous man. [More…]

• It is perfectly true, and I suppose it is one of the paradoxes of political history in this country, that the person who pioneered the emancipation of the grants power was a man who at one time or another in his life stood at this despatch box and at another time- for 16 years- stood at the despatch box on the other side of the table. [More…]

• I do not want to give away too many trade secrets as to the basis of my political survival, but if I want to know what is happening in the country the man to whom I go to ask how people are thinking and what they are feeling is the tradesman. [More…]

• The courses that the Opposition proposes should be instituted at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College are those connected with a city-country type of environment- those connected with surveying and valuing of land, those connected with the environmental sciences whereby people look at the influence of man on the environment and at the way in which the landscape is affected by the development taking place with the construction of houses. [More…]

• It seems that there is scope too for the sort of course that many of us hold dear, whereby people could learn a trade and learn to make a contribution in the work place, perhaps not at the level of the university but at a level of meeting and finding out from the common man, as the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) said, what is really happening in this country. [More…]

• Damage is so easily done and I am sure that the demand for this sort of course- a short course, not a highly technical course but a skilled course- has great merit. [More…]

• The Public Service Acts of South Australia and Tasmania do not conform with the Convention. [More…]

• Under the Tasmanian Act female officers are required to retire at 60 whereas male officers are not required to retire until 65. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Act also provides that except in special circumstances a married woman cannot be recommended for appointment when there is a man or single woman available who can perform the duties of the office. [More…]

• I congratulate the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) because he has shown that he is a man of enormous resilience. [More…]

• Anyone who could come up fighting like this so shortly after such a crushing defeat as he suffered as the result of the action of his faithful supporter, Mr Staley, last Wednesday is a man of undoubted leadership qualities. [More…]

• They are showing their complete contempt for this man of quite outstanding qualities. [More…]

• If that is the case, I should have thought that, if not the Minister for Science, at least the man who ran away from the responsibility of answering for both the administration of defence services in Papua New Guinea and more importantly the arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea in a postindependence scene ought to have been prepared to tell us in this Parliament what the arrangements will be either after this Bill is passed and in due course is proclaimed or after independence what the relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea will be in the defence sphere. [More…]

• If honourable members like to do the sum, they will find that of the total Australian population of 13,500,000 people every man, woman and child ought to have about 200 coins in his possession. [More…]

• The question of making money is not always the devious process that the honourable gentleman has suggested. [More…]

• If I can put the problem into perspective, I shall quote from an article written by a man who knows a lot about homeless men in the community. [More…]

• Another way of stating much the same fact, used by Pittman and Gordon, is to describe homeless men as ‘undersocialised ‘, implying that their social failure is due to failure ever to learn adequate social skills. [More…]

• Many homeless men do become integrated in to the Skid Row community, but they never identify themselves completely with the group, and their friendships and loyalties are usually weak and unstable. [More…]

• Material dependency tends to become more complete as the man grows older. [More…]

• I saw that a scruffy newspaper vendor, probably regarded by society as one of the lower class in the community, was trying to prop this man up against one of the buildings to give him some comfort. [More…]

• One of the basic requirements, in my view, is the opportunity for the homeless man to relate to a women in the role of substitute mother. [More…]

• I recently heard of a very tragic case of a 42- year-old alcoholic homeless ex-seaman who spent a portion of every week in Pentridge Gaol, and one night of every week in the local police station. [More…]

• In other cases like this I have found the police to be particularly understanding of the man or men. [More…]

• No Government money, or very little, is spent on counselling, providing treatment, nutrition, rehabilitation or on any of the supports which are needed to get such a man back on his feet and out of the reverse rat race which he has entered. [More…]

• People sometimes wonder why the women stays with the man. [More…]

• Half-way houses are absolutely necessary because if a woman goes home to her sister or to her mother her husband finds her. [More…]

• I am not too sure about the need for the homeless men to have the care or love of a good woman because in the last 2 years I have come in contact with a number of these men who have had very happy childhoods with parents with whom they had good communication, and they have still hit skid row. [More…]

• So I do not know whether the love of a good woman can save a man from everything. [More…]

• That is a very comforting but exaggerated view, in my opinion, of the capacity of any one man. [More…]

• He is not a man who fools around writing unnecessary letters or ringing up on the telephone unnecessarily. [More…]

• Mr Grassby has always been a man of immense activity, a man of great action. [More…]

• He is not a man who likes to get himself tangled up in red tape. [More…]

• I have never in my life seen a man do so much work with a small office staff such as Mr Grassby has. [More…]

• But in the very short time in which the white man has settled in Australia the environment has been threatened because of lack of government direction and shortsighted economic exploitation. [More…]

• I would not say that I have been there dozens of times but I have been there on many occasions. [More…]

• I am certain that the Minister is an honourable man and that he will not endeavour to do anything other than what he has said in his telegram. [More…]

• He is another man who has said the same thing. [More…]

• Traditionally, historically, right across the world there can be no doubt that the national estate of any country includes things of national importance and beauty whether they be man made or natural. [More…]

• It is absolutely essential that man should manage to preserve something other than what helps to make soles Tor his shoes or sewing machines, that he should leave a margin, a sanctuary, where some of life’s beauty can take refuge and where he himself can feel safe from his own cleverness and folly. [More…]

• However, I want to put the record straight so far as I am concerned in regard to the ‘Straitsman’. [More…]

• Whenever the word ‘Straitsman’ is mentioned, the name of Captain R. H. Houfe comes to my mind immediately. [More…]

• Apart from that and his abilities as a seaman, on a personal basis he is known as a man among men. [More…]

• I think that it is important to put the record straight so far as the ‘Straitsman’ is concerned because the position is not understood by some people. [More…]

• Bob Houfe commenced his company, R. H. Houfe & Co. Pty Ltd, in 1 954 when he obtained the ‘Loatta’ from W. H. Holyman & Sons Pty Ltd. [More…]

• It included all aspects of the surroundings of man whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings. [More…]

• This is a meaningless paraphrase by a man who is incapable of grasping the clear statement by the Government’s strategic advisers. [More…]

• I suggest to honourable members that if I had chosen a man or even a woman who was not good looking, perhaps nothing would have happened. [More…]

• I do not think that Mr Green was the first man associated with a Minister in this Parliament who got a little under the weather. [More…]

• But I do not think it is a national question and I do not think the honourable gentleman at the table is being fair when he regards that as a blemish and associates it with me. [More…]

• We are very fortunate to have a man of the calibre of Mr Eric Boyson as director of the YMCA. [More…]

• I would like to inform the Government that it is the ordinary man- the wage earnerwho pays. [More…]

• The average man is paying more tax than he has ever paid before. [More…]

• I wish to quote what was said by another Englishman. [More…]

• This man works in the nationalised health service in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• What Labor proposes is simply this: As a result of this legislation every working man and woman in Queensland who earns more than a couple of thousand dollars a year will be forced, whether they like it or not, to pay 1.35 per cent of their income as a levy. [More…]

• Furthermore, everywhere in Australia- a man, a husband, the head of the family unit - [More…]

• It would be a bold man who said that it is not. [More…]

• Humanity and enlightenment abroad are reflected in our policies at home. [More…]

• No government has done more for those most in need, for the working man and his family, for women and children. [More…]

• What the policy set out to be- under the single minded espousal by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) of so-called tariff reform that is, when he was a strong Rattigan man- was this: That as quickly as possible as many tariff rates as possible should be brought to one level of the order of 25 per cent or thereabouts. [More…]

• All of us in this chamber realise that Mr Crean, the man who has just spoken to the Parliament, is making his statement for the last time as Treasurer. [More…]

• I guess that all of us who have been in this chamber for some time have known him in that role, be it in Opposition when he was spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on matters pertaining to the economy or since the election of the Labor Party when he has been the Treasurer. [More…]

• As spokesman for the Opposition I pay him a compliment as a man. [More…]

• In fact, a number of significant items have been taken out of the Advance to the Treasurer and therefore have not come before the Parliament in the manner or at the time they should have. [More…]

• However, the man hours and labour costs involved in maintaining public telephones are recorded separately and during the 1973-74 financial year the total manhours expended on this work was the equivalent of 237 full time technicians. [More…]

• Therefore, only one man is normally employed in each capital city to take car bookings during weekends. [More…]

• In New South Wales the Askin Government appointed a Labor man, now Senator the Honourable Jim McClelland, to succeed the Labor Senator Ormonde, when Senator Ormonde died in 1970. [More…]

• They will remember the indignity this causes to a man and the way it crushes his soul. [More…]

• This is the Government which said that it was elected to office by the working people of Australia to make right the situation of the working man. [More…]

• Where is the honour of the man? [More…]

• He is a man without honour. [More…]

• A man who says, ‘I give you a commitment to full employment’, and in less than a year has 300 000 unemployed, 5 per cent of the work force, I say is a man without honour. [More…]

• The honourable member for Perth (Mr Berinson) is a man whom I have always understood to be socially committed to the cause of people and equality, but he is sitting in attendance reading. [More…]

• If he were a man of honour he would have resigned in accordance with his promise. [More…]

• Sir Robert Menzies, a man whose views I would have thought Senator Withers would have respected, stated that the action to which I have referred, ‘would create an impossible situation and would make popular government unworkable’. [More…]

• The temptation is always there not to take a particular important decision which, however necessary it may be for the current economic management, may cause temporary political unpopularity. [More…]

• It is a little sad to see the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), this once socalled gladiator of the ordinary working man and woman and of the trade union movement acting as an apologist and making excuses for the Government’s appalling policy in allowing 5.2 per cent of Australia’s population to become unemployed. [More…]

• These apologies and excuses expose the sham of the man who claims that he is genuinely interested in the welfare of the ordinary working man and woman. [More…]

• I am a man of principle. [More…]

• The Minister for Labor and Immigration was the man who led the Public Service in demanding increased wages and all types of conditions which put intolerable pressures on the rest of the community thus reducing its capacity to employ people. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition said that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was a man without honour, that he had not done what he said he would do and that he had done nothing to correct unemployment. [More…]

• I shall let this House judge who is the man without honour. [More…]

• As long as wage demands continue to cut profit then there is going to be unemployment. [More…]

• Every excessive increase in income for one man takes the job of another. [More…]

• There could be no greater condemnation of the Liberal and Country Parties of this country than that after 23 years the only thing it could do was to set up an inquiry to see how many poor and underprivileged people there were in this country. [More…]

• Will the Opposition sit down with Clarrie 0’Shea the man it put in gaol for four or five weeks until he nearly died? [More…]

• I answer the interjection by stating that Mr Withnall, a leading legal man, who is an independent member, has asked me to try to have the passage of this Bill delayed so that it can be considered by the people who live in Darwin. [More…]

• I guess the honourable member for Barker finds himself flattered when people who are in control of the large open private heath insurance funds refer to him as a good bloke, as an understanding bloke and as a man who knows what it is all about from the private health insurance funds’ point of view. [More…]

• The Prime Minister went to Europe and said that oil prices should go up; he came home and for the narrow purpose of votes tried to pretend that a man had said something he had never said. [More…]

• The way it was reported, he came out of Moscow into Bonn and the Germans were sitting there with their fingers crossed waiting for some words of wisdom from the great master. [More…]

• The Germans, living alongside the Soviet might obviously put a great deal of their diplomatic effort into it. [More…]

• I remind the House that the Germans are very active and committed and dedicated members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and that is part of the Western defence system. [More…]

• They must have found it a joke for a man to come from Moscow to tell them, knowing that he had said in other parts of the world that he wanted to get invitations from the nonaligned world. [More…]

• Are we to believe that the Germans would take him seriously? [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is a man who may at some stage be the leader of the government, yet the attitude taken by the United States to his visit was one which resulted in his receiving the second-class treatment that any member of this Parliament could receive on going to the United States. [More…]

• The performance overeseas of representatives of the Opposition when they were in government is, I think, highly illustrative. [More…]

• So the right honourable gentleman had to go off and re-cast his speech. [More…]

• When he went to the Philippines and when he went to Indonesia he raised the humanitarian questions of Amnesty International about the imprisonment of political prisoners. [More…]

• Prime Minister Whitlam is a man of substance. [More…]

• Many of these countries are vital in terms of our trade and as the source of a number of our Australian citizens from overseas. [More…]

• The Prime Minister carried out this task as a man of dignity and was received by the leaders of the European countries. [More…]

• So much for the privacy, the confidence and the respect which this man, the Prime Minister, asserts he has been able to gain in these 2 countries. [More…]

• Let us look first at the manner and form of travel. [More…]

• The manner and form of travel reflect not to the credit of Australia. [More…]

• Perhaps it might have satisfied the ego of the man who took the trip, but it certainly in no way justified the apologia we have heard tonight on the reasons for this visit. [More…]

• I think there is good reason to think that it is an improper appointment, made of the wrong man and for the wrong motives. [More…]

• He suggested to them that he would appoint a Labor man to succeed Senator Nash, the deceased Labor senator, if all the Premiers would undertake to pursue that precedent. [More…]

• There will be many forced realisations of cattle. [More…]

• Yet this is occurring at a time when the Bureau of Agricultural Economics has assessed that costs have moved against the cattle man by 27 per cent in the last 6 months. [More…]

• It is interesting to observe that the man who will be drawing $40,000 from the slush funds of industry to oppose the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Kerin) has been going around the countryside claiming that the United States of America, the EEC and Japan are closing off their markets in retaliation for some political position adopted by the Australian Government. [More…]

• These changes were intended not to meet the convenience of members nor, I suspect, to meet the convenience of the Government but peculiarly to meet the travel inclination of the man who leads the Government, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• I thought those points he made were irrelevant and not worthy of a man of his background. [More…]

• It is not worthy of the man. [More…]

• He is a man who has risen to the occasion, and I believe that his determination to resist these overtures to delay this measure will restore the confidence of the people of Darwin who realise the necessity of the Reconstruction Commission getting on with the job with all the legality that it requires. [More…]

• One senior pilot who flew over the area and who, as a very young man, had flown over Hiroshima said of the scene of devastation that the only thing he had seen nearly as bad was the scene at Hiroshima after an atomic bomb had blasted Hiroshima pretty well off the face of the earth. [More…]

• In the Interim Commission the 3 government members are permanent heads of the 3 departments vitally concerned in the reconstruction of Darwin- the Department of the Northern Territory, the Department of Urban and Regional Development and of course the Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]

• The Chairman, Sir Leslie Thiess, is a man with tremendous experience in construction and a man, I believe, who wants to get things done. [More…]

• This clause cuts all ties with the traditional view of marriage as a monogamous union according to law, of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• An Australian married man could go to a Moslem country that recognises polygamy and go through a form of marriage which would be perfectly legal in that country. [More…]

• Irrespective of these diversities, however, mankind has always placed enormous emphasis upon the family, however formed or governed. [More…]

• Aristotle believed that the originaal intention of the family was to supply man’s everyday needs whereas the state had a broader and less intimate role in establishing beneficial conditions within which the family could function. [More…]

• This Bill, if it is passed, will allow a man or a woman to walk out on his marriage partner, and their children, move in with his or her fancy of the moment and after 12 months demand a divorce. [More…]

• No court will be able to refuse such a demand. [More…]

• How absurd it is that what the law does not allow a person to do in respect of his or her financial contracts, that is, terminate them at will, this Bill will allow a man or woman to do in respect of a lifelong commitment or contract which he has made with his marriage partner. [More…]

• Of course, it cannot solve every problem which arises between a man and a woman and their children before, during or after their marriage. [More…]

• No doubt during the course of this debate many references will be made to the views of people who have practised in the area of divorce. [More…]

• The basic and fundamental consensus has been the upholding of the sanctity and permanence of marriage; a consolidation of those solemn vows of loyalty taken before God and man. [More…]

• I would not like to be a member of a generation of Australian citizens which, whilst not destroying those time honoured and respected concepts, sought to break down the golden rules which have served us well, by adopting a policy of straddling the issues, being over sympathetic to the point of view- no matter how honestly held- that man or woman is licensed as it were to be absolutely free without any responsibilities to society. [More…]

• Marriage surely is a far more serious matter than an arrangement which can be dissolved legally in the eyes of man after a period of 12 months on the sole grounds of irretrievable breakdown. [More…]

• Marriage is a solemn contractsigned, sealed and witnessed- and I believe is undertaken by the vast majority of people with an honest wish for it to be permanent. [More…]

• All our discussions must be based on the proposition that adequate preparation must be given to what marriage is all about: It is a voluntary union of husband and wife for life; it is a permanent arrangement. [More…]

• It is to be regretted that there is a trend running through the proposed legislation which seems to make a wife a trophy to be put on the mantelpiece for 12 months rather than having her occupy the place she so thoroughly and richly deserves on the altar as God’s greatest gift to man. [More…]

• I say that the Bill is unfair to women because it does, unfortunately, give to the man the power of casting off a woman. [More…]

• It is, unfortunately, physiologically irrefutable that a man’s sexual life is longer than that of a woman. [More…]

• This is one of the things which is in human nature, and you cannot ignore it in the Bill. [More…]

• If a woman commits adultery and becomes pregnant and the period of gestation is less than 12 months, the man has no redress and would have to adopt as his own and maintain as his own a child which he knows is not his own. [More…]

• In these laws, as in many others, we find the view that the inevitability of sin as the cause of all human failure and unhappiness is the rationale for the basis of the law. [More…]

• As soon as sin is defined in these clear cut terms it creates an atmosphere of judgment of your fellow man rather than an atmosphere of understanding and surely in a situation such as the modern world presents we need that atmosphere of understanding between people more than ever before. [More…]

• It is on that aspect of the previous laws that we find the greatest fault- the need to prove guilt, the need to demonstrate sin, the need to arrive at a position where a fellow man can judge another. [More…]

• It is not only an aspect of the Bill we are now considering but it is indeed an aspect of so many other of the relationships in which the church involves itself. [More…]

• The future suggests- in fact we can expect it- that man will provide even more efficient contraceptive techniques than we have seen in the past. [More…]

• The definition of marriage enshrined in Australian law has hitherto been phrased: Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all ethers, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• While we have recognised the need to make provision for divorce, such legislation is in no way meant to dimmish the import of the undertaking of marriage as accepted in Australia, as a permanent union to be protected by the State until death. [More…]

• Whatever be the exceptions, the generality of marriages rests on the belief and practice of mutuality of contract and permanent union. [More…]

• Another honourable member suggested that a woman’s sex life ran out far faster than a man’s sex life and that, therefore, like a dirty dishcloth the woman was to be thrown into the sink or into the rubbish bin and no longer have the chance to gain special protection. [More…]

• I believe that clause 75, contrary to many of the arguments put forward or the furphies spread in this place, sets out on a needs basis to provide for a woman and her family. [More…]

• If a man has fathered 5 children and for some reason, while those children are fairly young, decides that he does not wish to continue that marriage and obtains a divorce, I believe 100 per cent that whether that unfortunate event occurs under this proposed system or under the existing system, that man has a total obligation to maintain his ex-wife and his children while she is incapable of providing anything for herself. [More…]

• As I said, every man is entitled to his own particular opinion but I must say that if that is the opinion of the honourable member for EdenMonaro the facts completely disprove what he said. [More…]

• Moreover, the same man had broken his ankle only 7 weeks before and had it prematurely taken out of plaster. [More…]

• Ex-Senator Murphy- he is not a High Court judge yet- is known as the man who headed the raids on the [More…]

• Furthermore, a married man who has a working wife has to tell his employer how much his wife is earning in another job which is not at all connected with the male spouse’s employment. [More…]

• I rise to ask the Leader of the Opposition whether even at this late stage he will not make it clear to the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Lewis, not with the equivocation which he has so far shown on the great issue before us all at the present time, that if the Premier does not retreat from the stand that he has taken on the filling of the current Senate vacancy he, the Leader of the Opposition, the man bound to uphold the traditions of parliamentary democracy in this country, will not appear with Mr Lewis on the platform at the public meeting which is to be held at Randwick race course next Sunday. [More…]

• Eventually, instead of the New South Wales Government simply signing the lease and the Australian Government simply saying that it would hand over the Sydney Harbour foreshores, some money was supposed to have changed hands as a result of the transaction because, quite simply, we were not prepared to push this issue to such an absurd political position for the sake of the ego of one man, Mr Lewis. [More…]

• The Labor Party has taken 2 people from Sydney to man this unit. [More…]

• One is an extra political stooge who worked on the last campaign for the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh), and who was removed from the Public Service and employed in this unit because he has local political knowledge which the southern imports assuredly would not have. [More…]

• An honourable member may stand up in this chamber and say quite indignantly: ‘I am an honest man. [More…]

• The donor was rung by another man and was genuinely surprised and regretful when it was explained that not one cent of the donation would be given by the National/Country Party to the lone local non-socialist candidate, or the Liberal Party. [More…]

• I respect the contribution which the honourable member for Port Adelaide made as a member of his Party’s organisation to the efforts of that Party during the 1972 election campaign, but I was absolutely astounded to hear a man of his political experience say that election campaigns are won and lost during the 3 weeks before the election according to the volume of media advertising which is conducted on a central basis. [More…]

• Every poor man is entitled to have as much opportunity to get into Parliament as the richest man in the community has. [More…]

• I think that if a man like him who aspires to be Prime Minister of this country - [More…]

• I remember a case here in Canberra not many years ago in which a man petitioned his wife for divorce on the ground of adultery. [More…]

• The marriage had long since ceased to exist and because of that they had lived separate and apart for years and the man had formed a relationship with some other lady. [More…]

• The man lied to the lawyer. [More…]

• The lady with whom he had had a relationship put him in to what used to be called the Queen’s Proctor- the Attorney-General’s office of the day- which under the existing law is charged with probing in an inquisitorial manner the morals of people in this way and his conduct was revealed. [More…]

• Many years had passed. [More…]

• A man came home and found his wife in a compromising situation with some chap. [More…]

• I am a happily married man. [More…]

• My wife is a responsible woman. [More…]

• They will have to decide ultimately whether that man- obviously I refer to a man in this case- is a good decent law-abiding citizen by the precepts of Australian law. [More…]

• When one examines the object of this Bill in clause 43(a)- the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life- one might well expect the remainder of the Bill to carry those objects into effect. [More…]

• There are many aspects of the Bill which clearly are aimed at achieving them- for instance, the provisions encouraging counselling and reconciliation. [More…]

• A man or woman who, at the time this Bill becomes law, has suffered injustice for 10 years, for instance, will, immediately it becomes law, lose any rights he or she has at present because he or she has not taken out a petition having been concerned to maintain the marital relationship. [More…]

• We are concerned about preserving human rights, yet I believe that we are going to see a direct injustice in this provision. [More…]

• The Bill in clause 43 professes that the courts should take into account the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• When they were given a definition they then said: ‘Look, you will have to cut out all references to the Holy Spirit but let us have the effects of it which is the permanent union of man and woman for life to the exclusion of all others ‘. [More…]

• A man on $500 a week could leave his wife to draw the pension- say, an invalid pension- and have no obligation for maintenance no matter how callous his action in casting her over. [More…]

• -Yes, but if you expect the husband to pay for a wife who has chosen another man, then I think you are suffering an irretrievable breakdown in realism. [More…]

• He spoke about the case of a young woman who had fallen pregnant and who had then been deserted by her husband. [More…]

• Obviously, that could happen, but surely the proposition is this: Is she any better off being theoretically married to some man when no divorce is possible? [More…]

• The fact that in theory people are still married does not help the woman or the baby in the least, as she knows. [More…]

• He did not believe it to be right that families should be broken up in this way or that work situated long distances from a married man’s home was an appropriate offer in those circumstances. [More…]

• Because of the humanitarian attitude that my colleague the Minister for Social Security has on all these matters, he perhaps did go just a little too much on the side of humanitarianism. [More…]

• But that is the nature of the man. [More…]

• One cannot but comment on the apparent arrogance of the man and his bending of the willow to suit his arguments and his overbearing demands. [More…]

• No person, no man, no woman, can go before that court fearful that justice will not be done. [More…]

• It has been- I hope it will continue to be- manned by men, and indeed by women, of great accomplishment. [More…]

• Looking at the honourable member as a man whom all honourable members respect, I say that I believe he is being used in this regard. [More…]

• The regulations that flow from that legislation do not have the sort of far-reaching national and international consequences of regulations that might flow from an agreement that we could enter into with Japan, Russia, China or other countries which could not only involve the preservation of flora or fauna, but could also have a far-reaching effect upon the environment of man. [More…]

• As a consequence, we could find ourselves with regulations flowing into the Parliament and many of them might go unnoticed and become law. [More…]

• Before these interjections occurred I had stated that not only was the first casual vacancy, that of a Labor senator from Western Australia, filled by another Labor man from Western Australia, but that in the case of all the 24 casual vacancies which have since been filled the new senator belonged to the same party as the vacating senator. [More…]

• We all remember that shortly after this Government took office it appointed Dr Coombs, a man who had been a distinguished senior public servant, to chair a committee whose function was to make recommendations in areas within which Government expenditure could be curtailed. [More…]

• This has resulted in a dismal performance in the House and equivocation on every major issue which would give confidence to the rural sector and other industries. [More…]

• Mr Valder, the Chairman of the Sydney Stock Exchange, preaches on and condemns socialism. [More…]

• I wrote to that man and asked him what he meant by socialism. [More…]

• That fear of these peoplethe ordinary working man, the miner- has been indicated very clearly in successive elections. [More…]

• Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• Every time anything to do with national health is discussed the same old bogey man is dragged out and shaken out- he must be worn out by now. [More…]

• I join with the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) in criticism of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman). [More…]

• They say: Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• The entire medical profession almost to a man- with the exceptions of the honourable members for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and Kingston (Dr Gun) and a couple of other burnt out medicos who have come into this chamber- is opposed to the introduction of Labor’s national health program. [More…]

• That is no more a secret ballot than is the man in the moon. [More…]

• The book on Mount Isa was written by this man with whom the honourable member for Wannon seems to have so much in common. [More…]

• One of the reasons I oppose this Bill is that it takes away the right of unionists to give that expression of opinion which alone can give a true indication of what the average rank and file member, the average working man whom I have praised in the course of this address, is thinking. [More…]

• Of course, at the pinnacle of the honourable gentleman’s success, is the 31 1 000 unemployed in Australia at the present time. [More…]

• This situation has arisen under the administration of the man who said that he would resign and his Government ought to resign if unemployment grew to 250 000 people. [More…]

• As I said in the previous debate, I am idealistic enough to applaud the idea of, and to want to see, the small man getting a stake in the ‘big time’. [More…]

• In this project tenders have been called for the supply of a quantity of special pumping equipment which can be and has been manufactured in this country. [More…]

• In the usual manner in which information comes down the grapevine the firm has been advised that its tender was very close to being acceptable. [More…]

• But the most important part of this contract is that it will provide 5 500 man hours of labour. [More…]

• One goes back further- I am going back to, I think, 1971 or thereabouts; it might be 1972- to when Senator Murphy was associated with Miss Morosi in relation to financial affairs with a man called Drake. [More…]

• This was rather peculiar in many ways. [More…]

• This article was signed by a man called Mike Heard. [More…]

• I think that until we have had some kind of proper investigation, and some of the files that I have named have been produced and we know the facts, it would be very unwise, indeed improper, for the Treasurer to continue in this sensitive post a woman who at least on such a large number of statutory declarations as I have, and this signed declaration, and on other evidence - [More…]

• The honourable member chose to use a statutory declaration, the first name of which is a man who was this morning convicted of a criminal offence in a Sydney court. [More…]

• That is the kind of man who stands here today. [More…]

• That is the kind of man who will use a statutory declaration, signed by a man convicted on this very day, in the national Parliament under privilege and under protection against a person who has no chance of dealing with it. [More…]

• He says those things all on the strength of a statutory declaration signed by a man who was today convicted of the criminal offence of breaking into Miss Morosi ‘s home. [More…]

• That is the kind of gentleman that this House now has as its honourable member for Mackellar. [More…]

• If this man had his way, Miss Morosi ‘s life would be destroyed and her future would be destroyed. [More…]

• On the strength of that he demands some kind of proper inquiry. [More…]

• He makes unsubstantiated allegations; he makes allegations on the strength of a man who has been convicted of a criminal offence. [More…]

• On the basis of these allegations he chooses to demand a public inquiry. [More…]

• I do not intend to allow a citizen of this country to be convicted on the strength of a statutory declaration made by a man who, on that day, was convicted of the criminal offence of breaking into the house of the person against whom he makes those allegations. [More…]

• I suggest to you with all seriousness that a man who has exposed himself like this one does not need your protection, nor does he justify getting it. [More…]

• So now he wants us to have an inquiry- a public inquiry- because he is the kind of man who, under privilege in Parliament, will get up and make unsupported allegations or allegations supported only by a statutory declaration from a man who has been convicted of a criminal offence. [More…]

• Therefore, Mr Speaker, I am not going to be moved by the kinds of allegations that I have heard in this House today coming from a man who has been convicted on this very day of a criminal offence. [More…]

• I am not going to be moved by allegations made by the honourable member for Mackellar who, for 19 long years, I have heard making unsupported allegations in this House that go fundamentally to a man’s credit and to everything that involves his loyalty to his country. [More…]

• One of the things I resent is the great national operation of deceit which has been carried out on the people who are so naive as to believe that they are still supporting the Australian Labor Party which included many wonderful figures like T. J. Ryan and Ben Chifley. [More…]

• I can remember my predecessor for Kennedy the late Bill Riordan, a man who served this Parliament for 30 years and a member of a family that attracted nothing but a grand reputation for integrity and service to this nation, warning us as members of the Cloncurry branch of the Australian Labor Party that there were certain pressures coming into the Party which were going to fragment and destroy the substance of the Party. [More…]

• If a man kisses another man one begins to wonder about that but in this case we did not wonder about it at all; we were not even surprised. [More…]

• What would be the reaction of men like Ben Chifley and Bill Riordan, or the great Clarrie Fallon, who could make or break ALP members, who could make Prime Ministers, a man with whom I had the closest association? [More…]

• When they go to cast a vote they imagine that they are going to put into office a particular personality to represent them, a man who by his character and his attributes has the sorts of things to offer that they appreciate. [More…]

• They now know that it would not matter just what the quality of that man is. [More…]

• Lord knows how many of them will survive the next election. [More…]

• I cannot understand a man like the present Treasurer, with his undoubted knowledge, permitting the Corporation to go ahead with the loan at a period when the Government was staying out of the market itself because it did not want to dry up further the money base- Ml or M3- in Australia and to make the type of credit squeeze that had been pushed upon the country even worse than it was. [More…]

• I cannot understand why in the case of a man like the Treasurer, who likes facts to be known, he and his colleagues have ensured that the report of the Committee is not to be made available to the Australian people. [More…]

• Another advantage in having a man like David Lean is that not only would the film make an impact in international circles but also our own producers I am sure would admit that to serve under a man like him would give them a fantastic experience and would equip them to carry on in a similar manner. [More…]

• So much for the veracity of the man who is the Leader of the Labor Party and who promised that sort of concession to rural producers, and certainly so much for the veracity of those others within his ranks who supported his advocacy. [More…]

• It is quite tragic to read of cases where a man, his wife and his children are unable to see how they will be able to survive. [More…]

• There are cases where a man, his wife and his children doubt whether they will be able to buy next week’s bread. [More…]

• These are human beings who are living in a society in which this Government provides $ 1,000m per annum to people who are unemployed. [More…]

• It has created circumstances so that there are significantly disadvantaged groups of Australian people, many of them in the area which this Bill purports to cover and for whom there has been no positive help. [More…]

• This Government claims to be a humanitarian government. [More…]

• I fail to see how any government having any heart whatsoever- one knows how little heart this Government has- could believe that that is a humanitarian policy. [More…]

• I see a real reason for similar financial help being provided to those who are affected at the present time as is being made available to others in the manufacturing sector and elsewhere. [More…]

• Why on earth should someone who is involved in manufacturing industry and who is as adversely affected as those on the land by this Government’s manufacturing tariff, financial and economic policies be entitled to receive help when the man who is a beef grower is not? [More…]

• I seem to remember the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) or his representative in this place saying how diabolical were those primary producer policies which we implemented; that the LiberalCountry Party Government had no knowledge, sympathy or understanding of the problems of the man on the land and that things in the bush were crook when we were in office. [More…]

• The figures ranged upwards to $9,562 in Queensland, $10,662 in Western Australia $10,237 in Tasmania and down to $7,227 in South Australia and $7,428 in Victoria. [More…]

• How is that going to help the man who is flat broke already? [More…]

• If the honourable member thinks that any man who is trying to raise a cow can borrow money at that rate and expect to survive, he surprises me. [More…]

• I think that the honourable member from Tasmania, whom I am delighted to see in the House, is the only honourable member on that side of the House at the moment who has ever seen a beast. [More…]

• Why cannot the man who is in receipt of a negative income- I am talking about official statisticsand losing money not receive at least the same unemployment benefit as the man who lives in the city and who is put out of work equally by the financial policies of this Government? [More…]

• At the present time a man applies for a loan through his normal trading circles and if he is unable to obtain finance through those recognised authorities he can make application to the Commonwealth Development Bank, but he must derive at least 85 per cent of his income from beef pursuits. [More…]

• He is the man who knocked the Prime Minister so insensible during the last Queensland State election campaign that I understand that if the Australian Labor Party in Queensland wished to field a cricket team it would have to obtain the services of the Prime Minister as the drink waiter. [More…]

• It is essential therefore that the Premier of Queensland be encouraged in his statesman-like approach to preserve the rights of the Queensland beef producers initially. [More…]

• There will be fluctuations in prices of rural products all the time, so the man in the rural industry must be able to bear some of those fluctuations. [More…]

• The accent must be on cultural spread and not on creating monuments for one man. [More…]

• We wish to see the Australia Council not as the appendage of one man’s fancy but clearly identifiable in an area of government devoted to providing co-operative cultural leadership. [More…]

• The demand to participate in the cultural life of our community is increasing and will continue to increase as more leisure time becomes available and as this becomes a major social issue. [More…]

• Governments and man in modern societies must continue to search for ways to integrate the arts into our society and to involve the public closely with the cultural life of our communities. [More…]

• The paradox is that it has occurred at a time of rapid world urbanisation, technology and automation, when the machine is greatly changing our human life patterns of work and of play, while on the other hand more time has been created and there are less positions to occupy our energy. [More…]

• If the man who is born with talent is to be regarded as a member of an elite- I hope this is not the case but some people would see it in that light- it is still the responsibility of the Council to ensure that those people who show a desire to expand their knowledge and to advance themselves are given the opportunities to do so. [More…]

• A very limited section of the Australian community can afford to spend $18, $20 or even $25 for a man and his wife to go to the theatre. [More…]

• I intercede very briefly to say first of all that this particular clause, in respect of which we have just had advocacy from that great champion of democracy, is the one that gives complete autocratic authority to a man who is elected by the Parliament of the Commonwealth- not by the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The purpose of the amendment was to ensure that there were checks and balances on the exercise of absolute power by the man who is Minister for the Northern Territory in the Federal Parliament, so that the Minister’s Cabinet colleagues, acting under the power given to them through the Executive Council and through the application of the Governor-General’s authority, might ensure that if there were differences of opinion between the Commission and the Minister they might be resolved in a reasonable way. [More…]

• As I understand it, every Labor man - [More…]

• Then he resorted to the ploy of a man whose defence is weak and he said that I should check my facts by talking to his Department. [More…]

• One can see that it is a letter of a conscientious but powerless man pleading for cooperation from the jumpers. [More…]

• -My understanding is that an informant did pass certain information to the Commonwealth police. [More…]

• I understand that the gentleman who was arrested was charged with stealing. [More…]

• Everything that has been put to me confirms that the police acted properly, that the magistrate acted properly and that the man was dealt with properly. [More…]

• In September of last year- for those who feel the Opposition does not follow events internationally I issued a statement critical of this man who claims to be Prime Minister who had indicated to the Indonesian President in private that he, as representative of the Australian Labor Government, would not object if East Timor became part of Indonesia. [More…]

• I understand that in the Department of Foreign Affairs there is an 8-page summation of that discussion, 7 pages of which deal with this verbose gentleman, speaking on behalf of Australia, giving his undertakings that logic determined that Indonesia should take over East Timor. [More…]

• This is the man who stands in front of the Labor Party and who for years has called for the rights of people in the world to selfdetermination. [More…]

• I ask the honourable gentleman merely to reflect upon that circumstance. [More…]

• Yet today the Attorney-General- the parens pater of the country, the man who should stand and speak to defend the views, the rights and the liberties of every subject in this country without fear and without favour- lends the weight of his eminent office and its authority to such a contemptible move as to expect this House of Parliament to deal with this measure in such a short time. [More…]

• He ignored the question and from his lofty perch he lashed out at a man who has discomfitted and exposed him, first making sure that the Leader of the Opposition could not answer back. [More…]

• The engineer of the grubbiest political trick in history- the Gair incident- the man who himself created the present Senate vacancy and the problem, on a Sunday night telecast to Australia knowing full well that Mr Lewis would not have the facilities to reply nationally on television. [More…]

• In New South Wales 41 pilots have been dismissed so far by employers whose businesses have almost ceased to exist as a result of the collapse of the beef industry, the Federal Government’s decision regarding the superphosphate subsidy, a general lack of confidence and the uncertain future for the man on the land. [More…]

• I suppose that if we could count the number of pilots throughout Australia who will lose their jobs in this industry for the reasons that I have given we would find that it would run into many hundreds. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Leader of the Opposition is the only man in the world who has an answer to the twin economic ills of the worldinflation and unemployment- will the Prime Minister lend him to the Americans for a while? [More…]

• Arising from this, at least one prominent business man with close contacts with the Liberal Party has told Bill Snedden that the post for Doug Anthony in a coalition Cabinet should not be minerals czar but Treasurer. [More…]

• The Australian people should know that if and when in the foreseeable future, or the far distant future, honourable members opposite become the government, the new Treasurer will be a man who has taken funds from mining interests but will not reveal them and will be legislating in their interests. [More…]

• He assumed the name of a dead man and accordingly entered Australia by presenting false documents to a migration officer. [More…]

• This Australian Government and this Minister would, on present performances, take no action and would be shown clearly as being weak and inept. [More…]

• It must be said and repeated that British justice requires a man to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. [More…]

• I have great sympathy for the man if this is the case. [More…]

• Firstly, if, as Mr Stonehouse argues, his actions in travelling to Australia in the manner he did were brought about by his psychiatric disturbance, it is clearly not valid to argue that his actions, with respect to his manipulation of his status as a member of Parliament following his discovery in Australia, are similarly explainable. [More…]

• Australians everywhere are fed up with the man who is prepared unscrupulously to use a privilege granted to him to seek to gain permanent entry to this country at a time when so many others are being refused. [More…]

• I ask the honourable gentleman to say what action I should take. [More…]

• This man has not committed a crime against Australian law. [More…]

• It is considered that this man has had a mental breakdown which has resulted in a depressed and paranoic state of mind. [More…]

• However, his mental illness is such that he fails to satisfy medical criteria for permanent residence and rejection is accordingly recommended. [More…]

• I believe that a more sensitive Minister than the present Minister and a less cynical Minister than the present Minister would have exercised the undoubted powers he has under section 8 of the Migration Act to withdraw the dispensation he gave in writing under his hand because this man had violated the terms on which it was given. [More…]

• In other words the honourable member argues that the man is innocent until he is proven guilty but then wishes to apply the penalty before - [More…]

• I do not see how a man who wishes to gamble can be stopped from putting money on a racehorse any more than he can be stopped from putting money in a share. [More…]

• This is a human weakness, a failing, that we all have. [More…]

• Probably many of us put money in mining shares during the days of the mining boom and, undoubtedly, many of us lost. [More…]

• It is a brave man, I think who starts to predict whether or not the market is going to improve. [More…]

• I believe it is fair to comment here and now on the feelings and views of a man who was claimed to be the inspirational genius of the Bill before us. [More…]

• They claimed that many of the changes to existing law and practices proposed by the Bill were recommended by him or based on his report and recommendations. [More…]

• There is one small difference: At the time that concept was brought by them into this Parliament when they were in power they had a man of principle in Sir Garfield Barwick to do so. [More…]

• There may be occasional cases where a man says, ‘I am sorry, I made a mistake’, or ‘I forgot’ or ‘I mixed them up, I will not do it again’. [More…]

• In such cases there is first the discretion of a prosecutor, an informant in any system of law, whether to lay a charge, to bring proceedings under this or any other legislation. [More…]

• If a man is not prepared to be frank and fair with his fellows and with the community I do not think that any gathering of legislation will oblige him to respond in that manner. [More…]

• There are many other people who are in a position of fiduciary responsibility and trust who would be in a position comparable to that of share brokers who are directors of companies in offering themselves financial gain. [More…]

• If a man came to my home and said: ‘I have a search warrant. [More…]

• The thinking behind this provision is, as was said by Keynes- the man who probably did more to preserve and to maintain the free enterprise system in the world than any other single person- it is far too important in this day and age with the complexity of modern economics to leave decisions of that sort simply to an anonymous group of people. [More…]

• If the Government has any concept of what it means to these people to live in a society or district where they have spent all their lives, where they have brought up their children, where they have their friends and where they are faced with these ever-increasing and crippling costs, I appeal to the Government, to the Treasurer and to a man who professes to have some humanity, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), who is at the table, to look again and to reconsider the decision to limit the total amount deductible for rates to $300. [More…]

• I am sure that most members of Parliament could say the same about their man Fridays in their own electorates. [More…]

• I listened very intently to a man of such wisdom. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that the late Honourable J. J. Dedman, formerly Minister for Postwar Reconstruction in the Chifley Government, said that home ownership would turn the workers into little capitalists. [More…]

• On the other hand the Opposition believes that home ownership fulfils man’s innermost desires and gives him a stake in the country and a sense of belonging. [More…]

• I think it should be endorsed as it has been by the Opposition What we question and with very good reason is whether this piece of legislation as formulated and as presented to this House is going to be capable of doing that or is it in fact simply going to be another means of separating the ordinary man and his wife and family from their dream, which is to be able to live in a decent house and preferably to be able to purchase that house. [More…]

• Let me remind my ignorant friends from Cocky Corner who could not find their way outside a cow paddock that a man named Franklin Roosevelt in the height of the depression had to put up with the idiotic nonsensical criticism that they are putting up today. [More…]

• -On this most extraordinary of parliamentary occasions we are deliberating tonight in circumstances which every one of the members on this side of the House feels need to be sheeted home in terms of the manner of the public political execution which was perpetrated by the man who is Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in order not to enhance the status of democracy, certainly not to improve the quality or the standing of this House, nor the members of it; rather to destroy a man who has been his parliamentary colleague, a man of whom the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) said, as recorded in Hansard on 9 July 1974. [More…]

• The Prime Minister in his address to the Parliament on 5 December 1974 spent a considerable amount of time outlining the degree to which, under Speaker Cope, the legislative program, the sitting hours and the performance of the Parliament had reached what he asserted were the greatest number of sitting hours in a year for more than half a century. [More…]

• Yet, Speaker Cope is the man whom the Prime Minister today decided to destroy. [More…]

• This election of a successor to Speaker Cope then comes first to us as a tragedy in the manner of the destruction of a man who had the courage and ability to stand by those principles which we on this side of the Parliament hold dear. [More…]

• In those circumstances, we do not believe that any nominee from the Labor Party, irrespective of his record, and irrespective of the fact that he has performed on a number of occasions as Acting Speaker, as Deputy Speaker and as Chairman of Committees, is of sufficient integrity in the parliamentary sense to withstand the obvious influence that the Prime Minister seeks to assert on every member of his Party. [More…]

• We believe that the honourable member for Angas, who is an upright member of this House, who has served with distinction as a deputy chairman of committees, and who is a former member of the Upper House of the Parliament of South Australia, is a man who can contribute a great deal to the restoration of a proper sense of perspective and balance and to the maintenance of those things that are right within this Parliament. [More…]

• Another is none other than the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony), the principal saboteur of parliamentary democracy in Australia, a man who will go to any lengths to prevent us from having decent parliamentary elections where all people’s votes count equally and a man who at every question time in this House will use his capacity and his special position to break up question time so that no longer can there continue one of the important traditions of this Parliament, namely, that Ministers stand here and answer in the public place and be heard publicly. [More…]

• He is a man who knows the Standing Orders and he can look at rules. [More…]

• The guilty man in this process sits on the front benches as the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• I am reminded very much of the socalled Address to the Nation which this gentleman gave to the people of Australia on 16 February when he said: [More…]

• If ever there was a case of deliberate sabotage of the knife being wielded on high- it was the sabotage that was perpetrated this morning, and that knife was plunged by the Prime Minister of this country into the back of a man with whom he had worked for a very long period of time. [More…]

• House- on the Government benches- know full well that they are led by a man who has broken his trust, who has flouted convention and whose word cannot be subject to reliance. [More…]

• Mr Clerk, we need in this Parliament a man who is not subject to Prime Ministerial duress, and the honourable member for Angas is a man of that type. [More…]

• We need in this Parliament a Speaker who can stand aside from the personal abuse of a Prime Minister when he, the Prime Minister, believes that that gentleman in the Chair is not acting in a manner which is consonant with the party political stance of the government in power. [More…]

• I believe that the honourable member for Angas is a man of that type. [More…]

• It was apparent to us all that the Prime Minister was intent not only on the destruction of a man but also he was totally reckless as to whether he also destroyed this institution- the Parliament. [More…]

• I took note today that you had the dignity to display your utter disgust and contempt for your own Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and for the performance of members of your Party to your Speaker by walking out of this chamber. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that a man who has been liked and respected by all of us has been assassinated by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Speaker Cope showed to this House, to Australia and to the whole British parliamentary institution around the world that he is a man of honour and dignity. [More…]

• It was a most deplorable performance. [More…]

• You have the awesome task of deciding whether you are going to be a man of honour who will see that there is fairness and equity in the rulings of this Parliament or whether you are going to be intimidated and dragooned by the Prime Minister and act just as a sycophant for him. [More…]

• We see no reason why we should be required to come back just to meet the whims of that man and of the Government. [More…]

• Indeed, this morning the man who is Leader of the House sought deferral of this notice until a later hour this day. [More…]

• It has been a very great pleasure to me to nominate Mr Lucock for the position of Chairman of Committees of this House. [More…]

• He is unquestionably well equipped to handle the job on the occasions when you have to be away, Mr Speaker, as, to use the words of the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), he is the man who is most used to the position. [More…]

• I make the point that Mr Lucock is the most experienced and the most qualified member of Parliament for the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Indeed he is a man of very great personal principle. [More…]

• I believe him to be a man who holds the respect of all members of this House and a man who can and will, when needs be, withstand those pressures that many of us have noticed placed upon the shoulders of both the [More…]

• If the Parliament accepts the fact that there is a need to preserve and to protect the institution of marriage as a union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, as stated in the Bill at clause 43(a), I contend that divorce made too easy is not the medium by which that objective can be attained. [More…]

• The Attorney-General has claimed that he is a happily married man. [More…]

• Very few Bills can have come before this Parliament in relation to which the issues have been so well understood by the ordinary man in the street, but we are dealing here with the subject of marriage and the pressures which arise within it. [More…]

• It is quite inaccurate to say, as did the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), that a man earning $500 a week could force his divorced wife to live on maintenance from the husband of $5 a week plus a government pension. [More…]

• The Bill quite specifically provides in clause 75, and in particular clauses (c), (d), (e), (j), (b) and (n), that inter alia all aspects of the parties’ financial resources are considered and standards of living of all parties are taken into account, so that if the husband’s earnings and resources are far superior to those of the wife she will be supported adequately by way of maintenance payments at a standard appropriate to a divorced wife of a man earning $500 each week, assuming he can show that he is not capable of earning more. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• I believe that the question of a married woman working is althogether different from the question of a duty being imposed on a married woman to work. [More…]

• I have sincere sympathy for a man who is put in gaol because of the actions of a vicious woman who may not .be morally entitled to receive maintenance. [More…]

• While that may be so, I do not think it should give anyone the mandate to tear up the traditional meaning and importance of marriage and the family. [More…]

• I am not a legal man but I would like to have touched on some of the legal points in the Bill. [More…]

• However, I will take your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker, and wind up my remarks by saying that I hope the House will support the amendment because I think that it does try to remove many of the undesirable features of the Bill. [More…]

• Take the case of a woman who has been married to a man for 12 to 15 years and during a very considerable part of that time has been subjected to immense cruelty and great distress. [More…]

• For example, one suggestion was that a woman would allow, under the new Family Law Bill, her husband to flaunt his intimacy with his mistress - 1 suppose the same goes for a woman flaunting u. intimacy with her lover- for 12 months in the same house in front of her and the children and that still she would have no comeback. [More…]

• That suggestion is not only fantasy and improbable but also reduces a woman or a man to an idiot. [More…]

• It ignores the fact that the woman- or the man- and her family would be better off without the scoundrel or that she could apply for an injunction pending divorce proceedings. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• Under the terms of such a limited qualification a man separated from his wife for 12 months by reason of military service, ill health in hospital or deten tion in prison could find himself divorced upon his return home. [More…]

• A divorced woman who is without a profession, who has not had a career before marriage or who has been away from her career, profession or area of skilled employment for a number of years, does not easily find a way to adjust to re-entering the employment stream; nor does she, in most cases, readily adjust psychologically to her new situation. [More…]

• We know that it does not exist in many cases, but surely most people who enter this bond do so hoping that it will be a lifelong contract. [More…]

• This Bill favours the view that marriage may be regarded as being terminable at the whim of one partner and is not to be regarded as a holy estate and a permanent institution. [More…]

• How many people have been compelled to listen to and to accept the principle of marriage as being that what God has united man must not divide? [More…]

• I find an intolerable inconsistency in many of the provisions of this Bill, as well as an objection to some of the fundamental bases on which the Bill is drawn. [More…]

• Clause 43 states that the Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction, have regard to such matters as the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• I abandoned the idea involving the behaviour of the parties for the reasons I have already given relating to fault and also because it is not the law in Australia today and has not been since the case of Gardiner v Gardiner in 1925 that the divorce courts will punish a man by way of increased maintenance for lack of morality. [More…]

• The first sentence of that principle establishes ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others’. [More…]

• Marriage can be a many-splendoured thing and a family a source of fulfilment, happiness, joy and laughter. [More…]

• No man in his right senses would want to prejudice these ideals. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• Despite all this that woman can be- divorced. [More…]

• As was pointed put by a solicitor, one of the honourable members, in the course of this debate, the man could bring into the house a mistress- this is not extraordinary and it is not something that has .-t occurred a at th* ..A of 10 months a ^ I Y~ orce could occur. [More…]

• I am disturbed also by clause 72 which in the final analysis throws the responsibility in court cases on the r* ii v) mc mother m:r, j … aa in firmly as n docs nil* man, the father. [More…]

• I wonder how many people have experienced divorce proceedings. [More…]

• If you have the money, you virtually can buy another man ‘s wife and get a divorce within 6 weeks. [More…]

• Too often they are human but at other times, grubbily, they are simply material goods and chattels. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• I can see little justice and little reason in that kind of amendment or in that kind of approach to the problems of human relationships between a man and a woman. [More…]

• There is an amendment to the motion that the Bill be read a second time which many honourable members have said they support but will not vote for because they fear it will involve a delay of this measure. [More…]

• Parliament is the ultimate check on the authority of the Executive and what this man, the Leader of the Government, wants is to have the Executive not checked in any way by the Parliament. [More…]

• He wants to elevate himself into a position of absolute power and it is a direct challenge not merely to the Opposition but to supporters of the Government not in the Executive and, for that matter, a challenge to members of the Executive as to whether they will allow absolute power to be put in that man. [More…]

• If this move to a one-party system continues, if this man’s self built egoism is fed by those spineless supporters behind him, that is the way it will go. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition suffers from that abiding defect of those who feel insecure or inadequate- the desperate need to prove toughness, virility, machismo, the boasting and bravado of the impotent man. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition himself gets his henchmen to do it, like the tragic but honourable member for Mackellar, reckless in his accusations, abject when he is hauled before the courts, a man who for all his bedaubing, besmearing and besmirching has succeeded only in dishonouring the most honoured name in this Parliament and dishonouring his own character and reputation in his final years of public service. [More…]

• This great, arrogant man of steel today has shown himself to be indeed brittle. [More…]

• His impropriety, his abuses, his contradictions and his lack of loyalty are sapping the man in such a way that there was no vitality or spirit in his speech today, a speech of condemnation of him alone. [More…]

• The traditions of Cabinet government were swept aside in late 1972 when this Prime Minister set up his 2-man junta. [More…]

• Yet this Prime Minister is the man who has the hide to go on national television and preach about the need to uphold tradition, and to protect the customs and conventions of our democratic system. [More…]

• This is the man and this is the Government which claim the right to have charge of the nation’s affairs. [More…]

• No man and no government have ever stood so discredited in the eyes of this House and in the eyes of the people we all represent. [More…]

• No man and no government have ever done so much to destroy and smash the traditions, the conventions and the customs on which this Parliament stand and on which the whole of our national life stands. [More…]

• If that process occurs and is seen to occur in the supreme institution of the nation, and is led and is seen to be led by the man who claims to be the nation’s leader, then we need feel no surprise at the continuing and accelerating disintegration of the fabric of our society. [More…]

• He is a very senior member ofthe Public Service, a completely professional man whose only fault is that he is as loyal as he has to be and as he is expected to be loyal at all times to the Minister he serves, whether it be Dr. Forbes, Mr Grassby, Sir Peter Heydon or Mr Clyde Cameron. [More…]

• Fancy this coming from a front bench member of the Opposition, the gentleman who was a dismal failure as Minister for the Army, who was recognised as a dismal failure and who was transferred to become Minister for Health? [More…]

• Yet the Opposition had the hide to put a man like that up to talk about disorderly behaviour in the Parliament. [More…]

• He is the Minister who has betrayed the Australian working man by presiding over the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression, the Minister whose policies and those of his colleagues have directly led to in excess of 300 000 people unemployed in Australia at this time. [More…]

• Whatever in the course of this parliamentary debate be the bluff and bravado of the present Prime Minister of Australia, nothing can hide the simple fact that he has been exposed as a man without honour, a man who is prepared to transgress parliamentary privilege, a man who is prepared to trample upon parliamentary convention and a man who is prepared to leave his most trusted colleagues like Vats in a trap when the going happens to get tough. [More…]

• In a deliberate and abusive manner he threatened the authority of the Parliament and sought to destroy one of the principal conventionsa long-established convention- of our system of government. [More…]

• The Prime Minister demands the censure of this House. [More…]

• These were the actions of a man who, I believe, has no respect for parliamentary democracy and without regard for the conventions of government. [More…]

• These were the actions of a man who was prepared to stab a colleague in the back to satisfy his own personal aspirations and ambitions. [More…]

• These, I believe, were the actions of a man who is incapable of providing calm and deliberative leadership. [More…]

• All of these practices have been prompted or condoned by the Prime Minister, a man who is intent on the pursuit of power at any cost, a man who is prepared to execute publicly first his Deputy Prime Minister, secondly his Treasurer and now the former Speaker of the House. [More…]

• Everybody knows that the most disappointed man in this Parliament is the honourable member for Wannon because today was to be his hour of glory. [More…]

• That is a risky game, because one may have to work for the next 12 months or so under a man against whom he has levelled criticism. [More…]

• I ask honourable members, particularly the new members of the Parliament, who were referred to compare the jovial dignity of Mr Cope with the cruel and arrogant posture of the gentleman who has been proposed from the other side. [More…]

• Honourable members will observe in Mr Cope a gentleman who has the highest regard for the Parliament and its rights as well as for the rights of honourable members who sit in the Parliament. [More…]

• It is not my intention tonight to do anything to denigrate in any way a person whom I have come to regard as a good friend, as many of us have good friends on the other side of the House. [More…]

• But I thought it was worth bringing to the attention of the House tonight the duplicity and complete insincerity of a man who could almost forecast that he was going to get into trouble as he made a speech and who comments how dangerous it is to make comments on Speakers at all. [More…]

• But I think it is worth placing on record that that speech was made and that, of all people, the man whom Mr Speaker [More…]

• Cope found referring to him in slighting terms and then refusing to withdraw was the very man who made that speech. [More…]

• We have the gross hypocrisy this evening of a man who was proposed to us not on one occasion but on two occasions to my memory as the ideal man to fill the speakership of this House. [More…]

• He was proposed to us by his colleagues as late as last week as being the ideal man to become Speaker of this House. [More…]

• An example of his hypocrisy, showing the attitude of this man to the Standing Orders and to the procedures of this House, has been amply and aptly displayed by the speech that he made. [More…]

• This evening we saw the man whom the Opposition sponsored for the position of Speaker last week endeavouring to belittle the actions of a Minister on this side of the chamber. [More…]

• Many people in the employment offices throughout Australia are not clear whether the unemployed have preference over others. [More…]

• There is the same allowance for a single man and for a family man who has family obligations and three or four dependants, although his need is much greater than that of the single man. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman talked about the staff ceiling. [More…]

• He is a man whom we all respect. [More…]

• -The only way to cure the anomalies in the allowance is to go back to the old system of saying that a married woman should not receive as much as a married man. [More…]

• Of course a woman loses her widow’s pension if she becomes eligible for $93 a week. [More…]

• I am a very charitable man, as my friend the honourable member for Griffith would readily concede. [More…]

• I think it is contemptible that the Government will be spending or squandering $1.5m of taxpayers’ funds on publicising Labor Party propaganda in the form of its discredited health scheme and yet not only refuses to give the Opposition one cent to publicise its own health plans but also, when an opportunity comes along when the debate in this chamber can be broadcast, manipulates the scheduling of the Bills to such an extent that every health Bill seems to be debated while the House of Representatives is off the air. [More…]

• I do not know how many people listen to debates that are broadcast. [More…]

• Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• I imagine that any student of the English language who reads or hears on television that ‘Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia’ is free to accept that this is not going to cost him anything. [More…]

• Why do members of the Opposition stand behind a man like the honourable member for Hotham and have the position misrepresented year in year out, debate in debate out? [More…]

• Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia and free public hospital care in those States the governments of which agree to allow such treatment to be made available. [More…]

• The Gallery is assembling a major collection of graphic arts, and it already possesses the very fine Felix Man collection of lithographs tracing that art form from its very origins to recent times. [More…]

• I am sure there are many in this House who have had the numbing experience of hearing of the death or serious injury of a relative or close friend. [More…]

• It must be apparent to all that the road toll is one of modern man’s greatest diseases. [More…]

• We are keen to be friends with you’, notwithstanding the fact that 2 years earlier that man stood up in the Security Council of the United Nations, as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and defended every act of the then Pakistan military regime. [More…]

• We believe that at a time when there are so many critical matters of national importance, when unemployment is rife, when inflation is rampant and when the Government is inadequate the Parliament should meet to consider not only matters that the Government introduces but the consequences of the Government’s maladministration and the things it has done in the past. [More…]

• The only inhibiting factor as far as parliamentary debate is concerned, of course, is the man who is the Leader of the House. [More…]

• Indeed, if there were an opportunity to consider in the Committee stages legislation that has come before this Parliament, as the man who is the Leader of the House well knows, the proper role of the House of Representatives would be restored. [More…]

• He is talking about the man we are hiding. [More…]

• One is to regulate in the public arena the affairs of man to ensure the orderly conduct of society. [More…]

• Perhaps some of the anguish expressed by this correspondence can be understood if I quote part of one letter from a young man whose marriage has failed. [More…]

• Why should a man not be able to have custody of his child? [More…]

• Why should a man have to pay alimony to his wife when she may be capable and able to work? [More…]

• Clause 43 (a) of the Bill provides that the family court in the exercise of its jurisdiction shall have regard to the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• I do not think there is a need for these sorts of things to enter into the debate in order to justify or to condemn what we are trying to consider here today, any more than I think that a man is a Christian because he says he is. [More…]

• I think that to say he is a Christian is far less effective than proving that he is by the life that he leads and the way in which he treats his fellow man. [More…]

• I think each has a responsibility within the marriage contract, but I believe that there is still a continuing responsibility for a man to maintain his wife and children. [More…]

• There is nothing whatsoever to profit mankind by taking the view that it is possible to assert a sense of superiority of one race over another. [More…]

• Of all the dreadful phobias in existence today, I suppose that xenophobia is one of the worst-‘I hate a man because of his colour. [More…]

• I hate a man because of his origin. [More…]

• I hate a man because of his physiognomy. [More…]

• I hate a man’ because of his environment’. [More…]

• Perhaps someone will refuse to sell a house to a man because he is from another race, from Greece or Italy. [More…]

• What if for some curious reason a person has a passionate dislike of an Englishman and will not sell him a block of land? [More…]

• I may, without offence, take the name of Jones as being a man against whom the complaint is made that he has transgressed one of the provisions in Part II. [More…]

• It seeks to put into legislative form the man who comes along and says: ‘Jones has treated so-and-so in a shabby fashion, which infringes Part II of the Racial Discrimination Bill.’ [More…]

• I would have thought the whole edifice of the common law- common law coming down not as of yesterday but down through the centuries- would have insisted: Who is the man who made this complaint against me? [More…]

• There can be no doubt that in Australia since the white man arrived there has been a history of racial discrimination against the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• One declaration which has been forwarded to the Prime Minister is from a man by the name of J. J. Gonzales. [More…]

• Mr Wentworth withdrew any allegation that Mr P. F. Morris, Labor MP, had offered a bribe to a man to swear a false declaration. [More…]

• It is not possible that the nightmare of Vietnam will ever pass from the memory or the conscience of any man or woman of our time. [More…]

• We have to remember that war is a defeat for man, no matter which side wins. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kooyong has made great play about compassion and sought to show himself as a humanitarian. [More…]

• But he was the very man who was the Minister for the Army when the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• That is one of the humanitarian actions of the honourable member for Kooyong and the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• This statement is fortunately, but rather extraordinarily, one of the few manifestations of a Parliamentary interest in foreign affairs demonstrated by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Specifically, the Prime Minister’s statement resuscitates, as he asserts, so many of the fears of the past. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam, the man who today is Australia’s Prime Minister, the man who has come into this House and asserted that this war in South Vietnam is a civil war, the man who today denied the right of foreign intervention, was quoted in this book as having said on 21 November 1966 that an Australian Labor government might leave Australian troops in Vietnam. [More…]

• So this man who has made this statement today has no consistent attitude. [More…]

• Let me say that I believed Sir Robert Menzies when I was a young man and I thought Australia had an interest in maintaining French rule in IndoChina. [More…]

• Let me say that I believed Sir Robert Menzies, when I was not so young a man, that the United States Fleet had been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin by the North Vietnamese. [More…]

• If it really is vital to the survival of Australia, the form of conscription that we ought to have had would have been every man, not those whose birth date happened to be drawn from a barrel. [More…]

• I do not care whether a man is a communist or not, but if he is accused of having done something he has not done and then suffers a massive aerial bombardment as a result of it, what earthly thesis would he ever come to, except a thesis of imperialist aggression? [More…]

• But when this is projected into a wider scale and alleged to be a basic and fundamental interest of Australia and that we should be involved, I do hot know in what respect we are to be involved; if it is by humanitarian action it is not clear to me what humanitarian action the Opposition is advocating; and if by military action, it is not clear to me what the Opposition is advocating; and if by representations to the communist governments, it is not clear to me why the Chinese Government would regard itself as particularly involved- it is an accusation in point of fact that the Chinese are ordering what is taking place in neighbouring countries. [More…]

• We have seen an avalanche of human misery the likes of which man has not known since the worst days of Hitlerite excesses during the Second World War. [More…]

• Not only do we ride upon the turbulent sea of the future of our nation more or less defenceless, but when it comes to a question of moral virtues and moral standards and the qualities which make every man- whether he be Asian, African, Latin or American- know what is right from wrong, and when those qualities are being examined, where is Australia? [More…]

• This young man and his family went to 20 real estate offices in search of accommodation and at each one it was a case of the vacancy mysteriously disappearing between the time of the father’s telephone call and his arrival in person at the offices. [More…]

• It is only now that we are beginning to appreciate the complexity and the sophistication of the culture that lived harmoniously with this land for 45 000 years before the white man stepped onto Australia. [More…]

• Comments made by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), our poor man’s Perry Mason, in regard to issues that would preclude a person from knowing who would be the complainant are absolute rubbish and complete grandstanding. [More…]

• This objective must be one of the paramount objectives of mankind during the rest of this century. [More…]

• Unfortunately racial discrimination has characterised modern history as man of different ethnic origins has achieved greater mobility enabling him to move rapidly from his own environment to the environments of other ethnic groups. [More…]

• Racism was probably not a problem for early man. [More…]

• The evolutionary mobility of man made racism possible. [More…]

• Primitive man probably knew no social grouping larger than his family. [More…]

• Because of the natural enemies of man, the family groupings enlarged into a tribe or tribes for selfpreservation. [More…]

• Bertrand Russell in his book ‘Has Man a Future ‘ said: [More…]

• As man has emerged from the perils of his non-human environment, he brought with him into his new world the instinctive and emotional make-up by means of which he has survived through previous ages. [More…]

• He turned the hostility and suspicion which he had hitherto directed towards lions and tigers upon his fellow man- not all of them, since many of the skills by which he had survived required social co-operation. [More…]

• I see it as being the background of human history against which one should approach such prejudices as racism. [More…]

• Clearly, the emergence of man with the experiences gained in the dawn of his history have led to nationalism which could be more aptly expressed as national prejudice. [More…]

• But can one control these human weaknessessuch as the desire of some humans to overpower others either materially, intellectually, commercially or spiritually because of the prejudice or passions of man- by an Act of Parliament which defies British common law and the civil law practice? [More…]

• I fear that this legislation as drafted will only intensify human intolerance and prejudice. [More…]

• Throughout history man has had a basic fear of any group or individual which was different. [More…]

• I am sure that many honourable members here would be staggered to know how often such discrimination occurs, particularly as it affects Aborigines. [More…]

• When a black man presents himself to a real estate agent seeking rental accommodation he is often told that there is nothing available when this in fact is quite untrue. [More…]

• I want to refer briefly to how heartbreak, suffering and financial loss can be caused by foolish and unscrupulous men- wealthy, of course- in privileged positions who can manipulate the present antiquated laws to further their own nefarious ends. [More…]

• This man and his lifelong friend, who was also a member of the Parliament, were able to persuade a perfectly innocent woman to go into the witness box and swear false evidence that she had committed adultery with the member of Parliament who wanted a divorce quickly. [More…]

• Not only did this man refuse to defend his mate, Armstrong, but he also used the privilege of Parliament to further denigrate the woman whom he had divorced. [More…]

• This same gentleman- Stanley Mowbray Eskell, Chairman of Committees of a Liberal State Government- who gave false evidence in the New South Wales divorce court to obtain a quick divorce was then able to marry a wealthy woman. [More…]

• When this gentleman had milked his then wife- I use the word ‘milked’ in the vernacular- when he had fleeced his then wife and her brother of their wealth he left her. [More…]

• When the then Mrs Eskell wanted to obtain a divorce she had to face a most horrifying and traumatic experience under the present antiquated legislation to gain her freedom from this man. [More…]

• What I am getting at is that, under the present law, men of influence and wealth are able to manipulate the proceedings of the divorce courts for their own ends- evil or otherwise. [More…]

• Some of the advantages that Mr Eskell had which came out in the divorce evidence- let me quote from the court records which I have in my possessionwere that he was a personal friend of Sir Robert Askin and Mr Max Willis, MLC who guaranteed him a loan of $50,000 with the Rural Bank; he was a paid servant of Vam Limited which gave him $33,000 a year to lobby for it; he was a lobbyist for the Swan Brewery in Western Australiathe documents I have prove this and he confessed it in the divorce court when crossexamined by his wife’s lawyer, Mr O’Keeffe- he had Tom the Cheap, the man who is in financial difficulties now - [More…]

• I think that it is not unreasonable to describe this as a man’s Bill. [More…]

• It will be a legislative memorial to the man who designed it. [More…]

• It is a humane and civilised proposal which covers many significant social matters other than the dissolution of marriage. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]

• In that situation, a woman who is separated from her husband, divorced or widowed and who has a man living in her house, whether she be having some relationship with him or not, finds that the Government and the Department of Social Security take the view that she should not be in receipt of a social security pension. [More…]

• A woman may live with somebody and be regarded as separated in terms of divorce requirements, but she cannot live with somebody and be regarded as separated with respect to qualification for the receipt of a social security pension. [More…]

• The fact that a man and a woman can live together in the same home and under the Act be deemed to be living separately and apart, indicates to me that situations can and will arise where a man and a woman in agreement about divorce can say: ‘We will tell the court that we have been separated for the last 12 months. [More…]

• If a man seeks to divorce his wife on some grounds, then I believe it is his responsibility to foot the bill for that. [More…]

• If a man comes home and finds his wife in bed with another man, he is entitled to go to the Court the next day and seek to divorce her, and vice versa. [More…]

• If a woman comes home and finds her husband in bed with another woman, she should not be faced with a situation where the only alternative is to pack her bags and move out of the marital home for a period of 12 months and support herself for that period, if she does not wish to subject herself to the ignominy of remaining in that matrimonial home for the 12-months period with that man who has done the wrong thing by her. [More…]

• Clause 72, as presently contained in the Family Law Bill, can have this effect: A man and woman many. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• If it is a grievous misfortune of life for a young woman to marry a man who turns out to be an irresponsible person, then she will suffer this misfortune no matter what, and I cannot see how any legislation is going to protect and buttress her position. [More…]

• As I said before, if the truth were admitted and faced, in many cases it would probably be a good thing if she got rid of the man as quickly as possible in the hope that her life may be better in the future. [More…]

• A woman or a man is able to terminate the marriage almost instantly. [More…]

• It is not espousing the interests of women today to say of a conscientious woman who is trying to preserve a marriage and is doing the right thing by her husband and family that because her husband does not want her companionship any longer and she is forced from the house she must go to the Government and receive social services. [More…]

• It is an encumbrance on the Government, but it should remain an encumbrance on the man who undertook the responsibility of the marriage. [More…]

• It is time many of these trendy women’s groups had a good look at themselves. [More…]

• It is curious that in the House of Representatives, where there is only one woman member, it falls to the lot of most male members of the House to protect women’s rights against the wishes of many women’s organisations. [More…]

• But the one subject on which I would like to speak at some greater length is that of the woman involved. [More…]

• It is usually the man who begins to play up. [More…]

• I do not want to get dramatic about this but it is usually a situation where a woman, usually a fairly young woman, is left with two or three children and suddenly finds that she has to do a number of things. [More…]

• I think this emotional demand on a woman is probably more critical than any other of the considerations involved. [More…]

• In many ways, they are matters of basic philosophy. [More…]

• This House, all 127 members- or at least of all those who care to vote- must vote on the issue because it really means that every man must stand up and be counted. [More…]

• If that person is a German, an Italian or of some other race he could say: ‘This man has sacked me because I am not a dinky-di Aussie’. [More…]

• If one happens to sack an Aboriginal stockman because he is giving one’s horse a sore back or has left a saddle half-way down the road to Mt Isa instead of hanging it in the saddle shed, that man could go away and say that he was sacked because he is an Aboriginal. [More…]

• The prices controller there very often brings actions against large corporations because it is deemed proper and appropriate that he should do so rather than leave it to the little man to chance his arm in the unfamiliar and sometimes fearsome surroundings of a court of law. [More…]

• My ministerial colleague the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) asks what happens if a man cannot write. [More…]

• I have looked through the Bill itself and found that there are so many clauses of it that are distasteful to me and that would be distasteful to anyone who believes in a democratic system of government that I must express to the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) my displeasure with it and my disbelief that a man who parades as one who likes a democratic system of government and who believes in people themselves would want to introduce a measure of this kind. [More…]

• I suppose nobody could say that Mr Stewart is an inconsequential person or a man of no significance. [More…]

• I suppose it is true to say that in the European society a man’s house is his castle. [More…]

• The telegram was addressed to Les Stewart, a highly respected gentleman of the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg, a man who has done remarkably well for himself and for his family. [More…]

• He is a man of high principles and integrity. [More…]

• The Commission will be accessible to the individual, the man in the street, the small private company and the big corporation, any of whom may have an issue or a complaint to raise. [More…]

• This BUI is another of those advanced by contemporary society which at first blush immediately attracts the attention and sympathy of the ordinary man in the street. [More…]

• The chief feature of that Bill, as honourable members will recall, and its pertinence to the matter now being discussed is that by the introduction of penalties we will be able to achieve what understanding and reason have not been able to achieve previously, notwithstanding that the resolution, as evidenced in the Schedule attached to the Racial Discrimination Bill, insists that we are to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. [More…]

• The Irish problem stands today as one that mocks man’s best endeavours in this respect. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the attentions and the efforts of governments with the most determined intent, the scene remains tragically a monument to man’s frailty in assuming his responsibilities in these particular fields where he must accept the right of his fellow to exploit his talents, assuming that he has had a fair opportunity to demonstrate those talents. [More…]

• It is said that an Aboriginal man’s home is his castle on a reserve and it should be treated as such. [More…]

• In this modern society there are extreme circumstances, including wire tapping, under which a man’s home is far from being his castle. [More…]

• If it had been made in 1775, just a year before the Declaration of Independence and other things that flowed from that, including the rights of man and so on, it might well have been in tune. [More…]

• This man had the experience of knowing the people, knowing the area and knowing the circumstances. [More…]

• Let us look at another situation where a man and a woman are living in a de facto relationship. [More…]

• per cent of the women receiving that benefit were actually living with their husband or a man in a de facto relationship. [More…]

• But here again a man can register while he has a job but still go back to the employment office once a month for 10 minutes to report. [More…]

• A man on the dole- one of the dole set- he could be a married man with 4 children- currently receives $7 1.50. [More…]

• General Troung, Commander of the First ARVN Division. [More…]

• The Division and this man have been in continuous war operations 7 days a week for 15 to 20 years. [More…]

• Nevertheless General Troung, suffering from tuberculosis and from an ulcer, commanded that Division for 15 years with tremendous honour. [More…]

• In the last year he has made a superhuman effort. [More…]

• Yet this man now stands under house arrest. [More…]

• This man who has made a superhuman effort should be given an accolade by everyone who thinks he cares for people. [More…]

• I find it very difficult indeed to sit silently and accept an attack made upon a man such as the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) in the manner in which the honourable member for Riverina made it. [More…]

• He made it here today under privilege and, in a cruel and cynical manner, imputed improper motives to the Minister for Science who had the decency to go to Indo-China in order to bring help and succour to those who are suffering. [More…]

• Is this the same man who really claims that what he seeks to do is to get conciliation, to have an understanding, to get peace in industry? [More…]

• Senator Sir Magnus Cormack is a man of the Victorian machine. [More…]

• The Opposition does all this under the guise of respectability and statesmanship. [More…]

• Shame on members of the Opposition for destroying a man who worked hard and got a decent electoral result for them. [More…]

• If the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party or the Australian Country Party cannot get enough people to man the polling booths and to hand out how to vote cards, it means that they are unpopular, and they have to suffer the consequences of . [More…]

• We have not heard the honourable member for Bennelong complain about the Australian Capital Territory, where elections were recently held in a manner that we propose in this Bill. [More…]

• The fact that a party may not be able to get people to man the booths does not mean that it is not a popular party. [More…]

• The Country Party and, for that matter, any person in the huge electorates, will tell honourable members that in many inaccessible places how-to-vote cards are forwarded, probably by mail, to be left at the booths. [More…]

• This does not mean that one has to man every booth. [More…]

• The fact that booths are not manned does not mean unpopularity. [More…]

• Many candidates have won seats with no booths manned. [More…]

• I suppose of all the public servants no men stand higher in public esteem than those who count the votes, particularly the man who controls and appoints the State electoral officers. [More…]

• In connection with surveyors in one particular case this would make extremely interesting reading because I doubt whether the man concerned had any qualifications at all. [More…]

• There is no query about this man’s appointment to his position. [More…]

• Surely if a man is posted overseas- let us say to the Bank of New South Wales in London for a 2-year period- he knows he will come back. [More…]

• There is a second limb to this clause but I suggest with your permission, Mr Deputy Chairman, that this matter be dealt with first and the other matter which involves a number of consequential amendments be dealt with later. [More…]

• When a man is elected by the electorate and he comes to this place, he sits with a party. [More…]

• But the honourable gentleman did not say anything about what the alternative to that would be. [More…]

• Is he not happy that a man as impartial as that gentleman presides over his elections? [More…]

• One does not have to put on the ballot paper the size of a man’s shoes, his religion or what size collar he has. [More…]

• Those of us who sit on this side of the House, who are endorsed by the political machine we representthe Australian Labor Party- and who are put here by the hundreds of people who go out and man the polling booths and who raise money for the pamphlets that are put out and the advertisements, want to be identified with the political party that we represent and want that identification to go right into the polling booth and on to the ballot paper. [More…]

• He is a man of some Celtic descent and people of that origin always have an acute and sensitive sense of justice and fairness. [More…]

• The suspicions which are in his mind are inherent in the minds of every Labor Party machine man who, in a position of responsibility, has had to work the system. [More…]

• The sitting Labor Party man was ahead when voting closed. [More…]

• But on the postal votes, Padman, the LiberalCountry Party candidate, got up and narrowly won the election by 150 votes. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman invites me to comment on the exchange of views which took place between the head of the Foreign Affairs Department and himself at the end of last week. [More…]

• The heading states: ‘Top PS Man Raps Liberals’. [More…]

• I hope trade unions’ attitudes will change, and I say that as a Labor man. [More…]

• Some time ago I made a speech in which I quoted the words of a man I regard as having done more in the field of road safety than any other human being. [More…]

• This man is Ralph Nader. [More…]

• We have heard the stories of human misery from the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock), and I have also had occasion to hear reports from the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) and the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Sullivan). [More…]

• They are dying the worst deaths at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, who owe a dual allegience to the communist movement and the exiled Prince Sihanouk, a man who changes allegience to suit his own power base a n .-._d purpose. [More…]

• There is no more cruel aggressor than t h e communist guerrilla, who seems to invest himself with the divine right to inflict the most inhuman savagery on the enemy in order to achieve world liberation or world peace. [More…]

• I am glad to see the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) sitting at the table because he is the man who bears the burden of the guilt. [More…]

• I want to distinguish between the emergency operations which needed to be undertaken and the permanent repair of the bridge because there is a distinction to be made. [More…]

• Be that as it may- that is a matter for the court to decide- it is important that we as parliamentarians should register our concern that the man who, for the time being, is Prime Minister should make such irrational comments on matters of such grave domestic concern, and the more so that he should make those remarks while absent from Australia and at a time when he was not prepared to return to Australia either to spend adequate time surveying the consequences of cyclone Tracy in Darwin or even to view the consequences of the Tasman Bridge disaster. [More…]

• Of course the Opposition supports this legislation, but we are concerned that in a State such as Tasmania, where transport is so important, in a city such as Hobart where the bridge is such a vital link, at this stage no satisfactory alternative access has been made available. [More…]

• The first is that advertisements have been placed far and wide both within this country and outside it, for an outstanding man to be appointed as the Australian Statistician- a position set up by this Act which, I repeat, is a framework Act. [More…]

• Let no man cast a stone and say that I am being critical simply because the Labor Party is in power. [More…]

• The Labor Government prides itself on the fact that the statutes for 1973 and 1974 are the largest in size for many years, perhaps since 1967 at least. [More…]

• Unless we in our own way in this Parliament start to think very seriously about the effect that this is having on the daily lives of Australians, we are adding problem after problem for the man in the street. [More…]

• To illustrate my point I would like to read to the House a letter written by my colleague, the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson), to Mr St John who is the man in charge of restrictive trade and consumer protection in the Business Affairs Division of the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]

• But in my time as Minister for the Interior I found the man to be extremely helpful. [More…]

• I think that we should place on record our great appreciation to this remarkable man, Mr James Sweeney, for the work that he did in assisting in the development of the National Gallery. [More…]

• I want to mention one man who has been at the butt end of a lot of criticism. [More…]

• On 27 October 1971 the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ reported his appointment under the headline ‘National Gallery Director Named ‘ in this manner: [More…]

• Secondly, I hope that co-ordinately with this Gallery we will press on with an Australian museum in Canberra- the Australian museum presently is in Sydney- and that in that museum we will have what is pre-eminently Australian and is of world importance, namely, the gallery of southern man with Aboriginal relics civilisation and artifacts. [More…]

• I hope that the Canberra museum with its gallery of southern man will be the other. [More…]

• I will deal with this man- the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory- later. [More…]

• Is the Attorney-General aware that, after prolonged investigations into the effects of marihuana, a report from the World Health Organisation of the United Nations now claims that there is conclusive evidence that the habitual smoking of marihuana can cause genetic imbalance resulting in a serious effect on a young woman’s- or any woman’s- reproductive organs and may similarly affect a young man; particularly is there the possibility of his becoming impotent? [More…]

• If I seem unreasonably unkind, honourable members can check out the facts in the Territory and in the north west of Queensland, seek information at all levels in any mining centre in Australia, and they will find a bitterness against the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), a man obviously possessed by a paranoiac class hatred. [More…]

• He must be indicted for having cost the nation many millions of dollars. [More…]

• This bitter old man making his last hurrah in politics is mutilating and violating every decent characteristic of freedom and free enterprise which this nation and its people have cherished. [More…]

• Subsequent to that there appeared on the scene a man whose personal credibility was not in doubt. [More…]

• The immediate response from the spokesman of the Fraser Island defence organisation is noteworthy. [More…]

• I know him as an admirable gentleman, and I have a respect for the intensity of his feelings in this matter. [More…]

• I do not necessarily endorse them, but I realise that he is a man of consequence. [More…]

• No one else would have been more dedicated to the declared ambitions of the Labor Government in preserving the environment, but he was moved to send a telegram, immediately after the declaration of the issue of licences, to the Opposition spokesman on the environment in the following terms: [More…]

• Whilst man has a prime obligation to meet his needs to survive he is obliged to do so in a responsible manner. [More…]

• But the man who drafted this year’s Budget, the present Treasurer had a change of heart as soon as Mr Crean ‘s fate was determined. [More…]

• I ask a question in this debate: What happened to the strong man who was going to axe Government spending? [More…]

• The present Leader of the Opposition was the Minister for Defence at the time, and he is the guilty man responsible. [More…]

• If he did not believe in the Vietnam war and he had just an ounce of principle, he would have resigned from the Government which was responsible for sending so many hundreds of people to their death in Vietnam. [More…]

• He wanted to keep his job as Minister for Defence more than he wanted to comply with his conscience or those principles, if he had any, which conflicted or violated against this useless wastage of manpower and material. [More…]

• He is the guilty man. [More…]

• He is the man who wants Australia once again to repose its faith in his guilty, bloody hands. [More…]

• As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), said, of course the Government is going to pour millions of dollars into Medibank to ensure that every man, woman and child is covered by a health scheme and not by the patched up job that existed under the control of 113 private health insurance companies. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy Speaker, you are a country man so there is no need for me to tell you just what the wool industry has meant to Australia. [More…]

• We find in Hansard of 1 October 1974 a straw man being built by the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• The man who wants the Government to cut expenditure wants another $300m to be spent. [More…]

• He is the man who believes that religion is on the way out. [More…]

• The Government and the Treasurer stand condemned for their mismanagement of the economy- an economy which should be going from strength to strength. [More…]

• It is apparent that the Treasurer is a man who listens to the person who spoke to him last. [More…]

• A man who sold his business and who is reputedly at the golf club most days, staying at the bar later than most, speaks of his benefit affectionately as his drinking money. [More…]

• A 6-foot, strapping man disposed of his business and lives at a beach front unit. [More…]

• There is a man who states he is travelling around Australia until he finds a suitable spot to establish a new religion. [More…]

• Grandly at its head struts a Prime Minister who in this House assured us that he is the greatest, and he has a deputy who regards the printing press as man’s greatest invention. [More…]

• I conclude where I began: We will give these Bills passage, but we express here, as we have expressed consistently in the past, our concern and our condemnation of the irresponsible management and incompetency of the Government which is intent on sparing no expense to retain office, even if it has to take over every printing press in the nation to keep up the supply of money. [More…]

• Once his prices move upwards the man who gets an increase of $ 1 8 a week clear can see a diminution in his standard of living. [More…]

• I have had a table prepared by the Parliamentary Library which shows that in 1954-55 a taxpayer on the then average earnings of $ 1,799 per annum paid 5c in the dollar in tax and that today the same man doing the same job is now, just through a natural increase in wages, in receipt of $7,500 a year and paying 16.8 per cent of it in tax. [More…]

• So that the man in receipt of average weekly earnings has suffered an increase in his tax rate of about 19 per cent- in 2 years. [More…]

• I see in my mind the Treasurer down in the bowels of this building with tears in his eyes, with sympathy for the people, oozing the milk of human kindness, turning the handle of a printing press, turning out money to bury his unemployment problems. [More…]

• He is a man who says that he can bury his unemployment problem by turning out more money. [More…]

• In every case, for example in the history of Germany and the South American republics, any country which has tried to solve its problems by turning the printing press faster has come hard up against the inevitable facts of economic life. [More…]

• The Inter-State Commission Bill will set out to make sure that the little man is protected. [More…]

• It astounds me that the Opposition should oppose this Bill when the small man is going to be protected by it. [More…]

• The provisions of this Bill would allow the small man to bring to the attention of the Commission unfair and unreasonable practices. [More…]

• Why does the Prime Minister not come into the House and defend his own handiwork instead of sending in the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) as a front man? [More…]

• The Government says that the Inter-State Commission will be a body to whom people can take complaints, a body to whom the man in the street- I think that is the expression used in the Minister’s second reading speech- can go along with the large corporations of the nation to have a problem resolved or adjudicated upon. [More…]

• I put it to the Minister that one way in which he can enlist the aid of the man in the street is by not confusing him. [More…]

• The man in the street hardly has an opportunity to digest the relevance of each new commission as it is unveiled. [More…]

• So on the simple score of confusion to that poor old man in the street maybe the Government could consider allowing a little more time. [More…]

• The purpose of the legislation is protection of the people- protection of the small man, the small business, the small State, and the farmer in particular. [More…]

• I wonder how many communications the Opposition has had from Sir Reginald Ansett in the last couple of weeks? [More…]

• We have the situation tonight of the Opposition, having voted to a man against a BUI which contains 41 clauses and saying that it does not want to have a bar of it, now endeavouring to stonewall the legislation by moving amendments to it in Committee. [More…]

• Men who have worked and who have knowledge in the area, such as the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) who knows more about the Inter-State Commission and its history than almost any other man in this place, are denied the opportunity of speaking on the Bill. [More…]

• We are trying to debate a Bill that carries implications which affect every man in the street. [More…]

• The man obviously does not know that the Snowy Mountains Council has been split off from the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority. [More…]

• He obviously does not realise that the power generating function of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority has been transferred by an Act of Parliament to the Snowy Mountains Council whose chairman has been nominated already and who happens to be the secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• But certainly there would not be many people who would support the proposition beyond that point. [More…]

• This is partly because obtaining a permanent Director of the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation was held up by the Parliament not passing the Remuneration and Allowances Bill and thus the inability of this Government to offer a satisfactory salary to attract a Director to that position. [More…]

• It is a tribute to this man’s humility that he recognises that these decisions have to be made and that he recognises that other people would have to take over these jobs. [More…]

• No other Federal Government has embarked upon so many community projects that involve the people at the grass roots level. [More…]

• Sir Charles Cutler, this man who condemns the Australian Government for being socialist in its nature, is not prepared to disseminate this money to the people at the grass roots level. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties have no confidence in people to manage their own money in community affairs. [More…]

• Does he think that the demand for $55 a week extra allowance per man plus 2 weeks paid rest and recreation leave for wharf labourers is realistic? [More…]

• I have not spoken to him for many months. [More…]

• I stress that he is a very able man. [More…]

• He is a man of whom the community should be proud because of the efforts he made to keep a competitive airline system in existence when the British interests and the Holyman interests decided to go out of Australia. [More…]

• It has been their experience to have appeared before this very eminent gentleman when he was on the bench of the New South Wales court which dealt with town planning matters. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman followed 2 other eminent people, namely, the Honourable Justice Sugerman and the Honourable Justice Hardie, onto the bench of this court. [More…]

• During the period that Mr Justice Else-Mitchell served on this court he excelled as a man who had a great knowledge of local government. [More…]

• He was on this court for many years. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman Jones, has announced his intention to retire after 14 years- this is the man whom the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) wanted so badly in Canberra in the 1974 federal elections- might I suggest that this dictator who has such vast experience in local government matters would be an excellent choice as the proposed new member of the Commission. [More…]

• I am sure the ViceMayor and Mayor-Elect, Alderman Walsh, would be pleased to see him depart. [More…]

• I understand that Alderman Jones intends to step down as Lord Mayor in the middle of this year. [More…]

• I was especially pleased last October when the announcement was made that Mr Justice ElseMitchell, who had been a judge of the Land and Valuation Court of New South Wales since 1 962, had accepted appointment as the Chairman of the Grants Commission for the ensuing 5 years. [More…]

• Mr Justice Else-Mitchell is a man with a deep understanding of, and a long experience in, the field of local government. [More…]

• He was Chairman of the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Land Valuation Rating System in 1965. [More…]

• To bring down a Bill such as this, which has the very odious title of the Common Informers (Parliamentary Disqualifications) Bill and which immediately creates doubts about a man who is likely to appear before the High Court so that it can determine whether he is disqualified from being a member of Parliament- I say this honestly and with very deep feelings- I believe is improper and is against the interest of the person involved, I would not have been agreeable to its being introduced. [More…]

• But how many other honourable members in the House would have known what this legislation was about or would even have heard of it? [More…]

• Therefore, to have a man punished, and to have this sort of odium created at the same time, I think is wretched. [More…]

• In doing that the Government is not expressing any view whether the man is guilty or not guilty but, rather, that the charges have been made, the facts have been put before the Parliament and the matter should be resolved by the highest tribunal in the land. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) will pass that message on to his colleague in the other House, the Minister for the Media, who in most matters is a fair and reasonable man. [More…]

• Getting back to the quality of adequate and comprehensive programs which this Bill is demanding from the commercial stations, I would point out in fairness that ‘This Day Tonight’ gave coverage to the thoughts of a man named Don Sewell. [More…]

• I am reminded- I have used this expression before- that freedom of the Press for the Opposition is when one man can own 10 newspapers but 10 million people own none. [More…]

• Admittedly, many aspects of the report are commendable, but a view exists- and I am bound to say that for my part, as presently minded, I share that view- that the organisation proposed would have to be scrapped in a time of conflict. [More…]

• He is a man with considerable professional training and background, and I invite the Minister to answer his criticism. [More…]

• That is a rather poor reflection on our defence services, particularly from a man who was a member of them. [More…]

• What utter naivete from a man who leads the Government of this country. [More…]

• On 30 September 1974- only 7 months ago- this same man said in an address to the United Nations: [More…]

• It will, for the first time, consider providing an essential and desirable public service to all Australians, and in particular to the man on the land and others who require special types of insurance cover not generally available in the existing insurance structure. [More…]

• I think one of the objectives of this Bill is to increase rank and file participation; to give the man at the grass roots level the chance to further his trade union education and to give him education in a much broader field so that he is a lot more competent to carry out the job for which his members have elected him. [More…]

• Although it has existed for many years I think it is only in the last 10 years that it has expanded its activities to include trade union courses to instruct trade union officials. [More…]

• The types of courses they ran were on the arbitration system, basic economics for the man in the street and the like. [More…]

• In the first place, to become a paid official of a union, a man or woman in effect has to change his occupation. [More…]

• Instead of being a boilermaker, a bank officer, a waterside worker or a shop assistant, he now becomes an administrator, a negotiator, a research officer, an office manager and often a Press officer. [More…]

• Suppose a keen Australian marchant goes to Sweden and finds a man who is prepared to sell him paper at $10 a ton cheaper than the cartel price. [More…]

• He is a benign and friendly man and we have accepted his explanation, but he said that honourable members of this side of the House knew. [More…]

• There is a young man who takes a keen interest. [More…]

• It is for those people that I want to go on record in a small attempt to show my respect for their endeavours as human beings and my detestation at the reaction which has been totally lacking in any real sense from the present Government of Austalia. [More…]

• He is not a public servant; he is a man of little note, a middle class gentleman living in Hue. [More…]

• If one man, one woman or one child dies because of the weakness of this Government, through its inept and incredible belief in doing nothing to upset the victor of tomorrow, we will have let ourselves down badly and we will have committed our own crime against humanity. [More…]

• Our Deputy Prime Minister at least is an honest man; he is an avowed and unashamed supporter of the North Vietnamese and the PRG. [More…]

• The champion of the Communist cause in North Vietnam is the same man who in Washington last Friday described America as ‘the world ‘s last and best hope ‘. [More…]

• What hypocrisy from a man whose Government’s actions and policies have helped push the United States along the road to isolationism. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has been exposed as a man lacking in compassion, lacking in concern for people whose lives are in jeopardy, lacking in principle, and fully prepared to mislead and deceive this Parliament. [More…]

• It is the very same man, the right honourable member for Lowe, as then Prime Minister and before that as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was always maintaining that the Vietnam war was winnable. [More…]

• I am astonished at what she had to say in her letter but my innate sense of gallantry will restrain me from saying about this lady what I really believe and what I would have said had the honourable member been a man. [More…]

• When I reported this news in my Party room today as a matter of interest, I was surprised to hear many of my colleagues in the Opposition, such as the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron), the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier), and many others, say: ‘Yes, but that rumour that it was the Liberal and Country Parties in the Senate which stopped the pension increases being paid before 1 May is around our electorates too’. [More…]

• Being the man that he is, I am sure that had he known that that mischief had been put abroad he would have disowned it in a flash. [More…]

• In May 1974 we announced that in the case where there was genuine hardship, where a man with 3 children had been sacked from the job that it was inequitable that he had to wait a week for the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• So we recommended- it came out as policy- that unemployment benefits begin from the day after a man is sacked. [More…]

• An elderly man leaving the same office yesterday said that he had received no cheque for several weeks. [More…]

• I also quote from an article by a well known dedicated Labor man and dedicated socialist which appeared in the Brisbane ‘Telegraph’ of 14 February 1975. [More…]

• He prefaced his remarks by saying how much more strongly he would have spoken if I had been a man. [More…]

• It must be great for the man who is out of work, who has a family and commitments and who may be listening to this debate, to be told that he is a bludger because he is collecting unemployment benefits because he cannot get a job. [More…]

• For example, a man driving from Melbourne to Adelaide registers in Melbourne and in Adelaide and obtains benefits in both places. [More…]

• The means test will disqualify a man in this category because of the income he earns. [More…]

• To obtain this information would require considerable effort and man hours which I am not prepared to authorise. [More…]

• As long as wage demands continue to cut profits, then there is going to be unemployment in Australia. [More…]

• Every excessive increase in income for one man takes the job of another man. [More…]

• The previous Treasurer put the situation succinctly when he said that the stage had been reached when a rise in one man’s pay packet could cost another man his job. [More…]

• One man’s wage increase can lose another man his job. [More…]

• In considering applications for price movements that are made to the Prices Justification Tribunal the Government will ask the Tribunal to recognise only those wage costs that have been approved by the Commission and the Commission will be asked to reject all wage demands that seek to double count price movements. [More…]

• Does not the honourable member realise, as a sensible man, that the construction of all these centres is motivated by the fact that there is parent involvement and that the children are better off by having somebody interested in them? [More…]

• The Government sought from the committee for the first time in Australian history an inventory of our natural and man-made heritage. [More…]

• It also included programs to ensure that environment protection was the key part of the decisions of the Government, and it started a wide range of programs for the rational management of Australian land, air, water, and biological resources. [More…]

• I also want to stress that we will seek the support of people of goodwill whatever their background to protect the National Estate and beat the bulldozer mentality that has disfigured our environment for so many years and particularly during the last quarter of a century when the Opposition was in Government. [More…]

• We will work with all who want to protect those parts of our heritage that have been created by man or nature and are unique or are things of beauty. [More…]

• I will conclude my remarks by quoting to the House what an important man in this Parliament believes is the cure of the nation’s ills. [More…]

• This man said: [More…]

• One grieves to be present and to be an onlooker and to observe the shattering of the dreams of many Australian people. [More…]

• The home savings scheme was introduced by a great Australian, Sir Robert Menzies, a man in our history without peer and a man who became a legend in his own lifetime. [More…]

• We deplore the manoeuvres to destroy the incentive to have one’s own home. [More…]

• I am disappointed to have to speak on a motion such as this but I am very happy to join with my colleagues, the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) and the honourable member for Deakin (Mr Jarman), who gave a disciplined approach to solving the housing needs of the Australian people. [More…]

• I have tried to point out to the Australian people that the Government does not care about the low wage earner because it is allowing this man very limited tax deductibility. [More…]

• I am indebted to my colleague, the honourable member for McKellar (Mr Wentworth), for coming in to bat third man down and for carrying the bat so well. [More…]

• I only regret, however, that there are still some who have not understood or openly supported a proper system of administrative review, of which this Bill forms part; for there can be no doubt that in a rapidly increasing Public Service the occasion for ignorance, delay, injustice, inefficiency and lack of humanity to trample upon the rights of our people must with certainty increase. [More…]

• Government increasingly intrudes into every aspect of life and the flood of legislation which is passing through this Parliament creating an immense bureaucracy with awesome discretionary powers over the common man should activate our absolute and complete support for such measures. [More…]

• The EIS is, in the field of man /environment relations an embodyment of a truly socialist philosophy which allows the people to express a view about the quality of the environment they live in. [More…]

• You can use that as a guide to determine whether in view of his background you think he is the type of man who would commit the crime with which he is charged’. [More…]

• In fact, I was reluctant to convict the man but I am glad that I finally agreed now that his criminal record has come out’. [More…]

• It appears to me that the House is unaware that involved in this contract are 5500 man hours of manufacturing work to produce all these parts. [More…]

• I repeat that 5500 man hours are involved in this project. [More…]

• But the debate is to be frustrated because of variations of the Standing Orders just to meet the convenience of the man who for the time being is the Leader of the House. [More…]

• The man who said that we should be most on guard for our liberty when a government poses as a beneficient one knew what he was talking about, and that is exactly the case now where this Government is pretending that this measure is to the people’s advantage, when really it ultimately will jeopardise their liberty. [More…]

• It was no one else but Dr Jim Cairns himself, the author of ‘The Quiet Revolution’ and the man who undoubtedly is pledged to the maximum of his capacity while he is in his present position to socialise Australian industry. [More…]

• I do not want to know the man. [More…]

• This is despite the fact that Mr Hurford, the Chairman of the Economics Committee, said that this was a lot of nonsense and that they ought not to get the money. [More…]

• This approach will allow new forms of insurance against the destruction of crops and livestock, a vastly improved service for the man on the land. [More…]

• What an extraordinary alliance against the interests of the farmer, the man on the land- the first and the greatest victim of national calamity! [More…]

• It will offer this service not only to the man in the street but also to the business community. [More…]

• The Aus.tralian Government Insurance Commission will be an Australian community insurance service, managed by Australians in the interests of Australians. [More…]

• Ask any business man who has anything to do with private superannuation funds and the particular problems he has looking after valued and loyal employees because of the eroding of the value of private superannuation funds throughout the country. [More…]

• It no more wants fair competition than does the man on the moon, and it has no intention of providing fair competition. [More…]

• Still, I suppose, like the ad for Prudential says: ‘The man you can trust’- or rather, I would say: ‘Can you trust?’ [More…]

• I admired this man’s principle and I told him so. [More…]

• I did not know this man previously but I have since contacted him. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman’s only answer to this problem is the injunctive process. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman accepts the circumstances that I have presented, surely that woman is entitled to secure her relief instanter or virtually instanter. [More…]

• There are many places in this country today where, from the time of the presentation of the petition, assuming that the solicitors will attend to their paper work immediately and will accept process from the various parties, a decree can be given within three or four months. [More…]

• I will make application for an injunction to restrain the man who has outraged and belted me, who has done unspeakable things to me for a long time’. [More…]

• Those of us who have seen something of the misery of human life in the divorce courts will realise that that is happening all the time. [More…]

• It is a piece of absurdity to suggest that if a man or a woman finds, after marriage, that he or she has married a homosexual and there is total incompatibility, the marriage must subsist for 2 years to prove separation for 2 years in order to dissolve it. [More…]

• If a woman has put up with cruel beatings for 5 or 7 years, must the marriage be sustained for another 2 years or one year in order to bring an application for divorce? [More…]

• She has been deserted by her husband, as happens very often when a man becomes infatuated with a younger woman. [More…]

• There are many cases like that. [More…]

• We do need, I think, to maintain the concept of fault which may in itself be a reason for the preservation of many marriages. [More…]

• The honourable member for Moreton and the right honourable member for Bruce spoke of the wrongs of a woman who could not obtain instant relief. [More…]

• What about the possible wrong to the man? [More…]

• It is well known that the period of gestation for the human female is 9 months. [More…]

• Under this Bill, although a man knew his wife was having a child that was not his, he would be unable to divorce her and he would find under the provisions of this Bill that he would have to adopt as his, as it would be born in his marriage, a child who was not his at all. [More…]

• No man should be put in that situation at all. [More…]

• It does not help the child and it does not help the relief of bitterness that a woman should be able to say to a man: ‘This child will be yours in terms of our marriage. [More…]

• A strong view also exists that, in a limited number of special cases, it is intolerable to ask a party to a marriage, be it the man or the woman, to wait even for a period of 12 months before commencing proceedings. [More…]

• Nothing could drag us back more surely to the dark ages, to bitterness, acrimony and the worst things in human behaviour between a man and a woman who are married than the reintroduction of fault. [More…]

• They argue the ground of a woman or a man who has acquired a partner who has developed or who possesses homosexual tendencies is required to continue that marriage for at least a year. [More…]

• The man in the king positionwhatever that may be- should not wear a wig. [More…]

• In fact, in the very definition of the appointment of judges in this court honourable members will find- this is one of the good points I like about this Bill- that not only has a judge to be competent in the area of law, to satisfy my friend the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), but more than that, he has to be competent and experienced in human fields and human understanding. [More…]

• That is referred to in the definitions, if honourable members care to look at them, and it points to its value to the community, to the average man who feels that he is in trouble and wants to be able to go along and discuss these things. [More…]

• Perhaps those experts who recognised the art of this man considered that it was important that he be forgiven and having already taken his punishment for his previous misdemeanour should be forgiven and encouraged in a particular field of activity, a field which I do not know but perhaps the honourable member for Boothby does know. [More…]

• I trust that somebody will now have the opportunity to make these investigations before parliamentary privilege is used in this way and this man’s name is dragged before the public of South Australia in this way. [More…]

• In fact, the ‘West Australian’ of the 17th instant reported the case of one man being gaoled for 6 months for such an illegal action. [More…]

• For instance, if a ditch digging job is offered to a man in late middle age who probably has been a journalist, an editoralist, in one of the major newspapers and has become unemployed- he has slack tummy muscles and a weak back, the sort of condition I am in today- he would not last too long; none of us would. [More…]

• I ask honourable members to reflect on that, because it represents the sort of severe result which would flow from an unthinking demand that things must be made much tougher. [More…]

• Clause 43 (a) of the Bill states: -the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• In that case the judges espoused the principles of voluntary union between a man and a woman for life to the mutual and complete exclusion of all others. [More…]

• Very often, where the parties in fact separate, they do so because there is a breakdown in communication between man and woman, and very often the communication has very little opportunity to be reinstated unless there is some machinery whereby that communication can be re-established. [More…]

• Surely the Committee will accept that it is absolutely inequitable for circumstances to arise in which a man or a woman can be divorced by legal processes in Australia, without ever knowing or having a chance to know that the petition was being lodged. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• The origin of the words marriage is a union of a man and a woman voluntarily entered into for life and can be found in an interpretation of the Divorce Act 1865 of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It states that the marriage is: the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• I also pose the question: What if the husband establishes grounds for divorce, albeit that there may be in normal circumstances a general desire on the part of the woman to continue her role as a wife and mother but on other occasions she may so break that role as to occasion proper grounds for divorce. [More…]

• If we follow the logic of this amendment through as a principle to be applied by the court, I submit that also we would have to insert an amendment which would refer to a man who may wish only to continue his role as a husband and father. [More…]

• The Attorney-General, despite his very considerable efforts to earn a reputation as the unreasonable man, is not without reason. [More…]

• I want to posit this to him: A woman may be married for 15 or 18 years and the union, for “one reason or another, may break up. [More…]

• As the position now stands, if a wife with children merely did washing for a man in relation to whom it is open to the plainest of intent that some application should be made for a dissolution of the marriage, that in itself may, one way or the other, inhibit the application. [More…]

• between a man and a woman who is, or has been, his- [More…]

• Daughter’s son’s wife between a woman and a man who is, or has been, her- [More…]

• After all, I ask the Attorney-General: ‘Would a prohibited relationship be a marriage between a man and a woman who is his wife’s daughter’s daughter?’ [More…]

• I ask: ‘Would it be a prohibited relationship between a woman and a man who is her husband’s son’s son, or between a woman and a husband’s daughter’s son?’ [More…]

• For instance, men may put forward the view that maintenance should be based, when referring to working people, on average weekly earnings or that the court should take into account that at the time of separation the man was getting an unusual amount of overtime in his salary for that year. [More…]

• He referred to the elderly man coupling with a young lady and leaving his grey haired wife at home to fend for herself. [More…]

• How many wives or ex-wives have agreed to some settlement which with the passage of time has proved to be quite inadequate for their needs? [More…]

• I know of a very wealthy man- one of the wealthiest men in Australia- who was able to trick his wife into an agreement for settlement which involved the payment of a somewhat handsome amount at the time but which with the passing of time has proved to be totally inadequate. [More…]

• I plead with the honourable gentleman to rethink this matter and to withdraw the amendment, because it will do the very opposite of what he thinks it will do. [More…]

• The present maximum rates provided for by the Act are $1.50, $1.75 and $1.20 per man hour for A, B and C classes of waterside workers respectively. [More…]

• Campbell-Kennedy, who is the SurveyorGeneral for the State of South Australia, somebody completely apolitical and outside any political party and a man of integrity and independence. [More…]

• Yet we hear words like manipulation’ thrown into this debate irresponsibly by the honourable member for Gwydir and the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• But he is a man of principle as well and supports the 10 per cent tolerance rather than a 20 per cent tolerance and he understands that, with a seat like his, that is one of the disadvantages with which he has to contend. [More…]

• A wife may be entitled to a maintenance order, and the man may say, out of sheer obduracy: ‘No, I refuse to pay’. [More…]

• But these words are far wider than that and they allow these injunctive proceedings to be used in a pimping, prying and spying manner. [More…]

• They may be vexatious or frivolous but who would say that they were vexatious or frivolous if evidence were produced by a psychiatrist, a medical man or a psychologist to the effect there were medical disorders arising from this situation, and this person insisted that the marital relationship required injunctive proceedings to be taken under clause 114? [More…]

• Mr Stewart is a man of high moral principles who is ignorant of the way the present divorce laws are administered. [More…]

• The Minister is a man for whom I have considerable respect not only because of his common sense and ability but also because of his desire to ensure that Parliament operates in an effective way. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) whom I represent is a reasonable man. [More…]

• I am glad to see the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in the chamber as I know him to be a sincere man who can be impressed by facts and by an argument that, beyond bounds, is not only persuasive but is also conclusive in terms of real proof. [More…]

• It is sad that, when the South Vietnamese nation was literally on its knees and when many people in South Vietnam were asking and expecting Australia, their ex-ally, to adopt a more compassionate approach to their problems there was virtual silence on the part of this man. [More…]

• He simply ignored the attitudes he had adopted when in Oppositionthat wars regrettably brought in their aftermath considerable human suffering. [More…]

• When the truth finally got out it was a very sad picture of man’s inhumanity to man. [More…]

• Many Vietnamese especially, the million-odd who ran away from the North at the time of the Vietminh takeover in 1954, had nothing to expect from the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese allies when they succeeded in capturing the South but a continuation of the same degree of human suffering from which they had tried to escape previously. [More…]

• It was those people in particular, many of whom were Christians and Catholics, who wanted to come to countries such as Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• First of all, the honourable member spoke about the small man, the small farmer. [More…]

• This nationally and internationally important marine ecosystem encompasses many unique forms of sea life, and is the largest and most complex expanse of living coral reefs in the world- quite possibly the largest which has ever existed. [More…]

• Marine ecosystems, especially the rich inshore parts, are vital to the survival of many species- including man. [More…]

• They are the breeding grounds and nurseries of species upon which the world ‘s commercial fisheries depend and of many other species vital to the complex food webs of the marine environment. [More…]

• To ensure that marine ecosystems generally are protected in a comprehensive manner, I will be introducing a Marine Environment Protection Bill in the Budget Session of Parliament. [More…]

• This is due partly to the realisation that man is increasingly turning to the sea to solve food shortage problems and because of concern that he is over-using the seas as a cesspool for the toxic wastes resulting from his ever-increasing activities. [More…]

• The creation of viable marine parks is not without problems; even so, many marine national parks have been created throughout the world. [More…]

• At the start of my remarks it is worth recalling that the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) was specifically selected by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to serve in this portfolio, not just for his administrative capacity but also because the Prime Minister knew that in selecting Mr Daly he would put a first class numbers man into a key portfolio which would assist the Australian Labor Party, and hence the Government, to entrench itself in its position as the Government of Australia. [More…]

• He is a man in robust good health, in his mid-80s, retired from politics but active in public affairs. [More…]

• Let no man come between that association or suggest that it is anything else but what I have described. [More…]

• One of the reasons why I oppose, and many others oppose, the redistribution at present is that it should have been delayed until after the census which is due in June next year- not in a few years time, as the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) said. [More…]

• Someone here said that he is the best numbers man the Government has. [More…]

• When his attention was drawn to that by the honourable member for MacKellar (Mr Wentworth) and many members of the National Country Party, he could not understand. [More…]

• If he is the best numbers man the Government has, it is very short indeed of good numbers men. [More…]

• So on Mr Weise ‘s own 1968 assessment- and he is a man with great experience and knowledge in this field- community of interest has been ignored on this occasion. [More…]

• After listening to the comments made by the Minister in regard to the proposals for the various States I have come to the conclusion that he is a very worried man. [More…]

• Neither socialism nor huge corporations are capable of efficient farming and cheap food production because the true farmer is a man moved by the love of his land. [More…]

• La Trobe must have been too much of a task for any one man. [More…]

• -Or socialist enough, thank you- I understand that he did not appoint that man in Perth as the third Distribution Commissioner. [More…]

• It was the speech of a man who was trying to incite a breach of the law by commissioners, either now or in the future. [More…]

• One man, one vote is the ideal. [More…]

• These railways have in the past been integrated into the total operations of the South Australian Railways and in many cases metropolitan lines provide the means for country and freight trains to enter the urban area. [More…]

• The staff that man these lines are SAR employees. [More…]

• However, the staff to man the metropolitan system will be ANR employees - [More…]

• An Australian Deputy Commander took up duty at North West Cape on 19 July 1974 while a Royal Australian Navy contingent of 47 officers and men will be posted to the station before the end of next month. [More…]

• Fourteen of these will man the Australian communications centre. [More…]

• Surely to heaven, it would be a brave man who would try to claim that a change in the system will really reduce very much the number of informal votes. [More…]

• One could say that almost every man, woman and child at some stage must have been driving roofing nails into the roofs of houses in Darwin. [More…]

• Of course, some of these repairs are only temporary; some of them are permanent. [More…]

• I must say that I could not see any work of that nature although on many roofs the iron was not trimmed off and was left overhanging. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the right man is at hand in Professor Peter Karmel who conducted the inquiry into Australian schools at an earlier time. [More…]

• Instead of making a decision then, it tossed its problems to a committee chaired by Sir John Crawford- a man who has tons of ability in this field, as everbody knows. [More…]

• It had no real powers to manage the supply of wool offered for sale. [More…]

• There are many backbenchers on the Opposition who know what sort of a government they would have if that government were led by the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• Opposition members know what they would get at the hands of the Leader of the Opposition, that back-stabbing man who has taken so many political careers on that side of the House that it is dangerous for any Opposition member to turn his back while the honourable member is present. [More…]

• Opposition backbenchers who see that man, the Leader of the Opposition, ready to knife the next rebel in the back are resentful of our democratic process. [More…]

• It is appropriate to mention that the Committee was chaired by Sir Walter Scott, a man highly respected in commerce and renowned for this expertise in the functioning of industry and local government authorities. [More…]

• As I said earlier, I think it is appropriate that we are adopting almost in toto the recommendations of the Scott Committee which was chaired by a man who is held in very high regard for his activities in the private enterprise field and who could not in any way be criticised for holding political views. [More…]

• It is not the monopoly of any one man. [More…]

• What would happen if a man who was running a business made a public announcement that in three or four months’ time the price of the goods that he was selling would be lowered? [More…]

• The Government just does not understand how to manage the country’s economy. [More…]

• Jobs are not being created because, in the words of the previous Treasurer, the stage has been reached where an increase in one man’s pay packet will cost another man his job. [More…]

• There is the case of a man who retired after 23 years in the Army. [More…]

• There is another case of a woman who applied for and was granted housewife’s retraining last year. [More…]

• There is the case of a man aged 26 years who has been in the work force 8 years and is completely unqualified. [More…]

• I mention next the case of a woman who received some help through the widows retraining scheme last year. [More…]

• I refer next to a single woman, aged 30 years, who was in the work force for 15 years in unskilled occupations. [More…]

• I go on to the case of a 24-year-old ex-national serviceman. [More…]

• Finally, I mention the case of a man, aged 26, unskilled and under the threat of retrenchment. [More…]

• Only recently a professional man in my electorate told me that it took 10 days for a letter to travel about 120 miles. [More…]

• That policy meant that other than people in country areas, everybody using the telephone, particularly the man running a small business in any capital city or country city, had to pay more than was needed to cover the cost of the service he was receiving because the people in the country areas could not find the money to meet the cost of the service they were receiving. [More…]

• So much for the genius of this man and for his actuarial qualification. [More…]

• If one takes the figures that I have mentioned- that is the case of a man who works for 35 years, commencing at $7,500 per annum, with calculations made on an interest rate of something like 10 per cent- then, over the total period of 35 years, $331,655 would be paid by the contributors to the fund. [More…]

• After all, the man who takes the lump sum payment will presumably invest it in some enterprise or in some commodity. [More…]

• But honourable members opposite say that if he does not do that, if he takes his money in weekly or annual pension, then that money has to suffer the ravages of inflation and that man is to have no opportunities to guard against this. [More…]

• No business man is prepared just to put money into an investment and not get some sort of return. [More…]

• The Government’s national disaster insurance fixed up that problem for the man on the land if he has bushfires or floods. [More…]

• He has no set market; he is in the hands of the middle man as to who is going to bid for his wool, and he is in the hands of all those people who regard themselves as helping the grazier but who, in the main, are more interested in making a profit than in selling his wool. [More…]

• After the statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on the acceptability of Mr el Surani as an Arab League representative, the media headlined the story in this way: The ‘West Australian’ newspaper carried the headline ‘PM “Happy” to meet PLO man’. [More…]

• This is a case of a man called Alan L. Dudley, who lives at 162 Penshurst Street, Penshurst. [More…]

• This man never cashed them. [More…]

• But I am sure that this is not an isolated case, that there are many cases like this and that the computer is spewing out cheques right, left and centre to people who are not entitled to them. [More…]

• I refer not to the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) but to his illustrious ancestor, a man of many partsexplorer, author, barrister, wealthy land owner, statesman, Anglophile and, last but not least, patriot. [More…]

• Wherever human skill and brain are eminent . [More…]

• I surprised that they should be accepted by any man with a sense of honour. [More…]

• Each man and woman must learn to cope with it and utilise it for its purposes just as we have coped with and learnt to utilise other products of technological advancement. [More…]

• We must encourage people to participate- be it in a team game, man against the elements, a bike ride or simple social interaction- for it is a well known fact that satisfaction derived from voluntary participation is usually greater than that derived from spectatorship. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that a man like the present Leader of the House (Mr Daly) in presenting his argument on this case does not get up in this place and tell the truth. [More…]

• He does not penalise a feared political foe but people who live outside of the metropolitan area, which is reminiscent of the statement by the man who is now our Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who not very many years ago viciously described Australians who live outside the urban areas as pagans. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, when I spoke to one very senior Minister in the Governmenta very talented man, a man who is very well respected- he said to me: ‘Kevin, we have been looking at your seat for 2 days. [More…]

• There would not be a man in this country who thinks about the issue who would not agree with this proposition. [More…]

• I am surprised that the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), who was born and reared at Currabubula in the country- although as a young man he left that country district and went into the 3 square miles of Grayndler alluvial gold- now wants to eliminate from this House members of the National Country Party of Australia. [More…]

• This Electoral Re-distribution (New South Wales) Bill is a gerrymander. [More…]

• The answer to that is not loaded electorates, not giving a country man a vote worth 1 Vi to 2 times the value of the vote of a city dweller. [More…]

• We spoke to another Minister, a very reasonable man who has an interest in the welfare of children. [More…]

• It is said that a man earning $102 per week at the end of the 1 973 March quarter had sufficient finance to qualify for a $15,000 building society loan but that at today’s soaring interest rates he would need a wage of $159.30 to obtain similar finance, even if the cost of the home building had not soared. [More…]

• I think that Mr Clunies-Ross is an honourable man but he does not understand the normal commercial practices or the opportunities of life that exist in Australia. [More…]

• When we have the precedents of a man with the ability, the intellect and the political persuasion that he had, why should Whitlam, who is still learning, still trying to ape the great man and still trying to make an impression, try again and show how faulty his judgment is likely to be? [More…]

• We will see whether this man is worthy of the reputation for political courage that he earned when he was in opposition but which he has never shown since he has been in government. [More…]

• There is a need to provide across-the-board protection for people who are likely to be the victims of floods and of other natural occurrences over which man has no control. [More…]

• However, the staff to man the metropolitan system - that is in South Australia- will be ANR employees who will work under the general direction of the State Transport Authority. [More…]

• Let us now look at the waterfronts since the introduction of permanent employment. [More…]

• Following a dramatic reduction in man-hours lost through stoppages from 1966 to 1968, the figure of 4 per cent of man-hours worked was higher in 1973-74 than for 16 years. [More…]

• For example, wool handling has about the same productivity performance now as it had 10 years ago, that is, about 0.35 tonnes per man-hour. [More…]

• As honourable members know, a charge is levied under this legislation on a man-hour basis on all employers of waterside labour. [More…]

• My information is that idle time is now running at an average of about 10 000 man days a week at a cost of approximately $28 a man. [More…]

• But I am informed that last week idle time was approximately 14 000 man days costing approximately $420,000. [More…]

• The example is given of a week in Melbourne when one employer had a surplus of 2954 man days of labour which cost the Authority over $50,000 for idle time. [More…]

• But in the same week, in the same port, other employers were short of 1877 man days of labour. [More…]

• In that week alone $32,000 was paid in wages for 1877 wasted man days of locked up idle time. [More…]

• It has been put to the Opposition that a more equitable way of calculating the levy would be on a tonnage cubic measure basis rather than on a man-hour basis. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that there may be some merit in altering the basis of calculating the charge, but this would involve a very careful consideration of the many highly complex factors involved. [More…]

• High freight costs are one of the reasons why many of those industries are in very serious trouble. [More…]

• In an excellent speech the honourable member for Corangamite detailed to the House in chapter and verse the large number of man days that are lost each year through strikes. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman pointed out that at the moment we are running at the rate of $ 15m annually for idle time. [More…]

• For the sake of the record, I should like to say that, as the honourable gentleman pointed out, employers are taxed through the charge for every man hour in which they employ a waterside worker. [More…]

• I can tell the honourable gentleman that I am a full bottle on this because the Acting Director of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, Mr Bellew, is here in the advisers chair and we have none less than Mr Norman K. Foster, a well-known authority on the industry, also sitting in the chamber. [More…]

• The charge is based on man hours worked and therefore income from the charge reflects the level of stevedoring activity and wage movements within the industry. [More…]

• It is with some degree of regret that I listened to the honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury), a man who is generally respected by all members of the House, giving what I consider to be a one-sided version of life in the Soviet Union. [More…]

• I know, and the Russians admit, that they have made a lot of errors in pioneering the Soviet system, but they have gained things in that system that are being emulated by many people in the Western world. [More…]

• I regret that a man as respected as the honourable member for Ryan is should give such a one-sided speech in bitter criticism of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• He was a man whom we all respected. [More…]

• Throughout his parliamentary career we knew him as an upright honest man. [More…]

• It is tragic that a man of the Right, such as the former member for Bass, should retire after such long and distinguished service. [More…]

• It is a tragedy that a man as sincere as the former member should have been the Minister responsible for the Australian defence forces at a time when they have so run down. [More…]

• As the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer has implied this afternoon that a letter of accreditation for overseas loan borrowings was issued to a distinguished Melbourne business man, and it was acknowledged in this chamber by the Minister for Minerals and Energy that such a letter was given to another- not a Melbourne business man- at about the same time, will the Prime Minister advise this House how many such letters of accreditation have been issued? [More…]

• There were 6 million man days lost last year as a result of industrial unrest- a record since records were first kept in, I think, 1913. [More…]

• This again is a tribute to the Government and to the way it mismanages and bungles its affairs on every front. [More…]

• There are many provisions. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has ambitions which include abolishing the Senate and either reducing the States to empty shells or getting rid of them, as he has referred to them many times as having boundaries which are anachronistic. [More…]

• He is a man who has a number of ambitions, and we are not sure whether all of them have been disclosed. [More…]

• We might say in fairness to His Honour Mr Justice Else-Mitchell, who has been in the position of chairman for some months now, that he has performed a splendid job in his dealings with local government. [More…]

• The converse is true for certain experience and qualifications are welcome and, in the case of Mr Justice Else-Mitchell, his experience and qualifications in his meetings with local government representatives have shown the value of having such a man appointed to this position. [More…]

• He brings to the Grants Commission the qualities we want in its Chairman- impartiality, an understanding of the problems and the ability to assess accurately the evidence submitted. [More…]

• The Minister is a very busy man. [More…]

• Regrettably, many people are not as familiar as people in the Public Service in Canberra or in government are with what is going on in the national capital and are frightened of the penalties that they will face if they do not answer the questions that are being asked. [More…]

• Whether we are talking about crime, poverty or about the needs of the man on the land, we have to get the information. [More…]

• The gentleman who handled this personally is a man of outstanding integrity and capacity. [More…]

• As I said, these negotiations were conducted by a man of the utmost integrity, Mr Paul Smith, the Chief Property Officer in New South Wales of the Department of Services and Property. [More…]

• The Opposition Parties do not oppose the Bill, but what a classic irony it is that the debate on this Bill, which raises so many matters of fundamental economic importance, is taking place at a time in the history of Australia when the present Administration is subject to complete confusion, uncertainty and indecision about who will constitute the Ministry of this country during the short days ahead. [More…]

• He is a man for whom I have the highest regard, but who knows whether he will be the Minister Assisting the Treasurer next week? [More…]

• If there is one man in this country who must accept the ultimate responsibility, it is the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who is back in Australia on one of his rare visits. [More…]

• Tariffs are important to any businessman. [More…]

• He reads that there is a difference between what the Treasurer has said about tariffs and what the new Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Senator James McClelland) has to say about them. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, in his comments of the last few days, substantially agrees with the new Minister for Manufacturing Industry. [More…]

• The man considering whether he will take advantage of this initiative finds that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) only a few weeks ago tried to convince Cabinet that it ought to support or at least not oppose an application before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for an increased wage for metal trades workers. [More…]

• We see constantly reports that the man who is to be Australia’s Treasurer in a few days time, Mr Hayden, is apparently in disagreement with the present Treasurer. [More…]

• I am not the only man who has used that term in the last few days. [More…]

• So we will probably have to endure this same procession of somersaults many more times if this Government survives. [More…]

• As I understand it, unless governments have very big chips on their shoulders, there should be no difference between an ordinary man who perhaps after World War I decided to gamble and to borrow money to buy his own small grape producing block of land, and another man who decided to work for Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, in the private sector, the public sector or anywhere else. [More…]

• All I can do on behalf of these people- there are a great many of them- is, as I have tried to do repeatedly, to bring this very dire situation to the notice of the House. [More…]

• The Minister would be a lot better off listening and learning and paying a tribute to that great man because when he endeavoured to follow the Premier’s example he did not match the 2V4 per cent; he made government money available at 4 per cent. [More…]

• The Minister would be a lot better occupied in endeavouring to equal his exploits rather than following him in the manner in which the Minister did. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for following that man’s magnificent example and realising that the Queensland Premier was the pathfinder and the trail blazer. [More…]

• He was the man who inspired the Minister to get off his seat and do something about the problem. [More…]

• I know that the areas that are causing us some concern will be itemised in a most certain and positive manner by the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) and the honourable member for Paterson (Mr 0’Keefe) [More…]

• Certainly that is true, but the beef producer is the man who pays it. [More…]

• He introduced a training scheme which provided $46.20 a week for a man, but if he had any other income that amount was cut back. [More…]

• But the performance of the honourable member for New England was much worse than that. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that a man who purports to speak for the wool industry, who has such a superficial grasp of the facts should act as he did on Tuesday 27 May, in Kings Hall, as though his greatest aspiration in life was to become the spokesman for the Labor Caucus? [More…]

• But on that occasion nobody could have doubted his enthusiasm when he finally took on this job- apparently his great political aspirationthat of becoming a spokesman for the Labor Caucus. [More…]

• Since then hundreds of thousands of man hours have been devoted to refining a modern marketing corporation, and hundreds of people have played their part in developing a marketing corporation that is quite unique in marketing such a product. [More…]

• There is no doubt, in spite of the inadequacies of our Department of Foreign Affairs, that this man, the Australian Dairy Produce Board and its reconstitution plants have rendered outstanding service in the communities where they have operated. [More…]

• The milk reconstitution plants were a way by which another manufactured milk product could be sold and another way by which a newly developed market could provide a reasonable return. [More…]

• Of course, I might stress that it has always been our attitude that we would expect a man of honour to discharge that type of obligation of disclosure, whether or not there is a legal requirement to do so. [More…]

• The Coombs report was one of those reports which ignored the role of the family farmer and the capability of a man, such as a dairy farmer, who has for so long made a worthwhile contribution to export and a worthwhile contribution to regional settlement and regional development. [More…]

• The dairy farmer is a man who has worked hard, and still does work hard, 7 days a week going twice a day down to the milking shed. [More…]

• The man at the end of the line is the dairy farmer. [More…]

• I think that the man who is directing operations should have a fair say. [More…]

• I think that at least a representative from each manufacturing State with additional representatives from States such as Victoria, which produces about 60 per cent of the total butter manufacture, should be on the Corporation. [More…]

• For instance, Professor Keith Campbell, a man with the acid kind of logic that would not go down too well in Parliament, does clarify people’s thinking. [More…]

• In a report in the ‘Agricultural Economist’ journal of December last he spelt out, as one would expect him to do with this kind of awful logic, the fact that tariffs were instituted to redistribute income from the exporting sector to the manufacturing sector. [More…]

• Under the terms of the legislation the Ombudsman is empowered, after investigation of a complaint, if he feels that a decision of a department or an officer of a department should be reversed or should be mitigated in some way, to so advise the department. [More…]

• Far from the establishment of the office of Ombudsman taking the grievances of individual citizens out of the concern of Parliament. [More…]

• In addition to the power of the Ombudsman to report to Parliament in respect of specific investigations there is provision in the legislation for an annual report to be furnished to Parliament. [More…]

• While it is true that specifically the ombudsman has no power to change a decision, the mere fact that one man, given the independence and the statutory protection of a special Act of Parliament, will be given power to go behind the exterior of government to investigate complaints and to talk to Ministers and to departmental heads, indicates that he will be a very significant person in the Administrative processes of our nation. [More…]

• I think we all realise that the success of the Ombudsman will in many ways depend on the type of person who is appointed to the position. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bennelong cited the case of New Zealand which has Sir Guy Powles a man of wide administrative experience, legal experience and diplomatic experience, who was ideally suited to the role he had to play. [More…]

• In fact, he was consulted by both Canada and the United Kingdom with regard to the role of ombudsman. [More…]

• The husband of the lady in question- a doctor, a man of repute- was known favourably in the community. [More…]

• On 8 August 1 974 the man was advised by the insurance company that his policy had been reinstated arid that, to quote the letter that was received, ‘full protection is again in operation’. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Did the Prime Minister say 7 months ago that the present Treasurer was the best man for the job? [More…]

• The people of the Northern Territory are fortunate in this regard because they are represented in the Parliament by a man of the Territory, who grew up with the Territory and who has been associated with it in the most profound aspects of pioneering and realistic experience, and that is what really matters. [More…]

• The then Senator Murphy, the Attorney-General and highest law officer of the land, the man who, with the Prime Minister, should most protect the Constitution, carried out this raid himself. [More…]

• We remember the occasion when the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), a man given to dictatorial or commissar-like habits, defied the Chair. [More…]

• I think that the Prime Minister personally is a man of complete integrity. [More…]

• Mr John Cummins is a young man who has been with the Committee for some time now. [More…]

• Marine ecosystems, especially the rich inshore parts, are vital to the survival of many species- including man. [More…]

• If the Government is as good as the Prime Minister, from his own statement, seems to believe, why all the problems and difficulties of the last week, why the need to restructure the Government tonight or tomorrow; why the need, as we are told by the Press, to sack yet another Treasurer, who the Prime Minister said 6 months ago was the best man for the job? [More…]

• There were 6 million man days lost due to industrial unrest last year and a record deficit of $2000m. [More…]

• He is a very truthful and honourable man. [More…]

• Through you, Mr Chairman, I direct my remarks to the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby). [More…]

• Could the Deputy Ombudsman for the Northern Territorywhen we get down to the greater detail of this office- have his authority extended to other parts of adjacent areas of northern Australia? [More…]

• There will be a major ombudsman and two deputy ombudsmen, one in the Northern Territory and one in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• For instance, there are matters affecting Aborigines and there are domestic matters which come within an area somewhere in between the authority of the member of Parliament or the official statutory authority and the ombudsman. [More…]

• An ombudsman would not adjudicate but he would advise. [More…]

• People who have spent their entire lives in the remote areas are much more comfortable going to a man who has the office of an ombudsman. [More…]

• I shall conclude on this note: There is an even greater need to select a suitable person to be a deputy ombudsman. [More…]

• Senator Milliner was a quiet man who impressed his colleagues with his sincerity and earned the respect of members of both chambers and on both sides of the House. [More…]

• He had a reputation for being a conscientious and industrious executive of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Labor Party and these qualities were displayed during his membership of the Joint Standing Committee on the Australian Capital Territory from 1970 and during his period as Chairman of that Committee from 1973. [More…]

• While the record of his public life and his political career has been placed before the House this afternoon, many of us will remember him principally as a family man. [More…]

• Prior to becoming a paid officer of the Printing Industry Employees Union he gave many long years of honorary service to that Union, which is now the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]

• He was always a very fair and impartial man and he ensured that the best democratic traditions of the Australian Labor Party were upheld. [More…]

• He was active, as indeed other members of bis family have been, for very many years in the Masonic Lodge. [More…]

• I am sure that many people in Brisbane, in callings and in areas of the community quite outside the Labor Party, will long remember Bert Milliner. [More…]

• I am sure that honourable members on both sides of the House will long remember Bert Milliner not only as a colleague, whether in Government or in Opposition, but also as a fine family man, a good citizen and a fine friend. [More…]

• For it is upon the very question of proper parliamentary conduct that the one authentic event in a week of squalid intrigue turned- not the pseudo events of the media but the one definite event, tremendous in the life of a party, of a nation; supremely tragic in the life of a man. [More…]

• The fault was grievous, but it lies not in his integrity or reputation as a man of honour. [More…]

• Knowing the matter was to break he wanted to label it all on one man. [More…]

• Why did they go to a man like Khemlani when all advice and all experience indicated that substantial Middle East funds are available only through the most reputable sources? [More…]

• Why did they go to a man like Khemlani when British and American negotiations have been directly ministerial at the highest levels and when the Bank of England confirms that Middle East money does go through traditional and responsible sources? [More…]

• Why did they go to a man like Khemlani when all advice was that the money was not available? [More…]

• Is he a man incapable any longer of confronting, knowing and understanding the simple truth. [More…]

• I asked there and then why the Treasurer’s name was not included, out of respect to the man because that was his function. [More…]

• This firm has been for many years the legal advisers in the United Kingdom to the Australian Government. [More…]

• Separate Treasury inquiries, which were unknown to me- and I give the lie to the sneers and smears and innuendoes of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), the hero of water torture in Vietnam and bastardisation in Duntroon, who called this man a convicted criminal- revealed the man’s integrity. [More…]

• In addition, further inquiries were made, all of which were designed to smear this man. [More…]

• I am an honest man. [More…]

• The Prime Minister stands today, in this debate, as a man condemned for aiding and abetting a web of half truths and continuing fabrications. [More…]

• The danger of giving one man- not the Treasurer- immense and unrestrained power has never been more apparent. [More…]

• This country has been the deliberate and sustained target of funny money dealers from all parts of the earth, with cheques for commissions of $20m to be drawn on the First National City Bank and hundreds of mandates and authorities circulating like confetti in the name of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Sometime late in December or early January, I received a phone call from a man well known to me, Mr Roger Lockwood, who said that he knew of a source of funds for a project I was involved in but first he asked if I had in my employ a man named George Harris. [More…]

• I ask the House, the Government and the nation: As Treasurer of this nation was I or was I not able and qualified to give 2 letters to a man apparently of the best standing, but enterprising and active, to inquire about overseas loans and to report back to me? [More…]

• That man has written above his own signature as late as 2 June, and has widely stated in the media, that he never had any right or authority in excess of that or ever intended to assert or use it. [More…]

• I have tabled a statutory declaration made by a man, at considerable risk to himself, who says that he is a supporter of the Liberal Party and an opponent of the Labor Party but that he is convinced that a great injustice has been done. [More…]

• All I can say is that I have a clear and positive recollection of rejecting a proposal for a 2y2 per cent brokerage fee put to me by a man who at that time I trusted. [More…]

• I think all of us in this House would agree that the honourable member for Lalor is a man of great resilience, of great courage and, indeed, of considerable persuasion. [More…]

• The Press can build a man up; but provided he has a sound case and strength of character the Press cannot destroy him. [More…]

• It seems that because he was a man of integrity and standing and was prepared to take the advice of his Treasury officials, who have provided the normal and orthodox channels for raising loans overseas, he was discharged from his office and put in another position. [More…]

• It is becoming clear now that the Minister for Minerals and Energy is the man responsible because he has wanted to nationalise the industry, and he has managed to link in the Prime Minister with his socialist philosophies. [More…]

• This debate raises a question which man has constantly had to face. [More…]

• It is about whether the Government has acted in a way which commands respect and support at home and abroad. [More…]

• If a man was to be paid commission for performing services for the Commonwealth it should have come out of Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• I have given this matter the most careful thought but I cannot believe that any honest man could advise the GovernorGeneral to approve of that minute if he knew that the borrowings were for 20 years and were to meet the long term energy purposes of the Government. [More…]

• I do not believe an honest man could do it. [More…]

• That man should be called before the Privileges Committee of this Parliament to explain why he quoted only part of a letter and left out another part. [More…]

• Treasurer yet motivated that man with money to make accusations that something was wrong and to involve Gerathy. [More…]

• This matter concerns not just the loan dealings of the one man who has been sacked. [More…]

• There is a significant discrepancy- a discrepancy which puts one law for those who are in office against that applied to the man who has been dismissed. [More…]

• Two significant questions within the responsibility of the Prime Minister remain to be answered with respect to all the borrowings initiated by the former Treasurer, a man who I believe believes that he was honest in the statement that he made to this House on 5 June and a man who I believe far more, I am afraid, than I believe either the Prime Minister or the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• The honourable member for Scullin is a man of integrity, a virtue he demonstrated when he stood down as a Deputy Chairman of Committees this year over a matter that has forced all honourable members on both sides of this House to re-examine their conceptions and understanding of the chairmanship of this House. [More…]

• The carriage of wheat from the mainland to Tasmania will be subsidised to the extent of about $1.8m. [More…]

• Every Tasmanian family is receiving from the present Government a subsidy of about $80 a year. [More…]

• On a per capita basis that represents about $22 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]

• Therefore, I will call in aid for the argument which I put the words of the Leader of the Government, the very man who introduced this legislation. [More…]

• Can he say what the taxpayer in question, a family man, has gained as a result not only of current Budget measures but also of earlier tax cuts and the introduction of Medibank? [More…]

• The latest cuts follow cutsagain I am not aware of the order of the cuts for a man on that income with 4 children, but they were substantial cuts- made earlier this calendar year which benefited the average weekly earner with 2 children and a wife by the order of some $6 a week. [More…]

• The views of Professor Henderson and of many other worthy people who are involved in and committed to the welfare field and who have expressed their concern about the less well off in our community were vastly influential in the decision-making which resulted in the personal tax measures announced last night. [More…]

• For instance, a man with a wife and 2 children, on average weekly earnings, who makes average claims for deductions under the taxation scheme, with a taxable income of $5,372 will make no tax contribution under the new scheme. [More…]

• It is a program that supports the family man. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that other costs to come in almost immediately from the Budget, such as petrol, beer, cigarettes, postage and telephone charges, will in fact disadvantage the average family man that he keeps talking about? [More…]

• Members of the Labor Party kept it a close secret I remind the Minister that the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), who is the member concerned and a leading supporter of the Labor Party- he has just come into the chambera man I suppose whose views have to be listened to a little because he is a former President of the Australian Labor Party, had this to say: [More…]

• This is the man who received all this money and did not tell anybody. [More…]

• Surely, as a man of high principle- we know that the Prime Minister is a man of very high principlewhy has he not offered to the Parliament, since he has been the Leader and Deputy Leader of his Party, a list of all the sources? [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman was a man of integrity. [More…]

• A man of honour would say: ‘I am prepared to disclose to my peers, to my electors, the source of my funds’. [More…]

• Finding the right man for the Ombudsman post could well prove even more difficult than drawing the legislation constituting his office and detailing his powers and functions. [More…]

• I say to the honourable member for Wentworth that the Government certainly will take into account his description of the qualities required of an ombudsman. [More…]

• It is a matter of considerable concern to us that he should be the right person, man or woman. [More…]

• -Being a modest man I do not want to make any further comment in that direction. [More…]

• Many factors have contributed to the decline of the defence capacity of this nation. [More…]

• The ambition of Sir Arthur Tange- in my opinion it has been his ambition for many years- is to have the Service chiefs and their responsibilities subjugated to civilian control. [More…]

• When that happened I looked at Lance Barnard and thought: ‘This man has been given some God-given capacity to handle an impossible task’. [More…]

• The Government is attempting to centralise power in the hands of one man. [More…]

• On a conservative estimate that means that we have probably lost approximately 10 000 man years of experience. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Kennedy so rightly pointed out, when speaking of Dr Millar we are dealing with a man with substantial prestige in this area. [More…]

• It is perhaps a pity that this Government which found Dr Millar quite capable of presenting a report on the school cadets and the reserve forces did not put the same gentleman to work on the Tange Committee. [More…]

• Neither does the military man. [More…]

• But I do say to the Minister, who served with me in the diplomatic service many years ago, that I question how he, with all his capacity and with the assistance of one man- I believe he has an assistant somewhere else- is going to be able to do the work which 5 ministers did in the previous governments of this nation. [More…]

• I question, as have all the honourable members on this side of the House who have spoken in this debate, how one man can possibly handle the work of five. [More…]

• In its present text, the directive to the CDFS states, ‘Under normal circumstances you are to exercise your command through the Chiefs of Staff, using appropriate staff channels or through the appointed commander of a joint force or joint Service unit. ‘ [More…]

• Such a commonsense arrangement scarcely makes the CDFS the extraordinary appointment which you claim, or make the responsibilities and complications of decision making at the top far too great for one man. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff was likewise appointed not by the Labor Government but by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]

• Those two men, who have the expertise in the actual administration of departments and the actual command of forces, have put forward this proposition, which is a proposition that the Government has supported. [More…]

• When Sir Thomas Blarney became the supreme commander of the Australian forces in 1942 the very first act that he undertook was to abolish the Army Military Board. [More…]

• What we have done is to imbue the man who is the commander of the defence force with a statutory authority. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff- the present No. [More…]

• 1 serviceman in Australia- has no statutory authority. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable member for Moreton and the other honourable gentlemen who sit opposite do not believe that the commander of an Australian force should be there by a convention but believe that his position should be there by a statute of this Parliament in which his powers are laid out by the elected representatives of the Australian people so that in the event of a crisis he may thoroughly command the Australian forces. [More…]

• That is that man stands alone and stands for himself and to hell with anyone else; that what happens to others is their fault and their responsibility. [More…]

• There is now double the staff on double the salaries with double the degrees, with every office machine and aid known to man and with a vast Public Service back-up. [More…]

• Here is this man, because of the problem of inflation and because he believes that the Government’s stocks are down in the electorate, thinking that he will inherit the mantle of the Primeministership. [More…]

• How could anybody trust this man? [More…]

• The whole tone of his addresses on so many occasions now has been against what he terms government interference in the lives of Australians, which is just so much rubbish. [More…]

• He said in his speech that the tax on average weekly earnings should be reduced for the average working man. [More…]

• This is particularly appalling for the average working man who is faced with the cost of repair of one of these transmissions. [More…]

• Today most repairers demand the vehicle or the cash. [More…]

• This is not really the owner’s responsibility but that of the manufacturer. [More…]

• Perhaps one reason why the manufacturer has not made the owner aware of this policy is that he could be the second or third owner of the car. [More…]

• First of all, a statement was made by the gentleman to whom I referred on 3 June, Mr Gamal el-Surani, who was the man to whom the visa was granted. [More…]

• I sum up by referring to the honourable gentleman’s own definition. [More…]

• There is not one matter there which falls under a matter of command that could not, without resorting to any fertility of imagination, be put under a matter of administration. [More…]

• The smears which came from the Government benches last evening to the views offered by two of the greatest commanders in history, Montgomery and Wavell, do no credit to a Government which dimisses the views of men of courage and of character by saying: ‘Ha! [More…]

• If a man of the eminence of Field-Marshal Wavell puts administration ahead of tactics, then I think it is at least incumbent upon the Commonwealth Minister for Defence to offer an explanation to us why it is in this apparently confused area, the Government is reluctant to give information. [More…]

• An Australian Deputy Commander took up duty at North West Cape on 19 July 1974 while a Royal Australian Navy contingent of 47 officers and men will be posted to the station before the end of next month. [More…]

• Fourteen of these will man the Australian communications centre. [More…]

• I am glad to see the Minister for the Capital Territory, a man for whom I have the greatest respect in his dealings with Aborigines. [More…]

• For example, in January 1973 he said that Labor had a mandate and a duty to maintain the American alliance. [More…]

• The man must be a human hiccup or some other form of arrangement who goes to and fro from time to time, if he can say that on the one hand and yet on the other hand describe it as obnoxious. [More…]

• Maybe he is simply a humanised form of the well known yo-yo. [More…]

• Let me explain to the people of Australia who are listening, and even to the Minister, that the product of what he said, the innuendo- the treachery assertion which is despicable for the man and the Minister and indicative of the low minded attitude of so many of those who currently and temporarily hold sway as Ministers of the Government- indicates that incompetently they have gone out and preached their philosophy and have returned to this House and denied a product of this ministerial negotiation. [More…]

• -I am glad to hear the honourable member contribute his two penn’orth, but I suspect that we will have within the ranks of the Government many who, if they agree with what they have asserted, will vote against this measure tonight because they have not been able to implement in any way the product of their policy. [More…]

• This particular negotiation, as honourable members will recall, came immediately after three of the senior Ministers of the Government- mind you, some of them have since had their day- denigrated the man and the administration of the United States. [More…]

• On the one hand the Government says that it supports ANZUS; yet on the other hand we hear a speech such as that made a moment ago by the Minister for the Capital Territorya man who for the time being is a Minister in the Government. [More…]

• When Sir Robert Menzies endeavoured to play down this communications station by saying that it was merely a radio station, it was pointed out to him that it was more important than one or two nuclear submarines; that it was a radio station that could communicate with 15 to 20 nuclear submarines as a result of the sole decision of one man, without Australia having any say in it whatsoever. [More…]

• It is with considerable pleasure that I rise- not because it is the obsequy of the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) but because, in spite of the love that he so often demonstrates for me and my Party colleagues who sit in Possum Corner, we respect the man for his contribution and for his years of service. [More…]

• We also, of course, respect the other honourable member who I understand celebrates today his 30th year in this place and who is not present at the moment- the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• He is a man whose parliamentary wit and wisdom keeps us in good humor- at times- and on other occasions stirs us to the point where we sometimes wish that he had seen fit to resign his seat long before his 32nd year in this Parliament. [More…]

• Leader where a Labor man has dominated the front page. [More…]

• I want to say here that Australia is fortunate in having a man of the quality and high integrity of this officer negotiating in every available avenue of trade. [More…]

• The keenness of the Ministers of the German Democratic Republic to trade was kindled, but it was equally matched by [More…]

• The recommendations made by the independent chairman, Sir Walter Scott- a man of probity whose reputation in the business world in Australia and overseas is beyond reproach and who has served on many major committees as chairman or member during the past 35 to 40 years- have not been accepted by the Government and at this stage the Government has made no effort to carry out its obligations under the agreement to go to arbitration on the issues in dispute, notwithstanding the fact that requests have been made by the Pharmacy Guild, the other partner to the agreement, that the agreement made by the Government should be honoured. [More…]

• Indeed, last Thursday, when speaking to the Bill requiring manufacturers to disclose their costs of pharmaceuticals, he made a point of the fact that he would be willing to have arbitration available in the event of disputes. [More…]

• Since Labor came to power taxes have taken a 25 per cent bigger proportion of his wages from the man on average weekly earnings. [More…]

• This in turn has been a major factor in the explosion of wage and salary demands which have depressed company profits to the point where there are no longer sufficient funds to expand production and investment and create jobs. [More…]

• The family man with a wife and 2 children on average earnings last year paid 12 per cent of his income in tax. [More…]

• The tax burden on the man on average earnings increases by 25 per cent under the new scheme. [More…]

• If this man were paying off a house his position would be even worse. [More…]

• When the honourable gentleman was referring to the amount of $1,350 which is the taxation exemption granted to all taxpayers and which reduces their taxation by $540, he stated that most people’s education expenditure would be within that $1,350 and therefore there was no gain to them. [More…]

• It deals with the man who was engaged at 12 o’clock and who worked through the heat of the day and other man who was engaged late in the evening. [More…]

• The upper middle-class people for whom the honourable gentleman normally speaks would have the full $1,350 taken up in insurance, superannuation and matters like that. [More…]

• Above all I have a pride in Vincent Lingiari, old man of the Gurindji tribe, receiving a handful of earth from the Prime Minister of Australia 2 weeks ago. [More…]

• The man’s name is Mr Angelo Gis.mondi That gentleman has failed to appear for an interview and medical examination at the Australian Embassy in Rome. [More…]

• Had the gentleman been able to meet the normal conditions for migrant entry he would have been accepted, but he did not meet those conditions. [More…]

• They go around their electorates like roaring lions complaining about what we used to do in government in handling the Tasmanian problem. [More…]

• That is how good they are to Tasmania. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot is the man who sent around a telegram urging an uprising of the Tasmanian members of Parliament on this question. [More…]

• They are the honourable members who, when the Australian Shipping Commission Act was being changed, made great political capital out of the fact that under the new section 17 of the Act the Minister and the Labor Government would be able to solve all Tasmania’s problems because they would be able to subsidise any freight rates in Tasmania and would be able to maintain a steady level of freight rates. [More…]

• Wm Holyman & Sons Pty Ltd is basically owned by the Union Steam Ship Co. [More…]

• It is one of the major shareholders in Holyman. [More…]

• It is the same company which owns Holyman and it is the same company which owns the Wanaka. [More…]

• In 1971 he approved the Mary Holyman coming on to the coastal service on the condition that it was replaced within 2 years with an Australian built ship. [More…]

• 1 am a terrible man, am I not, with horns and a tail- the lot? [More…]

• When we talk about the Wanaka we are talking about the Union Steam Ship Co. because it has a major shareholding in Holyman and owns the Wanaka. [More…]

• It is compounded even more by the fact that the mover of this amendment is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), the same man who the day before the Budget was announced by the Government was writing in an article in The Australian about the need for a smaller deficit. [More…]

• and ‘I’m all right, Jack’ attitude, which presupposes one ‘s enmity against one ‘s fellow man. [More…]

• It ignores man’s reliance on all other people and the fact that social relationships have encouraged and developed a growing interdependence from person to person. [More…]

• We rejected this course, for the aim of good government should be to recognise the totality of man’s individual needs. [More…]

• The basic human rights- to work, to establish a family and to enjoy the benefits of creative leisure- are not privileges for the few although there are those who think they are. [More…]

• Services are what are in demand in economies such as ours. [More…]

• There are many imbalances in an economy such as ours now. [More…]

• Many people are on $100 a week and some are on $600 a week but all have the same requirements and needs. [More…]

• A man on an income of $5,000 with a dependent wife and 2 children will pay nothing. [More…]

• What does the man in the street get from this Budget? [More…]

• How does it help him to meet the inroads of inflation in managing his own weekly budget? [More…]

• Every Australian, especially every working man and woman, must realise that to finance this Government’s grandiose and often wasteful schemes the Government not only has to tax those with means and wealth but also has to reach down to tax the average man and woman. [More…]

• Yet the Leader of the National Country Party is in the Parliament today worrying about the problems of the person who, in his mind, is the so-called little man because he cannot afford to pay his way. [More…]

• It means that no man lives to himself, that every man who lives in a community is a member of that community. [More…]

• Opposition spokesmen whom we have heard in this debate would make Jeremiah, the prophet of gloom, by contrast appear to be the happiest man in the Old Testament. [More…]

• John Shaw, the Time magazine man who is now looking over Australia, says that he knows of no other country in the world where people are so ready to blame the government for their problems. [More…]

• Even the softdrink manufacturers attacked us the other day because not so many people were buying softdrinks. [More…]

• All he has done is to slug the small man hard- [More…]

• It fails because the present Government, made up of men and women who allegedly represent the working man, have been unable to recognise the needs of people as they exist in 1975. [More…]

• It has increased the price of the working man’s luxuries by imposing an additional tax on beer and cigarettes. [More…]

• What an indictment of this man. [More…]

• It deserves the derision of every man, woman and child who lives outside the cities, and it has got it. [More…]

• In Australia the horse that is ill-treated has been not only the institutions of private enterprise or the institutions of public corporations but also the Australian working man who has not been able to find work. [More…]

• He made the point that the man was an army officer, that they did not want army officers here, and so he was refused. [More…]

• The man also had qualifications in civil engineering. [More…]

• The Minister went on to say that it was found that there was no demand for such qualifications. [More…]

• How can he say that there was no demand in Australia when that had already been seen to? [More…]

• The Minister mentioned that the man had not presented himself for a medical examination. [More…]

• The honourable member thinks he is a very funny man but it has not got him anywhere so far. [More…]

• So the Queensland Central Executive, given the fact that Dr Mai Colston had submitted his name to the people on 2 former occasions as a Senate candidate, felt it wise to select this man who had, as I have said, twice previously submitted himself to the will of the people. [More…]

• Consequently the Labor Party felt that it had an obligation to select a man who was, if I might use the term, next cab off the rank on 2 previous occasions. [More…]

• If that point of view is put, why is it that that demand is made of the Australian Labor Party but not of the Liberal Party? [More…]

• There was great resentment in the Australian Labor Party because the Party itself was not able to select its own candidate, the man to take the place of the Labor senator who had passed away. [More…]

• Let me take the House forward a little to the time when Bob Sherrington, a man greatly admired on all sides of the House and a Liberal senator from north Queensland, passed away. [More…]

• I considered that his Party owed him an obligation as the man who had submitted himself to the people and who would have been elected next if his team had polled more votes. [More…]

• He is a man who made great sacrifice in order to come into this Parliament. [More…]

• He was the last man on the ticket. [More…]

• I ask the House and the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Riordan) who is at the table and who is, I think, a very fair and reasonable man, to consider this matter. [More…]

• All the revenue measures to which we have devoted so very many days and weeks of consideration and in respect of which, in their first reaction, the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition came out with some particularly vitriolic blasts, are now endorsed and accepted. [More…]

• One has to look at the wording of the statements of the Leader of the Opposition particularly carefully because if one has one’s statements drafted by a man like Michael Baume one cannot be surprised if one ends up with a faulty prospectus. [More…]

• It is no wonder that there is no confidence in the administrative capacity and the management of the Labor Government. [More…]

• He has sent in a man I admire. [More…]

• Former Treasurer Frank Crean, sacked by the same man, is now sent in to bat for the discredited views, policies, distortions, misrepresentations and lies that he has put - [More…]

• In normal circumstances I find the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), who has just spoken, to be a very kindly man; but today he seemed to speak with simulated indignation and he used extravagant words, one of which he had to withdraw. [More…]

• However, the bells toll for another man, the Prime Minister, and if he were a man of conscience he would get up and get out now. [More…]

• Being a young man myself I endorse also his approach to this problem. [More…]

• It was a big man’s Budget containing $500m in tax concessions alone to the huge industries of this country. [More…]

• What about the $10m that the Opposition spokesman on defence has promised to restore school cadets? [More…]

• This is only one of many such instances. [More…]

• If you have a man like that writing the Opposition’s speeches on the Budget, and he has been writing the prospectus and other things for Patrick Partners, why would not this Fraser Budget be a misleading Budget for the Australian people? [More…]

• It reflects little credit on the man who for a short time remains a member of the Ministry that he denigrates anybody who tries to look at the past as well as the future. [More…]

• I think one man driving a car- often a six or eight-cylinder car- to work and parking it on a valuable piece of real estate aU day is a most blatant misuse of resources. [More…]

• Earlier this year they saw the Whitlam Labor Government abolish the home savings grant scheme which, under previous Liberal-Country Party governments, had helped many thousands of young couples obtain the initial deposit for their own home. [More…]

• Inflation eats into their savings, as does the tax man. [More…]

• A young man earning $7,000 a year, with no children and a working wife, saving to buy a home will pay an additional $256 in direct income tax as a result of this Budget in the coming year. [More…]

• The inescapable fact is that those costs will compound the difficulties that many Australians have in making ends meet. [More…]

• It is quite extraordinary that this Government, which came into office pretending to be the champion of the so-called little man, shows a savage disregard for the impositions placed upon the relatively modest indulgences of the majority of Australians Certainly, if the wage earner believes that he can fund these personal expenditures from promised tax savings he is in for a disappointment. [More…]

• It is in this area that the little man, by personal initiative and energy, can elevate himself from the often stifling routine of mundane employment. [More…]

• In a Budget of $22,000m and with a national debt increase this year of $2,464m, bringing the national debt to a total of $ 17,770m, is it any wonder that the people of Australia are befuddled and confused as to the full purport and application of a monetary system which should be working in conjunction with a conscientious government for man instead of making man a slave to the system? [More…]

• The example is also given of a man with a nonworking wife and 2 children. [More…]

• For a man with a dependent wife, a dependent student child and one dependent non-student child with $613 concessional deductions apart from deductions for dependants would save $308 on an income of $6,000 per annum. [More…]

• At the time the quorum was called I was detailing some examples of the tax savings which the average family man would receive under the tax reforms contained in the Hayden Budget. [More…]

• I repeat that for a man with a dependent wife, a dependent student child and one dependent non-student child with $613 concessional deductions apart from deductions for dependants, would save $308 on an income of $6,000 per annum; $251 on $7,000 per annum; $254 on $8,000 per annum; $318 on $9,000 per annum; and $430 on $10,000 per annum. [More…]

• Incidentally, a single man with no dependants and no concessional deductions would make a saving of$100 per annum. [More…]

• At one stage the wife of a Commonwealth public servant could receive training and very substantial financial support while a man who had a family to support could be rejected for retraining- and many were rejected. [More…]

• He does not believe that any man but himself is competent to make decisions about his own destiny. [More…]

• How can it be a confidence trick for lower income earners and the family man who Will pay less tax? [More…]

• There can be no deception when each claimant, whether rich or poor, gets exactly the same rebate for education expenses. [More…]

• These are the basic questions of equality and fairness and it is time that the burdens of tax policy were directed away from lower income earners and the family man, those who really need help in our community. [More…]

• No economic system known to the experience of man will survive attempts to undermine it. [More…]

• A married man in receipt of an income of $7,000 a year- not a large sum- with a dependent wife and 2 children will, under this new Budget, pay $427 less in this year- 1975-76- than he paid in the year 1974-75. [More…]

• It was put forward with a great deal of enthusiasm by the Government as something that would help the man on the land. [More…]

• This man put a car in for service. [More…]

• But he was the man who did it unilaterally. [More…]

• We can gather from the very few words he said on the matter under questioning in the House that the action was required because there are very many people on the other side of politics- on this side presumably- both within the Parliament and outside it who will try to exacerbate divisions within the community. [More…]

• With the economic conditions of today not many migrants are being permitted to enter Australia, even for family reunions. [More…]

• The man did not know what he was talking about. [More…]

• Before I go further I would like to mention Lance Barnard, the man I follow here. [More…]

• Lance Barnard over many years gained an excellent reputation for the way in which he helped people in the electorate of Bass. [More…]

• The present Opposition, led by that man of inherited wealth, the honourable member for Wannon, is the most conservative and reactionary since pre-Menzies days. [More…]

• They are not concerned for the small man. [More…]

• It must be to the despair of members of the Labor Government that they are headed by a man who refuses to address himself or who cannot address himself to the economic problems of the nation. [More…]

• If you stick in Parliament as long as I have, my son, you will stay a very capable and able man and ambitious man. [More…]

• Give me any day the man who has proven his ability to run a farm rather than a Prime Minister who has spent all his years here in Canberra, the centre of the public servants, with his head in the clouds, unrealistic, indulging in a parliamentary career, and without any appreciation of the problems which confront the ordinary people of Australia. [More…]

• If ever there was an indication that socialism is not a goer it is the manner in which this country has been administered in the last 2 years and particularly in the last few months. [More…]

• The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and President of the Australian Labor Party organisation- the same man, Mr Hawke- does not enjoy being at variance with the Australian Labor Party when it is in power, but he sees the weaknesses and the unrealities which exist in the implementation of policies of the present Government. [More…]

• This afternoon we heard the maiden speech of the honourable member for Bass (Mr Newman). [More…]

• I was speaking to a very old man the other day who lived through the last Depression. [More…]

• He is a very old man; he calls me ‘me boy’. [More…]

• The Queensland Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, reaffirmed today that the Queensland Parliament would follow convention and appoint an Australian Labor Party man to replace the late Senator Bertie Milliner. [More…]

• I am told that on every previous occasion when any kind of vacancy has had to be Med the Labor Party in Queensland has demanded that there be a choice of names. [More…]

• The new senator will be a Labor Party man. [More…]

• There is simply no substance in this motion at all which is based on a report that the replacement might not be a Labor Party man. [More…]

• Was it not this Prime Minister who tried to run this country for a while with a 2-man government? [More…]

• I refer to such persons as Spigelman, Wilenski and Menadue. [More…]

• Was it not a breach of convention and an act of outright dishonesty and deception to allow a man to sit and vote in the Senate knowing that he was no longer a member of the Senate? [More…]

• This Government has much to blame itself for in the present problems because it has made the States so sensitive as a result of its attitude on many issues. [More…]

• Of course, the Government probably never got over the fact that on that occasion the Premier, with the aid of Senator Wood, outmanoeuvred it completely and made that Utile move quite unsuccessful. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has made it perfectly clear that he believes convention should be followed and will be followed and that a Labor man will be selected. [More…]

• I was delighted to see that two of the Liberal members- Mr Hewitt, the member for Chatsworth and Mr Kaus, the member for Mansfield- who represent State electorates in my electorate were men of principle who had the decency last week to support the attitude that the man to be endorsed for the casual vacancy in the Senate should be Dr Colston, the Labor nominee. [More…]

• Perhaps his only reason is that that is the type of man he is. [More…]

• The double standard is shown in 1975 when a Labor man is required to fill the casual vacancy in the Senate. [More…]

• It gives the Liberal and National Country parties an opportunity to disown the attitude taken by the Premier of Queensland who seeks to create the impression that it is his intention to recommend that a Labor senator replace the late Senator Milliner in this Parliament and yet who puts upon the Labor Party and the Parliament such conditions which, if met, would mean that only one man could come here as a Labor senator. [More…]

• This man became Leader of the Labor Party in Queensland. [More…]

• Have honourable members ever heard of a man named Ian Allan who represented the electorate of Gwydir? [More…]

• B. Howse, Dame Enid Lyons, Mr MacKinnon, Sir Hubert Opperman, the honourable Hugh Roberton, Sir Percy Spender, the honourable Sir Thomas White, Sir William Anderson, Mr E. J. Cameron, Sir Charles McGrath- the Commissioner of the Australian National Airlines Commission- Mr L. Moore, Sir John Pagan,- former President of the Liberal Party- Mr J. Serisier, the late Sir Donald Cleland, Sir Denham Henty- a former Liberal senator- Sir Alister McMullin, Dame Annabelle Rankin and Dame Ivy Wedgwood. [More…]

• Where is this great leader, this great outspoken man and the new Australia he is going to lead us to? [More…]

• They must be fierce to look at because their performance is absolutely rotten, but still they have frightened heU out of the Liberals. [More…]

• Is the Government directly attacking the working man’s drink or is this one of the things which the Government has simply forgotten and the Government has not done its sums? [More…]

• Indeed if the Government so truculently claims to have a mandate to implement virtually any whim or dogma, surely it should accept that it has a mandate or contract to keep its word and to keep faith with the Australian people whose vote it courted. [More…]

• It was this Government particularly through its main spokesman, the man who pro tem is the Prime Minister and head of Government when he is in Australia, which made unwarranted, unsubstantiated and untrue claims, in relation to these matters, about our coalition parties. [More…]

• He was forced to admit that the downturn in world activity was reflected in only muted fashion in the demand for Australian exports. [More…]

• No less a man than the Treasurer has exploded and dismissed that discredited theme and no less a man than the Treasurer has virtually admitted that the present disasters constitute a mess of the Government’s own making stemming from its complete incompetence and incapacity to govern. [More…]

• It has meant about $5 a week that the average man does not now have to find. [More…]

• Again, that corresponds with the forecast of Lewis Weeks, the man who advised Esso-BHP group where to go to drill in Bass Strait. [More…]

• I am looking for the precision not appropriate to a man with legal training, but the precision which is told to the Minister by those people who, I presume, have technical training in the field. [More…]

• So here we have the real substance of the man who dresses up his opposition to public expenditure by saying that he is in favour of freedom of choice and that the provision of services by a government is in some way inimical to freedom of choice. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child in the community benefits from it, and it is necessary that problems of local government be studied seriously and that realistic decisions regarding assistance be made. [More…]

• There is a limit to what the community can pay in rate charges and many, if not all, local authorities are finding it extremely difficult to remain reasonably solvent. [More…]

• The new tax system substantially lowers the tax burden on the lower and middle income family man and exempts 500 000 current taxpayers from paying any tax at all because it will lift substantially minimum taxable income levels. [More…]

• It outlays an amount of $22,000m, which is approximately equal to $1,398 for each man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• Development does not mean, as the socialists opposite seem to think, only something in the pockets of the rich man or the businessman. [More…]

• Unless the businessman makes his profits, unless a business is viable, we do not have employment. [More…]

• The sooner Government supporters realise that one can spend a dollar only once and the Government cannot go spending millions of dollars on all sorts of things without having some strong private sector enterprise, the sooner they will understand the way to manage the economy of Australia. [More…]

• I know that I am probably only repeating what has been said many times over, but it is a fact that this Government is allocating this year $ 1,445m towards the cost of Medibank. [More…]

• I suppose that a family man would save about $5 a week. [More…]

• In the Treasurer’s Budget, the working man has been slugged with indirect taxes to pay for Medibank. [More…]

• As my colleague, the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) said earlier today, the beer drinker, the worker in this country, will have to drink sarsaparilla because of the imposts on him by the Labor Government. [More…]

• The working man will have to pay 6c more for a packet of cigarettes and 10c a gallon more for his petrol. [More…]

• He is the man who promises the lot, but he is yet to convince Cabinet of anything. [More…]

• I am confident that Bill Hayden, as he is a young man, will be introducing many Labor budgets in this Parliament. [More…]

• Prior to the election to office of a Labor Government in 1 972 many discrepancies existed throughout Australia’s social structure. [More…]

• The working man in Australia paid- in blood, sweat and tears. [More…]

• So Labor, when elected in 1972, set about the mighty task of serving the people of Australia in a humanitarian way. [More…]

• Many have been our critics- not all, I might add, from the Opposition. [More…]

• ‘Too much too soon’ got and still gets a popular hearing, although the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was heard to say on the eve of the Budget ‘too little too late’- that from a man whose party was loath to give even a little to those non-economic units in society, the old and the young. [More…]

• A man suffering from an overwhelming compulsion to believe what is not true. [More…]

• We have come to expect this attitude from a man who is the fastest talker in the House but who is the slowest to act. [More…]

• Unfortunately now, due to its poor management of the economy, the Government is forced to take restraint after having nearly bankrupted the country and we find that the building will probably never go ahead. [More…]

• Even if a farmer was a young man of 20 at the time he would now be 55. [More…]

• It is now being said that if a man perhaps has to collect a prescription for his wife who is home in bed he cannot collect it as the patient must collect it herself. [More…]

• I know the Leader of the Opposition as a very sincere man. [More…]

• He has been accused on numerous occasions of being the wealthiest man in this place. [More…]

• If a man in his capacity has the finance that all members of the Government Party say he has, why should he be worrying about the few thousand dollars he might pick up from the superphosphate bounty? [More…]

• The members of the Country Party in this House are distant from the farms and consequently have lost contact altogether with the poor farmer, the family farmer and the man who really needs assistance. [More…]

• He is a man who not only has considerable academic attainments but also has been in a position of authority, responsibility and confidentiality for very many years. [More…]

• I would certainly expect that the Queensland Public Service Board or the Police Commissionerwhoever has the responsibility- would see that the fair thing is done in relation to this man in the employment for which Dr Colston is eminently well qualified. [More…]

• He is under pressure to ease landtax, and a continued stubborn refusal even to talk to Canberra about railways will not give him the elbow-room he badly needs- or the reputation of being a reasonable man concerned to get the best for his State. [More…]

• Nobody in the small business world, whether he be a farmer or a small business man, would get a return of anywhere near 10 per cent. [More…]

• Because I believe that, I believe that it is also right and just that a small self-employed businessman should not be disadvantaged and should be able to receive some income to tide him over until the future prospects are brighter; he should not have his life ruined. [More…]

• He is the man who turns over hundreds of thousands of head. [More…]

• Then we have the very dignified and, I understand, one of the most wealthy men who has ever pulled on a political boot, who was in this House for many years and who always saw that his tie was correctly adjusted. [More…]

• I refer to Sir Alex Downer, the man who had a deer park on his property. [More…]

• The first is that it is no longer the rich who suffer according to this principle, but every working man and woman in Australia through the impact of taxation. [More…]

• A man on average weekly earnings whose income totals over $7,500 a year would have been on a marginal tax rate between 44 per cent and 48 per cent under the old scheme. [More…]

• It wanted to improve the lot of the working man. [More…]

• In December 1972, 2 billion man days- a lot of days and representing a lot of production and a lot of wages- were lost due to strikes. [More…]

• In 1974, after a couple of years of the Labor Administration- the friend of the unions- 6.3 billion man days were lost due to strikes. [More…]

• The number of man days lost increased from 2 billion in 1972 to 6.3 billion in 1974. [More…]

• I remind those honourable gentlemen that man does not live by bread alone. [More…]

• They ought to be proud that they are members of free enterprise parties when 290 companies are being investigated because of their activities in New South Wales, at the risk of more than $2 70m of public money going up the spout This represents more than $70 for every man, woman and child in New South Wales. [More…]

• The man who steals a packet of cigarettes is prosecuted immediately and branded for the rest of his life as a criminal if convicted. [More…]

• The man who robs the public of millions of dollars is treated like a gentleman while the investigators wend their way through the red tape of approvals. [More…]

• Many of these master criminals are able to escape justice by skipping the country. [More…]

• One man who lives in a mansion wants us to believe that his only asset is $4,000 worth of second hand furniture. [More…]

• Our attitude is that the earnings of a man or a woman from the work that they do is theirs primarily for their own benefit and use. [More…]

• We believe that there is enough good sense in the minds of the people to manage their own affairs well enough. [More…]

• In doing that we would be providing to the people, to the working man and woman of Australia an economic freedom which equates with personal freedom. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition quite properly demands for himself a basic requirement which his colleagues have for more than 2 years done their level best to deny this Government. [More…]

• It is predicated on the same assumption that the Leader of the Opposition demands for himself- the assumption that governments must be able to plan ahead for at least the term for which they were elected. [More…]

• What remains to be seen is whether or not he is really his own man. [More…]

• In any case, he chose as his typical taxpayer a man with 2 children earning $9,000 a year, who paid $1,000 a year in mortgage interest. [More…]

• I am perfectly happy to examine this man’s position by 3 measures- what will happen to him under our reforms, what would have happened to him had the taxation provisions of the last Liberal Budget prevailed, and what would happen to him under the proposals put forward by the Leader of the Opposition himself. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition calculated that under the new system, this man’s tax burden this year will be 12.2 per cent of his income. [More…]

• But if the taxation provisions of the last Liberal Budget had been retained, that man would pay not 12.2 per cent of his income, but 19 per cent. [More…]

• And further, if that taxation scale had been fully indexed for inflation, in precisely the manner recommended by the Mathews Committee and presumably accepted by the Leader of the Opposition, this taxpayer would have paid 13.9 per cent of his income in taxation this year as compared with the 12.2 per cent he will pay under our system. [More…]

• That is the kind of price the average man- the example of the Leader of the Oppositionwould pay for his proposals to enable people on the very highest incomes to continue to save 67 per cent of their expenditure on life premiums and school fees instead of the 40 per cent they and all other persons are allowed under the new system in this year’s Budget. [More…]

• They say that the plan provides great tax benefits to the family man with 3 children or more and that it is an invitation or acts as a direct inducement to parents with 2 children or more to go on and to ‘proliferate with a vengeance’ as they put it, with a third, fourth, fifth or sixth child and so on? [More…]

• It is a matter of sound economic management. [More…]

• In 1972, man days lost through industrial disputes totalled 2 million. [More…]

• In 1974 the number of days lost through industrial disputes had increased to 6.3 million man days. [More…]

• Over 90 per cent of the days lost have been as a result of wage demands. [More…]

• I am staggered that the honourable members from Tasmania should sit so still and silent in this place and not try to at least get the Minister for Transport or the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) to do something about the position. [More…]

• I thought that the Minister was a man of action, but clearly he is not. [More…]

• As honourable members will recall, the Bill provides for the introduction of a fifth lane to the repairs of the Tasman Bridge. [More…]

• Sir Allan Knight is a man of world-wide experience acclaimed in this field. [More…]

• One can only tackle this problem if one sits down as a rational human being, looks at the physical and engineering problems involved and then makes a decision. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are trying to boost that man’s reputation but he has no possible hope of unseating the honourable member for Franklin [More…]

• There has been some criticism of the manner in which the Government has handled the engineering side of this situation. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bass (Mr Newman)’ referred to the proliferation of committees that have been set up in association with this work. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that this Government has endeavoured to bring in as many experienced people as possible to assist. [More…]

• We acknowledged that he was the best man for the job and we appointed him to do the job. [More…]

• I suggest that he would do a lot better to get his priorities right and to keep the cost of Hansard down so that the ordinary person, the man in the street, can afford it. [More…]

• By larrikin conduct they took advantage of an exceedingly kind man and endeavoured to destroy him and remove him from the Chair. [More…]

• He is a shadow Minister- a man who knows and upholds the traditions of the Parliament. [More…]

• Many of the 270 000 members of the RSL think that the same thing should happen to the Prime Minister. [More…]

• A former Navy man in Newcastle, who had 3 ships sunk under him during World War II, said that he has always voted Labor but he never will again. [More…]

• Of course, one of the first things that the incoming Premier had to do was to establish the strong man role of ‘hate the Feds’ and ‘have nothing whatever to do with the Australian Government’. [More…]

• As the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Riordan) has said, the proposed increase in the levy on employers of waterside labour is now for the class A waterside workers, who comprise by far the greatest part of the work force, to be raised to the huge total of $4 per man hour. [More…]

• I think it is worth remembering that when the levy was introduced along with permanent employment on the waterfront in 1967 it was about 48c a man-hour. [More…]

• So I ask the Deputy Prime Minister, who is a fair minded man whom I have known for a long time, to look at what has happened. [More…]

• I must say that for the layman, the man on the street, it will be very difficult to understand just how he will be disadvantaged by this new rebate system on the averaging provisions that are made permissible for him up to an income of $16,000. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is attempting to make cheap political scoring on everything, confident that if he cannot get his way here he can use the contrived numbers in the other place, numbers which have been made worse than they already were by the elevation of the new senator, supposedly as a Labor man. [More…]

• I cite the example of a man and his wife whose taxable incomes were about $3,100 each and whose taxes have gone from $245 for the both of them to $708- an increase of 189 per cent. [More…]

• As honourable members would know, this book readily became a capitalist declaration of independence from the remaining shackles of feudalism and helped to launch an economic revolution that has produced far more wealth than man had amassed in all previous history. [More…]

• They hit at the people Government members are supposed to represent- the small man, the man who finds it difficult to buy an extra gallon of petrol, the man who finds it difficult to buy a pint of beer these days, the man who has a cigarette,- [More…]

• The working man-the people that the Government is supposed to represent. [More…]

• There is no way that the Budget brought down by this apology for a government can diminish in any sense the inflationary pressures let loose by the mismanagement of this Government. [More…]

• An amount of $205m was handed back directly in income tax cuts and there was a reallocation within the income tax scales so that the married man with a wife and children got a go at the expense of married people without children and with both partners in occupations. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Hayden), with his knowledge over the years of developing and seeing through the Parliament the Medibank proposals, is probably the man most familiar with the costing of the Medibank scheme. [More…]

• One of us (Lovejoy) has estimated that, if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 1 7.4m had been given directly to Aboriginals (estimated to be 140 000), there would have been about $838.00 for every man, woman and child. [More…]

• It is a problem we have to face with the Aborigines and it is a problem that many white people face. [More…]

• Are we justified in saying to the Aborigine: ‘It is all right for the white man to drink. [More…]

• It is all right for the white man to be an alcoholic. [More…]

• But it is not in the interests of the white man, either. [More…]

• A report tided ‘Rural Poverty in Northern New South Wales’ by the Poverty Commission of Inquiry noted that if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 17.4m had been given directly to Aborigines, then estimated at 140 000, it would have meant $838 for every man, woman and child. [More…]

• It is not easy for a man or a firm to be seen to maintain his integrity in this situation. [More…]

• Many try probably, but few seek expert advice or interpreting help, and even fewer make the time to do courses, or to learn about the people or their language. [More…]

• I also pay tribute to the City Manager who undoubtedly is one of the top men in the Public Service. [More…]

• He surrounded himself with so many controls that on one occasion I could not help but liken him to a barrow man trying to fly a jumbo jet. [More…]

• I can say only that the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) must be an extremely patient man because he is going to wait until the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) is in office to solve the problems he was speaking about. [More…]

• But Medibank is something of value and assistance to every man, woman and child in the community. [More…]

• These potatoes have been imported from Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and America. [More…]

• These instances clearly indicate that the man on the land has received nothing from this Government. [More…]

• Souter, an honest and decent man. [More…]

• When, Mr Chairman, will we in the Opposition be allowed to use the same language as the Prime Minister uses with so much impunity in this Parliament. [More…]

• We have just heard comment that one would expect from a man who aspires to be the Prime Minister of Australia and who with typical discourtesy walks out of the chamber. [More…]

• For a man who sets himself up as a technical genius he has certainly displayed economic ignorance of the grossest kind. [More…]

• What I am saying is that they are not tackling the root problem, the problem that is close to the Aboriginals on the farms, in the country towns and around the fringes of the city- the problem of the man who must come to respect himself, to stand up and see that he is counted as an individual. [More…]

• However, I think here we may have a case for considering an exception and substituting in fact more of the rule of man. [More…]

• There will be some mismanagement and some misuse of power. [More…]

• That always happens when the rule of man is substituted for the rule of law. [More…]

• Responsibility has to be given in such measure that it can be managed. [More…]

• It is not related to effort, because one man with advantages and privileges may excel with little effort or be born into a position of excellence, while another may strive and do his best and know that he has not excelled because others are richer than he is. [More…]

• It is a concept that has nothing to do with self-respect because it makes a man look outside himself and assess his achievements by reference to the standards of others, whereas true self-respect involves knowing one’s own potential and living up to it. [More…]

• In fact there is an incessant flow of such complaints and it is probably time that people realised that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act was passed by this Parliament on 19 June last and has a capacity to redress many of these problems. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman referred to the Women and Politics Conference. [More…]

• It is true that complaints were made there and in particular by a Marcia Lambton, an Aboriginal lady who claimed, among other things, when referring to the Queensland laws, that under those laws blacks could not choose to live where they wanted and could be moved anywhere at the discretion of a government official and Aboriginal estates were controlled by an appointed manager so that in reality blacks had no access to their money or to estates of deceased persons. [More…]

• She went on to say that they have legislated for every aspect of a black person’s life and they were administered by one white man. [More…]

• Labor treats all developers as speculators and all who seek a profit- that dirty word- as fair game for the tax man. [More…]

• The man who thwarted this plan of the Prime Minister was the Premier of Queensland whom the Prime Minister denigrated with language unbecoming- if one looks at it in any reasonable way- to a Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• It seems almost incredible that anybody should show it, but if anybody did then let the vengeance come on them as it did in Roman times. [More…]

• Perhaps in the morning he should come in after Mr Speaker and when we have bowed to Mr Speaker and he has bowed to us the Prime Minister could take his place at the table and with an appropriate gesture the House as one man could rise and say: ‘Hail Whitlam’. [More…]

• I doubt whether many figures in public life who are not elected representatives have attracted quite the amount of abuse and misrepresentation which has been the lot of Elizabeth Reid ever since she was first appointed to the staff of the Prime Minister- an abuse which some of us noted culminating yesterday in the remarks of the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]

• There we have the authentic voice of the man who so often provides leadership for honourable members opposite. [More…]

• Witness the exhortation of writers in the National Review about a film depicting a man’s love life with his favourite pig and their criticisms of Mr Prowse for deeming it not to be edifying. [More…]

• It can be said of him that he was a man of the people because never in his most intimate conversations did he drop the compassion that he held for the working class. [More…]

• I enjoyed many hours of his company and his good nature. [More…]

• He was a man of great humour. [More…]

• He was a very cultured and well read man. [More…]

• Probably no man in this country has ever excited passions in the way that he did. [More…]

• Of all the advisers with whom it has been my pleasure to work in my Department or elsewhere, I have found no person more anxious to ensure completely fairminded and evenhanded dealings with all concerned than the man who has been most viciously attacked, Dr De Souza. [More…]

• As I pointed out, there are a number of variable factors at work in the economy and the whole context of economic management can change quite dramatically, sometimes in a short period. [More…]

• I repeat that this situation, on top of the silly sorts of questions which have been put to me in a badgering fashion by the economic spokesman for the Opposition, exposes the almost total economic illiteracy of the man that the Opposition proposes should be in charge of the economic affairs of this country. [More…]

• The Party that is represented in government here is no longer the Party represented by that former great Labor man who died earlier this week, a former member of this House, and those who were earlier members of the Labor Party must be very sad to see the decay which it represents. [More…]

• So if the Gwydir electorate is made bigger, it would be just impossible for any one man to keep in touch with his electors. [More…]

• I think that it is shocking that a man like Dr Kalokerinos has to live in that hospital. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property has said in this House that there can be no doubt whatever that a man is entitled to equal representation whether he lives in the city or in the country. [More…]

• When the Minister first brought this matter before the Parliament, he claimed that the Government had a mandate for it. [More…]

• By gee, that must insult a Country Party man. [More…]

• We did not see that brilliantly dressed Chamber of Commerce man, Mr Lynch, come into the chamber to defend the Liberal Party’s attitude on this matter. [More…]

• Unfortunately it is as obvious as the nose on the face of each honourable member opposite- they look very glum faces these days, may I say- that that man has gone. [More…]

• Let me say this to the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh): You come out to my electorate and electioneer next time. [More…]

• So if the Gwydir electorate is made bigger, it would be just impossible for any one man to keep in touch with his electors. [More…]

• The Minister is an intelligent man and he knows that there is no way in the world that he can achieve this concept. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Services and Property knows about this because, as I said earlier, he is an intelligent man and he knows what he is about. [More…]

• The significant point about this- and this is where the whole case of the member for Gwydir collapses- is that even before the boundaries were announced or had been decided the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) said: ‘The Opposition will oppose them to a man’. [More…]

• We on this side of the Parliament believe, as do all democrats, that the value of a man’s vote should not depend on where he lives. [More…]

• As the honourable member knows, that it constitutionally a totally false argument to put forward because Tasmania must have a minimum of 5 seats under the Constitution irrespective of the numbers that live there. [More…]

• In addition the Labor Party believes that people everywhere are equal in respect of their votes and the domicile of a person should not give him twice, three times or fifteen times the voting power- as is the case in Western Australia under a Liberal-Country Party Government- of another man who lives in the city. [More…]

• But when it gets down to the front Une man, the policeman, it is very unsatisfactory indeed. [More…]

• I said then, and I repeat it, that no honest man could have given the advice that was given on that occasion. [More…]

• Dr Cairns, rather than being a man of violence, as the picture was painted, was a man of peace. [More…]

• The previous question from the honourable member for Bennelong would prompt me to say that he would know, as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, as the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party, who has now asked a question, should know as a man who has been admitted, to the Bar in New South Wales, that the Royal Commissioner is exceptionally well qualified to elicit and interpret facts. [More…]

• Mr Bjelke-Petersen stands condemned by his own Treasurer, a man who has the financial expertise as far as Queensland is concerned and a man who often has been held up by all sections of non-Labor parties in Australia as one of thenleading experts in the financial field. [More…]

• Might I say that it is important for the Australian people to remember that the man who proposes this document is the man who in recent years was prepared to destroy 2 party leadersthe Leader of the Opposition in recent months, and previously, while the Opposition was in Government, his Leader, the Prime Minister of that day. [More…]

• If the Australian people are to sit back and allow their system of government to be capsized at the will of an Opposition wanting office regardless of the performance of the freely elected government of the day, this country is approaching a system of anarchy and this is something that the Opposition has always professed to despise. [More…]

• He will be seen to be the man who hit the foundations of our system with perhaps the final blow that will collapse it. [More…]

• Of course the supreme architect is that man of great vision, the Honourable Clyde Cameron. [More…]

• I think every member of this Parliament is most concerned about pollution and what can happen if man does not control liquid and solid wastes. [More…]

• No environmental health problem has greater significance than the disposal of man’s liquid and solid wastes. [More…]

• In biological history, no organism has survived long if its environment became in some way unfit for it, but no organism before man has deliberately polluted its own environment. [More…]

• An environmental impact study would need to take into account many factors, including the impact of the proposal on the physical environment, the flora and fauna, and man made materials. [More…]

• They supposedly champion the working man. [More…]

• We know that with imposts on beer, cigarettes, petrol, telephones and postage the so-called working man is put at a direct disadvantage. [More…]

• What does it matter to the man on $20,000, $30,000 or $40,000 a year if he has to pay another 6c a packet for cigarettes? [More…]

• But it does mean a great deal to the man on average weekly earnings or less. [More…]

• In fact, one of the first acts by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in December 1972 was to arrange with the New Zealand Government to send 25 trainee dental therapists to New Zealand so that they could be trained in the facilities which already exist there to complement those who will be trained in Australia to man the scheme. [More…]

• It employs the people to man the service. [More…]

• As I said, the proposed expenditure and the previous expenditure on the program provide more static clinics in schools which are manned by the dental therapists and are under the general supervision of dentists. [More…]

• I do hope that as many people as possible will have a chance to visit dental therapy training schools such as the one at Somerton Park to see this truly wonderful program in action. [More…]

• I am sure that the end result of this will be a real improvement in human welfare in the form of better dental health for the next generation of Australians. [More…]

• There is one sin of omission to which I want to draw particular attention and that is the failure to do anything for the motherless family, for the man who has to support and look after his children because his wife has died or because his wife has deserted him. [More…]

• He is ashamed because he is a man of conscience. [More…]

• The political instability that is being fostered in Australia by the actions of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- the man who is afraid to face up to a debate in this place, the man who dodges our Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in this national forum, the man who expresses his views only through Press handouts and not here in the national Parliament- is a tragedy for democracy in Australia. [More…]

• How many speeches has he made? [More…]

• One of his own backbenchers I thought very aptly described him recently as a man who has to be ‘programmed’ an excellent description with which I am sure anyone in the media who has interviewed the Leader of the Opposition would readily agree. [More…]

• Another man with a rural background has become renowned around the world for his thoughts- Chairman Mao, not Chairman Mai. [More…]

• Now the Opposition team is led by a man with a rural background. [More…]

• In it would be inscribed the profound thoughts of Chairman Mai. [More…]

• Then we could look forward to a daily procession of Chairman Mai’s thought for the day. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher), my friend and colleague, is an honourable man and I am sure that he brought the matters he mentioned before the Parliament with a very genuine feeling for the people he represents. [More…]

• The Conference was widely advertised as one to which all interested persons were invited to attend and every woman or man who applied for registration was accepted. [More…]

• Federal politicians, no matter where they live in Australia and in spite of their comparatively high incomes, would pay no State surtax, I presume, back in their home States although the man next door with perhaps more dependants to support on a much lower income would have to pay that surtax. [More…]

• A very serious undermining of economic management would arise once the central government completely surrendered the sort of efficient fiscal management which has stood the test and gained the support of a large succession of governments, especially Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the Opposition raises these matters because there are many unanswered questions in this whole business. [More…]

• Why should a man, approaching the end of his career, do anything dishonest? [More…]

• A respected and honourable man claims that the Royal Commission report is a whitewash and that he has been made a scapegoat; and the Government has been let off the hook. [More…]

• How bereft of common sense is this man and how bereft is the Opposition for supporting him? [More…]

• Honourable members on each side all know that Mr Souter is a man of honesty and integrity. [More…]

• It can be answered in only one way when made by an honest man and that is by calling the Minister. [More…]

• This means the ACTU-Solo will have to pay out some $ 1.2m to a 100 per cent overseas firm owned by a man called Steiber in the USA . [More…]

• When one thinks of the great integrity of this man one wonders why. [More…]

• Man has to live within his environment and I hope that this Government and future governments will do what they can to encourage not only the universities but also private industry to take a very real interest in the social sciences. [More…]

• He was a man of very great principles and a true friend. [More…]

• I would certainly join the honourable members for Boothby and Sydney in paying a tribute to a man who, I believe, was a true Australian He was a man who I believe belonged to the real old true Labor Party. [More…]

• I think the statement made by a former Treasurer, the Honourable Frank Crean- I do not know whether he was the second or third last Treasurer- that one man’s pay increase would be another man’s job is quite true. [More…]

• No businessman in this country, be he large or small, is going to respond to a government that on the one hand says it is interested in private enterprise and on the other hand shows duplicity at every turn. [More…]

• What a shocking indictment against the Australian Labor Party, a party that has always claimed to represent the worker, a party that claims to care for the average little man. [More…]

• -He is a good man, an extremely good man. [More…]

• Sir Hugh Ennor was present during that conversation with Chairman Simpson and as we left that meeting Sir Hugh said to me: ‘Minister, I could not agree more with the remarks made by Chairman Simpson today’. [More…]

• I would like to incorporate in Hansard with the leave of the Committee a statement showing the expressions of support or, if not support, then expressions of desire from the State governments to be involved in the Commonwealth activities in consumer protection, expressions of support and a desire for involvement from various consumer organisations, a list of expressions of support or, if not support, then expressions of a desire to become involved from private industry, and discussions that have been held between me and representatives of various other organisations, including the Chamber of Manufactures and a whole variety of other people. [More…]

• -Mr Chairman, after listening to the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon), I can only repeat the remark of my colleague, the honourable member for Denison (Mr Coates) that it is incredible that a man who was a senior Minister in an earlier Government should put forward the thoughts that the honourable member has just expressed in this place. [More…]

• In many cases, they are giveaways, the over-the-fence newspapers, the free weeklies, the free sheets, which are really only propaganda sheets for the National Country Party. [More…]

• Whilst not in the least under-estimating the gravity of those problems, I place alongside them the breakdown in communication between man and man. [More…]

• Of course the honourable member for Petrie is the man who made me speak out of order and to deal with matters not concerned with this portfolio. [More…]

• What utter stupidity it is for a man with his mentality to talk like that. [More…]

• So those things that were created by man or by nature, that were unique or beautiful and should be preserved for posterity, we are trying to preserve. [More…]

• I am sure, by the attitude of most employees in the dairy processing and manufacturing industries today, that they wish to continue working. [More…]

• Primary producers cannot be expected to stand by and watch while outside forces and influences destroy the viability of their industries, especially when a member of their own dairy corporation, a man wearing 2 hats, is the prime mover in the industrial problems threatening their industry. [More…]

• The net result was that in speaking to the media afterwards the Minister tried to salvage what grounds he could and accused these boys of being manipulated by a public relations organisation. [More…]

• He knew some of the boys and they asked odd questions that any young man might ask of any adult. [More…]

• We should not be subjected to motions dealing with the rubbish that this man speaks. [More…]

• It is an indictment of the Opposition to think that the honourable member for Kennedy is the spokesman, the front man in the House of Representatives on vital matters like the minerals and energy policies of Australia, a man who in his ministerial position in a previous government was the court jester of the Parliament. [More…]

• I am not being rude to the honourable gentleman, but that is an accurate description of his role in this place when he was Minister for the Army. [More…]

• Sir James Foots, one of the leading mining industry people in Australia, a man well respected by the Government as well as the Opposition and within his own industry, pointed out very recently in a speech to the Australian Institute of Management that the lifeblood of the mining industry, its exploration programs, is being choked by the policies of the Federal Government. [More…]

• Restructuring the scale in this way has also made possible an increase in the value of concessional allowances for dependants thus achieving a highly desirable redistribution of the burden of taxation in favour of the family man. [More…]

• The increases in the value of dependant allowances, together with the proposed general rebate of $540, will, in a great many cases, more than compensate for the effects of the increased rates of tax payable on certain parts of the taxable income. [More…]

• I believe that the attitude of the honourable member for Evans (Mr Mulder), who just resumed his seat, was more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor on the Government side, the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes). [More…]

• If ever a man made a fool of himself it was the honourable member for Melbourne. [More…]

• Do not tell me that one man like J.C. himself can walk into the position of Prime Minister and suddenly solve it, absolving himself of all constitutional requirements. [More…]

• I do not stand here and say that one man can cure it. [More…]

• It is well to reflect that the man who sought the tide of Australia’s greatest Foreign Minister probably will bring about the greatest dispute between ourselves and our closest independent neighbour, not by delinquency but deceit. [More…]

• May I take up the point raised, speciously, I believe, by my learned friend, the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) a man for whom I have tremendous respect. [More…]

• Some problems arise in economic management because receipts fall short of what was expected. [More…]

• But that is a far better situation for economic management than the one we outlined in the course of the Budget. [More…]

• I cannot understand how a simple economic proposition, such as this, persists in eluding the understanding of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the man who proposes that he should be the alternative economic manager of the affairs of this country. [More…]

• If he does not understand them it means that in no time at all he would cease to be- if he ever were- a man of independent judgment and of independent decision making in the economic management of this country and in the hands of his advisers. [More…]

• The man who must accept that blame, the man who must accept responsibility for the shame and dishonour which is revealed again in these documents, is the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who stands at the head of the most disgraceful, most bungling and most dishonest government in the history of this nation. [More…]

• On this incredible day a Press statement has been released by the man who, for a very short time, remains the Australian Prime Minister. [More…]

• It is essential that this Parliament be told the reasons for and the nature of the extraordinary circumstances which surround the resignation of the man who was until but a short while ago the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• It is critical that Standing Orders be suspended so that the whole Parliament and the people of Australia can know something of the deception and the deceit which first saw the man who was then Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer called upon to hand in his resignation because he supposedly had not conferred with the Prime Minister. [More…]

• This is the man who on the last Caucus vote was No. [More…]

• This opportunity would be given to the man who only last week in answers in this place assured us that no negotiations had been undertaken although in the course of transactions revealed through telexes referred to in this Parliament earlier today he has obviously been continuing in negotiations to which the Prime Minister has not referred and yet obviously he must have been in some way involved in them. [More…]

• That man is to be let suffer. [More…]

• Is that man, who is a colleague of the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry) who is trying to interject, a man who presumably even the honourable member would have supported but a week ago, a man who would have presumably spoken for him, to be allowed to languish? [More…]

• This man seeks to hide behind his Leader’s apron strings. [More…]

• What a great manner of behaviour from a man who is supposed to uphold the law. [More…]

• It is vital that a Press statement made outside this House be made as a matter of policy within the Parliament, that every member of this chamber be given an opportunity to debate it and that the man who is accused to be given the opportunity to defend himself. [More…]

• We are dealing with the dismissal of a man who was at one time the Acting Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• He has been hoodwinking us for years and years, having got dispensation, no doubt, from the Kremlin to make these attacks on the Communist Party because this is the way he can suck us in and make us believe that here we have a friend, a man we can trust, a man we can talk to, discuss defence problems with, discuss the secrets of our atomic potential and all this kind of thing, knowing all the time that whatever we tell him is safe in his hands because he is always such a devout anti-communist. [More…]

• The behaviour of the honourable gentleman during World War II was rather strange too. [More…]

• He is a very courageous man and I say that quite seriously. [More…]

• He is an honourable gentleman. [More…]

• Because Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey had the audacity to ridicule the suggestion that our defences were not at the ready all the time, what did the honourable gentleman do but kidnap Sir Thomas Blamey. [More…]

• • How did the honourable gentleman capture the Redfern Police Station? [More…]

• This is an indication of how crafty and clever and cunning the honourable gentleman is. [More…]

• A man clever enough to pull this off is clever enough to do anything. [More…]

• It was a magnificent manoeuvre. [More…]

• However much the honourable gentleman may squirm on this matter he will be the guilty man if this practice which has endured for threequarters of a century, and this practice which is observed throughout the world today, is broken. [More…]

• An eminent English jurist has said- I quote a dictum which is well known to the House- that the state of a man’s mind is sometimes as much a matter of fact as the state of his digestion. [More…]

• This will mean that in future a de facto wife who is living with a man on a bona fide domestic basis will qualify for wife’s pension or attract additional unemployment or sickness benefit without any regard to a qualifying period on the same basis as women who are legally married. [More…]

• The Bill also contains a provision which will give specific authority for the exclusion of a woman living with a man on a bona fide domestic basis from entitlement to a widow’s pension. [More…]

• If all the postal votes had been received in time at the last election for the seat of Kalgoorlie, who could say whether its representative would have been the man who is sitting in this chamber today? [More…]

• People in remote areas have a right to vote as much as the next man. [More…]

• Certainly in the last general election in May 1974, there were many hold-ups and many delays and complaints about insufficient staff and things of that sort which, in the heat of an election campaign, cannot be dealt with. [More…]

• In many cases it has to be posted to Electoral Office because it cannot be taken a long distance by hand. [More…]

• I said by interjection that the Minister’s argument is that of a city man. [More…]

• I was amazed that a man of his background and standing questioned the wisdom of the Opposition’s amendment that instead of the forms being changed to read simply ‘given names’ we should insert ‘Christian names’ also. [More…]

• Equally true is the argument that many people regard their first names as their Christian names. [More…]

• The vine has been cut, and the man with the secateurs has been the Minister. [More…]

• The virtual sterilisation of a number of cities throughout the world which have fallen victim to planners’ enthusiasm should stand as a warning to those who believe they have the capacity to solve man’s problems. [More…]

• A nautical academy is urgently needed to fit this and many other needs. [More…]

• So that not only training, in the sense of fitting the man for the job is involved in this particular philosophy but also the education in the sense of fitting the man for life is of paramount importance. [More…]

• I believe that for a one man effort this is a unique document. [More…]

• I believe that, by their exorbitant and sometimes outlandish demands, the Australian maritime unions have made it impossible for this country to develop a large and strong shipping industry. [More…]

• As long as Australian seamen form a minority group and can succeed in exerting pressure on shipowners to increase wages and improve conditions, because they know that there is no one else who will man the ships, we will never have a worthwhile shipping industry in this country. [More…]

• I think that, if we face a situation where the number of people engaged in the maritime industry in Australia has declined to such an extent that the whole idea of Australian-owned and Australian-operated and Australian-crewed ships is simply not possible, perhaps we ought to consider the possibility of using labour from other countries to help man our vessels. [More…]

• They did it over a dead man’s corpse. [More…]

• It is a matter of grave concern that a man in this position can be so careless of his responsibility, so unconscious of the precedent, so unthinking as to the danger as the Governor of Queensland showed himself yesterday. [More…]

• That will not deceive anyone any more than other actions of this Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) over the last several months when he has tried to seek scapegoat after scapegoat, to blame other Ministers for actions for which, if he were a man, he would take the responsibility as Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• But he is not a man of that kind; he is the sort of man who condones the deception of this Parliament until it is forced out by other people. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite want a Labor destruction, let them follow this man to complete and absolute destruction. [More…]

• The unbridled ambition of the Leader of the Opposition, a man who has destroyed two friendsone a Prime Minister and the other a Leader of the Opposition- has pushed this country to the brink of the most serious constitutional crisis since Federation. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child knows that the Government has the numbers in this place. [More…]

• How long are they going to accept all the decisions made by this ruthless, ambitious man desperately clinging to office in his eleventh hour as he sees it sliding away from him? [More…]

• As one Labor man who came out of the Caucus meeting the other day after the dumping and the sacking of the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) said: ‘If you want any loyalty around this place you had better go and buy a dog’. [More…]

• This man is involved up to his neck in the overseas loans scandal and he knows that he cannot hide from it. [More…]

• They must recognise the consequences of what this desperate man is doing. [More…]

• How long are the Australian people going to put up with this uncertainty and with this man doing anything to remain in office knowing full well that this is his last chance. [More…]

• He has no dignity or pride, otherwise he would resign as any man in his position would, or he would take his Party to the people for a decision. [More…]

• How long will a television station run if the technicians refuse to man it? [More…]

• He will not go because he is a frightened man. [More…]

• All that the Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry have to do is to prevail upon the Government, in its corporate sense, to say: ‘We want to resort to section 57 of the Constitution. [More…]

• The last thing I want to say to the honourable gentleman is this: Yesterdy he cited to this House the authority of Sir Robert Menzies in 1932 with respect to the constitutional role of those who hold gubernatorial office. [More…]

• 1 hope that he would not be offended if I were to remind him of what was said by a man who once led the Labor Party, the late Right Honourable Dr Evatt, in his classic work The King and His Dominion Governors. [More…]

• It is a crisis that has been engineered by a man bent on getting power at any cost. [More…]

• Is this not the same man who on 10 March 1971 brought about the downfall of his own Liberal Prime Minister by one of the shabbiest acts of betrayal ever written in the history of Australian pontics? [More…]

• Is this not also the same man who, in order to satisfy his lust for power, twice betrayed and finally destroyed another leader of his party? [More…]

• Is this not the same man? [More…]

• Why does this man of privilege and inherited wealth want power so desperately? [More…]

• This is the self-styled man of principle. [More…]

• The man who twice disposed of his own elected leaders in his grab for power is now prepared to destroy the whole parliamentary system to satisfy his mad obsession to rule those whom he so deeply despises. [More…]

• Compare that man with the man he seeks to displace, the man who came to power in 1972- the present Prime Minister. [More…]

• It is because of the inspiration given by the Prime Minister in this present crisis, the man who in this Parliament stands out like a giant against the intellectual and moral pygmies who sit opposite him. [More…]

• Who will then man the powerhouses, the oil refineries and the transport systems? [More…]

• Who then will man the ships, mine the coal and man the wharves? [More…]

• That is the sort of man who is now putting himself to the Australian people as an alternative to the present Prime Minister, a man who will tear to shreds all of the conventions that prop up the institution of Parliament. [More…]

• There have been so many examples in recent years of spies being discovered in important positions of State overseas and of actions being taken to subjugate countries by interfering with their domestic processes that quite clearly there is a need to have an organisation capable of examining subversive activities and making sure that the government of the day is aware of the actions of individuals and organisations whose primary purpose is to subject the state to internal pressures which it could better do without. [More…]

• Let me give some examples, Gunther Guillaume, the third man’ in the West German civil service was later proved to be a communist spy. [More…]

• I applaud my Government for taking the effective steps that it has taken in connection with the administration of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and for transferring the responsibility of telephone tapping to the highest man in this land, the Prime Minister. [More…]

• The appointment of a judge to administer ASIO is something that the Labor Party for many years said it would do when it came into office so that the lives and careers of decent public servants and Australians shall not be put in jeopardy by scurrilous informers who can ruin careers by putting on an ASIO file something in respect of which a person has no redress. [More…]

• I refer to the threat to our economy, the threat to our institution of Government and the threat to our whole Australian way of life posed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser), that man of principle who seems hellbent on destroying the principles and conventions on which our system of government depends. [More…]

• Of course, what this man of principle neglected to tell that conference was that yesterday he rang the newspaper proprietors around Australia and asked them to write what they wrote this morning. [More…]

• This is a very serious problem and it is brought upon this House, upon this Parliament and upon the Australian people by the rapacious ambitions of just one man who is prepared to hold Australia and the defences of Australia to ransom. [More…]

• Germany or to Malaysia, whose distinguished Prime Minister the Leader of the Opposition in Australia insulted at lunch last week. [More…]

• The man makes as many gaffes inside the House as outside. [More…]

• That course has now been pursued to the limit, through the death of a Labor senator and the gross misconduct of the Queensland Government in replacing himachieved, as Senator Steele Hall has said, ‘over a dead man’s corpse’. [More…]

• Then he called on Lincoln, a man whom the present Prime Minister will never emulate. [More…]

• But the Prime Minister was prepared to condone it, to connive in the misrepresentation and the misleading of this Parliament until it became public and then he said: ‘Oh the man must go’. [More…]

• If this man was so confident that he was right, if he was so confident that he had support, would he not go to the people of Australia and say: ‘Let us get rid of Fraser; let us get rid of those Liberals’? [More…]

• What kind of man, what kind of Prime Minister is this who persists in holding on to power against the will of the Parliament? [More…]

• He has misled and deceived this Parliament so many times that his oath is not worth a cracker. [More…]

• This man cannot any longer be trusted by the Australian people. [More…]

• The Queensland people gave the most overwhelming rejection of this man that there has ever been. [More…]

• Today he has not got the courage because he knows only too well that the Australian people now know their Prime Minister; they know that he is not a man of integrity, that he is not a person fit to govern this country any longer. [More…]

• When this megalomaniac decides that he can override the Constitution we have a dangerous man in charge of this country. [More…]

• This man, the Prime Minister, is leading the Labor Party to destruction. [More…]

• Who was the man - [More…]

• This is the man who, as a leader, did not even have the decency to try to get Jim Cairns out of his problems over the Morosi affair. [More…]

• This is the man who now is dumping the former Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• How can honourable members opposite expect any loyalty out of this sort of man. [More…]

• We will find that Tasmania will want to go on its own and, goodness me, I can understand it doing so under the present regime. [More…]

• This man says that the power of the Senate should be taken from it and it should be smashed. [More…]

• I suggest further that on Monday, 20 October, an interview was conducted between a gentleman of the Press and the Prime Minister’s own witness, Mr Khemlani, the man who caused the Minister for Minerals and Energy to lose his office. [More…]

• The honourable member who leads those opposite was elected as a man of principle. [More…]

• But history has shown that he is not a man of principle. [More…]

• When the former Leader of the Opposition said his followers would walk over hot coals for him, this gentleman is not one who walked over hot coals; e would not even walk over wet grass at Randwick at the rally that the previous Leader of the Opposition had there. [More…]

• As Senator Steele Hall said, Opposition senators are walking with a dead man’s vote in their pockets and trying to force out a constitutionally elected government. [More…]

• I say to honourable members opposite: Do not imagine that any man behind me or any man in the other place is going to let our side down, because he is not. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wentworth said: ‘No man on this side will let us down’. [More…]

• He misquoted a former Minister, a man who is no longer alive, as saying that Australians should not become a nation of little capitalists. [More…]

• He is a man who destroyed others and he himself will be destroyed, if not by his own party, by the Australian people who will not tolerate vandalism and will not tolerate irresponsibility. [More…]

• Sir Robert Menzies, who has been so frequently quoted by the man who is the Prime Minister at the moment and who would seek to be the mirror image of him but who would shatter it by his very performance, said: [More…]

• At the top is a man who says: ‘Two of my Deputy Prime Ministers who signed the December Executive Council minute with me have lied. [More…]

• ‘Mr Khemlani was right’, says the Prime Minister, ‘about all the others but of me alone this man tells lies ‘. [More…]

• How it grieves me because I am a most righteous man.’ [More…]

• I level at him here and now the charge that those are not the actions of an innocent man anxious to elicit the truth. [More…]

• It is sad that that man, whom we all respect and who is getting on in years after having given good service in this place and elsewhere, should be quoted by the Opposition for petty political advantage in a statement which rejects everything he stood for in his political life. [More…]

• All this can be ended by the actions and the decisions of one man. [More…]

• If he were a statesman he would do so. [More…]

• If he is a politician of a kind we have never known in our history he will go down in tradition as a man who failed his country in its hour of need. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that it is scarcely likely that either the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister or myself would have any truck with a man who was expelled from the Labor Party in 1956, who has been a DLP candidate on a number of occasions and who has stood against ALP candidates. [More…]

• Certainly he is not the sort of man we would be searching out to invest confidences in. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that from that must follow an association between that man and the Leader of the National Country Party. [More…]

• I think that such a man would be able to put some real life into this industry. [More…]

• It is fair to be saying that members of the Opposition are inaccurate in what they say or that they have erred on the side of exaggeration or whatever, but when any man in this place imputes dishonour, lack of truth or lack of justice that person first, I suggest, has to make absolutely sure that his own slate in those 3 qualities is absolutely and perfectly clean. [More…]

• Of course, he was urged on by such distinguished statesmen as the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), a man noted for his caution, balance of judgment, and dignified responsibility! [More…]

• He is a man - [More…]

• The present crisis has been brought about by a blind lack of reason, a headlong rush in pursuit of power, the singleminded abandonment of principle by one man in too great a hurry to grasp a destiny which many would agree does not belong to him. [More…]

• This man has consistently avoided the responsibility which any head of state, any Prime Minister, must accept for the conduct of his own Ministers. [More…]

• It has been proven false on too many occasions. [More…]

• The Government stands accused by the very financial intermediary it employed initially in the raising of some $4 billion-$4,000m-and later $2 billion$2,000m Mr Tirath Khemlani, a man whom the Government now conveniently seeks to disown. [More…]

• What sort of proposition is it for a government to seek out a man that it could trust with the raising of the greatest amount of money in the history of Australia- for purposes known to the Government but unknown to us, purposes that must have been serious and matters of substanceand now to seek to disown him? [More…]

• Mr Khemlani- I repeat, the trusted Government intermediary, the man supported in this House in earlier days by the Prime Minister and his senior Ministers but now a man that the Prime Minister conveniently seeks to disown- on 10 October said: [More…]

• There is no point in the Prime Minister’s evading this issue any more because what is at stake here is the propriety, honesty and integrity not simply of one man but of this whole cabal of Ministers. [More…]

• Treasurer himself, who is a man of honour in this Parliament, specifically state that all the documents have been tabled. [More…]

• Let us look at this man. [More…]

• This is the man who swore loyalty to the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), a former Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• When he assumed the mantle of the Leader of the Opposition he stated quite clearly and definitely that as far as he was concerned this Parliament- as this was the seat of governmentshould run its full term of 3 years. [More…]

• In tiny printone must look very carefully at every word that this man uses- he added the words ‘unless some reprehensible action occurs’. [More…]

• This man gave 5 fundamental promises or undertakings: One to the right honourable member for Higgins, 2 separate ones to the right honourable member for Bruce, an undertaking that the Parliament should be allowed to run its full term, and finally an undertaking that the Budget should be allowed to pass the Senate. [More…]

• He concluded his speech with a final paragraph on the impact of the Authority on the consumer and on the visible ways in which the man in the street would notice an appreciable improvement in his civil protection as a consumer. [More…]

• To use Senator Steele Hall’s immortal words, the motions were carried over a dead man’s corpse. [More…]

• In view of the presence in the gallery of the Deputy Premier of Queensland, I want to make it plain, as I have done previously in the House, that it is not the Government of Queensland as a whole; it is the perversity of the Premier because the Deputy Premier of Queensland and the Liberal Ministers in the Queensland coalition Government voted for a Labor man to succeed a Labor man. [More…]

• -Why is the Prime Minister now prepared to deny the evidence of the man with whom overseas loan negotiations were conducted by his former Minister for Minerals and Energy when it was on the basis of that evidence that the former Minister was dismissed? [More…]

• They will man them and will carry out their duties. [More…]

• I am certain that the people who supply and man our armed forces will be able to get supplies and incomes because of the credit of the country. [More…]

• I would briefly like to cover some ground in respect of the relative performances in the field of welfare payments. [More…]

• Since the December quarter of 1 972 the increase in the take home pay of a typical family man on average weekly earnings has increased by 50 per cent. [More…]

• There is no truthful man who can deny that social service benefits have been lifted during the currency of this Australian Labor Government as they have never been lifted before- not just the absolute amounts but the relative amounts. [More…]

• There is no truthful man who could deny that the evil side effects of the inevitable and necessary lifting of interest rates at a time of inflation have been insulated to the greatest extent possible from the lower income groups. [More…]

• It indicates that through a deferred repayment mortgage a young family man at about average weekly earnings could be helped to buy an average-priced property without committing more than 30 per cent of his income at any one time to mortgage repayments. [More…]

• It is a rich man’s philosophy to talk about freedon to spend one’s own income. [More…]

• There ought to be public inquiries because the manufacturer is entitled to have a viewpoint on what sort of standards are fixed before they are set. [More…]

• It is no use setting a standard for bathroom furniture by saying that everything that the manufacturer makes has to be plated in 22 carat gold. [More…]

• What that will do is put the price of bathroom furniture out of the reach of the ordinary average working man. [More…]

• If they are nickel plated the manufacturer should say that they are nickel plated. [More…]

• If they are chrome plated the manufacturer should say so. [More…]

• All we want is frankness and honesty on the part of manufacturers so that people know what they are buying. [More…]

• He has proved, like Sir William Gunn of the Country Party, that political affiliations do not necessarily mean that a man lacks honour and integrity in public office and that matters of great public importance deposited with such men do not retain their confidentiality. [More…]

• -Does the Prime Minister recall saying in this Parliament on 9 July last that proper checks were made of the bona fides of the gentleman involved? [More…]

• Does he still have that opinion of the man referred to in the question which was responded to by his colleague the Minister for Administrative Services a while ago? [More…]

• The circumstances of those negotiations must cause apprehension that the man now revealed to have received information prior to the publication of the Budget, or those who were in other executive positions within that company, may well have had reason to believe that within the Budget there could have been very significant excise additions as a result of which the negotiations which they concluded were going to result in a windfall to ACTU-Solo. [More…]

• The first is no less than Sir Robert Menzies, a distinguished former Prime Minister, a distinguished constitutional lawyer and a man who, on occasions as [More…]

• The whole of the illegality of that Executive Council minute needs to be sheeted home to the man who has come into this House today and alleged that in some way the Opposition is breaching the Constitution. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Hayden) today and on television the other day acknowledged that premature release of the contents of the Budget was given to a man who is not an elected representative of the people, a man who is in a position, had he chosen, to take personal advantage of this information, and a man who is a director of 2 public companies to boot- the President of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• We were told by the Treasurer today that this man was given information between 1 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. on the day of the presentation of the Budget. [More…]

• Mr Khemlani is a man whose bona fides the Prime Minister himself has vouched for. [More…]

• The immorality running through this Government and the ACTU-Solo deal has meant that one honest man, I believe, has been hanged by others who are not so honest. [More…]

• If the constitutional travesty had not been perpetrated in Queensland by appointing to a Labor seat a nonLabor man, the Opposition could not have done what it is doing now. [More…]

• They find somebody in a position of influence and they put that man or his wife forward as a phoney employee of the company. [More…]

• That member- he was not then a Minister; he was still in opposition; this occurred prior to 1972- arranged for his wife to be one of the phoney employees and as such she and her husband, who was a member of this Parliament, got concessions worth many thousands of dollars. [More…]

• This man’s wife put her husband- he being a member of this Parliament- forward as her dependent and got concessions for travel abroad. [More…]

• On 23 March 1972 the Pan American Airways organisation issued to this man’s wife, as a phoney employee, and to him as a dependant of his wife, 2 round tickets worth thousands of dollars for Sydney-Honolulu-Los Angeles-New YorkLondon/LondonNew York-Lagos-New York-Los Angeles/Los Angeles-Honolulu-Sydney. [More…]

• I am told, although I cannot prove it in this case, that Qantas issued other tickets on the same LATA consideration and that many free tickets were issued by Qantas, although I cannot give details of them. [More…]

• Subsequently- and I am referring now to 1974, a later date- this man’s wife obtained Pan-Am tickets for Sydney-Honolulu-Los Angeles-London-New York/New York-Los Angeles-Sydney for herself as a phoney employee and for him as a dependant. [More…]

• This was, I think, outrageous because at that time the man concerned was a Minister of this Government and favours were done by him for that woman whom I mentioned earlier. [More…]

• If there were a Minister who never touched liquor, for instance, who observed a member of the Board drinking alcohol he might say: ‘That man is misbehaving. [More…]

• To assert that Mr Hawke is a man of impeccable integrity, as Mr Hayden did yesterday, is to beg the question. [More…]

• These are issues in respect of which he, if he were a man lacking in integrity, could have misused that information or passed it on to some other person in order to make a colossal windfall gain. [More…]

• Government (Mr Crean), one of the most trusted and respected members of this Parliament, by the Leader of the Opposition, the man who speaks about integrity in government and proper codes of conduct, the man who talks of others as being deceitful. [More…]

• If we are talking about people whose behaviour is questionable, let us talk about the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, familiarly known as ‘Phil the Fixer’ and, more recently, in the idiom of the times, as ‘the plumber’, the man who deals in stolen documents, the man who has falsified evidence in this Parliament at question time. [More…]

• We remember how the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on 21 October put a question to the Prime Minister based on a newspaper article wherein Mr Khemlani, the Opposition’s star performer, the man whom it wishes would go away at the present time, had asserted that Mr Tim Anderson had said that he had made a phone call to the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Now I come to the most startling instance of all, of the manufacture of evidence by the Opposition. [More…]

• I regret to say that it affects a man for whom I had developed a great deal of personal respect until yesterday- the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott). [More…]

• You are the people who have encouraged this man. [More…]

• For instance, how does he manage to afford his lifestyle in Australia? [More…]

• It is not the first time that we have seen this rather young, ambitious man hitch himself to power irrespective of what the consequences are for some of his colleagues round him. [More…]

• Yet these back benchers of the Labor Party are prepared to sit back while this unscrupulous Prime Minister can manipulate any front bencher for his own ends- to protect himself and to cover up for his own gross vanity and for his massive ego. [More…]

• No man has been more loyal to the Labor Party than the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]

• We have only to observe the way in which the Government is managing its fear tactics. [More…]

• They have disowned this man who has done more for the Labor Party in the last decade than any other man, other than the Prime Minister. [More…]

• But Labor members are prepared to disown him because they are not game to stand up to the man who is leading them to disaster and destruction. [More…]

• We have the deplorable instance of one such man- the President of the Australian Labor Party and a director of 2 major public companies- being put in a position where, had he wished, he could have taken advantage of that prior information. [More…]

• One can respect the honourable member for Lalor but not a man who is not prepared to come into this House and tell the people of Australia why he resigned. [More…]

• It is important that each one of the members of the Australian community and of his colleagues who sit around him recognise that that man has said nothing to the Parliament. [More…]

• The second of those charges relates to the way in which the Government has defrauded the Parliament in concealing a hidden payment of commission which supposedly, according to the answers given to the Parliament, would not be payable to any man. [More…]

• To what extent has the man who was secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions been made a scapegoat of the whole affair? [More…]

• This man is a director of 2 public companies. [More…]

• -Does the Prime Minister predicate his endorsement of the action taken by his colleague the Treasurer in prematurely releasing the Budget Papers to the President of the Australian Labor Party on the fact that the President of the ALP, he says, is an honest and upright man and a person of whose integrity he has no doubt? [More…]

• If not, and if he is having second thoughts, will he use his best endeavours to ensure that his colleague the honourable member for Cunningham presents his evidence before the royal commission in the same manner as the [More…]

• It is unfortunate that, while this piece of legislation provides some assistance to enable the Corporation to continue to function, in so many other areas the Government has washed its hands of agriculture, washed its hands of the overseas earnings that agricultural products generate, and has turned its back on what could and should be a continuing contribution to the betterment of individual Australians. [More…]

• There is not a diversity of interest between the man in the city and the man in the country. [More…]

• The Government should ask the farmer and the man on the land what is happening to his costs. [More…]

• He wants a dead man’s vote in his pocket. [More…]

• Let us hear the words of this famous democrat, the Leader of the Opposition, who just spoke, demanding that the people’s voice be heard. [More…]

• Senator Bunton, by no means a Labor man, also stands against the Opposition’s action. [More…]

• He is the man who is destroying democracy. [More…]

• They struggle across the Senate with a dead man’s vote in their pocket, and the Leader of the Opposition supported that attitude today. [More…]

• But I thought the man who wrote the famous words which I read a moment ago had some principle associated with him. [More…]

• Every worker who is unemployed as a result of that action, every public servant in Canberra who does not get paid, any industry that has to close down and any man or woman in the Northern Territory who may be out of work because of it should blame the Leader of the Opposition and the top members of the Country Party. [More…]

• Those who sit in Opposition in another place, by using a dead man’s vote, are responsible for the supply of money being cut off at a time when Australia needs it as never before. [More…]

• If his claim is based on letting my house in Canberra 9 years ago to an American, does the Prime Minister claim the man was a CIA officer? [More…]

• These days the political drive at Captains Flat is spearheaded by a gentleman called Tommy Kerr, a man who has a striking facial resemblance to Bob Hawke and who defends Captains Flat with the same vigour that his counterpart employs to defend the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]

• There can be no question that from time to time it is necessary to alter tariffs and to alter the direction of economic management. [More…]

• Let me cite, for example, a man who was regarded as rather an illustrious Treasurer- the previous Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon). [More…]

• A few months later the same man said: [More…]

• That is the man who in 2 years brought $4 billion of overseas funds into this country. [More…]

• The situation that was created by bringing in $4 billion in 2 yearsmoney that was not backed up by any assets, money that purchased assets, money that added to the volume of the money flow in this countrycreated the foundation for many of the economic problems that arose subsequently. [More…]

• This could be done without any paid man except perhaps a community adviser. [More…]

• He would either have to be a man of considerable expertise or alternatively a person who should not have the powers stated in the Bill. [More…]

• What criteria did the company use to select the five man ‘think tank’ team who conducted the study. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, who makes this allegation about my Government outside the Parliament and would not make it inside the Parliament, used to be the man of honour. [More…]

• He has now descended to be the man who, as we all know, has impugned the Deputy Prime Minister for leaking a Treasury document to his deputy, who has accused my staff of rumour-mongering and who has allowed his deputy leader to ask questions which he would know are without foundation or in fact have been denied. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman is losing whatever reputation for honour or probity he had. [More…]

• Yesterday in Parliament the Leader of the National Country Party, Mr Anthony, suggested that the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr E. C. Whitlam, should apologise to an official of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States for involving that man in a domestic controversy. [More…]

• The man, Mr Anthony informed Parliament, was a family friend even though he did not know he was an official of the CIA. [More…]

• To put it bluntly the man was a spy, a spook, a man with allegiance to a foreign Government, who befriended Mr Anthony when he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• The duty of this man, Mr Richard Lee Stallings, a quite senior man in the CIA, was to report back to his superiors every remark he gleaned from Mr Anthony, who was at the time the second most senior man in the Australian Government. [More…]

• Mr Anthony is fast earning the reputation for being a man of limited perception in politics. [More…]

• It is beyond belief that the Australian intelligence system, which knew of the man’s activities, did not warn such a senior politician as Mr Anthony that a spy was cultivating his friendship. [More…]

• Before dealing with today’s misrepresentation I wish to acknowledge that in today’s Australian Financial Review the editor makes the following statements: Firstly, that the Australian Financial Review does not doubt that I was absolutely unaware of the fact that a man who rented my house 9 years ago was an official of the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• The editorial goes on to say that Mr Stallings had a duty to report back to his superiors every remark he gleaned from Mr Anthony, who was at the time the second most senior man in the Australian Government. [More…]

• Is a man who is half Aboriginal a member of the Aboriginal race or is he a member of the European or some other race? [More…]

• I know that in this Bill there are many things which are very good and will have full support but it is a great pity that in its attempts to do these things the Government has brought in a Bill- I think it was brought in with the very best of intentions- which in some respects is clumsy and will do more harm than good to the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The Government has made a grave mistake because it is looking at the Aboriginal people as something which it can use and which the European or the white man can use and push about for their purposes. [More…]

• I had been pointing out to the honourable gentleman that he had anticipated the success of the legislation because he regards the Registrar as having prospects of being a very busy man. [More…]

• I assure the honourable gentleman that the provisions are such that the Registrar is certainly very much under the influence and control of the provisions of this Bill- an Act, as it shall become- and the regulations to be made under it. [More…]

• I think the first thing the honourable gentleman should have regard for is that the Registrar shall be appointed by the Minister and shall have such duties, functions and powers as are provided by this Bill and by the regulations, and that is the limit of his power. [More…]

• I think it is important for the honourable gentleman to note that sub-clause (5) says that the Registrar and the Deputy Registrars shall hold office as such during the pleasure of the Minister. [More…]

• It is apparent that we all regard the Registrar as a man of very great importance, and he is bound to be a competent officer and a member of the Public Service. [More…]

• I think that I have placated the honourable gentleman’s anxieties in that respect. [More…]

• Does the honourable gentleman still harbour any idea that it is a bad thing to be able to constitute a council outside the Northern Territory? [More…]

• They are going to have an elected body, but in some ways the idea of one man one vote or equal vote equal value, if I may use that phrase, is absolutely foreign to the Aboriginal concept. [More…]

• The thing which shocked them most- I do not put it as being right or wrongwas that women should have the same kind of vote as men, because the idea that the woman and man are equal is absolutely foreign to the Aboriginal concept. [More…]

• Until the white man came to Western Australia Aborigines enjoyed relative freedom from want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness in terms of their needs then. [More…]

• That man is a spokesman for the so-called pro- Aboriginal Labor Party. [More…]

• Also he is a man of great compassion and understanding. [More…]

• I am sure that there is not one man in this chamber or in the Senate who would not admit that Ellicott would be a splendid Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• If they want any help from Mr Allum, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs man at Gove, or Warren Paul they get it. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman is slowing up. [More…]

• In the words of Senator Steele Hall: ‘They did it over a dead man ‘s corpse ‘. [More…]

• Many people feel that they are worrying aspects of modern society. [More…]

• I have not managed to view a particular segment which appeared on television. [More…]

• If there is any intonation which inevitably must come out if a person puts a view passionately, a Labor man would say: ‘Beauty, get stuck into them’. [More…]

• We all know the old saying that a man can achieve life fulfilment, even fame and fortune, by making 2 blades of grass grow where one blade of grass grew before. [More…]

• Clearly that is an attempt to identify the owners in terms of all the traditions; not the white man’s imposed principles or concepts but in every respect having regard to the anthropological advice to which the Government and Mr Justice Woodward have had access. [More…]

• It is all right to have this continual destructiveness and this disparagement, but there is no enthusiasm emanating from honourable gentlemen opposite and there is certainly nothing but negative attitudes to this legislation. [More…]

• We are going to put them into the hands of so-called Aboriginals because a man who is one-sixteenth [More…]

• Aboriginal could still be considered an Aboriginal although he may be a man who has never been initiated and does not understand the traditions of the tribe. [More…]

• As the Minister for the Capital Territory said a few moments ago, such a man may be more articulate. [More…]

• I know that he is a sympathetic and very skilled man. [More…]

• He was not saying that he did not know as a man, as a person. [More…]

• The main charges against this Government are charges of massive incompetence and destruction of the Australian economy and doing harm to many people who have retired and who cannot rebuild their lives. [More…]

• The savings of these people have been destroyed and they are dependent until they die on the beneficence of this man, of this Prime Minister, of this Government. [More…]

• It is the incompetence, the massive economic mismangement which is the principal charge. [More…]

• All the difficulties created and the damage done by the action of the Senate- not just the potential damage but the damage already done, already set in train to thousands of our fellow Australians- must be laid firmly at the door of one man- the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I shall give just 2 examples: This is a man who, representing his Party and his country abroad, was so loose, so imprecise, so extravagant in his language that he could leave the United States Administration- at least the State Department and the Pentagonunder the impression that it was his considered view that the United States should unleash its Air Force to destroy the dykes and irrigation levees of North Vietnam in order to drown and starve the population and by that means, bring the war in Vietnam to an end. [More…]

• He declared himself willing to sit on something he believed to be an illegality, to cover up something that he- this man of principle, this man of honour- believed to be illegal for 8 months until such time as it suited his political advantage- namely, the destruction of his own Leader. [More…]

• This is a situation that requires close and critical examination because out of his rhetoric and his semantics what we see is a man who is quite prepared to contradict and repudiate statements that he made a short time earlier. [More…]

• One could not believe that it is the same man talking here today, who is not going to accept this challenge. [More…]

• He has also smashed the former Speaker of this House, which is something of which every fair man in this House must have been ashamed. [More…]

• Should a man who says he will smash the Senate - [More…]

• This desperate, frightened man will go to any lengths at all so that his grip on office is not loosened. [More…]

• This is the man who in Opposition sought to force the Government to an election by rejecting Budget money Bills and, as I pointed out, he actually brought about a full election in this country last year because the Senate had threatened him with blocking Supply. [More…]

• Any man who can so quickly change his principles, so quickly repudiate his own words, is not to be trusted with the leadership of this nation. [More…]

• This man of principle who sees our great democratic processes as a threat to his power, in an effort to save himself financially will drag this nation to the brink of chaos. [More…]

• He has shown through the years, as a friend of mine and as a friend of many people in this House, tolerance that I think is a vital quality for a person who is to be the Speaker. [More…]

• He is a very approachable man and I am sure he is the sort of person to give the 34 new faces in this place, the new members, every help and encouragement. [More…]

• I believe that the Parliament needs such a man as the right honourable member for Bruce. [More…]

• The dignity of the Parliament needs to be restored and it can be restored only by a man who will command respect. [More…]

• Respect cannot be demanded, it must be earned, and we as members of the thirtieth Parliament have to earn that respect. [More…]

• Therefore the office of Speaker needs a man of tolerance, character and integrity. [More…]

• I suggest that Mr Snedden is such a man and I have pleasure in nominating him. [More…]

• One of the main reasons it gives me pleasure is that I have always had a strong personal respect for Mr Snedden as a man. [More…]

• He commands my respect for the way in which he has carried out his duties as a member of this House during the 17 years that I have had the opportunity of seeing him in action in this House. [More…]

• I believe that all fair-minded members of this House would agree that the right honourable Bill Snedden has conducted himself as a very able member of Parliament and has handled the hurly burly of debate in a calm, effective and dignified manner. [More…]

• However, knowing of course the composition of this Parliament and the likely election result I can only say that personally I very greatly regret that the Liberal Party did not choose a much more competent man as its nominee for Speaker and one in whom we would have much more confidence. [More…]

• The importance of this election is that we on the Government side of the House are confident that in the right honourable Bill Snedden we have a man who can and will act with the authority of this Parliament, who will act in accordance with the terms of the Australian Constitution. [More…]

• He is a man of experience and integrity, of competence and humility, a man in whom we have complete trust. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, in this Parliament and in the wider field around Australia you have always been a man of great courtesy, and that is a quality which has often been rare in this Parliament. [More…]

• His opinion is that a man who robs a bank and gets away with it is properly and legally entitled to the funds he collects. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I believe that one needs to understand the man’s background and his earliest impressions to understand, to appreciate, to applaud his consistency of purpose and his persistence in achieving it, and his achievements were remarkable. [More…]

• Many of us have lost a good neighbour and a good friend in Tun Razak. [More…]

• We can at least be happy that a man who was brought into public life from the professions, where he enjoyed a very high standing indeed and an outstanding reputation, is the new Prime Minister of Malaysia. [More…]

• We will remember the contribution that this man and those associated with him made to steady progress and proper aspirations in our region. [More…]

• During my visits I spent some 20 hours in discussion with him and was profoundly impressed by his charm, his humanity, his vigour and his vision. [More…]

• If the world now better understands China and the people of China it is chiefly because of this extraordinary man. [More…]

• He saw peace as the indispensable condition for the progress of mankind and the realisation of the aspirations of his country. [More…]

• Like so many people holding office in the parliaments throughout the world I have joined with the throng that has gone to China in recent years and have had the great privilege of meeting with Premier Chou En-lai. [More…]

• In speaking of this man one must of course reconcile his history with the torment of China up to 1949 and the great achievements of China since 1949. [More…]

• He was, by any political standards, a great man and he goes to his grave knowing that over 100 countries recognise his country. [More…]

• Long may intelligent and informed chairmanship allow rational debate to be the method by which issues are decided in this House. [More…]

• Over the years I have found him to be a most knowledgeable and experienced man who is sensitive to the mood of the House. [More…]

• Mr SCHOLES (Corio)-I have very much pleasure in supporting the nomination of the honourable member for Scullin, Dr Jenkins, who served in the last Parliament as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Prior to that he served as a Deputy Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• He has a vast experience of parliamentary affairs and showed during his term as -my Deputy and as Chairman of Committees in this House that he is a man of tolerance and capacity, a man who did the job of Chairman of Committees in the manner this House deserves. [More…]

• He was the Temporary Chairman of Committees from 1956 until 196 1 , Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees from 1961 to 1973 and Acting Speaker in 1964. [More…]

• He has represented Australia overseas on many significant delegations. [More…]

• He will be continuing his service to the Parliament in his capacity as Chairman of Committees and I believe all honourable members know that he can again carry out this task efficiently and with great distinction. [More…]

• I am very glad that the Parliament has the services of such a man. [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister a question concerning his appointment to his Ministry of a man against whom serious charges had been prominently made a week before the elections. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister again about the serious charges which were made publicly about a man whom he subsequently appointed as one of his Ministers. [More…]

• One man’s larger pay packet is another man’s job. [More…]

• Mr John Stone may very well suggest that the ordinary working man should receive only a 3.2 per cent increase. [More…]

• That means only $3.20 to a man earning $ 1 00 a week, but Mr Stone, already receiving nearly $30,000 a year, would be able to collect $16.70 when the 3.2 per cent increase flowed into his salary. [More…]

• It is all very well for people like Mr Stone and other senior public servants earning well over $25,000 a year to come along and tell the Government that it ought to put the screws on the man who has to keep a wife and family on less than $160 a week. [More…]

• They do not want it and they are distressed by what is being done by this Government, which claims to be a businessman’s government, to bring about this sort of confrontation. [More…]

• As a construction man, I can see at very close hand the strain when, during an inflationary spiral, wages quite properly rise and an employee finds that a far greater proportion of his wages this week than last week is being taken away by way of taxation to fuel government spending. [More…]

• Perhaps it is clothes that make the man. [More…]

• During the crisis I made one or two speeches here round that theme in which I indicated that really it is nonsense for a government to be in a situation of having permanent public servants, legally employed, whom it cannot sack but because of a failure to get a piece of legislation through, not being able to pay them. [More…]

• So one can see that we are now dealing with a man who has become the enemy of Australia because he is peddling lies. [More…]

• -A man with a small intellect and small political ability, Premier Bjelke-Petersen, with the support of 20 per cent of” the Queensland people - [More…]

• Milliner, who died, was replaced by a nonentity, a person dedicated to destroying the Labor Government, a person who was described as a Labor man by those who wished to salve their consciences. [More…]

• Only today I had a telephone call from one of my constituents, a man who is almost at retiring age, who is able to negotiate his retirement and who is willing to do so provided his son can have a job in the Public Service. [More…]

• This man has been told quite loudly and quite clearly that if he negotiates his own retirement he can go into retirement but the vacancy caused by his retirement cannot be filled by his son. [More…]

• And what is industry to do with the goods that are then manufactured by the machines in the factories? [More…]

• These must be the kinds of things about which the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) was talking when he spoke of the development of industry and the manufacture of more goods- or is the Government to stop the importation of garments from Asia or any other part of the world? [More…]

• I received a telegram from a man who fives near Wanaaring, which is between Bourke and Tibooburra. [More…]

• He asked me to remind the Prime Minister that the Western division of New South Wales does not end in the MoreeWalgett area and that he is ploughing around underneath his house in many feet of water. [More…]

• I think it is probably well worth going back to the election campaign before last when many people will recall the full page advertisements sponsored by the Australian Labor Party and showing photographs of its leader at that time, the man who is still the leader, and saying in very bold type: ‘Only Whitlam can reduce inflation by a third. ‘ [More…]

• This was the man who presided over the quadrupling of inflation in Australia, yet members of the Australian Labor Party come in here and talk about deceit by our coalition in the election campaign. [More…]

• You are a confidence man. [More…]

• I have always respected certain journalists, and I wish to pay a tribute to Mr Cranston, a forthright journalist, and I wish to pay a tribute to the Canberra Times and to a man named Cavanough for disclosing something that attacks the very roots of our democratic system, and that is graft in politics. [More…]

• The article in the Canberra Times quoted a man who is known to many members of this House as saying: . [More…]

• I said she should not be under estimated as she was a pretty smart woman who did her homework and knew what she was talking about. [More…]

• I shall refer to this man as Mr X 1 - said, ‘We are talking about her attitudes on abortion, incest, homosexuality, etc. [More…]

• The article then refers to this man’s name and Mr XI saying that it was a Catholic-sounding name and asking: ‘Are you a Catholic?’ [More…]

• The man replied yes and Mr XI said: ‘Well that is terrific’. [More…]

• I did not hear anything at all of the man named Judd, I think it was. [More…]

• Over the next few weeks we saw Mr Smith, who I understand is a man of fairly modest means, undertake a very expensive campaign which I would estimate cost roughly somewhere in the vicinity of $2,000 to $3,000. [More…]

• Very clearly this seems to be another case where a man has been bribed to take a place on the ballot paper in an attempt to take votes away from a Labor candidate and I would like the matter investigated by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott). [More…]

• Why else would it set up a 3-man inquiry into Medibank, then argue with one another about what the committee will inquire into, with the Minister for Health saying one thing and the Treasurer saying another? [More…]

• How many more promises, solemn avowals, are simply to be dismissed by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), with a smile, of course? [More…]

• But it raises a worry that he can so readily make so many promises on so little research and so little solid thinking. [More…]

• There are interesting questions to the ordinary man and woman who must try to assess whether Medibank will be maintained by the Government and encouraged to develop or whether it will be permitted to wither. [More…]

• If one fears that the December 1975 approach might prevail- remember the promise to curb all the Labor Government’s extravagances and inefficiencies, of which Medibank was a part, in Liberal eyes, and this view has been reinforced by the move to set up a 3 -man inquiry very soon after the election, I suggest you toss a coin. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is a man of high principle. [More…]

• I am reliably informed that the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), the only man in the Government ranks who really understands the issue of health insurance and health services, has washed his hands of any association with debate on welfare and health because of the unfortunate experiences he has had at the rather ruthless hands of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• What it did was use the vote of a man who died to make sure that no vote was taken upon them. [More…]

• On this basis we find that the House of Representatives is dissolved under the feet of a Party which commanded a majority twice within a 3 -year period- a completely indefensible situation and one which made us a laughing stock around the world. [More…]

• We have a politically meddling vice-regal functionary assuming the reserve powers of a monarch, and a monarch, on her own admission, suggesting that she had no power to countermand the assumption of powers that he had taken upon himself. [More…]

• Apart from the humanitarian aspects of such an approach I would like to point out the economic advantage. [More…]

• Surely it is desirable for a working man and his family to be able to move outwards to the closest suburbs without having to go miles and miles outside the metropolitan area from whence they would have to commute at expense and difficulty, and when the schools, hospitals and pre-existing amenities in an area such as St George would not be used because there would be fewer children and fewer people in the area. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Hunter has just said, they were very strong words from a man who has served in a position which has enabled him to understand the Constitution of this country and what is required of the office of the Governor-General probably better than has anybody else in the country. [More…]

• He is a man of some knowledge of economic factors so he should know something about it. [More…]

• I do not think that the Treasurer was a public relations consultant; I think that he was a management consultant. [More…]

• I am sure that every Australian is proud to serve under him because he is a man of the highest integrity, a man of huge capacity and a man who will make up his mind, set his sights and proceed. [More…]

• I repeat again: If anyone in this nation had any doubts whatsoever as to the allegiance of many men in the Opposition they must have been convinced when they heard the honourable member for Chifley- a man for whom I have the greatest respect- quote in detail from an article written by Mr Salmon, an executive member of the Communist Party and the editor of the Tribune. [More…]

• That is a clear indication again of the failure of the present Government to agree to legislation that would have done something to protect that man. [More…]

• I received a letter today from a person in my electorate whom I respect very much and have grown to know over many years. [More…]

• This man, who is a chemist from the Long Jetty area, asked me why we do not get on with the job; why do we not forget it all; why do we not get on with the job of governing the country. [More…]

• I was amused a few days after the election when I saw what was said by one of the tycoons of the business world, Mr Rod Carnegie, a man who is held in great respect, and I think by the general manager of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. Mr Carnegie said: ‘Mr Fraser will solve the economic problems of this country if the world economy improves. [More…]

• Never in our history have we seen an election campaign in which a man was allowed to get away with so much. [More…]

• I succeed a man whom I respected and I am certain this House respected immensely. [More…]

• It is a tragedy I believe- and I believe the former member for Macarthur sums up that tragedythat there were men of talent, energy and integrity on the Government benches before the people gave a very determined view on what they thought of their performance. [More…]

• There is no activity which affects more greatly the standard of living and the material happiness of one’s fellow man than the area in which these people work. [More…]

• A senator from Tasmania needs to gain only 20 2 1 1 votes to be elected- one tenth. [More…]

• Now the very fundamental and cardinal principle of one man one vote and equal vote equal value has been watered down because senators have been given the right to determine whether a government can stay in office. [More…]

• The petty action of boycotting the GovernorGeneral on Tuesday afternoon- a calculated personal insult; a conspiracy, to use the word that honourable members opposite have been using against my colleagues and I and that I now use back at them, against a man who they know cannot publicly defend himself- was a performance which made me feel, as I walked from the chamber and saw members of the Opposition refusing to move from their seats, that they were like a bunch of petulant school girls with their noses out of joint because their midnight feast had been confiscated. [More…]

• I suggest that the Opposition would do far better if it were to stop picking on a man who cannot defend himself. [More…]

• He said those words about a man whom he had appointed, he said those words knowing that they were defamatory and he said that about a man who could not defend himself. [More…]

• I say no more than this: I believe that it was a sad day in the history of this country when a man of the stature of the Leader of the Opposition said the words that he said on television the other night with reference to the Governor-General. [More…]

• When I was a member of the Legislative Council in Tasmania I had the misfortune to criticise from a distance the then Minister for Transport, Mr Peter Nixon. [More…]

• I have now met the man. [More…]

• I have no doubt at all that the commitment given by the Government will be honoured and that the people of Tasmania will once more be placed on a basis of justice, parity and equality with their colleagues on the mainland. [More…]

• I have found him always a decent and courteous man. [More…]

• There are many areas of social need. [More…]

• This situation occurs in many areas in Australia. [More…]

• He is the sort of man who probably would sell the Parthenon. [More…]

• All honourable members will remember the words: ‘One man’s pay rise is another man’s job’. [More…]

• The radar station referred to by the honourable member is not automatic and it is manned only at times when tropical cyclones or severe storms are suspected to be developing in the area. [More…]

• On the weekend of 21 and 22 February the Bureau of Meteorology judged that it was not necessary to man the station. [More…]

• In the meantime it will continue to be manned when necessary - [More…]

• The radar at Mt Kanighan is not automatic and is manned only at times when tropical cyclones or severe storms are suspected to be developing in the area. [More…]

• On the weekend of February 21/22 the Bureau of Meteorology judged that it was not necessary to man the station. [More…]

• One man who applied under the amnesty assures me that he was told by an official at Australia House that, despite the fact that his application to migrate had been rejected, he could change his status on arrival if he paid his own way out here on a visitors’ visa. [More…]

• What advice, for instance, am I to give to one young man who approached me over the amnesty. [More…]

• In New South Wales, where there was no Pied Piper or honourable member for Melbourne, some 2605 people have come forward in the first 4 weeks seeking amnesty but in Victoria, where this man of great influence resides, the number is less than 1000. [More…]

• Without doubt the honourable member for Melbourne has created doubts in the minds of many Victorians, to such an extent that in the long term they will work to their detriment. [More…]

• Let me say this to the people of Victoria: When you compare the results of the man who is now the Commissioner for race relations, Mr Grassby- a former Minister for Immigration- when 367 people stepped forward, with the results of the new Liberal Minister you will see that the new Minister has increased the previous number eleven-fold. [More…]

• Yet when the boot was on the other foot honourable members opposite indulged in denunciation after denunciation of the motives and the integrity of the Governor-General, a man who they themselves chose to appoint to that high position. [More…]

• It is obvious that it was the intention of the Labor Government to place in that high position a man who would be putty in its hands and who would do what he was told. [More…]

• I would hope that a Governor-General, no matter by whom he was appointed, would be a man who maintained his integrity in the face of political pressure and onslaught and did what was best for the people and allowed by the Constitution of this nation. [More…]

• All honourable members on this side of the House will remember how rumours were spread by the Labor Party from Perth to Broome and from Cape York to Tasmania to the effect that the Liberals would give the people nothing. [More…]

• But in his Speech the Governor-General, a man who has no political axe to grind, is telling the people of Australia that these things will happen in a few months’ time. [More…]

• But seeing what the man will do, [More…]

• I must remind him at some time about the realities of the man on the land and the rural industries in general. [More…]

• To me, his words do not sound like those of a committed humanitarian. [More…]

• To me they sound like those of a man- the same man, in fact- who at a young age put in writing his firm belief in property franchise. [More…]

• I wonder what happens to a man who is conservative at 35 as the passage of the years hardens him? [More…]

• Many of these people who were upwardly mobile recently turned their backs on the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Gerrymander or not, Labor people will not cop a raw deal. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister thinks he got a rough reception from his opponents at Northcote Town Hall during the election campaign let him try to ignore the common man’s interests and he will see the wrath of the whole Labor movement against him. [More…]

• There are in our towns and in our cities people who will work on committees or welfare and charitable programs without any personal gain except for the feeling of satisfaction that they are doing something for their fellow man or woman. [More…]

• We must not, indeed cannot, rely solely on the selfless devotion which so many people contribute at this time. [More…]

• If we conclude that the complexity of our society necessitates support to the community from the Commonwealth Government, it is the responsibility of this Government to find ways and means and to give that support, whether it be advisory, manpower of financial. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s address was in many ways a more candid document than the Prime Minister’s policy speech last November. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who paraded as a man of honour and integrity, has had his honour and integrity stripped away. [More…]

• The Government’s whole election program is now seen to depend on semantics and verbal legerdemain. [More…]

• For any social or human need to be met by the Government it must be ‘ real ‘. [More…]

• The one link that connects all the Government’s policies is a determination that the little man should pay for them; that the wealthy and the privileged should benefit. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman is living through a stage of acute fierce delusion, a delusion so intense that he would seek to portray Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow as a glorious advance onto the Gold Coast. [More…]

• What was the other charge made by the honourable gentleman this evening? [More…]

• The honourable gentleman is long skilled in the study of coup d’etats. [More…]

• What was the conclusion of that late right honourable gentleman? [More…]

• Does he say that Evatt, a man who became one of the youngest judges ever of the High Court of Australia was in error? [More…]

• But look at what the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), that Venerable Bede in our midst, that one who has years hanging upon him with such tenderness, that man with the distinguished diplomatic grey hair, had to say about his leader. [More…]

• It was the honourable member for Werriwa, the man who leads the Opposition. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman also said: [More…]

• This man, this leader of the LiberalNational Country Party Government, is despicable in the manner in which he is eliminating the benefits for the little people through expenditure cuts, while at the same time lining the pockets of the wealthy grazier. [More…]

• How far is this man removed from the average Australian? [More…]

• He was a good, honest, decent man- one of the old school of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• The final decision whether an industry will continue must ultimately lie with the man or the company who has put up the capital and whose money is at risk. [More…]

• Industrial unrest is just as damaging to business as are excessive wage demands. [More…]

• I wish to draw to the attention of the House a meat industry strike in relation to a man who had been employed for 25 years at the meat works at Bowen. [More…]

• This calmnatured man was dismissed, allegedly for smoking on the butchers’ stand. [More…]

• He had collected his clothing and was walking out without provoking his fellow employees when the shop foreman said to him: ‘What are you going home for?’ [More…]

• The man said: ‘I have been sacked.’ [More…]

• The shop foreman asked the reason. [More…]

• The man said that he was being sacked for allegedly smoking on his stand. [More…]

• The shop foreman said: ‘You know that is the rule here. [More…]

• The man said: ‘No, I was not. [More…]

• He continued: The Assistant Manager came around and said that I should not be smoking on my stand. [More…]

• But this man was not smoking on the stand at all. [More…]

• All the men who were employed at the abattoirsthey were not militants- came out on strike in sympathy with the dismissed man, although he did not want them to take strike action. [More…]

• The management of the abattoirs at Cootamundra at the moment is waiting for a higher price which is expected for meat on the world market. [More…]

• They have me because I am a man of free speech and I hate murder and rape. [More…]

• The honourable member as a responsible former member of the Army ought to be ashamed of himself, interjecting in such a frivolous manner. [More…]

• He is a man of the highest distinction and reputation. [More…]

• We must be quite sure that the man we appoint as Director-General of ASIO is capable of controlling and directing its organisation in detail. [More…]

• If we appoint a suitable man who may or may not hold judicial office we must see that he meets these requirements. [More…]

• I would rather that man inside my tent spitting out than outside spitting in’, or words to that effect. [More…]

• I am pleased that in this debate we have not heard the denigration of our security organisations but have seen demonstrated a preparedness on both sides to discuss the appointment of a judicial officer who will become the head of our organisation, a man who was appointed at the first instance by our opponents, the former Government, and in whose appointment we concur and are now proceeding with. [More…]

• He is a man in whom we can have trust- obviously we have because we are proceeding with the appointmentand he is one in whom the Opposition can have trust. [More…]

• It comes down to a different view of the nature of man in our society, and of the nature of the household in our society. [More…]

• After realising that Sam Benson was moral and not able to be bought in the battle for Batman some of the locals thought they would try the ethnic groups. [More…]

• However, this knockback did not quash the diminutive but sturdy Liberals in Batman. [More…]

• Strangely, this ‘mindless thuggery’ coincided with the visit of the Prime Minister to Batman. [More…]

• After this meeting I was sought out by a petrified Italian gentleman who owns a shop in Northcote and who makes no secret of his support for the ALP. [More…]

• This man, who is getting well on in years, had received a death threat written in Italian. [More…]

• It seems that this gentleman had committed the terrible sin of putting an ALP poster in the window of his shop. [More…]

• Well, this is to be seen, because having regard to gentlemen such as you, who voted to send 500 kids to die in Vietnam, you would have no conscience about seeing an ALP man killed. [More…]

• So, not counting the cases in other electorates- only three of which are public knowledge- in my own electorate there was: Firstly the offer of money to a prospective Independent candidate if he would direct his preferences to the Liberals; secondly, there was the offer of money and a holiday in return for retraction of a family’s political affiliations; and thirdly, when all else failed there was the ultimate weapon, a death threat to an old man who unashamedly supports my return to this Parliament. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Batman has any evidence, I hope that rather than blab, bleat and moan in this House, he makes use of it. [More…]

• I regard it as a concoction of the imagination of the honourable member for Batman. [More…]

• But one thing sticks in my gill more than anything else, and it is because I happen to know well the man concerned. [More…]

• He is a decent, respected person rather like the previous member for Batman. [More…]

• In the days when Batman was well represented, because that man dared to reply to a letter from a left-wing maritime unionist in the Adelaide Advertiser, he has had his roof peppered with stones nearly every night. [More…]

• For 3 years that man had ghost knockings on his door. [More…]

• He was victimised by political bigots, most of whom, it seems to me, always seem to exist in the Party of the honourable member for Batman. [More…]

• In South Australiathis may apply to other States for all I know; I know very little about Tasmania- owners of say 1200 acres in 30 inch rainfall areas of the Adelaide Hills are being forced to sell out because of land tax. [More…]

• This man has 5 separate titles for a total area of about 1200 to 1400 acres and is paying close to $3,000 a block. [More…]

• -I will leave it to the people to note the difference between the man Fraser and the honourable member for Fraser (Mr Fry). [More…]

• The man Fraser is a man dedicated to decency and honesty, a man constructive and positive. [More…]

• The representative of the electorate of Fraser is a man destructive and negative. [More…]

• We have listened to 20 minutes of feeble bleating from a man who obviously did not have his heart in the job. [More…]

• I know that you with your great sense of humility and your great appreciation of human nature will continue the wonderful tradition of service that you have given to the Parliament. [More…]

• I can assure you that a man of your standing in the Chair will have the complete support of those who sit on this side of the House. [More…]

• For the Hansard record, the following election results tell the tale in Queensland and the Queenslanders response to the challenge that was thrown out to them by the good decent men in the Senate who set in motion the machinery which allowed Sir John Kerr to be enshrined in the annals of this country as a statesman and a person who refused to bow to what the Labor Party manipulators believed was an irresistible force. [More…]

• Sir John Kerr will be remembered long after the ghosts of the Labor Party because he was a lover of freedom, a defender and upholder of democracy, a man who not only believed in democracy but who knew that once you limit it you virtually lose it. [More…]

• That was brought about by a man whom the honourable member professes to admire. [More…]

• The Opposition freely acknowledges that that level of activity was weak in the last half of the calendar year 1975 and will receive stimulation in the first half of the calendar year 1976, as a result of the new personal tax system and as a result of the cuts in taxation by about $400m progressively fed into consumer demand. [More…]

• Let me deal with the straw man of big government of which we heard so much in the campaign. [More…]

• The reality is of an elitist political party which had severed its bases of support in the interest of expanding the power virtually of one man. [More…]

• Perhaps the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) would care to interject about the replacement of Senator Bert Milliner, one of the most respected members of this Parliament, a man respected by people on all sides of politics. [More…]

• Conventions that had been respected by both sides of the House for many years were suddenly thrown overboard. [More…]

• Likewise he was a man of learning and likewise he was a member of the Australian Parliamentary Christian Fellowship. [More…]

• He is a man of great wisdom. [More…]

• Indeed, the last commander of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force was an Australian. [More…]

• How will man use the knowledge he has gained [More…]

• Almost exactly 5 short months ago a man well versed in economic policy and one who is well known to us all in this House, and indeed to most Australians, made a major speech in Melbourne. [More…]

• Since that time, on more than one occasion there have been compulsory waiting periods- not through the fault of the Departmentin many cases after the applicants had received final approvals and in many cases after they had exchanged contracts. [More…]

• This is a clear example of the Labor Party’s much vaunted respect for the rights of the little man being seen to be completely nullified. [More…]

• I might add, Mr Speaker, that in many cases the cost to the individuals, who are not rich people, was $300 or more in extra interest for a month or so and an extra $ 1 00 or $ 1 50 in legal fees to sort out the problem. [More…]

• The meeting was set up by Mr Fischer, a man with great contacts . [More…]

• As a previously very practical man, I tend to look at the cost of the bureaucracy involved in the airlines section of the ministry for Transport. [More…]

• I hope that the ministry, in line with the general principle of sound management that my Government is following these days, will look into this matter because it would seem possible to me to get some reduction in the $52m, thereby reducing the deficit in the airline account. [More…]

• In a newspaper article Alderman Jones, a Labor man, is reported to have said: [More…]

• There was an admission from a Labor man that the Labor Government, taking Dr Coombs’ advice, had deferred the Brisbane airport project. [More…]

• No, ‘t is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ‘t is enough, t will serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. [More…]

• The third reason for the present condition is this: It is the emergence of the OPEC cartel- that is the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries- and that is only the first of many, because today we live in a world of macro-economics; something a little above the concepts of the ambitions or the capacity of this Government. [More…]

• The OPEC cartel, with its quadrupling of crude oil prices, is only one of many such groups that will emerge. [More…]

• It has been correctly said that it is not the man ‘s skin that itches but the man underneath, and the itch is a fundamental one. [More…]

• His actions have been endorsed by the people of Australia, voting democratically, in the most overwhelming manner possible. [More…]

• It can be motivated by only one thing: A systematic attempt to destroy the Governor-General as a man. [More…]

• He has proved that he is a man. [More…]

• It was opposed particularly by the Deputy Secretary (Economic) in the Treasury, Mr Stone, who is in fact the real head of the Department of the Treasury and who is the man who virtually now dominates the Treasury’s thinking on all matters of economics and even on matters of industrial relations. [More…]

• He is a man of tremendous intellect. [More…]

• He is a man of great courage. [More…]

• He is not a man who will ever deceive a person. [More…]

• But to the man on $100 a week the increase would be only $6.40 a week. [More…]

• It is absolutely absurd to think that a Class 4 clerk of the Third Division should be entitled to $ 1 80 per week, which can be claimed by a man 23 years of age, when a person who has been working for 23 years at the lathe, having served his apprenticeship first, gets $40 or $50 a week less than that. [More…]

• What young man will take on a trade training course when all that he will get at the end of his career is about $130 or $140 a week- for a 40-hour week working in a smoke filled factory with fumes, noise, dust and heatwhen he could get another $40 a week for 36% hours working for the Australian Government in an air conditioned office? [More…]

• I was also disappointed that the new investment allowance did not cover the first $1,000, but the reduction from $1,000 to $500 will certainly partially help to alleviate the problem because the first $1,000 is the most important to the man who runs the corner store, a local garage and workshop, a small fruit and vegetable farm, the fisherman or the clothing manufacturer. [More…]

• Too often we tend to rationalise the small businessman with the big businessman. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the result has meant the demise of many small businesses. [More…]

• They could not construct their own railways, wharves, and ships and man them themselves. [More…]

• I consider that the substance of that letter is very pertinent to the Bureau’s assessment of the situation, notwithstanding the reports furnished by the master of that vessel, that in the light of the information and observations available to them, and made by them respectively, on their judgment they considered that it was not necessary to man the station. [More…]

• He said it was unjustified to say that there had been an error in judgment in not manning Mount Kanighan. [More…]

• One man in every twenty and one woman in every one hundred are suffering from alcoholism in Australia. [More…]

• I can assure honourable members that every man who sits on the Government benches is committed to ensuring that people in need in this country will have resources available to assist them. [More…]

• What an amusing scene it will be to see the man who spoke loudest and longest in that sorry Vh months’ long saga read a speech in the Senate similar to that made by the Treasurer in this place. [More…]

• I know that the job of Treasurer is a very demanding one and that there are a lot of people to see, but I hope that the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Minister Assisting the Treasurer (Mr Eric Robinson), who is gracing the table at the present time, when he is shadow Treasurer opposite me very shortly I hope, would not make a lot of the Treasurer not being in the House. [More…]

• 1 am sure that he is not a man who changes his mind too easily or too quickly. [More…]

• We are odd man out in the way in which we do this. [More…]

• The tax man’s take out of the industry roughly doubled. [More…]

• One must admire the man. [More…]

• Yet this man opposite is shedding crocodile tears for the wholesaler. [More…]

• I have quoted the increase in the wholesaler’s share, and he is the man who handles not just a few beasts but hundreds of thousands of carcasses. [More…]

• His friends in the Labor Party must deplore his rejection of the profit motive which, in the case of one company- a company with which the honourable member for Macarthur had some association and to which he referred in his excellent speech- provides jobs for many thousands of people. [More…]

• What type of Labor man do we have in this House when the honourable member denies people an opportunity to make a profit so that they can create jobs for people who want to work? [More…]

• However, it is not my intention to speak on rural issues this evening although it is appropriate to point out that the lone ranger on the other side of the House is the only country man left there. [More…]

• I think it is unfortunate and tragic that the good name of the Commonwealth Police should be denigrated by giving them the unsavoury, dirty work of the Liberal-National Country Party coalition and having them do such distasteful work as has been bestowed upon them by a man whom I held in high respect until very recently. [More…]

• He was managing director of one of the Barton companies that crashed and went into liquidation and screwed the small shareholders who had invested their money in the company. [More…]

• The performance of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) in this place this morning is reminiscent of the performance of such a rooster, for tomorrow before his extra-parliamentary peers the future of the man who is now the Leader of the Opposition will be at stake. [More…]

• What we heard was not concerned with the matter of public importance in the terms submitted to the Parliament; it was a defence of the man who has just presented it to the Parliament. [More…]

• We all recall that the man who was Deputy Prime Minister was confirmed as having the confidence of the Labor Party before he was finally condemned. [More…]

• I refer to the man who was Deputy Prime Minister, who was Treasurer, who was Minister for Overseas Trade and who became Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• His escapade relating to overseas borrowings was denied in this Parliament, denied by the man making the allegations this morning, and one of his colleagues was subsequently condemned. [More…]

• The man who was at that stage condemned, the present honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), came into this House- we all respect him for this- and was prepared to state his case and to explain to the Parliament and the people of Australia the whole of his belief and understanding of the circumstances, and he asserted the reasons he believed the allegations of his leader to be false. [More…]

• There was another charge, a charge against a man who was formerly Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• It is true that those allegations were made against a man who was confirmed in his position by the man who is now Leader of the Opposition and was then Prime Minister. [More…]

• Now we have the case of the man who is Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• Why were all these things not openly acknowledged in this Parliament by the man who is Leader of the Opposition? [More…]

• The man who was Minister for Minerals and Energy in this Parliament has never explained to the Parliament the whole of the nature of his involvement in those overseas loan transactions. [More…]

• The man who is Leader of the Opposition now seems to be prepared, in exactly the same way, to refuse to reveal his involvement in what apparently is another escapade in overseas loan negotiations. [More…]

• The action of the man who will follow me in this debate, the Attorney-General, in involving the Commonwealth Police in political action is a disgrace. [More…]

• I agree with the Leader of the Opposition that the Attorney-General has only one course- to be a just and decent man and resign from his position. [More…]

• When a foul, untrue attack is made like that made earlier today, I am afraid that the man came out; the Attorney-General gave way for a moment. [More…]

• A man, that man, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), the former Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister to be sacked by a GovernorGeneral in this country, is fighting for his political life. [More…]

• As the honourable member says, there are double standards and they are all because of this attempt by a man to use this Parliament and, as he has done this week, the Press to defend himself because he is fighting for his political life. [More…]

• He is trying to put me in the box and trying to put the Prime Minister in the box, but he is the man who is in the box, though not the box I was just talking about. [More…]

• They should think well before they endorse the continuation of this man in the office of Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• People can always make accusations to destroy a man, particularly a man in political life. [More…]

• Can we accept the credibility of this man? [More…]

• Already the Liberal Party has destroyed a former leader through the man it now has as Prime Minister. [More…]

• One man ‘s larger pay packet is another man ‘s job. [More…]

• Of course it is important not to have excess liquidity- too much demand chasing too few goods- at a time of relatively full employment. [More…]

• Of course we have to educate the Australian public that our resources are not limitless; that wages have to be contained to reasonable increases; that one man’s wage increase may be another man’s job. [More…]

• I have been somewhat at a loss to see a most able man in the person of Mr Tony Webster come into the dairy industry as a leader, bringing with him a breath of fresh air and innovative ideas, and then be subjected to a program of vilification that would have done the members of the Australian Labor Party opposite proud. [More…]

• You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. [More…]

• You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. [More…]

• You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. [More…]

• This modest man, born in a quiet country hamlet called Currabubula, derived the greatest satisfaction from his career in this Parliament from his service in the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• Charged with managing a great program of legislative reform and faced with a recalcitrant and truculent Opposition, he never flinched from the demanding schedules of his task. [More…]

• They say that in no circumstances must one man’s need take precedence over what they characterise very narrowly as another’s rights. [More…]

• I certainly join with him in saying how much we appreciate the long service that that man gave to the Parliament of Australia. [More…]

• However, I could not altogether agree with him when he said that Mr Daly was deliberately endeavouring to ensure that democracy was working to the full, that every man and woman was entitled to a vote, and all these sorts of things. [More…]

• I just remind the honourable member that one of the very last actions carried out by Mr Daly as Minister for Services and Property in this chamber was to close down some 900 polling booths, which made it very difficult for many constituents throughout Australia to vote. [More…]

• If Labor was guilty of inhibiting freedom by raising the proportion of government expenditure in this country, how much more guilty are the governments of the other capitalist countries in the world, many of which are anything but socialist? [More…]

• When Labor went out of office in 1949 a man on average weekly earnings with a wife and 2 children paid 3 per cent of his income in income tax. [More…]

• A man on average weekly earnings has a marginal tax rate near 60 per cent compared with 35 per cent in this country. [More…]

• A recent survey in Sweden, quoted in the United States magazine Business Week of December 22 last year, showed that many Swedes thought there should be more expenditure on health, care of the aged, education and the environment. [More…]

• Has he seen reports of yet another hang gliding injury over the weekend, this time through a young man making his first gliding attempt by jumping on a 33 metre cliff at a Victorian beach? [More…]

• I am sure he will be remembered by all honourable members, even the new members, because he was a rather rugged looking man, if I may use the term. [More…]

• loss of man hours and earning capacity, and [More…]

• This man replied to it from his vast experience of the Merchant Navy. [More…]

• For 3 years that man’s roof has been pelted with stones. [More…]

• I am looking at the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) because I know that he was a local government man and always lauds the virtues of local government. [More…]

• I take issue with the hard line conservationists, many of whom I believe, had they arrived in this country when it was in its natural state, would have us all today living in bark huts. [More…]

• It is true that many people would not have us touch a tree, mine any of our natural resources or indeed till the soil for food. [More…]

• I think that most important in relation to our environment is ourselves as human beings. [More…]

• I realise that there has been considerable despoilment of our natural environment and that man has interfered with and endangered many species of plant, bird and animal life. [More…]

• Despite this, man is still the most important thing on the face of this earth. [More…]

• Man through his lack of discipline, one should say through his ignorance, and through his greed has caused a great deal of this pollution. [More…]

• Instead of putting very great dependence on and deference to the work of the incoming Committee he has appointed a man called Hay. [More…]

• The general idea was that it would be an Aboriginal cattle station with no white man on it. [More…]

• Ralph was the white manager of Wave Hill. [More…]

• That man is there and so are various other people all the way down. [More…]

• We have that sort of man in the Territory. [More…]

• I am pleased also to follow such an accomplished speaker and a man who has been such an eminent Minister for the Capital Territory as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant). [More…]

• He is such a nice man. [More…]

• To a man so far they have expressed their grave concern about the Government’s action in relation to this matter, as have done people who are associated with the Asthmatic Association and as have done lots of pharmacists. [More…]

• One must give some credit to the honourable gentleman for having been a most able confidence man at the time. [More…]

• Another example that would not be uncommon is that of an unemployed man with a wife and 2 children. [More…]

• But now the man’s allowance will fall by $73.40 to $23.40 a week and the family income will be reduced accordingly to $103.40. [More…]

• Without a doubt, the Minister has to take the responsibility although from conversations I have had with him over the years I have always thought him to be a very honourable man. [More…]

• I think it is a pity because it is destroying the reputation of the Minister when the man whose reputation should be at stake is the man who made the real decision, the Prime Minister himself. [More…]

• I can understand his affection for his scheme because one conceived so late in life does have attractions for a man, I guess. [More…]

• People think that farmers have not got many brains. [More…]

• I would give them a lecture as befits a man of my modest nature. [More…]

• This was probably his greatest mistake of all and it was conceived, as I said, in generosity, with typical generosity that one would expect from a man of such a benign and forgiving nature. [More…]

• While the outcome depends on such factors as the first Budget deficit and balance of payment figures, it is a brave man who would forecast such a rapid resurgency as the Treasurer has forecast. [More…]

• He is the Australian Labor Party’s fourth spokesman on economic matters in 4 years. [More…]

• Now, in Opposition, it has elected to put yet another man in the position of economic spokesman. [More…]

• It should not be likely, because the problems that Australia is facing today are as much the result of the policies of the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) as of those of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) and those of the man who was in the middle of the two of them, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns). [More…]

• But it would have been a brave man in 1969 who predicted a bad season and a quick recovery to the world market. [More…]

• This man was and still is desperately short of cash. [More…]

• On top of this the Government has refused to appoint a new chairman of the ABC in succession to the late Professor Richard Downing. [More…]

• The absence of an independent chairman, able to speak for the Commission as a whole and to represent the interests of staff and management, has left the ABC dangerously vulnerable to Government intimidation and the pressures of the commercial broadcasting lobby. [More…]

• The delay in appointing a chairman is inexplicable. [More…]

• Does the Government suggest that there is no suitably eminent or qualified man or woman to take his place at the head of the Commission? [More…]

• If ever there was a need for a strong and capable chairman commanding the respect of the public and the loyalty of the staff it is now. [More…]

• A new chairman, acceptable to all sides in the present dispute, but above all, committed to the ideals and traditions of the ABC, must be appointed without delay. [More…]

• What financial hardships, what personal handicaps, what social injustices has this man of property and position ever had to endure or overcome in his comfortable life? [More…]

• We were not elected to supervise the disintegration of the traditional Australian way of life or the concern of the average Australian citizen for his fellow man. [More…]

• Many new Australians in the Newcastle region of the Hunter electorate cannot understand how one man can dismiss the popularly elected people’s government; they cannot understand how it can be destroyed by one man. [More…]

• Wages and salaries were recently increased by 6.4 per cent, but the effect on a man with a wife and 2 children earning $160 week has been to increase his tax burden not by 6.4 per cent but by 1 8 per cent. [More…]

• As my friend the honourable member for Kennedy said, there was not even a twelfth man. [More…]

• The Bass by-election was another great example of the leadership of this great politician, this great statesman. [More…]

• That is the record of this man who is portrayed by some people as being the great leader. [More…]

• That is a lovely example of democracy- if a nonLabor union man at a rally tries to express his point of view he can expect to get roughed-up. [More…]

• The Commission, to be a 5-man body with unlimited powers, was not to be subject to Parliament. [More…]

• Journalists say that they support freedoms, but the sincerity of their statements must be questioned because of the obvious sympathy of many of them with communist regimes around the world, regimes which practise all the complete antitheses of democracymurder, deceit and class hatred. [More…]

• -It has sickened me to come into this chamber and to hear not only the many unjustified attacks on the actions of the Governor-General last November but also numerous vitriolic and cowardly attacks on the very character of the man himself. [More…]

• The Opposition has attempted to annihilate the good name, reputation and integrity of a man who was an adornment to the Bar of New South Wales, one of the greatest Chief Justices that State ever produced and a man described by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) when he chose him as Governor-General as one of the finest of all Australians. [More…]

• I have heard some of the foulest utterances thrown at him, even casting aspersions at his manhood. [More…]

• The GovernorGeneral, this great Australian, should be released forthwith from any convention that demands his silence. [More…]

• The attempt to destroy him came after he showed the Opposition he was no Charlie McCarthy but his own man, sworn to uphold the Constitution, which he did. [More…]

• History will applaud this man. [More…]

• He would be the most dangerous man in Australia to let loose on the housing industry. [More…]

• I suggest for the consideration of various Ministers in the negotiation of any new agreement that they give special consideration to the position of a person who is eligible to obtain a rental home through the Housing Commission because he is in receipt of 85 per cent or less of the average weekly earnings per male unit employed- at present in Queensland this is $135 for a man, his wife and 2 childrenbut who is not allowed to purchase his home because his income has climbed above this figure. [More…]

• He may have spent many months in making his house into a real home with gardens, etc., but he is forced to look elsewhere to purchase a home. [More…]

• This man is an ordinary worker with the railways who was transferred from Launceston to Hobart. [More…]

• I was interested to find in the report of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, to which I referred earlier, and in the paper which was debated back in October 1975 the surprising view expressed by many people that it is the people in the poorest income bracket who have a very strong desire, a particularly strong desire to buy their own homes. [More…]

• It is morally wrong to deny that man the right to say: ‘I have been a tenant for 6 years and now I want to become a purchaser’. [More…]

• Using the meat industry as an example of how country people are receiving a bad deal from manufacturing industry, Mr Jackson said the auctioneer’s hammer in the saleyards might end a rural activity, but it also was the beginning of a manufacturing activity. [More…]

• A Press article issued on 7 January stated: ‘The efficiency of the industry which takes over when the cattle are driven out of the saleyards is extremely important to the man who produces the cattle- just as important to him in the long run as efficiency of production on his own property, ‘ Mr Jackson said. [More…]

• ‘The meat processing industry was one of seven manufacturing sectors examined by the committee, and we found much that needed improving. [More…]

• In some cases doors to cold rooms were so small that only one man at a time could enter. [More…]

• ‘The men and women workers were also exposed to certain diseases transmissable from animals to humans. [More…]

• The number of humans who have caught the disease is not known but the effects include fever and muscle spasms and on rare occasions sterility. [More…]

• Many operate below optimum levels. [More…]

• ‘Manufacturing industry needs to be changed to serve the country as it should. [More…]

• A great deal of change is needed, because the Green Paper emphasis is on what the country expects from manufacturing rather than the other way around. [More…]

• The policies suggested for manufacturing would be a positive help to farmers- with their costs, as well as their incomes. [More…]

• Mr Jackson might be a very able man in the business world, being an executive of CSR Limited, but I feel that he has relied far too much on reports from other people to include in his report on manufacturing industry. [More…]

• Two weeks ago this man received a letter from the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in which the key paragraphs are these: [More…]

• The man ‘s company is named- was dependent on another company or companies for business, and it was the effect of lower tariffs on those companies that in turn, affected your employment. [More…]

• The man concerned is nearly 60 years of age. [More…]

• The fact is that it is very difficult now for the man on the land to afford to pay for his obligation to the national estate. [More…]

• This is one of the very strong reasons why we believe that the other precedents in this country- the precedents of transport subsidies to Tasmania, subsidies to air travellers, subsidies to students and subsidies to all sorts of groups-justify the payment of this subsidy in the short term to people on the land which will make sure that they keep up the level of superphosphate and nitrogenous fertilisers that our nation needs. [More…]

• The man on the land is not looking for charity, despite what the newspapers often tell the people in the cities. [More…]

• Through its policies the Government recognises the pensioner, the consumer, the employee, the employer, the manufacturer and the farmer. [More…]

• It will not be the small farmer or the man on the land in real need, whose problems my Government recognised and which this Government ignores. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) occasionally laments about the man in the small country town. [More…]

• The man comes into this chamber and talks about moral bankruptcy, distorted priority and- I quote him- a grotesque sense of social justice. [More…]

• This man is the past master of the handout. [More…]

• For the duration of what is one of the most significant debates for a large section of the Australian community one member of the Australian Labor Party has been in the chamber, that member being, at the time the debate started, the Opposition spokesman on agricultural matters. [More…]

• The debate has progressed, and at this stage he is now the shadow Minister representing the shadow Minister in another place who, during the suspension of the sitting, was endorsed as the Opposition spokesman on agriculture. [More…]

• I refer to that man with a magnificent and unsurpassed knowledge of rural industries, Senator Gietzelt. [More…]

• This man introduced the Regional Employment Development scheme and presided over the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]

• This man presided over the greatest handouts to Aborigines that this country has seen. [More…]

• This man introduced more allowances, more schemes, more systems of getting something for nothing and gave away more free lunches than any other Prime Minister. [More…]

• This man presided over the increase of the deficit in this country to a figure of $4,500m in a year, and running higher. [More…]

• This man had the audacity to come into the House and tell us that the $30m, which is honouring an election promise, is a grotesque sense of social justice, that it represents moral bankruptcy and distorted priorities and that it is a waste and an extravagance. [More…]

• Despite what the Leader of the Opposition might think, despite the fact that this man told us a couple of years ago that we had never had it so good, the rural industries, with the exception of a couple of sectors, are without doubt in one of the greatest depressions ever. [More…]

• We must bear in mind the policies which were introduced by the Government which was led by the honourable gentleman who has just spoken in the debate and who has since disappeared. [More…]

• This man reduced the assistance to the industries in one way or another from over $300m in a financial year to less than $30m in a financial year. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) revealed yesterday that this man was responsible for the expenditure of $250,000 in one financial year on the maintenance of his 2 official residences. [More…]

• I think it should be understood by members of the Opposition that a man who gets $5,000 by way of subsidy first has to buy something like $30,000 worth of superphosphate. [More…]

• That superphosphate has a permanent benefit to the Australian soil and to productivity. [More…]

• It is ludicrous to say that a man with more acres making a bigger investment should not benefit. [More…]

• A man with a small acreage buys a small amount of superphosphate, but he will get exactly the same percentage benefit as the man with more country buying more superphosphate. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition’s insult to the intelligence of this nation by saying that a man with a big property will get a big bounty is absurd. [More…]

• He made a point that not many Australians understand. [More…]

• This Opposition which talks about priorities, subsidies and things of this nature, when in government, introduced arrangements under which there is a $4,000 subsidy for every man and woman working in the motor vehicle industry in Australia. [More…]

• It was the Federal President of the Australian Labor Party, the man destined to lead that Party in the not too distant future. [More…]

• Mr predecessor in the seat of La Trobe was Mr Anthony Lamb, a man who worked in the previous 3-year period to represent the electorate. [More…]

• In his first speech reference was made to Parliament as an anachronistic gas chamber where politicians made wordy speeches, threw around inane interjections and manipulated parish pumps. [More…]

• Sometimes it is directed so that we will not offend our neighbours, rather than looking at other people’s humanitarian interests. [More…]

• Of course, self-interest as a basic motivation for politicians can be defended because it is the basic reason for man forming himself into a society in the Stone Age. [More…]

• I suggest that there is a danger that self-interest or even the mention of self-interest sometimes can completely exclude all rational and logical consideration of humanitarian factors. [More…]

• The Labor Party, in its opinion and in the opinion of the man, elected the greatest barrister this country had to put the case for the defence. [More…]

• In the weeks leading up to the actual election, that man decided that his sacking was wrong. [More…]

• The truth of the matter- the sad truth- is that it was Chairman Mao who arranged the meeting. [More…]

• It was Chairman Mao who decided that the Russian bear was growling at his front door and was about to pounce on him, so he had to make certain that his back-door was firmly shut. [More…]

• We now have a great change in the attitude of the Chinese, yet Mao Tse-tung, the man who says that diplomacy comes from the barrel of a gun, has not retracted those words. [More…]

• Whilst we have men in the Opposition who cannot see the facts as they exist, I am afraid that Chairman Mao will continue on the line that he chooses to follow and that we will have no particular influence on that line. [More…]

• We have to be very careful in all we do that we do not totally eliminate these very valuable resources- man himself and his skills. [More…]

• He talked about a means test, as have other members of the Opposition, and asked why the Government should be assisting the bigger man, the vested interests and all these sorts of things. [More…]

• But I point out to the House that while the policies of the gentlemen opposite were pushing down the value of rural production, were assisting in belting the man on the land and were assisting in discouraging him from putting value back into that land, the Labor Government was increasing the taxation on individuals by 60 per cent and it was, of course, increasing wages, salaries and supplements by 24 per cent. [More…]

• -Mr Acting Speaker I rise to inform honourable members of some of the costs incurred by the younger generation in attempting to move on to the land in 1976.I give a case history of a young man in my electorate who wishes to be a farmer. [More…]

• This man wants to be a farmer; he makes no apologies for that. [More…]

• This man is qualified, he is a professional man. [More…]

• The decision was then taken on Friday subject to his latest assessment on the Sunday when he advised that it be closed on the Sunday, and we left the final decision to the Charge because he was the man on the ground. [More…]

• I want to say how much I have appreciated the valuable work carried out by the staff of the Embassy under the most trying and demanding of circumstances. [More…]

• I believe that there is nothing worse for the morale of a man or a woman than to wish to work and to know that the opportunities simply are not there. [More…]

• They were not great in number but to have any is to have too many. [More…]

• There is nobody in the community who will support a Party that supports the dole bludger or the man who will not work. [More…]

• It is quite wrong, as proposed now, to make a toolmaker or a tradesman or a technician or a professional man take employment that is beneath his normal status and beneath the normal wages he would earn simply to punish him for being unemployed. [More…]

• I said that no married man should be required to work in localities where he would have to live away from home and away from his wife and family, and I hope that no one in this place will take issue with me on that. [More…]

• Under the same rules, this would permit a man - [More…]

• The young man who has just resumed his seat, the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock), was not born when the last Depression occurred. [More…]

• It is a firm rule in that industry, and one of long standing, that it will not re-employ any man who has left the industry, for whatever reason. [More…]

• If we do not like the rules under which he is operating we should change the rules, not abuse the man operating under those rules. [More…]

• The matter was much ventilated before the federal election in December and plenty of opportunity existed to take action against the man if he had acted illegally. [More…]

• That man holds an office which makes it impossible for him to retaliate. [More…]

• Thirdly, I refer to Mr Bob Moore, the State member for Windsor, a man who has shown a single minded purposefulness and concern for the people in his electorate through his membership of the State House. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to welcome to the parliamentary union the new Liberal aldermen on the Brisbane City Council- Alderman Denver Beanland of the Auchenflower ward, Alderman Syd McDonald of the Hamilton ward and Alderman John Andrews of the Gap ward. [More…]

• I read both of these statements during 1975 at a time when I, like so many others in this country, was very worried about the direction in which we were heading. [More…]

• Both captured for me that cornerstone of man’s very existence, the right of an individual to express himself. [More…]

• Jim Fraser would be known to many members of this House. [More…]

• He was a man loved by all who had the good fortune to know him. [More…]

• A city that has so many times been called soulless and cynical literally stopped. [More…]

• My honour in taking this seat comes not so much from having defeated the former AttorneyGeneral who held the seat for 5 years but from following a man such as Jim Fraser. [More…]

• As your job keeps you so busy, Mr Speaker, I have found myself in many ways closer than ever to the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock). [More…]

• He is also a marvellous man to work with. [More…]

• It appears that a man entered the airport to pick up a parcel and was mobbed by some picketers. [More…]

• The manager of Trans-Australia Airlines called the Commonwealth Police who were on duty somewhere outside to intervene and the man was saved further embarrassment. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman raises the question of what can be done about this. [More…]

• This man does not understand the significance of what he says. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition was the man who said that resources cause war. [More…]

• It emanated from a Minister and a Government that have never hesitated to appeal to jingoistic phobias and racist obsessions. [More…]

• Last year this was the very man who did his best to inflame fears and to whip up resentment against the ‘Communist’ Fretilin forces in Timor, as he called them. [More…]

• This is something which no honest and sincere man would have done. [More…]

• We know that the honourable member for Werriwa is a very vain man. [More…]

• That man is not fit to lead a Party or even fit to sit in this Parliament. [More…]

• This is the action of a man who is an enemy of Australia because he puts his own vanity in front - [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is a man who has behaved like an enemy of Australia because he has put his own vanity in front of the interests of Australia. [More…]

• It is in the hands of a man who understands market realities, a man who will not bludgeon consumers. [More…]

• I repeat that the attitude of Opposition members to this clause is rather strange considering that it is their Party, thenphilosophy and their mandate which best represent the interests of the working man or, as the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) said, the little people. [More…]

• The only period of government in which some semblance of concern was reflected by a substantial improvement in the rate of initiatives in social security matters was that period administered by a former Prime Minister, John Grey Gorton, a bigger man than just about any of his detractors can ever hope to be. [More…]

• When we came to office the rate of unemployment benefit payable to a man, a wife and 2 children was 67 per cent of the poverty line. [More…]

• I challenge the members of this Government to explain why they were prepared to tolerate so much deprivation for so many people dependent on social security benefits for so long. [More…]

• I refer to the question of pensioner treatment now not being available by specialists at outpatient departments in most hospitals in New South Wales and, as I understand it, in many other States. [More…]

• The Government of New South Wales has closed almost all the outpatients clinics run by specialists because the doctors had refused to man them. [More…]

• The petition was from a man called Sankey who apparently is a part owner of a girlie bar in Sydney. [More…]

• I suggest that he must be the only man in Sydney to own a girlie bar and remain poor; but then his tax has not yet been indexed. [More…]

• When Mr Sankey was a young man, he got into trouble in Sydney, as I recall, by giving a false alibi to one of his unsavoury clients. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is a man of considerable inherited wealth who has never worked at anything in his life in terms of the possibilities open to the people he labels as bludgers. [More…]

• Really and truly, how many people want and enjoy living on the pittance they receive on the dole? [More…]

• It is the same argument that says: It is fair for the business lunch of steak and martinis to be tax deductible, but not for the working man’s lunch of peanut butter sandwiches. [More…]

• It is also argued: ‘Well, when someone has reached the age of sixty, he ought’ to be retired to make way for a younger man’. [More…]

• If the man does that he is sacrificing income, he is running the risk of his speculation not coming off, he has liabilities in the form of rates and he is adding to the inflationary pressure by being forced to go into this sort of speculation. [More…]

• Even in Queensland- we all know about the white man’s Idi Amin who is running that State- public servants make a 6.5 per cent salary contribution and receive 75 per cent of salary or $9,750 on retirement. [More…]

• He is a man who for so long in Opposition indulged in the luxury of masquerading as the pensioners’ friend. [More…]

• There are many honourable members in the Government ranks who came in on that quite significant swing in the last election. [More…]

• Many of them will be going out at the next election, no matter what they do. [More…]

• How many members of the Government Parties will come across the floor of the House and vote with us in defence of pensioners? [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar is the man who said that he would have the means test abolished in 3 years, or he would not be the Minister for Social Services. [More…]

• He is the man who did so little, relatively, in the time he was Minister for Social Services, for pensioners and other people in the community. [More…]

• He is the man who, when we were in Government, frequently took the opportunity to declare that he had a bounden commitment to the people in need. [More…]

• I do not understand, if I may address my remarks through you, Mr Deputy Speaker, how members of the National Country Party can agree to give one man who has no need of the money an amount equivalent to 2000 funeral benefits and support that move as a great act and then say in the Parliament that the Government cannot afford $700,000 this year to maintain this funeral benefit. [More…]

• Mr Chairman, these are not just idle words. [More…]

• But I have seen them suffer because of the policies of the man who sits opposite, who pretends to be their champion. [More…]

• That is why a man in this position cannot possibly make this declaration and must lose 35 per cent out of his fortnightly payment for which he has worked and saved and for which he has contributed to a superannuation fund. [More…]

• In addition to these factors, whilst the motor car has had the general acceptance and endorsement of the community over the past 25 years, it would be a very game man indeed who would predict that future generations would adopt the same attitude. [More…]

• I mention this, Mr Speaker, because it is becoming increasingly obvious that the environment we live in, is emerging as a great political and humane issue and the motor car may play a different role in the next 25 years, related to the role it has played in the last 25 years. [More…]

• In Japan, Nissan makes 37.2 cars a year and Toyota makes 40.5 cars a year a man. [More…]

• The reason for the difference between the Australian and Japanese figures is that in Australia we have fragmented our industry by careless protection, by a 95 per cent component plan which makes it impossible for our manufacturers to compete efficiently with the people who have a larger throughput. [More…]

• The secret of the Japanese, American and Swedish performances is not that the people work betterthey probably do in the other countries; people work badly here- but is chiefly because of the throughput. [More…]

• Because we have a fragmentation in Australia that is encouraged by a 95 per cent component plan it is impossible for the Australian manufacturer of cars to compete with overseas manufacturers. [More…]

• For every man we have in Australia making cars the Australian consumer of cars, the purchaser of cars, pays $4,000 extra. [More…]

• Finally, I say that I am a very charitable man. [More…]

• Sometimes in respect of a committal for trial proceeding, a police officer might genuinely believe that a man should be convicted, and he is not. [More…]

• On 13 December the honourable member finalised the action of 11 November when the whole Australian Constitution was torn up and handed over for interpretation to one man- an appointed official. [More…]

• I was frankly fascinated by a man who came into the House this evening and talked at some length about economics, a man who for 3 years in this Parliament and in this country presided over, in fact could easily be described as one of the prime causes of, the highest inflation, the highest unemployment, the highest interest rates and the biggest deficit that this country has ever experienced. [More…]

• This man came into the House this evening and talked about economics. [More…]

• $250 in respect of each child; for the man with two or four children, however, this total concessional rebate lies below the minimum of $540 given to all taxpayers, so that these men will receive $540 general concessional rebate. [More…]

• The wealthy man or woman will not be permitted to spend his or her way into office, nor will he or she enjoy the substantial advantage that money formerly held over the less well-to-do candidate. [More…]

• Only 3 weeks ago a statutory declaration was produced in this House from a man employed by Sir Robert Menzies and Sir Frank Packer to raise money, $lm at present values, for the Liberals from British companies for the election in 1951. [More…]

• The inveterate Liberal spokesman, Mr David McNicoll, revealed in 1948 that Lord Casey had gone to England, and I quote Mr McNicoll, ‘to rustle up 100,000 from British businessmen’. [More…]

• I appreciate that pronunciation coming from a man with so distinguished a Norman name as Baillieu. [More…]

• I suggest to honourble members that he is not prepared to develop those techniques which indicate the difference between a politician and a statesman. [More…]

• No one could find a better-natured man than the Minister for Transport, who is sitting at the table. [More…]

• I know that so many of them have accepted what is an advantage and a challenge- a challenge to be the true representatives of their people. [More…]

• They have a man besotted with this problem of a coup. [More…]

• I cannot understand why the Labor Party did not pick up the message from the many local government bodies or at Commonwealth-State ministerial meetings where State Ministers made the situation quite plain. [More…]

• Ask any man who served in local government in New South Wales what he thinks of State bureaucracy in New South Wales, what he thinks of the expertise of the Department of Main Roads and what he thinks of the expertise of the Department of Local Government. [More…]

• I appreciate the question which has been asked by the honourable member for Balaclava and I pay tribute to the work which he did during our period in Opposition in acting as a key contact man between the then Opposition and the insurance industry generally. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable gentleman that the Government will view this matter as an issue requiring considerable expedition at the officials level, and I hope to be able to report soon on what progress has been made. [More…]

• He was the man who was to break any agreement in that regard and it was entirely open to him at any stage to make the matters public as he has; but first of all he requested that the confidence be held and that we not make the matters public. [More…]

• We must not be seen as another government of chauvinistic Australians, beating the nationalistic drum and demanding the lion’s share in projects developed by the risk capital of others. [More…]

• As any man in the money market knows, taxes, both Federal and State, will pay handsome rewards to the men and women of Australia. [More…]

• They know he is a man of immense integrity. [More…]

• They know he is a man who is so honest that he says what he believes, he stands by his convictions, he has a sense of direction and nothing will move it. [More…]

• People on the other side of this House fear a man of that character, but they do not get anywhere with their attack. [More…]

• The Opposition went to the extent of sending a man to the United Nations because its supporters are all upset over these poor Fretilin people. [More…]

• In the past, in the Pilbara at least, this has been provided by foreign capital to the extent of some $230,000 for every man employed. [More…]

• Places like Mount Newman and Paraburdoo are operating at a loss. [More…]

• I would be the last man in this House to deny the right, for example, of Western Australia to the development of natural gas for its own purposes. [More…]

• The New South Wales public will not have a bar of a one-man Wran band. [More…]

• Mr Wran is no more than a pale shadow of Mr Whitlam, a man without support in his own Party, whose Labor policies were decisively rejected in December last, as the Wran Labor policies will be rejected this weekend in New South Wales. [More…]

• The irony is that the question of double taxation is raised in this House by a man who, as Prime Minister, presided over the greatest tax rip-off in the history of any Australian government. [More…]

• We believe that the consumer- the man in the streetmust be protected on the one hand from abuses in the private sector and on the other hand from abuses by the use of monopoly power by organised labour to which I have already referred and about which my friends opposite have been remarkably silent. [More…]

• In a way it is the hatchet man for the Auditor-General. [More…]

• It does not deal with many other important areas such as the financial control of Parliament and the relationship between Parliament and the Government. [More…]

• That pledge is taken by every member of the Australian Labor Party, including the man who is running on Saturday to be the Premier of the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• He is now running as a one man band. [More…]

• Every cent increase in the price of a middy of beer is paid by the poor man as well as the rich man. [More…]

• The Labor Party always hurts the blue collar man the most. [More…]

• During a lifetime in politics I have tried to be a collective man. [More…]

• I examine and re-examine my position, drawing on my experience, trying to make myself a better man to serve the people and trying to make our society a more just, a more equal and a more humane society. [More…]

• The conservative forces want to be able to manipulate power and privilege, but power and privilege do not lie in this Parliament. [More…]

• The latter material was generally used for the manufacture of wool packs before the cheaper man made fibres were developed. [More…]

• High density polyethylene tape is, in 1976 substituting polypropylene tape in the manufacture of wool packs, as a result of the fibrillation problems discussed in the introduction to this reply. [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister Has he read the report made on the AlburyWodonga growth centre in February by Sir John Overall, whom I expect he holds in the highest respect, as I do, as the man appointed by Prime Minister Menzies in 1958 to head the National Capital Development Commission and by Prime Minister McMahon in 1972 to be the National Urban and Regional Development Authority? [More…]

• I have relied solely on statements made at that time by Mr Fairbairn- a man of considerable experience and very great interest in aviation matters and, by the universal judgment of honourable members who know him, a very honourable man. [More…]

• It has meant that a Minister, having received prima facie evidence of urgent action being necessary, has to comply with section 26 and we are bound by the decision of the Temporary Assistance Authority, which in the main I think consists of one man, and we need not be personal about that. [More…]

• I would like to pay a tribute to a man who with courage has carried the can for economic sense in a way that few people have in this chamber or indeed anywhere else. [More…]

• You may see quite readily from this list that the vast majority of man hours is employed with assisting the community in a variety of ways other than merely handing out capitation funds. [More…]

• If the AAP were to be restructured it would be questionable whether there would still be the incentive for such voluntary participation which in itself must be worth a great deal of money in voluntary man hours. [More…]

• This was the man who Mr Wran exposed in the New South Wales Parliament. [More…]

• His defence of the man Sankey and his accusations against me were equally as unjust, miserable, false and vitriolic. [More…]

• Around Australia, especially in the South West Pacific, there are many mini-states which, measured by any normal yardstick, are not economically viable. [More…]

• But is there any man in this House who is prepared to come here and honestly state that those small island states should not be given the right of selfdetermination? [More…]

• He was a man of few words. [More…]

• The main thing is that this measure has been introduced speedily by this Government and by a man who has a great deal of sympathy and understanding for the armed forces. [More…]

• It seems to me that there is an anomaly in the fact that the man who was a member of the DFRB Fund paid his money to that fund on the understanding that the pension would go to his wife, whether it was his first or his second wife. [More…]

• I have not been a member of the DFRB scheme and have not studied it very closely but I hope that somewhere along the line the pension of the man who joined, whose wife died, who took another wife and left the forces would not be lost on the desert air. [More…]

• Anyone who tries to diminish that must address himself to the cold, hard, statistical facts and try to dismantle those. [More…]

• Strange as it may seem to some honourable members, he is a man I have been critical of from time to time. [More…]

• The then Minister for Social Services, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth)- a man with great compassion in this and other fields- brought forward this legislation, recognising the fact that Australia was entering a long period in which there would be an increase in the number of aged persons in our community in proportion to the population. [More…]

• However, as the newspapers point out frequently, in the last 3 years there was a great deal of mismanagement in this country. [More…]

• Aged people have suffered in many respects. [More…]

• So, it is all very well for him to come into the chamber tonight and to seek to make a big man of himself. [More…]

• But this is the nature of the man. [More…]

• Why does he have to make statements seeking to besmirch the name of a dead man, because that is what he is doing, and doing it in the cheapest possible manner. [More…]

• From his favourite biographer that might almost be his favourite epitaph- a man of dubious honesty. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, Senator McKenna, who knew Senator Paltridge well, made it quite plain that he regarded him as a man of uncommon character and integrity when he spoke of him in the Senate after Senator Paltridge had died. [More…]

• As a great defender of civil rights I therefore must have regard for the feelings of my fellow man or fellow person, or whatever the appropriate expression may be. [More…]

• As the Minister has pointed out, some 74 men, women and children were on their way in a large-scale mobile party moving from Warburton to Wiluna for the purpose of a rain making and man making ceremony. [More…]

• Those are not the words of a man who is involved in the process of disembowelling the growth centre projects. [More…]

• Those are the words of a man who represents a government which has regard for the effective and efficient spending of public moneys- moneys which, after all, come from the people. [More…]

• Obviously he forgot that his Party when in government had a Treasurer with no knowledge of the economy, a man who produced a Budget for this year with a proposed deficit of $2,700m. [More…]

• We live in a strange period of morality when that kind of Cabinet submission can be given to a man in the Press gallery and circulated to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and to the honourable member for Hindmarsh. [More…]

• This member was demeaning a dead man. [More…]

• How can we expect to command respect from the people? [More…]

• A few man hours can be saved by closing the Library. [More…]

• On Thursday last the honourable member for Evans (Mr Abel) attacked Alderman Paul Whelan, the Mayor of Ashfield, the successful Labor candidate for Ashfield in the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• The vicious attack by the honourable member for Evans on a man who is respected in the electorate of Ashfield- a family man and professional man who has spent a lifetime in the area- is to be deplored. [More…]

• He has attacked a man who cannot defend himself, a man who in the parliament will be an asset to New South Wales and Ashfield. [More…]

• On this basis if a Federal election were held next or tomorrow week there would be a Labor victory in Evans as well as in many other electorates of New South Wales and elsewhere in Australia. [More…]

• Is there anything that the Minister can do to see that this man’s rights as an individual will be safeguarded? [More…]

• The honourable member for Hawker, who is a reasonable man, has shown today that he knows very well the dilemma now facing the Government. [More…]

• For the performance of its functions, the Authority is empowered to make orders having the force of law. [More…]

• The Authority’s expenditure is financed by the stevedoring industry charge which is levied on man hours worked by registered waterside workers and paid by employers to the Commonwealth Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]

• Until 1970, the powers and functions of the Authority were vested in a chairman, and two other members, one of whom was to be experienced in industrial affairs by reason of having been an employer in an industry or having been otherwise associated with management in industry; and the other experienced in industrial affairs by reason of having been associated with trade union affairs. [More…]

• The method of funding the industry as contained in the existing legislation, particularly the basis of the charge being on man-hours rather than on tonnage handled and delays in varying the rate of the charge. [More…]

• It seems so out of keeping with the reality of the world today to hear a man talk about what is happening to textile factories, for example, in his electorate. [More…]

• The honourable member did not mention the fact that his Government introduced a 25 per cent tariff cut which did more than any single thing to destroy employment in the textile industry, particularly the employment of women who, in many areas of Australia, do not have alternative employment opportunities available to them. [More…]

• I moved to the broader issues of economic management and relate them to the Appropriation Bills which are now before the House. [More…]

• A business man will not spend money, high risk and expensive capital, at a time of high inflation when there is so much idle capacity about. [More…]

• -I regret, Sir, that it is necessary for me in my maiden speech to follow a man who has just made a scurrilous speech which has debased this House and the standing of this House. [More…]

• It was a mean and despicable act against a dead man. [More…]

• This attack on a dead man- a man whom I did not know- has caused great distress to his family, to his dependants and to his loved ones. [More…]

• It is most unfair, despicable and unAustralian that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) should now seek to attack this man in this way. [More…]

• This man is dead. [More…]

• The free enterprise system is the only system which will enable the ordinary man- the ordinary citizen- to have a maximum degree of both freedom and prosperity. [More…]

• They simply relate to the image of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as the strong man, the stern leader introducing belt-tightening measures. [More…]

• -I am saying that many of our colleagues were maligned, slandered, defamed and libelled in the coward’s castle of the Queensland Parliament. [More…]

• Never once have honourable members opposite had enough courage to stand up and disown that man. [More…]

• The only man who has shown any credit in this matter is the Attorney-General, who at least had the honesty to come into the Parliament and say that there was no evidence. [More…]

• It is well known that the present Treasurer was known as the bag man, running round with a stack of money to give money out to people who would make accusations. [More…]

• One would think that it was not the Government making these accusations because it appears to be powerless now and unable to do anythingunable even to pay this man’s debt. [More…]

• He was the bag man in the operation to try to discredit the then Prime Minister and senior Ministers of the Whitlam Government, men who had their names besmirched, all because of cheap politicking. [More…]

• Finally they are exposed by an honest man, their own Attorney-General. [More…]

• Let the Prime Minister come here, be a man, stand up and say whether he did flout the terms of the agreement with the GovernorGeneral, whether he did deal with the Premier of Queensland and what his relationship is with Mr Fancher. [More…]

• Many honourable members will know him as Sid. [More…]

• He is a very fine man, as I am sure everybody who has had anything to do with him is well aware. [More…]

• Late on Monday night an unfortunate young man named Michael Frodyma was involved in a serious motor accident in Canberra. [More…]

• Behaviour which represents commendably strong leadership and resolve in a man is seen as unladylike and unacceptably dictatorial when exhibited by a woman. [More…]

• There is no doubt in my mind that Mr Martins is a man of great courage. [More…]

• He was prepared to attack the integrity of a man who cannot answer for himself. [More…]

• He was prepared to impugn that man’s integrity and honesty and to cause worry to his family. [More…]

• Medibank would not have become a poor man’s health fund for the infirm, the unemployed, the Aborigines and the migrants. [More…]

• -The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is a man who prides himself on being as good as his word. [More…]

• I ought to explain this by saying that it is well known in this House that the honourable member for Werriwa, the Leader of the Opposition, is a man very interested in history. [More…]

• -I hope that in his absence the honourable member for Port Adelaide, with his usual skill and ability, will spring to the defence of the silver haired orator, a man who is I think affectionately regarded by honourable members on both sides of the chamber. [More…]

• What was the stand of the honourable member for Hindmarsh, this man who said in this chamber 2 weeks ago that he was in favour of officially conducted ballots inside the Australian Workers Union? [More…]

• I shall just read a passage which appears at page 1040 of Hansard to indicate the spirit of the man in 1 95 1 -although he tells us in 1 976 that he supported it. [More…]

• In supporting the Appropriation Bills may I in conclusion make one final remark in respect of Tasmania. [More…]

• It has been said that Tasmanians have been stirring things up in Canberra, that Tasmanians have been causing trouble, that Tasmanians apparently have not been behaving as quiet little boys. [More…]

• I want to say 2 things: First, I do not believe that any Tasmanian member of this chamber came here to be a quiet little boy; secondly, and more importantly, I do not believe the Prime Minister or the Cabinet want us to be quiet little boys. [More…]

• When I read in the Press clap-trap about having knuckles rapped because one had the temerity to stand up and oppose the Party line in respect of funeral benefits, when I hear people saying that the Tasmanians have gone mad again, and when I hear the statement: ‘If you keep carrying on like this you will be appointed as official food taster at the Lodge for the next 6 months’, I just want to say that the Prime Minister of Australia has had at least 3 opportunities privately, and many publicly, to rap me over the knuckles. [More…]

• I think that is very refreshing after 3 years of one-man government in this country when, with all due respect, the previous Prime Minister dominated the scene and, because of his strength and because of his power, was able to make decisions which perhaps were not in accordance with the overall wishes of his Party. [More…]

• The Prime Minister of the country today is not a man who wants yes-men. [More…]

• As one of the honourable member’s colleagues said, one man’s wage rise is often another man’s job. [More…]

• This country should be able to provide assistance across the board for all the many needs which governments should consider. [More…]

• The whole of the speech of the honourable member for Port Adelaide could be summed up as containing nothing but destructive criticism, as did that of many of his colleagues. [More…]

• At the time of the debate on that legislation I remember that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), with other Government supporters, condemned this provision of the legislation saying that Sir so-and-so, a man of impeccable character, would have to resign from the Stock Exchange because he is a director of so-and-so. [More…]

• I believe, as one newspaper stated, that Senator Rae’s forthrightness and honesty as Chairman of this investigating committee has militated against him getting into the Cabinet in the Fraser Government because big business has warned the Prime Minister and told him that big business does not want Senator Rae because he was so forthright and honest in his searching out of the nefarious practices of some of the big companies when he was Chairman of the Rae Committee. [More…]

• Let me deal further with Patrick Partners and its association with a man called Major Douglas. [More…]

• BjelkePetersen ‘s right-hand man, Wiley Fancher (Fancher the rancher), who with Todd and Queensland Agent-General Wally Rae carried out the inquiry, is a buddy of Doug Anthony’s. [More…]

• He is a man who is regarded with a great deal of respect by all honourable members on this side of the House and who has not yet allowed himself to be fully contaminated by the skullduggery of Liberal Party politics. [More…]

• I hope that one day he will be able to influence his party to amend the Companies Act in such a way as to encourage the small investor to invest in the stock market and thereby stimulate the economy in such a way that many decent Australians will be able to find successful and lucrative employment. [More…]

• A mistake in a criminal trial might mean imprisonment for one innocent man. [More…]

• It contained representatives of management, trade unions and the men off the floor of the workshop. [More…]

• As a younger man I was able to go overseas as a trade unionist and see what was going on. [More…]

• In fact the level of support for primary production given by this Government or by the previous Government is miniscule compared to the level of support given in obvious or in hidden ways to manufacturing industry, including the shipbuilding industry. [More…]

• I deplore the attitude of the ABC and I deplore the fashionable attitude of trendy, cosmetic journalists who single out the man on the land for special consideration and for special jibes when they know that the man on the land has to act, in large degree, independently and cannot act in large and organised groups as can other groups in other industries. [More…]

• I feel that I am echoing the sentiments of many honourable members when I appeal to members on both sides and to the Press to give the man on the land- the worker on the land- as fair a go as we want to give people in other industries in this country. [More…]

• This was the man who time and time again had stated that he would oppose the Government, if necessary, would vote against it and, if necessary, would see his Government defeated. [More…]

• I thought it appropriate tonight in view of some of the statements that the honourable member for Mackellar makes in this House about communists under the bed and that type of thing, and in view of the way he waxes so strongly on these issues, the attention of the Parliament should be drawn to this paper tiger- this man who has such a desire to hit the Labor Party at all times. [More…]

• He gave a solemn promise to the man who had installed him in power. [More…]

• The man in the coalition closest to the Queensland Premier and his friends was of course the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony). [More…]

• The Prime Minister was the man who stood to gain from the investigation. [More…]

• In th ; Premier’s view, presumably, he was a man of trust and substance. [More…]

• This is the man who brings serious charges against the Prime Minister and his colleagues- a man of trust, integrity, charm and competence, a man sympathetically disposed to the Premier’s political views, a man appointed by the Premier himself. [More…]

• This is the man who worked closely with the remarkable team of Wally and Wiley- the Agent-General and Mr Fancher, the man whose name was first put to the Premier at a meeting of Liberal and Country Party leaders on 2 November. [More…]

• Why was a man engaged by the Premier of Queensland permitted to spread these colourful accounts of a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ and ‘direct daily contact’ between Mr Fancher and the Deputy Prime Minister and the Treasurer if they were not true? [More…]

• He wanted to disown the one man who was free to reveal the truth about these political investigations and the breach of the undertaking given to the Governor-General. [More…]

• Mr Fancher was very much a man in the know. [More…]

• We know he is a man who keeps careful records of his conversations. [More…]

• 1 point out that Mr Keith Spann, mentioned with Mr Doug Anthony, Mr Phillip Lynch and a Mr Andrew Hay, is the Permanent Head of the Premiers Department in Queensland. [More…]

• Mr Wiley Fancher, the Queensland Premier’s professional adviser in matters of high finance, on the recommendation of the Deputy Prime Minister, is a man who cannot pay his own debts. [More…]

• He is the man who accused the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), one of the most respected men in this Parliament, of treacherously smuggling a so-called confidential Government document to the then coalition Opposition. [More…]

• Is the Queensland Premier satisfied with a Mr Bracey, a man on bail charged with a serious criminal offence- fraud- being one of his personal agents in this ill-conceived escapade of his? [More…]

• The Prime Minister- this physically tall man who is a moral dwarf on stilts- is as implicated as anyone. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is the man who sermonises about self-reliance and who condemns waste or misuse of the public purse. [More…]

• The biographer whom he quoted so approvingly here during the last week in which we sat has pointed out in the same work that the Prime Minister has quoted how, earlier as a Minister, the Prime Minister gave ‘Nareen’ as his home address so that he could gather the daily ministerial travelling allowance for residing with his family at his permanent home address in Melbourne. [More…]

• Yesterday’s man, moving yesterday’s rejected motion, today presents himself as a person criticising others of dubious honesty, to use the epithet of him who is his favourite biographer. [More…]

• First let me remind the House that even in the substance of the charge that has been made in this Parliament this afternoon it appears that one who is a supposed informant on whom the Leader of the Opposition has based his case against this Government suggests in a cable on 24 October that he, Wiley Fancher, was apparently involved in relation to loans to the Australian rural industry under the umbrella of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Let us look at the credibility of the man who makes the charges. [More…]

• Perhaps I should first in this place and at the beginning of this charge say that so many of those charges have already been denied. [More…]

• Let us look at the credibility of the man who makes the charges, for it is all predicated on Mr Richard B. Todd. [More…]

• I think it is important that we look at this man, Mr Todd- this man who is involved in big deals. [More…]

• Todd said he was confused because so many names were mentioned to him and he had not really met any of the people concerned. [More…]

• So much for the attempts to represent him as a man obviously involved in big deals. [More…]

• The only thing that can be said of Todd ‘s credibility, if there is a question of credibility in the case of a man whose every claim is either rebutted by others or rebutted by himself, is probably that it exceeds the credibility of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• As we now know, Mr Whitlam says Mr Todd is a reputable man. [More…]

• We began to hear names like Khemlani, the Moscow Norodny Bank, then names like Richard B. Todd, Sundermann, Cohen and Bracey- a whole list of shadowy names to shadowy figures. [More…]

• It is on the charges of this reputable man, this man with whom he did his business, that the whole of this censure motion is based. [More…]

• It illustrates fairly effectively the credibility of the man. [More…]

• This is the man whom the Leader of the Opposition sent his personal private secretary around the world to see so he would find out who he was and what it was all about. [More…]

• This man, Mr Todd, really has an extraordinary collection of records that associate the present Leader of the Opposition with him. [More…]

• Mr Todd is a man whose doubtful credibility appears through the whole of the circumstances of his loan raising efforts and his attachment to the past Federal Labor Government. [More…]

• In those circumstances all that can be said is that neither in the allegations made against the caretaker Government nor on the basis of the credibility of the man making the charges has the Opposition any basis whatsoever to raise this censure motion against the Government. [More…]

• The whole of the credibility, not of the Government but of the man raising this matter and the Party that stands behind him, has again been put to risk simply because of the failure of that man to act in a responsible way. [More…]

• I repeat that the speaker was a man who is one heartbeat away from the Prime Ministership of this country in the unlikely event that the Australian Labor Party is ever returned to power in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• The words I quoted from Mr Wood, the Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association in Tasmania, are words that have been uttered right around the country by thousands and thousands of Labor supporters. [More…]

• If he does neither the judgment of Australia will be that the Australian Labor Party has as its Deputy Leader a man who would countenance mass action, physical violence, coming out in the streets and preaching revolution. [More…]

• Many members of the Australian Labor Party do not know the meaning of the word ‘violence’. [More…]

• Here we have a man who says that it was a violent action to refuse Supply. [More…]

• When that sort of view is expressed by a man who is the Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party- a Party that has had a great history in this country despite the fact that some of its members have those sorts of views- and when that view is expressed by the Deputy Leader of the alternative government of this country it means that this country is on the road to violence if the Labor Party ever gets back into power. [More…]

• I uphold to the full every man’s right to free speech, to association, to walk down the streets, to say: ‘I do not agree with what Australia did in Vietnam’, to come here and lobby and say: ‘We want more money for education and the pensioners’. [More…]

• Every man is entitled ‘ to express himself in that way and, within the law, to go into the streets and say: ‘We are here as a peaceful protest’. [More…]

• He would know as well as I that, taking the average man as an example, if one gives a wink or a nod, if one incites or if one says: ‘Do the wrong thing’- this never happened with the Australian forces in Vietnam- people will act violently That is what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has done and that is why he has been quite cogently and properly criticised by the Australian newspapers and his own trade union leadership. [More…]

• If that is the standard that the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) and the honourable member for St George are going to set during the rest of their time in this place then I have very grave doubts about the validity of this parliamentary process insofar as they represent it. [More…]

• If they have no respect for a man on this side of the House they can have no respect for one on the other side. [More…]

• How can anyone compare the power of a man who owns 6 television stations and 3 national newspapers and countless small newspapers all over the country with the power of a person sitting in the gallery of this Parliament? [More…]

• For instance, the levy imposed on man hours worked for purposes of meeting long service leave, pension and idle time payments, has caused dissatisfaction because,eing based on man hours, when demand for labour falls the revenue obtained from the levy declines, at the very time that more workers go on to idle time. [More…]

• Furthermore, it is generally considered that by being based on man hours rather than tonnage it unfairly penalises the conventional stevedoring companies as against the container terminal operators. [More…]

• He might be talking about a man who may be in a position to deal with him and put him back in his box. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck), Senator Shirley Walters and I presented to the Minister for Transport a petition asking the Government to give consideration to the granting of some concession to those people who have to pay air fares to travel from Tasmania to the mainland. [More…]

• There are pensioners in Tasmania who cannot afford to get to the mainland and there are pensioners on the mainland who cannot afford to get to Tasmania. [More…]

• I cannot go into greater details because my time has been wasted by an idiotic performance. [More…]

• I am sure that he is a humane man. [More…]

• It will mean the end of spectacle frame manufacturing not only for Martin Wells in St Marys but for all companies in Australia. [More…]

• It means that Australia will no longer have a spectacle frame manufacturing industry. [More…]

• In particular, for Martin Wells at St Marys, the biggest manufacturer of these frames in Australia, it will mean that 430 workers will lose their jobs. [More…]

• It is only by using the land in accord with its capabilities and in balance with its environment that it can continue to produce the needs of man in perpetuity- be they for food, fibre, shelter, water supply or for recreation. [More…]

• Soil erosion is the manifestation of incorrect land use. [More…]

• It is not the small man. [More…]

• Does the Government believe that it is rendering a service to a man in that position and to the ailing housing industry at this time by making these unforeseen unpredicted inroads into this tax deductibility scheme? [More…]

• Will he be able to tell me how many families will be deprived of this benefit? [More…]

• How many families would honourable gentlemen know who incur a level of hardship that they have not incurred before when children come along? [More…]

• I repeat what I said to the honourable member for Herbert, that is, that a man or woman who is in receipt of full medical treatment from the Repatriation Department will receive a full Medibank levy exemption and a man who has a wife or family will receive a 50 per cent exemption. [More…]

• I was not trying to obscure the fact that a man who is in receipt of free medical treatment for a disability will have to pay the Medibank levy. [More…]

• The result of those administrative economies has meant one thing, that is, that those high standards have been maintained and no veteran- man or woman- has been disadvantaged. [More…]

• Land commissions are not essential: Man’s one irreplaceable and immovable resource is to be handed back to developers and speculators for their personal enrichment. [More…]

• The only respite for the condemned man is to be a hastening of his execution. [More…]

• I have never known a man in all my life with such pretensions and delusions of grandeur as the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I remember that four of five months after he became the Minister for Foreign Affairs he had not had time to do anything in that field because he was managing, so he said, about 10 other portfolios. [More…]

• Speaking about Curtin and another great man, Mr Chifley, he said on a radio interview that he regarded the 3 years of his Government as having far more influence on the development of Australia than the 8 years of the Curtin and Chifley governments m the 1940s. [More…]

• I cannot understand a man who I admire so much talking to him in the friendly way that he is, especially after what I have just said about his performances in relation to national growth, inflation, employment and the other matters which I have mentioned. [More…]

• I cannot think of a greater failure in the history of this country than the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• It must be a surprise to everyone- every single thinking person in this House; every single person in the community- that a man with such a record can be sustained in office. [More…]

• 1 point out that one of the changes that has been introduced and that the Labor Party ought to be saying something pleasant about is that for a single person there is the taxation threshold of $2,604 and for a man with a dependent spouse $4,299 before any tax is paid. [More…]

• Under the circumstances can we take any notice of a man like the honourable member for Oxley? [More…]

• Can we take any notice of a man who forecast in his one and only Budget that there would be a 22 per cent rise in wages- it is now running at about 1 1 per cent- a 5 per cent increase in gross national productrunning at a negative rate- that employment would rise by 1 per cent- in fact it is falling- and that all the other assumptions as set out in table 2 of the Budget would be achieved? [More…]

• I have to hand it to this Government; it has made a very clever effort at clouding its intentions to the man in the street. [More…]

• The so-called mini Budget has been presented to the man in the street as some great advance in welfare. [More…]

• Because the provision of certain public goods adds to the ordinary persons standard of living, the pattern of cuts in government spending announced on Thursday night will mean maximum losses of public services to the ordinary man and woman. [More…]

• The massive cuts in expenditure on sewerage, the shutting down of community health centres, the dismantling of Medibank certainly have reduced their standard of living- reduced the standard of living of the majority of Australians. [More…]

• I revert again to something that was said in the same survey I have already referred to in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review, and this time not by a journalist but by a man who is the Secretary of the Local Government Association of New South Wales, Mr Miles, who is no member of the Labor Party just as Councillor Thwaites is no member of the Labor Parry. [More…]

• As the honourable member points out, he is an eminently reasonable man, and I have a great deal of hope that he will be able to impose the views he holds upon other members of bis Party. [More…]

• I commend the honourable member for Adelaide for his approach, because it is refreshing, after a period of some years, to find an economic spokesman who is prepared to put to the Parliament on behalf of the Opposition constructive views and who is prepared to argue along the lines that the Government itself would argue in relation to so many of these issues that we face. [More…]

• It appears from the support which has been offered by the honourable member for Adelaide- that most reasonable man- that there will not be any difficulties within this Parliament in the ratification by Australia of the agreement. [More…]

• It sickens me to see a union which is held in high esteem in Tasmania covered with shame and disgrace because of the action of 20 union bosses who decreed, without reference to the rank and file, that 50 000 members of the Australian Railways Union were going on strike because one man determined that he would not carry out his duty because of a view he held in relation to the mining of uranium. [More…]

• I have seen reports of the nature that the honourable gentleman outlined. [More…]

• After I leave the conference to take part in the visit to migrant source countries in Europe, the leadership of the delegation will be taken over by Dr McMichael, a man of impeccable record internationally and nationally. [More…]

• I mentioned before that what this proposal does, from another aspect of economic management, is to push up the cost of living. [More…]

• A man who has a wife and 2 children and who is on the average weekly earnings will be nearly $1 a week worse off as a result of all of these proposals and in future years he will be worse off again as inflation comes down. [More…]

• I am referring to a man on a relatively high taxable income of $9,000 plus. [More…]

• The policy concerning family allowances for the family man and woman helps such people. [More…]

• We remember him as a man of very great stature. [More…]

• In fact, we have had disagreements with him on many occasions. [More…]

• We always admired his sincerity and the earthy manner in which he made his points and put his case, always removed from the histrionics of politics. [More…]

• I do feel quite sincerely that it is a tragedy and a pity that we do not have John Gorton in this Parliament today, a man who brought an individuality to the House and who was one of the more outstanding personalities that one meets in this place. [More…]

• Here we have a man who at least recognises the problem even though he has no solution, even though the Government which he supported played a major part in creating that problem. [More…]

• That was the first time I ever met the man. [More…]

• I would say firstly that they were attributed to a man who does not enjoy a very savoury reputation in regard to the accuracy of the statements that he makes. [More…]

• A great number of people^ took advantage of the system to enter Australia with the sole purpose of circumventing the normal migration laws and staying here as permanent residents. [More…]

• What a man believes is not the principle he professes but the assumption on which he acts. [More…]

• Human beings born or conceived in an area may be identified with the supernatural beings who created the landscape. [More…]

• It seeks to explain the origin of all things and indicates man’s identity with all things and with creation and the creative idea, or dreaming. [More…]

• His second point related to the effect that the abolition of tax rebates for children and their replacement with increased child endowment payments would have on a man who is paying maintenance to his wife or former wife in respect of children. [More…]

• He took the case of a married man whose wife has a modest income sufficient to disqualify her as a dependant for income tax rebate purposes but not sufficient to require her to pay levy. [More…]

• The implicit faith that some people have in one doctor for all purposes, whether it be an obstetric condition, a renal condition or a cerebral condition is quite sad to behold these days, because there is no doctor who is the man for all cases, the be-all and the end-all of the entire medical spectrum. [More…]

• In my view, too many doctors seek to exceed their capacity, often with highly deleterious consequences to the patient and the public at large. [More…]

• Let us turn now to the situation of a very rich man on $50,000 a year, and there are a lot of people getting $50,000 a year in this country. [More…]

• A person on $50,000 a year can opt into Medibank and get for $300 a year the same benefits from Medibank as a man on $12,000 will get, but the man on $ 12,000 is required under this legislation to pay a 2.5 per cent levy on his income whilst the man on $50,000 pays a levy of 0.6 per cent on his income in order to opt into Medibank and to get all of the benefits. [More…]

• A man on $50,000 a year gets all of the same benefits for a levy of 0.6 per cent whilst a man on $ 12,000 a year has to pay a levy of 2.5 per cent. [More…]

• It does not provide a tremendous subsidy to a man or a family on a high income and it goes pretty close to covering the cost of services. [More…]

• He is the very man whose government achieved the first real decline in Australia’s gross national product for decades. [More…]

• That is some achievement and some epitaph for a man who may soon leave this Parliament, a man whose stupid policies created more unemployment than had been seen since the Great Depression. [More…]

• The people of this city are being used as guinea pigs for the Government to demonstrate its conservative and reactionary economic management policies which can be used to political advantage outside the national capital. [More…]

• He is the Prime Minister’s most valued numbers man and naturally he wants to retain that position. [More…]

• I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to major-general and during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. [More…]

• -(11.50)-Unlike the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr William McMahon) who was ungracious enough to say that he had the misfortune to follow in this debate the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford), I am gratified to be following a man who has had such distinguished political service. [More…]

• They have adopted the old trick of the Nazi regime in Germany, that if you speak up long enough and loud enough people will believe you in the end and change the way that events go. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman and his colleagues opposite inherited one of the strongest economies in the world and now they are trying to turn it back. [More…]

• Why should a man’s job in a union be tied up at all with the support of one side or another in this Parliament? [More…]

• In other words, he was saying simply that in these days of inflation it has now become a truism that one man’s wages is another man’s job. [More…]

• There can be occasions- in fact there are many occasionswhen, in a severely deflationary situation, or in a situation of a significant credit squeeze, the major effect on employment is a general economic one and not the giving or the determination of an award. [More…]

• I can think of many situations since 1945 in which the principal effect on employment and unemployment in the economy has been severely deflationary. [More…]

• I venture to say that what happened was that the Chinese discovered that they were not dealing with a serious man. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, I was merely referring with relevance to an interjection which came in and somewhat rebounded on the man who interjected, but I take your point. [More…]

• It further emphasised the pitiable performance of his party in power. [More…]

• It further emphasised the broken man in leading a broken party and not recognising the realities of the world today. [More…]

• To lessen the effect caused by man’s impact on the environment we must face up to the need for complex solutions. [More…]

• Simple solutions are achieved only by ignoring the interconnections of all areas of human endeavour and the environment. [More…]

• The most powerful agent of change is man. [More…]

• To increase public awareness of some of the gigantic and universal problems with which man is confronted, of the solutions which are available to many of these problems and of the consequences which the absence of decisive and rapid solutions may have for the future of mankind. [More…]

• The fact that there was an experienced man present able to advise the scrutineers of the candidates would prevent any corruption or any suspicion of corruption. [More…]

• According to the Minister’s submission another 20 permanent public servants above the ceiling which currently operates will be needed to man the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]

• I believe that in many respects you have been a man of goodwill, but in many other respects I think you have been a little false in your accusations against my Leader. [More…]

• I put this to you, Mr Foreign Minister, because I think on this issue you are man of goodwill and we want to work with you, not against you; but there are elements within your Department which I do not think you are facing up to. [More…]

• In New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland such requirements are enforced on an administrative basis without specific legislation. [More…]

• The Whitlam Labor Government made those requirements mandatory. [More…]

• The Act defines the environment to include ‘all aspects of the surroundings of man whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings’. [More…]

• Basically, the reasons were ones of enlightenment, progress and concern for the welfare of our fellow man- sympathies which the present reactionary forces opposite only glimpsed uncomprehendingly in the previous 3 years. [More…]

• Unfortunately many more Australians will die on our roads before the folly of the present Bill is realised. [More…]

• I fully accept the assurance given by the Minister for Transport- he is a man of his word- that the administrative changes resulting from this present legislation will not detract from that commitment. [More…]

• Man created the monster but to contain it is the responsibility of government. [More…]

• How do we contain this man-made monster? [More…]

• The Chairman, Mr Frank Yeend, was a first class officer of the Department of Transport. [More…]

• He would have been able to do the job of chairman. [More…]

• The second member was Professor Cumming, a university professor, a man who has a personal interest in road safety. [More…]

• A man with a wife and 2 children on a gross weekly income of about $ 1 70 will be paying a levy of about $ 1 86 a year. [More…]

• Imagine the situation of the trade union movement when its members realise that this sort of package represents for a man on a gross income of $ 1 70 a week a tax surcharge of between 9 and 15 per cent. [More…]

• It will stimulate all sorts of industrial disputation in the community and wage demands. [More…]

• 1 believe it is important that at the very commencement of the proceedings it should be the duty of any judge, if he were satisfied that even the slightest possibility of reconciliation existed, to forthwith bring into operation the relevant section, as a good, permanent marriage and the security and the welfare of the children thereof is paramount to the wellbeing of any State. [More…]

• The concept of a marriage being the union of a man and a woman for life to the exclusion of all others is to be applauded. [More…]

• The average able seaman has a private cabin with a private bathroom. [More…]

• The annual salary of a master is $24,000 and of an able seaman $10,500. [More…]

• For this the able seaman does 30 weeks work and has 22 weeks holiday. [More…]

• I do not begrudge the men who man these ships these conditions. [More…]

• I know the hardship under which many of them operate and the time they spend away from home. [More…]

• If it is to cost so much for us to man our own ships I think we should at least consider whether we should not allow in some foreign competition. [More…]

• The men replied to this by saying that they had a simple ‘two man tent’ that they could use. [More…]

• As a result, on the news that night, there was coverage of a group of students from another campus setting up a two man tent near the Aboriginal Embassy in King George Square. [More…]

• Perhaps the honourable member for Werriwa could occupy himself more usefully in attempting to establish his own credibility rather than seeking to discredit a man who has no opportunity of reply. [More…]

• The figure stands at about $10,000 a man. [More…]

• If one works on the assumption that the number of employees involved was 500 to 1000, it works out that over that 6 months period- I remind the House that 1 am speaking of one State alone- roughly 1 400 000 man days were lost, in round figures. [More…]

• That is a lot of man days. [More…]

• He has worked it out pretty hurriedly as being 1 1 million man hours, working on the basis of 1 400 000 eight-hour days. [More…]

• Finally, I draw to the attention of the House the fact that earlier this week Mr Alf Rattigan retired as Chairman of the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• Mr Rattigan has been one of Australia’s great public servants for many years. [More…]

• His 13-year period as chairman of the IAC and its predecessor, the Tariff Board, has been accompanied by a major development of the role and the stature of the IAC, and in this Mr Rattigan has made a fundamental contribution. [More…]

• I rather suspect and certainly hope that his energies and abilities will be in heavy and continuing demand. [More…]

• He is a very able man and I am confident that he, like his predecessor, will make a significant contribution to the Australian economy in his onerous new position. [More…]

• We were told by a Minister in another place that it would cost about $13,000 for every man employed in building ships for the Australian shipbuilding industry to compete with overseas yards. [More…]

• Such an attitude can only involve a blatant breach of faith in that the Liberal-National Country Party spokesman for Aboriginal Affairs during the last election, the present AttorneyGeneral telegraphed all Aboriginal communities with the unequivocal assurance that there would be no cuts in the Aboriginal affairs budget or in the Aboriginal affairs program if a LiberalNational Country Party government was elected to office. [More…]

• In that telegram, the Attorney-General, a man who ought to be pretty careful about saying what he means, told Aboriginal people to vote Liberal-National Country Party on 13 December. [More…]

• -The honourable member started this disastrous program for Aborigines, and the man who followed him in the portfolio admitted that it was disastrous. [More…]

• I will tell them that it is on the record, and I will also tell them that the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, to a man, is against this legislation. [More…]

• It could have gone only one man higher in the Opposition; it could have brought in the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) but he is attending to other business. [More…]

• So it brought in the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), the single most articulate spokesman in the Opposition on homes savings, to speak on the legislation. [More…]

• For too long in our history environmental issues were ignored and many of our greatest man made and natural assets have been destroyed. [More…]

• It was almost dark when I arrived but every able bodied man of that small settlement was out with graders and loaders building a levy bank around the settlement. [More…]

• One incident that occurred involved a man who had just come out of hospital. [More…]

• It was very pleasing to see that the first levy bank to be built was the one to protect this man’s block. [More…]

• Direct recruitment is infrequent and for this reason it is difficult to be precise, however it is estimated that the equivalent of full time staff involved in such activity would be only of the order of some 200 man hours at an approximate cost of $ 1 500 per annum. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to say that no man in this Parliament has contributed more in kind to the introduction of this Bill than has the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett), who preceded me in the debate. [More…]

• After all, he understands the situation and the problems of ex-servicemen, and he certainly has stayed with them right through to the bitter end, often for many years. [More…]

• On the contrary, defence was given such a low priority by the last Government of compassion and concern- words which it regrettably applied in so many areas of its policy to no avail. [More…]

• That represents in terms of man years something to the order of 20 000 man-years of trained officers. [More…]

• They have to be trained and matured and given experience at junior and middle rank and ultimately senior command levels. [More…]

• You cannot achieve those levels of command if you do not have the troops for them to command. [More…]

• The special conditions applying are briefly that: a claimant is in special need of financial assistance; a claimant ceased to live in Australia before 8 May 1 973; in the case of a claimant for age pension the applicant lived 30 years in Australia and left the country after reaching 60 years of age in the case of a man or 55 in the case of a woman. [More…]

• The 30 years’ residence test does not apply to people claiming invalid or widow’s pension respectively who became permanently incapacitated for work, or widows, in Australia. [More…]

• Not only was his public contribution one of great distinction and lasting value; he was also a man of integrity and enormous common sense. [More…]

• He was the kind of man who imparted stature to the institutions he served. [More…]

• He was a man of progressive instincts, not fearful of change. [More…]

• Lord Casey was a man of the greatest distinction and the highest distinctions. [More…]

• He had a greater international reputation than many British contemporaries. [More…]

• He was better known in imperial and global councils than many fellow Australians who were to rise to higher office in his own country. [More…]

• He was a man of unquestionable integrity, high principle, singular urbanity and personal charm, with valuable gifts as a diplomat and politician. [More…]

• Indeed, it would do slight service to the memory of a man of such attainment if the shortcomings of his career or any limitations in his vision or judgment were glossed over in perfunctory tributes. [More…]

• Even in the Cold War atmosphere of the 1950s, when the post of Foreign Minister ought to have brought out the worst in a man, he maintained a characteristic dignity and restraint. [More…]

• When the Liberals did get around to choosing an Australian they opted for a party man. [More…]

• He received me many times as Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• He was a man singularly punctilious and courteous. [More…]

• Some of my comments were somewhat sharp, but I received a handwritten note from him acknowledging many of the points and thanking me for the care with which I had reviewed his book. [More…]

• There were many firsts to his credit- the first Australian overseas diplomat, liaison officer to London, Minister to Washington; the first Australian to serve as Minister in a British government; the first Australian to be a colonial governor; the first Commonwealth life peer. [More…]

• He was above all and in the best sense of the word a man of fundamental and abiding decency. [More…]

• He was a man who retained not only a personal interest but one which was significant in the depth of its understanding. [More…]

• So often, having made a statement or a commitment on behalf of the Government, I found- and I know many of my colleagues found- that we would receive a letter from the late Lord Casey commenting upon that decision, sometimes asking for the reasons for it or explaining that he had some alternative point of view, and perhaps presenting it for consideration. [More…]

• Finally and most importantly I think we all remember him as a man. [More…]

• They were very close to each other and whatever their activities, whether it was flying aeroplanes or driving fast cars or in the more personal and deeper things in their association in public life, they retained a companionship that I think is something upon which all of us might reflect and which might well serve as a continuing example to so many future generations of Australians. [More…]

• He was a man admired by all who knew him. [More…]

• When I went into the electorate I found that there was an immense feeling of personal warmth for the man. [More…]

• It was not long before I did so because of the warmth of the man. [More…]

• He was a great Australian, but he was also a tremendous man. [More…]

• Tom Bull was a man of unquestioned integrity. [More…]

• He was a country man and knew the country extremely well. [More…]

• He was a man of God. [More…]

• He was a man who accepted responsibility and he was a man of principle. [More…]

• He was a man who contributed in countless ways to the community. [More…]

• He was my campaign manager during the recent December 1975 election. [More…]

• Narrandera, the Riverina and Australia have lost a great man. [More…]

• Often on late night work it is neither economic nor possible to man all available Commonwealth cars. [More…]

• Telecom Australia employs a number of staff on recruitment activities, many of whom are not exclusively engaged in such activities and, therefore, it has been necessary to make an assessment of the time and annual salaries expended full-time on recruitment. [More…]

• The assessed figures are 53 man years at an annual cost of $620,000 for salaries. [More…]

• The position in Australia Post is similar and the assessed figures are 30 man years at an annual cost of approximately $300,000. [More…]

• The fact is that the man in the street has not been hit by this Budget; he was virtually destroyed by the former one. [More…]

• Bill Bridgman himself is a man of considerable humility and, as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has explained, his constant courtesy could well be emulated by those who as parliamentarians place such strains upon the Hansard staff. [More…]

• Most Australians will pay more than they need to pay and many will pay more than they can afford. [More…]

• The man earning $ 1 50 a week will pay an extra $ 1 .34 and the man on $200 a week an extra $1.80. [More…]

• All told the family man on $9,000 a year will have to find $4.32 a week or $225 a year after 1 October. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hotham, because he is a man of integrity, could not comfortably bear with that deception. [More…]

• He bluntly told the Australian public: ‘Return us to office and we will dismantle it’. [More…]

• Medibank is being dismantled and the honourable member is paying the price for being honest during the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• We rather hope that justice in the course of events will see him a Minister again and I sincerely trust that the growing number of back bench members of the Liberal Party who are promoting him as a future, and fairly immediate future, Prime Minister of the present Government have some success in the manoeuvres they are undertaking. [More…]

• The Minister for Health- or is it Minister for pedestrian affairs; I cannot quite recollect because I am confused as between his description and his performance- likes to refer to Medibank Mark 1 and Medibank Mark 2 as though there is some sort of progress. [More…]

• The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) is a man born well after his time. [More…]

• I played a part in devising and publicising the concept of the National Estate when I was the Labor spokesman on the environment and urban and regional affairs between the years 1969 and 1972. [More…]

• During that time, in both the Parliament and the countryside I expressed our wish to preserve for posterity those things that were created by man and nature and that are unique and beautiful. [More…]

• As a government we acted swiftly to discharge the mandate given to us to identify, conserve and preserve the National Estate. [More…]

• The Labor Government sought from the Committee for the first time in Australian history an inventory of our natural and man-made heritage. [More…]

• The only man who did give me some consideration and understanding was a former Minister for Tourism, now a back bencher, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp). [More…]

• We must develop new instruments of foresight and protection and nurture in order to recover the relationship between man and nature and make sure that (he National Estate that we pass on to our multiplying descendants is green and flourishing. [More…]

• It is not the monoply of any one man. [More…]

• Many honourable members will recall examples from their electorates of prehistorical archaeological sites, Aboriginal sites, historical archaeological sites, individual historic buildings, historic structures, and other natural features and areas which must under no circumstances whatsoever be destroyed or in any way damaged by the hand of man. [More…]

• There are many examples where people have expressed concern and interest. [More…]

• There are too many of us today who are prepared to categorise those who support the conservation of our heritage as being on one side or the other of the political spectrum. [More…]

• He was the man who produced a nonsensical Bill about Aboriginal land rights. [More…]

• But even if we, in the parliament of a small country of only 13 million people, can, following this debate- particularly if it is bipartisan- send a ripple through the world by means of the international wire services, then maybe other free parliaments will take this matter up, and perhaps the atrocities of man against man will abate a little and this exercise this morning will not have been without value. [More…]

• It is not motivated by ideological, religious or any other reasons by which man can normally justify notorious behaviour. [More…]

• I put it to honourable members that no human being who decides to travel overseas by airplane is safe while there are countries and governments that give sanctuary to hijackers. [More…]

• Many of us travel overseas. [More…]

• Several said that after a prisoner is shot another prisoner is ordered to smash the dead man’s head with a car axle until it is no longer recognisable. [More…]

• It is tragic to hear this man’s words. [More…]

• My final remark is that if men and women in this Parliament and parliaments of the free world can allow a dossier like that to be put to us day after day and remain quiet after a man like Martin says that there is a human being today in another country with whom we do have some relationships orchestrating slaughter, they are not fulfilling their function. [More…]

• There is a tendency at times to belittle this man who is the President of Uganda; to refer to the fact that he was an army sergeant; to make other belittling references to his intelligence; and more or less to describe him as a creature from the black lagoon. [More…]

• In 1963 he attended a commanding officers course at the School of Infantry in Wiltshire and he took command of the 1st Battalion with the rank of major. [More…]

• In 1964 he was promoted to colonel and Deputy Commander of the Army. [More…]

• In 1965 he was promoted to Army Commander, it is said to protect him from a financial scandal. [More…]

• The question then is whether there can be some hope that internally this man will be replaced. [More…]

• In Queensland will we choose a man who knows a little about rain forests or will we choose a man who knows something about architecture? [More…]

• In Tasmania are we to choose a man who is expert in our national parks? [More…]

• Are we to choose a man who is expert in our flora and fauna? [More…]

• Are we to choose a man who knows a little about Georgian architecture? [More…]

• How do we choose a man who will be a representative of a State when we are trying to decide which interest he should represent? [More…]

• I believe that there are only rare occasions on which any man ought to judge the personal affairs of another because it is none of his business or his judgment will usually be wrong, but a judge has to do this in court cases and the legislature has to produce legislation. [More…]

• My contribution shall be from a layman’s point of view. [More…]

• In the electorate of Hunter it was quite common for certain members of the legal profession- and there were many- to reef, if I may use the vernacular, $800 off an unfortunate working man in receipt of a minimum or average wage to put a simple undefended divorce through the court. [More…]

• 1 legal man, will inform me whether there is provision in this Bill to allow a couple to appeal. [More…]

• I was able as a layman- not as James, Q.C., but as James the layman- to guide this young couple and advise them that they could obtain another hearing. [More…]

• For example, recently, bail was granted to a man accused of murdering a bank manager. [More…]

• The honourable member presented himself as an ex-marriage counsellor and a lay man. [More…]

• It is regrettable that so many members who are here now were not members of this House then. [More…]

• Section 43 (a) of the Family Law Act says: the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• I thought it was very noticeable that the occasion tonight so far as he was concerned was a family affair, and if I can speak of that particular marriage, it is one of a union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, and he is the issue of it. [More…]

• All I can say to the honourable member is: never let a man - [More…]

• If there is one thing that ought to be private in this country it is a man’s marriage but in recent months, honourable members opposite have consistently sought to drag this matter before this Parliament. [More…]

• One thing I would like to say to the honourable member is this: Never let a man drag you so low that you begin to hate him. [More…]

• I repeat: Never let a man drag you so low that you begin to hate him. [More…]

• That was the belief of that famous man Dag Hammarskjold. [More…]

• When honourable members opposite get up in this House and talk about civil liberties, the rights of the individual and not being middle class they should think of the right of any man in this country. [More…]

• Many might say that 10 per cent is a small percentage. [More…]

• I am not one who subscribes to the belief that just because a man served his country his widow, upon his death, should automatically become entitled to a host of benefits, but I do believe strongly that if a man’s life span is curtailed as a result of war service his widow or the children who are left behind are entitled to every advantage, every benefit and every protection. [More…]

• The man who has to travel 20 miles to get to work or to educate himself or to enjoy his leisure is the poorer for his isolation- poorer in the most literal sense by comparison with his fellows. [More…]

• May I remind the House that those members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development- the United States, Germany and Japan- which have largely cured their inflation or at any rate greatly reduced their rate of inflation have been pursuing the same policies that we are pursuing in this country, and indeed because they started the restraints some time ago, they have achieved low inflation rates already. [More…]

• But Labor is showing tonight that it is still spendthrift, wasteful, and reckless about spending, either because it cares nothing for or because it does not understand the effect that inflation has on the man in the street. [More…]

• The absolute bankruptcy of the Lynch economic manifesto hardly needs any exposing because the Leader of the Opposition exposed it so adequately earlier this evening. [More…]

• It is clear that this man either talks with a forked tongue or is a simple-minded buffoon. [More…]

• The simple facts are firstly, that the contractionary nature of the Budget will lead to vast unemployment because of the fall in aggregate demand, especially through a decline in consumer, government and business spending; and, secondly, that the whole rationale of the economic package does not attack the basic ills of the economy- that is, the structural imbalance caused by elements such as obsolescence, protection and multinational corporate activities. [More…]

• The economic theories of J. M. Keynes may well be outdated, but it seems incredible that the man who controls the purse strings of this nation has chosen to ignore, fails to understand or is not acquainted with the thinking of the major economists who blow holes through the classical economic theories of the last century. [More…]

• That is the state of the world now, and nothing that is said, even by that honourable and influential man, the honourable member for Chifley, is going to change that state. [More…]

• As you will be aware, the ANL’s application to obtain these vessels from overseas has been approved in accordance with existing policy This policy, introduced by our predecessors, allows for import approval provided the price of a new overseas ship is tower man the after-subsidy price of a similar Australian built ship and yards have been given a reasonable opportunity to tender. [More…]

• Does anybody in this chamber really believe that the Government ought to change that policy direction without a reference to the IAC; that we ought to extend the subsidy further than 35 per cent when 35 per cent now represents $13,000 per man in the industry? [More…]

• As I said before, the subsidy is equal to $13,000 per man. [More…]

• We in the Labor Party have maintained as an essential part of our policy that we must have a shipbuilding capacity in this country in addition to the urgent need for this nation to operate, man and maintain a viable fleet of ships for both our coastal and our overseas trade. [More…]

• That has been caused by the inflation brought about by the previous Labor Government and by the contribution that increased wage demands made to that inflation. [More…]

• The rate of steel erected in medium to large range vessels overseas per man hour is three to four times that of Australian shipyards. [More…]

• The current attitude of the Opposition and unions is akin to that of a drowning man flailing his arms and trying to take everybody in sight underneath the sea with him. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Newcastle State Dockyard Committee, Ned Andrew, is a personal friend of mine. [More…]

• I know the work that that man has put in an endeavour to get some industrial stability, to stop unnecessary and stupid strikes that have taken place. [More…]

• A man to whom I was speaking said that it was a well thought out piece of financial management. [More…]

• This is hardly a conspicuous record for a man who still aspires to lead the government of this country. [More…]

• The ALP may like to forget many things but it has learnt nothing at all. [More…]

• If that article is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, the very things that keep the wheels of industry turning are the things they are manufacturing; yet the retailers, who are the only outlet to the consumer, do not see any real prospect in sight for consumer demand to continue or for there to be any increase in it. [More…]

• Are we all so wealthy that we can afford almost $400 for each man, woman and child in Australia, to be locked up in savings accounts? [More…]

• Do most of the people in Australia have as many goods as they require? [More…]

• I believe that our Treasurer is an honourable man, so if he tells us that what is being done is good for us we should not question him. [More…]

• But each night we should pray that he does not try to do too many good things for us because I doubt, whether we can afford it. [More…]

• It will be interesting to see the changes brought about by these young gentlemen from Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland who have decided that Canberra is a rather comfortable place. [More…]

• The wasted man hours must be very great in making these unnecessary accounting entries. [More…]

• It is seen by the worker and by the craftsman or professional man as a blueprint for industrial unrest, causing a reduction in real wages, giving less spending power and causing greater unemployment. [More…]

• They were made by a responsible gentleman, a man who felt about these matters keenly and a man who lost his position and lost the respect of his colleagues. [More…]

• One man sees fit- I can hardly blame im- to apply for unemployment benefit and obtain $68.50 a week as a married man. [More…]

• I put it to the House that there is little incentive for that man to go out and look for employment when, in fact, by working he is getting an advantage of only $20 a week from which he has to account for his travelling time and travelling costs. [More…]

• Remove that man. [More…]

• I am appalled that such a statement should come from a man who represents my State because the whole thrust of our policy is to let the State governments and local governments play their true role under the Federal system. [More…]

• I regret to learn that the man, Bela Csidei, who was mentioned in a derogatory fashion in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and yesterday’s Sydney Sun, was possibly a front man for certain prominent businessmen in Sydney. [More…]

• One whose name is mentioned- I hope that it is not true but it was mentioned in one of the newspapers and I understand that the information is pretty authenticwas Sir Peter Abeles, a man who has gained the respect of all sections of society. [More…]

• I understand that the name of Sir Arthur George, the man who became prominent for promoting in Australia my favourite sport- soccer- is being bandied about in Sydney as being associated with some of these crook companies by which the Bartons got away with millions of dollars. [More…]

• If Mr Gruzman received it I hope that he will be frank and honest and will come forward because the man who always admits his errors or shortcomings gains more respect from society than by hiding and ultimately being found out. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that the response from honourable members opposite has been that this is a rich man’s Budget and is aimed at increasing unemployment in the hope of getting some kind of economic recovery. [More…]

• If inflation slows down, which the Government says is its objective, and if wages stop rising, as the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) continues to demand, then of course taxation will become less and less and the deficit will increase. [More…]

• Unfortunately, it is 2 1/2 years after the act before the disaster can be sheeted home to the man partially responsible for it. [More…]

• It is inevitable that every dollar invested in the manufacturing industry will enable the owner and the manufacturer to employ less and less labour to produce the same amount of goods. [More…]

• The man working the machine now produces 5 times as much as he did a couple of years ago. [More…]

• Whilst the western miners of New South Wales have the highest rate of output per man now in Australia, I exhort the rank and file unionists to take a keen interest in the federation and the unions’ policies to ensure that equity and common sense prevails at all times. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition claimed that under Labor the rate of unemployment was falling- this from a man whose Government trebled the rate of unemployment in one year. [More…]

• He claimed that under Labor the rate of inflation was falling- this from a man whose Government, in its 3 years in office, trebled the rate of inflation. [More…]

• That was from a man whose Budgets increased government expenditure by 115 per cent and whose accumulated Budget deficits during his period in office approached $ 6,000m. [More…]

• As the first of Labor’s ephemeral Treasurers finally acknowledged, ‘One man’s pay packet is another man’s job’. [More…]

• Simply the fact is, that for every excessive increase in incomes, the job of another man is taken. [More…]

• I call the speech pretentious because it came from a man who started off his speech giving credit to the honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Gillard) for calling for unity in this country. [More…]

• It came from a man- a Prime Minister- who at question time talked about courtesy in this House. [More…]

• Because the speech was pretentious and misleading in so many ways. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the honourable member is an honourable man as far as being loyal to those who put him here is concerned, and that he will always be honourable to Lang Hancock and Lang Hancock will never be able to find any fault with what he says in this Parliament. [More…]

• I do not want to be discourteous and insult him because he is only a young man in the place. [More…]

• I quote from a report by these 2 research officers which cites some views of Mr Lang Hancock, the man who sponsored the candidature of the honourable member for Swan for this Parliament, in connection with Theiss Peabody Mitsui which is now taking some of our coal and has been doing so for some years. [More…]

• Those are the remarks of an out and out antiLabor man who I understand is a very loyal friend of the honourable member for Swan. [More…]

• If there is a man above- and you believe there is, Mr Deputy Speaker- then these assets are God-given. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you as a man of God and a Christian must appreciate the words, even though you support a political party that invariably allows these conditions to continue. [More…]

• This is the opinion of a non-political man. [More…]

• This time they had the active support of the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, a man who had been an Attorney-General in a Liberal Government. [More…]

• Australians will not tolerate one-man government in their country. [More…]

• Don Dunstan and Neville Wran proved that parliamentary democracy works better by consensus than by one-man dictatorship. [More…]

• Dunstan and Wran have never found it necessary to abuse their power by manipulation of their prime ministerial prerogatives or by their manipulation of Cabinet agendas. [More…]

• It is led by a man skilled in these arts, a Prime Minister with a unique record of having destroyed two of his Party’s leaders, a man who has never had to work for a wage in his life and a man who preaches to the 350 000 people presently unemployed: ‘Life is not meant to be easy; life is meant to be tough’. [More…]

• Not even the Deputy Leader of the Opposition- a man who prides himself on his peaceful outlook- has had one word to say in respect of it. [More…]

• He concludes, talking about the man who is the benefactor of this centre at Monash University which, contrary to the impression that certain Government supporters are seeking to create - [More…]

• Does he agree that a man as experienced as that would not express such views publicly unless he considered it to be absolutely essential to do so and that he certainly would not express them irresponsibly? [More…]

• It is first and foremost to put to the Australian people- I have in mind in particular the rank and file of Australian unions, if not their leaders- this fundamental truth: It is the big wage rise of the employed man that costs the unemployed man his job. [More…]

• It is the wage rise of the employed man that costs the unemployed man his job. [More…]

• That is the first of these distortions which underline the fundamental truth that the wage rise of the employed man is what costs the unemployed man his job. [More…]

• I underline again the truth, one which was propounded in this chamber by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) when Treasurer, that the undue wage rise of the employed man is what in these circumstances costs the unemployed man his job. [More…]

• What we seek to achieve in the face of say, a 3 per cent increase in the consumer price index, is the full 3 per cent increase, about $3 a week, for the low income earner, but we ask the man on, say, $30,000 a year to forgo for a period, to give us a breathing space to beat inflation, part of the nearly $20 a week increase that a 3 per cent rise would give him. [More…]

• Man days lost as a result of strikes fell by 35 per cent this year. [More…]

• He recognises, as a predecessor as Treasurer of the honourable member for Oxley said, that the big pay rise of the employed man is what costs the unemployed man his job. [More…]

• For that man to have the gall to say that those vessels which one day may be called upon to defend this country are not welcome in the State of New South Wales is unpatriotic in the extreme and should be condemned by every decent thinking Australia. [More…]

• Mr Wran, as Premier of the State, stands alongside a man like Ted Bull who boasts tonight that he is able to bring to a halt facilities which would normally be made available to any vessel entering the port of Melbourne and particularly a naval vessel under a treaty. [More…]

• 1 brand him as a man who is being disloyal to his country. [More…]

• The reason is that without government backing and appropriate intervention in international resource negotiation, whether direct or indirect, the mining companies, the national revenue and the ordinary man in the street, lose out. [More…]

• -The Minister for National Resources and Minister for Overseas Trade (Mr Anthony), who has just resumed his seat, is a little man in a very big job. [More…]

• In July of last year this same man was in Tokyo while I was there negotiating the best deal that had ever been made with the Japanese coal industry. [More…]

• He was bad-mouthing his Government, and the Japanese negotiators expressed to me their feelings towards such a man. [More…]

• He said that he was a little man in a big job. [More…]

• The honourable member for Cunningham is a big man with an iron hand who moves like a tank without any sense of direction. [More…]

• He was a man who would not even negotiate. [More…]

• The Treasurer was at great pains in his second reading speech to say that a 5 per cent increase in the 1976-77 State Government Loan Council program was being unfairly criticised by many States and many Australian people. [More…]

• He is a plastic man. [More…]

• We recall that, when he was Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, a man who acted realistically and responsibly, predicted that the outcome of Labor’s policies would be 400 000 persons unemployed. [More…]

• For years many economic commentators have relied on the famous Phillips curve to postulate that if there was a pool of unemployed, wagecost inflation would be reduced. [More…]

• Apart from the political odium of such cynicism and the cost to revenue of $500m in unemployment benefits, no government would be seeking to develop a pool of unemployed to reduce wage demands. [More…]

• There are still pockets of over-full employment, especially in the skilled trades, and there are many categories of unemployment which are well above the average. [More…]

• Many of those who are unemployed have not been members of active unions and so union leaders in other employment categories do not always accept the adage which was enunciated by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• He is the man who was on Norfolk Island with $1.8m in a suitcase. [More…]

• That is the nature of the record of the man who now calls in question the mandate that was given to this Government on 13 December last year. [More…]

• Essentially, it was a mandate to do 4 things. [More…]

• It was a mandate for responsible government, it was a mandate for economic recovery, it was a mandate for the individual and it was a mandate for social reform. [More…]

• One by one those broad mandates have been implemented. [More…]

• That was the promise that he made, but look at the performance. [More…]

• That man, that Party, now has the temerity to raise in this Parliament a matter of public importance challenging the performance of this Government in its 9 months in office, challenging a government which, notwithstanding the enormous economic difficulties facing Australia, notwithstanding the huge deficit we inherited from our predecessors, and notwithstanding the rate of inflation that we inherited from our predecessors, has still been able to introduce significant social reforms of the type that I have mentioned. [More…]

• -This Budget has been validly called a big man’s Budget. [More…]

• For example, a man with a wife and 3 children today receives $91 a week in unemployment relief. [More…]

• In other words, if we add somewhere between $20 and $50 a week to that unemployment relief which is going down the drain, and in respect of which we are not obtaining any benefit for the community as a whole, then we have the wage of a labourer or a tradesman and the community gets something for its money. [More…]

• I must say that he was a man who was very difficult to look in the face because he had such dazzling cheek. [More…]

• He has a Deputy- a very talented man; the representative of a Sydney seat- whose policies are running contrary to his own. [More…]

• This is the first time for such a long time that I have sat in this place and not heard taxes put on to the beer, for example, of the working man, the wine for South Australian people, various liquors, cigarettes, motor cars, and other goods, and I do think that one ought to congratulate the Treasurer. [More…]

• These senior members of that Party are the people who made such statements as: ‘One man ‘s price rise is another man ‘s job ‘. [More…]

• Recent statistics on the average overtime per employee worked indicate that average overtime has gone from 1.8 man hours per week to 2.5 man hours per week. [More…]

• I might also add that the average rate of overtime at the height of the boom period when the Liberal-Country Party was in power in 1972 was 4 man hours per employee per week. [More…]

• So we are approaching the stage where overtime will reach its maximum level and the next step will be for manufacturing industry and industry in general to put on more employees. [More…]

• Part of the Labor campaign was to be the slogan ‘one man’s wage rise is another man’s job’. [More…]

• It says as much for the changing attitudes of Australian politicians as it does for the greatness of Mao himself that we are paying tribute in this place to a man and thus to a nation and a people who until a short time ago were the objects of widespread hostility and suspicion in this country and in many other countries of the Western world. [More…]

• Contemporaries and compatriots though they were, Chairman Mao Tse-tung was a man of very different temperament and gifts from Premier Chou En-lai. [More…]

• No man has so embodied the aspirations of a great people and given in equal measure practical and spiritual impetus to a revolutionary movement as did Mao Tse-tung during his long and remarkable life- 50 years as a leader of the Chinese people, 40 years as head of the Chinese Communist Party, and 27 years as leader of the Chinese State. [More…]

• -I join with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) in the motion of condolence for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. [More…]

• But above all he was a man of the people. [More…]

• He was a man who dominated his country’s history and development for half a century, guiding it from a state of political and economic collapse in the 1920s through the troughs and peaks of its development to the thriving, self-reliant and internationally respected nation that China is today. [More…]

• Mao was a patriot and a man of the people. [More…]

• Mao also based his strategy for the revolution and for a new China on a belief about the nature of man which is very different from the beliefs that dominate our society. [More…]

• I have observed at first hand many examples of the Chinese people taking joy in their work for the benefit of the whole society. [More…]

• Many Western commentators seek to reduce his stature to that of just another political leader. [More…]

• He was a man of the modern world. [More…]

• But if no man may speak, what hope is there for any man? [More…]

• We should not dwell too much on earlier relationships between Australia and China but rather see ourselves as partners working towards stability within our own region, and recognising the great part that this remarkable man has played for his country. [More…]

• -Chairman Mao Tsetung was a great man of great achievement who in his own lifetime ensured for himself an indelible record in the history of man. [More…]

• Chairman Mao’s period of office, as I said, restored that strength and vitality of the Chinese empire. [More…]

• I suggest that the future of mankind would be better served if, instead of trying to cut off and isolate countries with different ideologies and systems of government- countries like China- we worked more towards involving them in world affairs and in associations with other countries. [More…]

• The world is worse for the passing of Mao, a great statesman and great national leader. [More…]

• I sincerely trust that China and the world will be well served by having to succeed him a man of at least somewhere near equal competence in all respects. [More…]

• Not content with a sojourn into the game of ‘Guess The Deficit’, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came into the fray with his election assertion that every man, woman and child owed the Government $500 because of the deficit. [More…]

• That is the essence of the principle of bringing justice to everyone, it matters not whether he is a wage earner, a business man or a farmer. [More…]

• I might add that never before have I heard so many favourable comments following the introduction of a Budget. [More…]

• This man was contemptuous of the Leader of the Opposition, showing that he was determined to ensure that the leader would never again be restored to a position of power in any government. [More…]

• Even Mr Hayden, the honourable member for Oxley, was proud to say, as the former Treasurer before him was proud to say, that an increase in one man’s salary is the loss of another man’s job. [More…]

• This gentleman came along and imposed his own tax scales. [More…]

• Compared with 1974-75 rates the net tax of a single man on $6,000 a year went up $465 under the Hayden scale to a total tax $875 and net tax $629. [More…]

• The man who in 1972 was critical of a 10-year average of 3.4 per cent presided over an inflation rate of 14 per cent. [More…]

• When this is achieved- it will be achieved- it will be to the lasting credit of this Government, which has applied itself to a most difficult task in a positive and creditable manner since its election to office on 13 December, just 9 months ago. [More…]

• It is no good our hedging on this issue because one man’s increase in salary could well be another man’s job. [More…]

• I know that he is the only man in this House capable of swallowing himself. [More…]

• If he said that, I would expect him to withdraw it out of deference to a man appointed by his own Party as the head of state in this country, because it is totally untrue. [More…]

• Who is the man who said these things? [More…]

• He is not the Labor-appointed Governor-General, an honourable man, as head of state in this country. [More…]

• a woman whose husband has been convicted of an offence and is imprisoned and has been imprisoned for a period of not less than six months, including any period of imprisonment prior to and continuous with a period of imprisonment following upon the conviction. [More…]

• but does not include a woman who is living with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him. [More…]

• There is a television program about a $6m man and a $6m woman. [More…]

• -The honourable member for La Trobe, the remittance man from Toorak, is out of his place. [More…]

• More pertinently, as July approached and it was clear that there was no room left for crude political manoeuvring on the part of the States there was competition, for instance, between the States of Victoria and Western Australia to get into Medibank first. [More…]

• The only reason it was taken in when it was was that the Premier of that State who proved beyond doubt in my limited experience with him that he was a man of considerable intelligence and understanding and was to a large degree above the petty political manoeuvring being engaged in by his then State Health Minister, cut the Gordian knot, and that is why Victoria was in Medibank as early as it was. [More…]

• -Yesterday this House paid its respects to the passing of the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• At the same time, it took the briefest possible notice of the death of a man who served in this Parliament for 20 years, a step against the general principles upon which we have operated. [More…]

• I am not referring to the particular case before the Minister but I wish to refer in general to the difficulties that are facing Terrence Albeit Collins because he is a serving serviceman. [More…]

• However, because the man was not aware of this he laboured too long with his problem. [More…]

• The solicitor acting for the man now seeks to have the Australian Government not use as a defence certain clauses that are available to it. [More…]

• The honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage), perhaps the loudest mouthed man in this House, has not made one speech or asked one question on unemployment. [More…]

• First of all, let me say that I believe that this Budget has been accepted by the man in the street. [More…]

• After all the drama we have experienced with the Whitlam reign of mismanagement, the average Australian is very relieved to know that despite the need for redirection in money matters the Fraser Government has not raised any major tax. [More…]

• Popular though those concessions were with so many people in the community, the really important acceptance of this Lynch Budget related to the tax indexation of personal incomes, together with the decision to increase social welfare in real terms, to accept a greater financial responsibility in the field of education, again in real terms, and to bring back some realism in the field of defence spending. [More…]

• What happened on 17 August 1976 showed that the Fraser Administration was determined not to follow the lead of the Whitlamites of robbing the working man of his financial independence and his hopes. [More…]

• This did not come from a man of the Labor Party’s political persuasion. [More…]

• This man is responsible for governing a major and comparable member of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• What is intriguing this Parliament tonight is how on earth they are going to explain to the House and to those people listening to the broadcast of the proceedings tonight that a little over a month ago their Leader, the top man in their Party in this Parliament - [More…]

• I would refer to him as a smart young man who all his life has lived on his father’s American Express and Diners’ Club cards. [More…]

• I refer to him as a smart young man who all his life has lived on his father’s American Express and Diners’ Club cards. [More…]

• He said that the Government was dismantling Medibank. [More…]

• The Leader of the Australian Labor Party outside the Parliament, the leader of the ACTU, had private health insurance; but under this Government that very man joined Medibank. [More…]

• Nonetheless, I am a little ashamed of the fact that a man with his knowledge should not have explained completely the economic and financial implications. [More…]

• It reads: ‘ I got no time fer wasters, lad, ‘ ‘sez ‘e ‘Give me a man wiv grit, sez Uncle Jim. [More…]

• I referred to Pilot Cove and thought of the former honourable member for Grayndler, the man who is sadly missed. [More…]

• I thought of him when he put the finger on the young man who is with us tonight: ‘Young friend, “esez . [More…]

• Many Australians are unaware of the reasons that led the Chilean people- a people who throughout the years have become an example of democracy and stability in South America- to finally rid themselves of a Marxist regime that had brought this once happy country to the brink of total disaster. [More…]

• It should well be remembered that Salvador Allende, a man elected to office with only 36 per cent of the popular vote, proceeded, upon his election, on a deliberate program to disrupt, overturn and destroy Chile’s traditional institutions and resorted to illegal methods in violation of that country’s constitution. [More…]

• On many occasions his actions were declared by the Chilean Supreme Court, a body internationally respected, to have been in total disregard of that constitution. [More…]

• Despite repeated resolutions from the Chilean Congress for Allende to observe the Constitution, this man plunged his country down a Marxist path to chaos and ruin. [More…]

• I think it is worth while that we should probe the motives of this man. [More…]

• In truth, the Leader of the Opposition can be described only as a broken man at the head of a broken Party. [More…]

• I say that with regret because no man who had the stature which he did in December 1972 and- let us face it- carried it off for many months afterwards, should be reduced to his present stale. [More…]

• Nor is a conviction for freedom consistent with the active involvement of the Leader of the Opposition in the disgraceful Iraqi bans affair about which so many words have been spoken in this place. [More…]

• A man with his record should not moralise here, for his credibility has long since been destroyed. [More…]

• As I recall, he was the man who on many occasions affirmed Australia’s relationships with New Zealand. [More…]

• Are we to ban all Russians because Russians have demonstrated over many years that they have a very solid racial prejudice against Jews? [More…]

• We want quiet and human attitudes encouraged. [More…]

• The Labor Party might learn a great deal from recent events in Northern Ireland, where quietly and with genuine love and understanding the women of Northern Ireland have begun to tear up the attitudes of man against man in that country. [More…]

• My goodness, from that moment onwards he fired off at man after man, people on this side who have had genuine union experience. [More…]

• A certain degree of unemployment does make a man value his job, and does induce better industrial discipline. [More…]

• He is in the sad position of the man who hates the Government more than he loves his country. [More…]

• That strategy has been evidenced by a variety of moves by the Soviet Union aimed ultimately at reinstituting an international gold standard, with Russia itself as the major holder and producer of the metal and as the heir apparent to the United States as the monetary strong man of the world. [More…]

• He is a man who marches solely to the drum of his own ego and the sooner he is replaced by his own Party, the better for this nation. [More…]

• It does so by not increasing indirect taxes, which is a great boon to the average man, and it is in the context of our approaches to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to produce wage restraint. [More…]

• It was the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), the same man who said in the National Times recently that he was not doing very well in his law studies- I am not surprised- but he wanted to continue them because it was a disciplined pursuit and it would make his intellect a little sharper. [More…]

• It has been accorded approval by the man in the street, by most economists of any standing and by the private sector of Australia. [More…]

• I hope that it is the first of very many more that this Treasurer delivers. [More…]

• In my opinion, a man could make a very effective speech simply by quoting the whole of this article. [More…]

• A man took his wool to a store in Victoria. [More…]

• I do not begrudge the man that money at all. [More…]

• He is a man who was trying to stand for a seat in Victoria. [More…]

• Here is a man in that higher income tax bracket about which they are always talking- a despised person with a high income- who realises he can join Medibank Private and get all the health cover he needs. [More…]

• I am sure that even that very careful man, the shadow Treasurer, would agree that Medibank was never free. [More…]

• We have started to provide a system of commonsense management for the whole Medibank scheme. [More…]

• I am a very quiet, humble, unassuming man. [More…]

• Then, out of the blue, one man- a man who was not elected to his position and who, as far as I know, has never run in an election in his life; if he has run in any, he has not won any- made a decision to dismiss the duly elected Government of Australia which had faced the people in December 1972 and May 1974. [More…]

• The actions of the Senate had caused a constitutional crisis and one man made a decision to dismiss the duly elected Government. [More…]

• That decision, which was made by one man as a result of the frustrating and undemocratic tactics of the then Opposition in the Senate, is still causing disquiet and conflict in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition, of course, stands for the one man one vote principle, with votes of equal value. [More…]

• They had been defeated in the House of Representatives and then they used their brutal majority in the Senate to defeat the legislation providing for one man one vote. [More…]

• That would be the position if the same number of votes were required to elect a Labor man as are required to elect a Liberal man. [More…]

• Such a system, of course, makes a mockery of the one man one vote principle. [More…]

• With 40 per cent of the trees pulled out since the introduction of the tree-pull scheme, one is apt to become extremely cynical of such romantic sentiments. [More…]

• They have always been regarded with suspicion by the man on the land. [More…]

• When one thinks of Tasmania one does not think of me; one automatically thinks of apples. [More…]

• The Tasmanian apple growers are the best and finest in the world. [More…]

• As far as I can see in many trade union areas- certainly not all of them- there is no desire to improve our productivity or our efficiency. [More…]

• I do think many, not all, trade union leaders are clearly acting against the interests of their own members, and certainly against the interests of Australia. [More…]

• Many Australians are so keen to find an easy life that they are doing less than they could easily do. [More…]

• When one looks at the number of useless stoppages and slow-downs, at demands for more leisure time, whether it be shorter working weeks or more holidays, it amounts in many cases to less efficiency although it is often claimed that it will lead to more efficiency. [More…]

• We have many social problems that must be tackled, but those social problems are made harder if we have high inflation, high unemployment, high interest rates and other evils in our economy. [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) said on one important occasion to some people ‘your wage rise is another man’s job’. [More…]

• I am reminded- I hope I have the wording right- of a statement by the honourable member some years ago in which he said that an increase in one man’s wage was costing another man his job. [More…]

• Others thought that the nature of the beast of being an officer in Treasury was to play the part of the abominable no-man. [More…]

• I mention this man only because he is the one who is singled out. [More…]

• I found him a most efficient officer; I found him an exceedingly hard worker; I found him strong-willed and determined; on occasions I found nun abrasive; but above all, I found him to be a man of opinion. [More…]

• During my term as Minister for the Army I had cause to have a series of discussions with the man who is now Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• I appreciated honourable members opposite standing in this Parliament and paying their respects to Chairman Mao, a man whom they refused to recognise existed less than 4 years ago. [More…]

• What right has this man to see those confidential notes as against the right of every Australian citizen, who has been defrauded in this matter by the former Government, who has been told one thing as against another thing which has been told to the Indonesian Government. [More…]

• CLARK, Charles Manning Hope, M.A. [More…]

• 1946-48; publications, Select Documents in Australian History, 1788-1830, 1930, Settlers & Convicts 1953, Select Documents in Australian History 1851-1900, 1955, Sources of Australian History 1957, Meeting Soviet Man 1 960, A History of Australia; Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie 1962, A Short History of Australia 1963, A History of Australia, Vol. [More…]

• The other was a booth on the lawns opposite Parliament House in which a man was selling souvenirs and post-cards. [More…]

• During the ensuing painful days I read, part in anger, part in agreement, editorials in the serious English, French and German papers which told their readers that ‘the ocker’, or the ‘Ugly Australian’ was still in charge ‘down under’- that the ‘ocker’ had destroyed the man who, like Prometheus, had been trying to teach Australians that they could steal fire from heaven, that they were capable of better things. [More…]

• In 1975, that year in which the moneychangers and accountants- the men with a passion for interest rates seemingly as dionysiacal as the passion of some men for ‘other things ‘-were to have their terrible day of triumph, a man dressed in the clothes of a bygone age, dismissed one of the greatest prime ministers this country has ever had, and then had the colossal effrontery later to tell the Australian people that history would vindicate his action. [More…]

• It was in that year that Charles Birch published his brilliant book on what mankind in general, and Australians in particular, had to do quite quickly if human life was to survive on this planet. [More…]

• In my view, one of the persons who contributed to that and made it possible is Manning Clark. [More…]

• This man, who is now retired from academic life, went to a meeting the other night. [More…]

• This lopsided approach to economic policy is based on ideology, not on sound principles of economic management Pricing policies and income policies cannot be separated. [More…]

• He is the man who last year said that people who are thriftless should not be the responsibility of the community. [More…]

• What he does not recognise is that many people do not have that option, that most of their income is committed in advance to lenders. [More…]

• Labor had, and continues to have, a great weakness in the field of economic management. [More…]

• Despite the fact that those 3 men still sit in the Parliament, the Opposition has appointed yet another man as shadow Treasurer. [More…]

• On many occasions it was forced to turn tail, to adopt a different posture. [More…]

• We inherited from the Labor Administration an economic melee which the former Government and its leaders created and to which they contributed nothing but further confusion by their internal Party backstabbing and contradictions, to say nothing of the publicly aired inconsistent statements, many of which could be described by the statistical term ‘mutually exclusive’. [More…]

• When we look, for instance, at the field of housing and see how this Government has made changes to ensure the better use of consultants and how the Department of Construction will now be utilised in an advisory capacity, it is a very brave man, or rather a very foolish man, who will argue that in that area alone things will be worse. [More…]

• The turtle farm had so many loose bones that when you shook it it was like listening to a tambourine. [More…]

• The first rights which they were given by the Commonwealth and the States were fornication rights, so that it was no longer a crime for a white man to cohabit with an Aboriginal woman. [More…]

• The appointment to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations was of a man who had a distinguished background in working with ethnic communities in this country. [More…]

• The creation of that Office and the appointment of this man to that position raised significantly the hopes of ethnic communities that positive discrimination in their favour may at last take place and that a good deal of discrimination that took place so unfairly in the community would be stopped. [More…]

• They know of the qualities of the man appointed to it and they have great expectations. [More…]

• I am not sure whether what I am about to say is parliamentary or not, Mr Deputy Chairman, but if ever I heard a hypocritical speech, this was it. [More…]

• This honourable gentleman led a Government at a time when a situation developed in Vietnam- and this fact has been evidenced by some contributions from this side of the House- where people were desperate to come to Australia. [More…]

• They were denied entry by one man and one man alone, and that was the then Prime Minister of Australia, the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman talks about migrant intakes. [More…]

• It was an utterly shameful performance, and one which his whole Party should repudiate. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman finished his speech by saying- and I tried to write down what he said- that this Government will make it easier for Rhodesians to come to Australia than for reunions of families from the Lebanon. [More…]

• Once again it is an effort by this man to forment political strife, to make political capital out of a situation. [More…]

• Most honourable members are seeking to overcome the great humanitarian problem in relation to the Lebanon. [More…]

• The reputation of so distinguished a man, so great an historian, so profound and compassionate an observer of our past and present society- a patriot in the truest sensewill survive whatever fly-specks the Minister for Education may try to leave upon it. [More…]

• On 8 April 1954 the Canberra Times and the Melbourne Age published a public statement signed by Professor Clark, Bishop Burgmann, Professor Davidson and Professor Fitzgerald. [More…]

• Only today I had a telephone call from one of my constituents, a man who is almost at retiring age, who is able to negotiate his retirement and who is willing to do so provided his son can have a job in the Public Service. [More…]

• This man has been told quite loudly and quite clearly that if he negotiates his own retirement he can go into retirement but the vacancy caused by his retirement cannot be filled by his son. [More…]

• As one former Minister for Labor in the previous Government said, one man’s wage increase is another man’s job; and that is the situation that we face in Australia today. [More…]

• We have become uncompetitive compared with many overseas countries. [More…]

• I refer not merely to Asian countries such as Taiwan and South Korea where many manufacturers have established manufacturing facilities. [More…]

• But compared with many industries in the United States, we have become uncompetitive. [More…]

• -Mr Chairman, it will be no surprise to you or to the Committee that I am going to espouse the cause of tariff reform while we are dealing with these estimates for the Department of Industry and Commerce and the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs. [More…]

• The bearers of bad news used to be beheaded by the Roman emperors. [More…]

• I have noticed, with regret and shame, the treatment that was meted out to the previous Chairman of the Industries Assistance Commission, Mr Alf Rattigan, from both sides of the House. [More…]

• I could think of phrases like ‘search and destroy missions’ to describe the cheap puerile criticism of a man who was saying what had to be said. [More…]

• He is a hardworking man and will achieve undoubted success at the by-election. [More…]

• Since they have been in Opposition they have been verbally assaulting enterprise in the same manner that characterised their term of government. [More…]

• Non-government enterprise in this country includes every man or woman who makes an investment or takes a risk to set up a business operation, to do something for themselves and thereby do something for others, who employs other people and contributes through taxes to the national resource. [More…]

• He certainly is the Indonesian generals’ man and in the comfort of Jakarta the tragedy of East Timor can be schemed away. [More…]

• Aboriginal drinking appears to reflect despondency arising from the loss of traditional land and life style; the breakdown of tribal law; the ineffectiveness of the white man’s law in remote regions; massive unemploymentAborigines account for probably more than SO per cent of the work force; and poor socioeconomic conditions. [More…]

• It must be remembered that apart from a few exceptions, Aboriginal communities have no counterpart to the white man’s social club. [More…]

• We have just heard a speech from Australia’s greatest centralist, a man who does not want the federal system to survive. [More…]

• He is still the same man who wants to see the State governments destroyed and with them the power of the States. [More…]

• He is still the same man who wants to see the Senate destroyed. [More…]

• He is still the same man who wants to see all power vested in Canberra and the 900 local government organisations throughout the country reduced to 50 puppet regions to be dictated to in their goings on by bureaucrats in Canberra. [More…]

• I believe it is absolutely deplorable that that man, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, can stand in the Parliament and dare to suggest that Hobart does not have the facilities or the expertise to provide the secretariat for the Council - [More…]

• They include people who stand in the shadows, people who are not even in this House- people like Senator Carrick, the man who stands behind this whole phoney federalism, the man who wants to wind down the responsibility of this Parliament for everything that can make the lives of people in this country better. [More…]

• I appreciate that the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair), the man who is acting as Acting Prime Minister today, was as vehement and as glib as usual in opposing the previous amendment. [More…]

• It is a great breakthrough if we can get through to kids that art forms are as demanding in their own way as the sport which at that time is the kids’ idol. [More…]

• The arts are an essential part of a civilised man. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I merely point out to you that here is a man whose leader got up the other day and spoke about how terribly distressed he was about the Lebanese. [More…]

• If this man wants to get personal - [More…]

• In the same breath, honourable members have no hesitation in screaming that workers in the shipbuilding industry should be subsidised to the tune of $13,000 per man per year. [More…]

• The thing is essentially this, that Gough Whitlam believed that Timor- Whitlam is not a cruel man really- I don’t think he is the brightest either- but he genuinely had this obsession. [More…]

• What kind of man is this who moves a censure motion of this kind when he has that record? [More…]

• Hidden away amongst the vague words of this secretive man is an occasional glimpse of his future actions. [More…]

• I think those figures speak for the manner and performance and characteristics of the man who was a tourist Prime Minister. [More…]

• But this particular motion canvasses far wider issues than the tourist aspirations of the man who was Prime Minister. [More…]

• We have done so in such a way as to minimise injury to producers and manufacturers in Australia and likewise to their counterparts across the Tasman Sea. [More…]

• The role of this Government, its performance, and the way it has deceived country people have been absolutely incredible. [More…]

• In that document of 4 foolscap pages we find many promises, none of which have been carried out. [More…]

• We will also find that in many other areas which were being handled by the Labor Administration affecting the lives of people and the standard of living of people living outside the cities, many programs have now been stopped. [More…]

• So not only will the Government’s policies in regard to primary industry affect the man on the land and the rural worker, but there will be a decline in the real living standards of the people in the country towns and provincial centres. [More…]

• Every farmer can be excused for his expression of righteous indignation when he has to digest information indicating that his share of the manufactured article in Australia is declining with monotonous regularity. [More…]

• He is the forgotten man in the system. [More…]

• I wish to take up tonight the cause of a man whose political philosophies, I believe, to be different from my own in that he agreed to take up the position of permanent head of the Department of the Prime Minister during the previous Administration. [More…]

• I believe that a businessman or a public servant and a secretary can be like a team. [More…]

• A good secretary can be like a man’s right hand. [More…]

• A man can feel as though he is in a 6 foot rubber dinghy without oars in mid Pacific ocean without her. [More…]

• I wish to defend the concept of a man in his position being able to take with him that integral part of his office and of his efficiency, that which has made him what he is- his secretary. [More…]

• Ivor Greenwood was a man of very great ability, at the height of his powers, and with a major contribution still to make to his country. [More…]

• All of us who knew Ivor Greenwood respected him as a man of integrity and high principle. [More…]

• He was a man who sought unswervingly to do what he believed to be right. [More…]

• Ivor Greenwood was a man of courage. [More…]

• Ivor Greenwood was a man who obtained great respect from his colleagues. [More…]

• He was generally considered to be a very conservative man. [More…]

• I merely want to recall on this occasion that there were many issues in which he took a very liberal attitude. [More…]

• Most of all we remember Ivor as a man. [More…]

• He was a man who, probably more than most, epitomised the fact that in the pragmatism of day to day politics there tends to be an erosion of the image of the personality and principles of the individual. [More…]

• Ivor on many occasions spoke in forums on matters of high principle and expressed a philosophy which is held by members from both sides of this House, I suggest, but perhaps few could express it as lucidly. [More…]

• 1 found him to be a remarkable man. [More…]

• Ivor Greenwood was a very close personal friend of mine over many years since we grew up in the Young Liberal Movement in Victoria. [More…]

• But today I should like to think of Ivor Greenwood not as a senator but as I believe he would have wanted himself to be thought of, as a great family man with the greatest of affection for the family institution and for his own family. [More…]

• As other honourable members have said, Ivor Greenwood at all times was a man who spoke his mind without fear or favour. [More…]

• I think it could be said that one of the major characteristics of Ivor Greenwood was that he was at all times a team man. [More…]

• I think that stamped the man for what he was. [More…]

• He was a great man and a fine family man. [More…]

• I used to watch this fresh faced young man going around putting up notices about Liberal Party meetings. [More…]

• I came to admire the man even though at that time I was not involved in politics because I was concerned that the first thing I had to do was to pass my examinations. [More…]

• Today I feel that I have lost a very fine friend of many, many years. [More…]

• He was, as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said, a man of great courage. [More…]

• We have seen many examples of the way in which he stood for his principles and the way in which, despite his public image, in a private sense he pursued the rights and liberties of the individual. [More…]

• I recall one incident, when I was working with him late at night in his office, of a young man and his wife coming to Parliament House looking for a lawyer who could witness a document that they had to sign and lodge with a particular departmental office in Canberra by 12 noon the next day. [More…]

• If I may say so, there are many things which pass between the First and Second Law Officers which do not pass between other people. [More…]

• If there is anything that marks a man it is his integrity in the sense that he stands up for what he believes in, and Ivor Greenwood did just that. [More…]

• As we wrote that paper, something of the man came out in a very distinct sense. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, it may not be generally known, but the late Senator Ivor Greenwood had a very deep and abiding affection for the State of Tasmania and for the people of Tasmania. [More…]

• From the time of his election as a Victorian senator we in Tasmania felt that he adopted us. [More…]

• I know I speak for all my fellow Tasmanian members of this House when I say that he quickly earned our admiration and respect and completely won our affection. [More…]

• He will be missed particularly by the Young Liberal Movement in Tasmania, to which body he gave so generously of his talents and his support. [More…]

• Above all, he loved the unique beauty of the Tasmanian environment. [More…]

• This was not merely a Minister performing the duties of his portfolio but also a man with a great love for the environment and the natural beauty of Australia. [More…]

• We in Tasmania feel with great sadness today that we have lost a very true friend. [More…]

• Indeed it is of interest that about 2 months ago the President himself opened on the West Coast a new free trade zone that was developed by Mr Paul Mariani, a man who has some Australian association. [More…]

• Does the Conciliation and Arbitration Act provide that fines and penalties imposed by unions by reason of the fact that a man works in accordance with his award are an offence? [More…]

• In a Syrian application, a man and his son were sponsored by the father’s brother, who is an Australian citizen. [More…]

• It has been estimated that as many as half a million Lebanese may be in Syria. [More…]

• We sent one officer to Damascus, an unfortunate young man named Cameron, for whom I have nothing but boundless admiration. [More…]

• I have said some harsh things about the Minister today but in essence I believe him to be a man of good will. [More…]

• This situation may not present great hardship to all young people, especially those with families capable of supporting them, but for many others very real hardship results. [More…]

• After all, a young man of 18 years wears the same kind of shoes, the same kind of clothes and eats the same if not more than his father, and if he wants to travel to look for a job he pays the same fares. [More…]

• This year 300 waterside workers have left their empolyment on the waterfront and it has cost the Australian taxpayer an average of $10,000 for each man who has left. [More…]

• I think he is one of the more reasonable Ministers and a man who is likely to listen to ideas. [More…]

• One man in particular, Dr Michael Keating, was an outstanding public servant. [More…]

• While Professor Birch is a man of undoubted eminence and ability to chair such a committee, when it comes to the question of the huge and broad problems of scientific administration and policy the 2 men associated with him, whatever their eminence in their respective fields, rather remind me of Oscar Wilde’s definition of fox huntingthe unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable. [More…]

• This represents a significant harnessing of scientific development for man’s good. [More…]

• As I have said, we are harnessing science for man’s good. [More…]

• It shows that satellite information can be used for the acquisition of knowledge for the good of man. [More…]

• Why does a business man living 100 or 200 miles from the city have to pay more for a telephone call to transact some of his business than his opposition residing in that city? [More…]

• He went on to say that there was no question of whether ethnic radio would be placed on a permanent basis. [More…]

• But as a wise old man once said: ‘Actions speak louder than words’, and in this case the gap between the rhetoric and the practice could hardly be wider. [More…]

• This is from the same man who I am reminded once used the term to describe one of his colleagues in this place, simply because of his ethnic origin- ‘Afghan camel driver’. [More…]

• The AttorneyGeneral is a unique man. [More…]

• It was not my intention to deal in this debate with those matters which arose at the end of 1975 but as the poor man’s Kevin Murray has touched upon them perhaps it would be as well if I said a few words about what I thought were the injustices of what occurred in 1975 because it goes beyond the pleasure which is reflected in the faces of the 91 honourable members who sit opposite. [More…]

• The only reason this country was brought to the edge of chaos last November was that we did not have a statesman in our midst. [More…]

• We did not have a man who was prepared to keep the Crown out of politics. [More…]

• This is how a statesman acts. [More…]

• Let me take a man from the other side of politics in England. [More…]

• I refer to Clement Attlee, another great statesman and a man who knew what was right. [More…]

• The level of subsidy required to build a big ship at the State dockyard or at Whyalla is $13,000 per ship per man employed. [More…]

• To build the small ships at Carringtons it is $1,800 per ship per man employed. [More…]

• Well, the Mercedes was ordered by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Prime Minister, and is it suggested that the superphosphate bounty is doing nothing to help the man on the land? [More…]

• Is it suggested by members of the Opposition that we should do nothing for the man on the land? [More…]

• If we add to that the fact that he was able to announce that over the next 3 years $ 12,000m will be available for expenditure on defence, we will understand that when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) chose this man to be the Minister for Defence, he evaluated not only his capacity and integrity but also his tenacity. [More…]

• 1 think that the Prime Minister, who held this portfolio himself, realised the extreme difficulties in this area and that the Minister was taking over a department which in many respects- this is no reflection on the people in the department- was in effect in a shambles because of the discouragement under the previous Government. [More…]

• But it is interesting to note that a writer in this month ‘s edition of the Pacific Defence Reporter states, among many other complimentary things, regarding the Minister: [More…]

• Australia is such a large land mass that people, who are so many miles removed from Canberra have a tendency to think that they should secede from the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It is only in times of crisis that one sees the real value of the Australian, how he can work with his fellow man and how all Australia can mobilise itself. [More…]

• Why in discussing the condolence motion on the death of Chairman Mao, was reference made to his deserting his wife and children, and that they were slaughtered? [More…]

• The same man lost his son in South Korea. [More…]

• They believed that every man was equal and entitled to justice on this earth. [More…]

• I should like to commence by providing the House with some background details of the scheme, for it is not only significant in its own right but stands as a monument to one man’s compassion and vision. [More…]

• Noting this picture of squalor and starvation, he determined to do something about it and formed the Child Emigration Society at the turn of the century and eventually realised his dream in the form of Fairbridge House, a large old mansion in Western Australia which became the home for thousands of underprivileged English children who learned in the precincts of its spacious grounds the basics of farming and domestic work before taking their place in an Australian society which offered them much greater opportunity than would ever have been possible in their native England. [More…]

• When I consider the depths of compassion and unselfishness of which this man was capable I appreciate more than ever the superiority of the co-operative values which inspire the Australian Labor Party over the morally barren individualism which is preached from the other side of the House. [More…]

• The person who wrote it gave it to a good man to deliver because the Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not know what the problem is all about when it comes to housing, and particularly public housing. [More…]

• Clearly the Opposition still has its priorities wrong in respect of this matter, as of course it has in so many other matters that are presently before the Parliament. [More…]

• We all know that the Minister is a most fair man and that he is always interested in making sure that justice is done. [More…]

• There are times when we need to speak as Australians and I am speaking as an Australian as well as a Labor man. [More…]

• He is a man recognised in left wing circles as being an authority. [More…]

• With 40 per cent of apple trees pulled out since the introduction of the tree pull scheme one is apt to become extremely cynical of such romantic sentiments. [More…]

• They have always been regarded with suspicion by the man on the land. [More…]

• There is, of course, a very real tendency for the ruling classes in many of these countries, regardless of whether they be there by the democratic process or by force of arms, to take the view that having achieved power, the object of the exercise is to maintain it regardless of how the people under them are expected to live. [More…]

• While many honourable members may wish they had similar benefits, at least we can say to our people that we do not live beyond our means. [More…]

• When I asked the person taking me around why they had to live in such luxury, I was told in a very off-handed manner, ‘You do not expect them to live like the rest of the people, do you? [More…]

• After all they could not possibly respect a man who did not live in a sumptuous mansion in the manner to which he was allegedly going to become accustomed.’ [More…]

• It is on that basis that I say that our courts always stand for the best thing that I think the British have ever given us, that is, their system of justice where all people are equal and no man is denied a fair trial and no man is denied his freedom. [More…]

• You have proposed the most simplistic answers, none of which would work out in practice, as you well know from when you have been able to discuss them with a man of some discernment, namely - [More…]

• It may be that the honourable gentleman is reflecting on the charming Sunday afternoon at Botany Bay. [More…]

• The man on the telephone said that he was from the BBC. [More…]

• I am sure that you, Mr Speaker, will recall that over many years successive governments of Australia followed a definite commitment, which was originally entered into by the Chifley Government in 1946, to eliminate tuberculosis. [More…]

• What was then revolutionary in Australia’s treatment of disease was the idea that if a man was suffering from tuberculosis he could leave work, his family would be supported, he would get a full income and, therefore, he would not be under economic pressure not to obtain treatment. [More…]

• The few minutes I received from him would appear as crumbs from the rich man ‘s table. [More…]

• I wonder how many hours have been spent in discussions with Mr John Maynes and Mr Santamaria who, whilst being National Civic Council, are also, and this fact should never to forgotten, members of a labor party. [More…]

• Does anybody in this chamber seriously believe that to become the Federal secretary of a union in Australia a man simply picks himself up off the floor and nominates ibr the position? [More…]

• Unless he has done that, he can spend as much money as he likes on postal bills but he will have little hope of success, because the human mind just does not work in that way. [More…]

• -I withdraw that, too, Mr Chairman. [More…]

• It was no surprise to me to see the honourable member for Denison so much to the fore last May in demanding legislation for the system of collegiate voting. [More…]

• We all know that the Liberal Party in Tasmania is currently the target of an NCC takeover. [More…]

• This man recently claimed in a student newspaper to be a true liberal and not a conservative like his colleagues. [More…]

• The same man has spoken to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and has an order which he says is for even more young cattle. [More…]

• It is always suggested then that we somehow have a great economy of resources of manpower; that we use the same news sources and that this is supposed to be a good thing. [More…]

• I think there is nothing more despicable and nothing more ludicrous than the spectacle we have of certain well-known newspaper identities putting on these curious socalled public affairs programs which appear during convenient times of electoral advantage to the conservative parties, when we have these marionette shows, when we have one man standing on camera interviewing a prominent politician and we have someone standing off camera priming him, and then when the interviewee goes off camera we have the eminence grise coming in off camera and explaining what it really was that the interviewee meant to say. [More…]

• It is a direct 2V4 per cent out of each man’s pay packet so it has to do with wages. [More…]

• I could reproduce many other comments from indignant Premiers. [More…]

• The point is that, to a man, they feel cheated. [More…]

• So we have this situation: The man appointed to preside over the disbandment of these programs has now stated that the money made available for them by way of specific purpose grants will have to be found from general revenue. [More…]

• -The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Baillieu) was born into privilege, lives in privilege and he shows in his voice and his whole manner that this privilege involves the ‘we were born to rule’ mentality. [More…]

• To completely nail the untruth of this privileged man, the honourable member for La Trobe, in Victoria where a conservative government reigned under Mr Hamer as the Premier and Mr Hunt as the responsible Minister, in rural areas we accepted exactly the regions set up by that State. [More…]

• I am a reasonable man, like my colleague who represents the Darling Downs. [More…]

• The honourable member for Calare (Mr MacKenzie) is quite a likeable young man but at his youthful age I think he ought to stick closer to the truth otherwise it will be impossible for him to do so when he grows older. [More…]

• Recently a man recognised in the Victorian Press as being capable of writing a story which told a fairly accurate picture had this to say about the man on the land: [More…]

• So the introduction of the bounty was justified, quite clearly, by what happened to the man on the land. [More…]

• In any case, this man has made a disastrous start on his latest package tour here by making these ridiculous statements about population growth. [More…]

• The honourable member picked on a man on this side of the parliamentary fence, namely, the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair). [More…]

• He has worked hard and diligently up and down the countryside to do everything he possibly can to alleviate some of the problems which are occurring due to Labor’s mismanagement over the past 3 years. [More…]

• I think that we should look for the best businessmen we can get for our marketing boards and not put a man on a marketing board because he is a producer, although, of course, the producers should have a greater say in who is to be elected to these marketing boards. [More…]

• They need increased expenditure in many fields other than acquisition. [More…]

• They need increased expenditure in management and in controlling noxious weeds and vermin. [More…]

• In fact, one man is employed within the service to look after some 3000 hectares of land, an impossible job and one which means that in our State and in most other States, because of its low priority, our public lands are becoming the prime means by which vermin and noxious weeds are being spread throughout the rest of the area in agriculture and through our national parks. [More…]

• As well, we must have increased expenditure on management and in controlling the various weeds and vermin which are one of the very real problems which we face when we increase our areas of public land. [More…]

• After listening to him tonight, I do not know whether to be indignant or whether to start pitying the poor man. [More…]

• Yet hardly once- perhaps in passing, to give the man credit- did he even recognise the attempt by this Government to be constructive in the matter of conservation. [More…]

• As usual, he slipped back to his romanticising on past deeds, of what he and his Government did. [More…]

• I have to ask myself just how genuine is this man. [More…]

• As to the man mentioned, may I say that Mr Loxton was the President of the Law Society of New South Wales. [More…]

• He was personally observed by the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) who is a man of integrity in this House. [More…]

• His own former Minister for the Media, the man he chose to exercise responsibility for broadcasting, is hamstrung by an honest recognition that the steps we are taking as a result of the report are the steps that any rational Administration would take. [More…]

• To provide for the periodic reviews which the Government has approved will do nothing more than allow a regular forum for those critical of the performance of the ABC, and those supporting it, to put their case in public. [More…]

• I have never quite understood why a stay of proceedings which can shut a man out of his case permanently is still considered to be an interlocutory matter. [More…]

• I find it amusing that the nation’s Prime Minister receives a salary that is $3,000 a year less than that of the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia; that the nation’s Deputy Prime Minister receives less money than the judge who is second in charge of the Family Court; and that the nation’s Treasurer, the man who is supposed to come forward with all the answers to save the nation, receives a salary barely more than that of an ordinary Family Court judge. [More…]

• I concede that a successful lawyer in private practice could command a very high income if the practice were well conducted. [More…]

• If anyone suggested for a moment that a man in has late eighties was not quite as able as a much younger man to produce a judgment, that person would face a great deal of problems for having made such a suggestion against a member of the judiciary. [More…]

• In particular, I hope that the High Court will make it possible for a single judge to travel interstate and hear applications for special leave to appeal in the State from which the appeal originates rather than have the present expensive and archaic system whereby litigants have to travel at considerable expense from Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland to Melbourne or Sydney to have their applications heard. [More…]

• For example, in a case in which a man had a right to appeal to the High Court of Australia and also to the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Tasmania last year and chose to make an application to go direct to the High Court, the cost of the application for leave to appeal direct to the High Court, which he lost, was almost $3,000. [More…]

• On the first page of the report it is stated that the environment- …. includes all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings, and ‘environmental’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]

• That is pretty vague, but it would seem to cover almost everything that can exist- the whole surroundings of man. [More…]

• Sometimes we forget that in this world the environment exists for man and man does not exist to serve the environment. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) who spoke before me- honourable members opposite repeatedly interjected while he was speaking- is a man of human understanding. [More…]

• This decision is that of a complex man. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the Prime Minister is a complex man but he has shown strength in this decision. [More…]

• Very few people who suffer from this disease manage to reach adulthood and stay reasonably physically fit. [More…]

• This young man somehow has managed to get through the higher school certificate by a correspondence course and to obtain a job. [More…]

• Do honourable members think that the State Government could assist in getting petrol in emergency circumstances for this young man? [More…]

• A very courteous gentleman in that Department said that these matters were usually handled by the Premier’s Department and to ring the Premiers office. [More…]

• So my secretary rang the public relations department of the Shell oil company, and within hours the Shell oil company had made special arrangements to deliver petrol for this young man from some special supplies that it has. [More…]

• The Shell company will continue to supply this man with petrol so that he may continue to drive to his place of employment. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, it is a moment of great excitement when the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) rises and calls on us to man the barricades. [More…]

• The oddest situation has been created in which what was called by Lord Bryson in 1911 ‘the most advanced democracy’ has become a potential for one man dictatorship. [More…]

• I believe that the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) is a reasonable man. [More…]

• This rewriting of history by a man who does not care about the future of either his own Party or this country is not particularly just to those men whom he sacked when he was leader of the Government. [More…]

• There are many divisions in the Australian nation, this day, and they directly relate to the events of 1 1 November last. [More…]

• In Sydney this afternoon they will be discussing what happened on 1 1 November last and how is it that in a democracy a government could be so denied the opportunity to govern by one man? [More…]

• A man with the status of Chief Justice certainly can mould the opinions of others. [More…]

• One man, Field, said: ‘I am going into the Senate to deny Supply. [More…]

• The people of Australia, irrespective of their political or party affiliations, are meeting to discuss how they can make Australia a nation unconstrained by a set of rules which say that one man can disallow any law. [More…]

• Australia now finds itself under a set of rules which make it subservient to one man who is deemed to be the appointee of the monarch. [More…]

• I make an appeal for a better system of parent participation and school participation, both student and teacher, in the management of government schools. [More…]

• We recognise that there are great difficulties involved and that the professionalism and the free movement of teachers may well be disadvantaged if we turn the schools into so many autonomous republics, but I do not think that the solution to that problem is beyond the wit of man. [More…]

• The principal issue over the next few years in relation to school management is the development of the schools assistance program set out in the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and the development of greater initiatives in the schools by dealing more directly with them in a financial way. [More…]

• The Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education were amalgamated, and I sympathise with the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) who was at that time the Minister for Education. [More…]

• He is a man for whom I have some regard, and a man who was genuine in his efforts to provide a high level of quality education for this country. [More…]

• I might say that we are playing a game of blind man’s bluff in that the House of Representatives is discussing an agreement which has only another year to run but it does not have the report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics which would enable us to assess the true situation. [More…]

• He reminds me of the man who receives $200 a week and spends $300 every week. [More…]

• It is operated by one man and it channels a fair percentage of its work to the private profession, as it has to do. [More…]

• The ordinance relates to the setting up of a 7-man commission dominated by the private profession. [More…]

• This is far too many cases for one man to have to prepare and conduct in one year. [More…]

• The subsidies from the taxpayers of this country amount to $13,000 per man per annum. [More…]

• I believe that the car industry is currently being subsidised to the extent of $4,000 per annum for each man in the industry. [More…]

• The quantity and the quality of water resources are involved in the lives of every man, woman and child in the nation, and to a large degree decide conditions of health and happiness in every town and village. [More…]

• I will quote what the honourable gentleman said because, although it may seem strange, I have not read this article at this point. [More…]

• To use the honourable gentleman’s terms, if the article quoted me as being deeply dissatisfied with some aspects of the Defence Department’s administration, that would be completely and utterly false. [More…]

• He is a man of great dedication, of immense integrity and great intellectual capacity. [More…]

• One would presume that there is a duty on an editorial writer to check the stated policies of the Government before setting up his own straw man only to knock it down. [More…]

• He is a man who is giving great and dedicated service. [More…]

• He would know much more about this matter than my friend the honourable member for Lilley or myself, and his suspicions are relevant because he lives in the area in which one necessarily must be suspicious of many of the people who will have a part in trying to make decisions about this operation. [More…]

• It has been claimed that if it had not been for the Aborigines during the early days when the white man was hugging the coast of Australia the white man never would have left the coast. [More…]

• Many times they did so against their will. [More…]

• Many of them took Aboriginal women as their wives or companions. [More…]

• The Aborigines have been subjected to all the prejudice and hatred that the white man can muster. [More…]

• I think that many of us are racist. [More…]

• We pushed them into corners to such an extent that in many instances they became people who had had their tribal structures and their culture destroyed. [More…]

• Both races became the victims of the white man’s expansion and so forth. [More…]

• The American Indian was possibly in a much better position to resist the encroachment of the white man than was the Australian Aboriginal. [More…]

• For many years the attitude of the white population was to assimilate the Aborigines into white society or to let them die out peacefully- and sometimes not quite so peacefully. [More…]

• That decision was based on white man’s law and in it the traditional rights of the Aboriginal people were completely ignored. [More…]

• It was a decision made within the very limited framework in which he had to work- the European law, the white man’s law, under which the rights of the Aborigines were given short shrift. [More…]

• Perhaps they do not know as much about their own law but they do know a lot about the white man’s law and the white man’s way and they tend to control and manipulate Aboriginal organisations with which they are associated. [More…]

• A man who has one sixty-fourth part of Aboriginal blood would still be a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia and would still qualify under this definition. [More…]

• Moreover, many eminent conservationists, including senior officers of the Division of Wildlife Research of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, have affirmed that Aboriginal hunting poses no threat to the survival of native species, although introduced animals such as foxes, camels and rabbits do, and overstocking by pastoralists does. [More…]

• Between them these examples of the white man ‘s stupidity- some, unfortunately, are contemporary examples- have driven many species to extinction. [More…]

• Moreover, the reason why modern weapons and vehicles are frequently used for hunting is that in many cases the old hunting skills tragically have been lost. [More…]

• Only very recently I heard a definition from a man who is not supporting me in what I as a Territorian am trying to do for traditional Aborigines. [More…]

• This man is on the side of the large land councils and supported the previous Labor Bill. [More…]

• It was given to me by a man who is respected very much in certain quarters and who had a lot to do with the compilation of the Woodward report. [More…]

• This finger-sign (showing with right forefinger and middle finger placed on left palm), when that’s used, a man is finished (dead). [More…]

• The Kutungula (manager) for that land will say, ‘This man (irrpalterama) is trying to usurp our rights; you go and kill him. [More…]

• White man’s law, on the other hand, is different. [More…]

• This law here (pointing to Land Rights Bill) that’s white man’s law; what this is saying, that’s theirs! [More…]

• ESROM: White man’s law is different. [More…]

• They’re not frightened of (won’t respect) white man’s law. [More…]

• White man doesn’t realise that. [More…]

• That’s white people’s, that’s a white man’s idea that they’re bringing out. [More…]

• That white man, those half-castes, can’t come in, that’s the law, Aboriginal law, tjurunga. [More…]

• I want to raise a matter concerning an article that appeared in this evening’s Adelaide News written by a man- I will not give the title of gentleman because we have had to suffer this man’s deceit over a long period in this House- by the name of Trevor Kavanough. [More…]

• I think if we are looking for a prize Press idiot, this man would take the cake. [More…]

• If a man is incommunicado, how is he going to alert anything? [More…]

• But I tell the House this: I sought during the crisis to get a man into Darwin. [More…]

• I think that he was the manager at the time of Tickle Industries. [More…]

• I could not get a permit for that man. [More…]

• The man is totally illogical. [More…]

• -The trouble with the honourable member for Shortland is that he is a conspiracy man. [More…]

• My friend, who is distinguished in many areas, apparently has not a great capability in mathematics. [More…]

• Thus, a young man can take his choice as to what his recreations will be. [More…]

• I believe that that man was threatened with blackmail. [More…]

• I come now to an article in yesterday’s Australian, which refers to a mystery man: [More…]

• Adnan Khashoggi described as the biggest middle man in the world, flies into Australia on Friday on board his private Boeing 727 for an undisclosed purpose. [More…]

• My information is that this man buys arms which are intended to be used against Israel by certain Arab countries. [More…]

• Official United States figures show that the annual death rate in the coal industry is 1 1 times greater than that in the nuclear industry, including mining, that injuries are 7 times greater in the coal industry and that man days lost are 10 times greater. [More…]

• The one man who was supposed to have set his face against devaluation, the one man who was said to be firm to his antiinflationary strategy, the leader of the party that for the first time had the numbers in Parliament to resist Country Party pressure, was tempted to devalue himself. [More…]

• As soon as the world discovered that the Prime Minister was weak on this issue, as soon as the speculators discovered that the Liberal Prime Minister was a Country Party man at heart, the game was up. [More…]

• Many primary producers will not benefit at all. [More…]

• On the radio yesterday the Minister Assisting the Treasurer, the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson)- the man who, it is widely believed, is destined to be Treasurer or Minister for Finance- said that the sugar industry would benefit. [More…]

• Sugar contracts are written in Australian dollars, as are many wheat contracts. [More…]

• Indeed, every exporting industry, primary and manufacturing, which depends on foreign shipping- and which of them does not?- will pay more. [More…]

• So, for the sake of dubious and at best transitory benefits to manufacturers and some primary producers, and certain benefits for overseas mining companies and financial speculators, the rest of the economy is to be made to suffer. [More…]

• This man cannot be trusted. [More…]

• In other words, the ordinary man in the street will be the loser. [More…]

• Their statements are as hollow as their attempts to manage the economy were disastrous. [More…]

• There is no man in this Parliament who has done more damage to the lives of Australians than the Leader of the Opposition, by his sheer incompetence in economic affairs. [More…]

• He was the man who sacked Frank Crean to make way for the disastrous loans search- who sacked honesty out of his Government. [More…]

• Every excessive increase in income for one man takes the job of another. [More…]

• He is a man devoid of a sense of national responsibility in this matter, a member of a Party which has done immense damage to Australia in recent years. [More…]

• The Opposition’s other leading spokesman on economic matters, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, has persistently pursued questions in Parliament about the exchange rate and the loss of reserves. [More…]

• At the present time one man’s wage increase is purchased at the cost of his workmate’s job- shades of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports. [More…]

• But the Government’s economic policies were strung up- lynched as it were- by that leak from the Cabinet which identified the conversion of all of the Cabinet except for the Treasurer, the strong man, and the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Senator Cotton, the 2 people who held out. [More…]

• The Treasurer emerges as the tough man. [More…]

• That was said by a former Minister of a former Liberal government- a man not without influence. [More…]

• Ultimately many of the questions are social and ethical ones. [More…]

• We agree strongly with the view that the final decision should rest with the ordinary man and not be regarded as the preserve of any group of experts however distinguished. [More…]

• What I am saying is that this time man’s knowledge, or lack of knowledge, of the proper regulation and control of the production of uranium and the hideous dangers inherent in its use or misuse is such that we as a Parliament should follow the advice of such expert commissions as the Fox inquiry in Australia and the Flowers Royal Commission in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The last time we heard of this gentleman he was tearing around the Northern Territory. [More…]

• This man was tearing around the country saying that the Government was doing absolutely nothing about the health and welfare of Aboriginal children. [More…]

• He is a most honourable man. [More…]

• He is a scrupulously honest man. [More…]

• He went to Queensland to clean up the evilness which existed in the Queensland Police Force at that time and which continued for many years after he took over. [More…]

• Mr Whitrod as Police Commissioner was a man of integrity and complete honesty. [More…]

• As far as the Government’s general proposition in relation to this matter is concerned, we believe that if the taxpayers were to be asked to provide substantial additional sums, which the Minister for Transport advises me would have equalled about $20,000 per man for each of the 2 Australian National Line ships, then in return there should be a proper industrial relations contract which would make sure that those ships were built as cheaply as possible. [More…]

• I think the honourable gentleman will agree that an additional subsidy of $20,000 a man for the building of those ships compared with the cost overseas is a pretty heavy additional burden on Australian taxpayers. [More…]

• This man had spent 5 years in the Northern Territory and a great deal of that period in the Arnhem Land area. [More…]

• Since Dr Peterson has played such a part in this matter and, as an anthropologist, is a man who claims to have an extensive experience and knowledge of Aborigines, I think that we should at least look at his definition. [More…]

• Now that there are new owners, or the traditional owners have been legalised in terms of the white man’s way of doing things, things obviously have to change. [More…]

• Mr Dexter, the permanent head of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs was also a member of the Council; so too was no less a person than Dr Coombs. [More…]

• I have suggested only that this should be permissive rather man mandatory. [More…]

• I am not aware of any newspaper men being present except for a report I received that in one particular instance- I think it was at a commune in Western Australia- one newspaper man was present. [More…]

• After over 30 years of wide and varied experience in the defence forces, I am very well aware of the immense complexity of the issues and of how little any one man can know and understand unless he is engaged full dme in this field. [More…]

• With regard to unemployment benefits for a young man who is willing to work and willing to be apprenticed, my inquiries indicate that the Victorian Department of Education has instructed the principals of its schools that they cannot issue certificates, stating that a youngster will not resume school, until the beginning of the next school year. [More…]

• On behalf of so many young people affected in my area and in many other areas, I ask that at least some conscious effort be made on this matter instead of this constant mouthing of political slogans by people who claim to be great economic managers but who have shown themselves completely incompetent by worsening a situation many times in the short space of 1 1 months. [More…]

• The vast majority of this incredibly high remuneration to directors went to one man, the Managing Director of James Patrick and Co., Sir Reginald Reed. [More…]

• It is almost a cliche now to say that the waterfront industry in Australia is unique in character, origin and history in that traditionally it has had to have a temporary work force because of the fluctuations in the demand for labour on the waterfront from day to day. [More…]

• The next day dozens of ships might be tied up in the port with other ships waiting in the bay, and every available man and then some will be needed. [More…]

• It is a unique industry, with an uneven demand for labour. [More…]

• The questions were: Why was the man-hour divisor as low as 798 at Sydney whereas it was 1522 at Port Kembla? [More…]

• Other questions were: Why had the cost of a gross man hour of waterside worker labour moved from $2,572 in 1962 to $7,556 in 1974, and why in 2 years it had now doubled to $15.46? [More…]

• I have said over and over again that the problems in Australia are not essentially different from the problems in the United States of America, in West Germany and in the United Kingdom, to take only a few examples. [More…]

• The problem is that increasingly the pattern of industry in the manufacturing arena is large scale with a tendency to have more in the service and tertiary fields. [More…]

• I have had it thrown back at me for saying, as I did on one occasion, that one man’s increase in wages may be another man’s job. [More…]

• That man is now smugly taking pride in prophesying the inevitability of devaluation which he did so much to ensure as a senior and once respected member of the Opposition. [More…]

• Under this legislation that man will now be paid. [More…]

• It is reducing its expenses anyway by cutting out the middle man and selling produce direct to the public. [More…]

• I believe that by omission the honourable member was actually describing incoming Commissioner Lewis as a man of inferior capabilities. [More…]

• Commissioner Lewis, as he now is, is a man who has had quick promotion. [More…]

• They will go on losing it unless we look at ways and means of utilising more effectively the human resources of this Parliament. [More…]

• It is a ridiculous situation when one man can stand up to make a speech, sometimes a bad speechpresent speech excepted from that possibilityand find that all other members are expected to listen, whereas in fact they do not. [More…]

• There is probably a need for this whole parliamentary human conglomeration to have a committee process in the areas of speciality so that the Parliament can gather together just to hear reports and maybe even to allow members to speak in the Parliament after the matter has been dealt with in greater depth outside. [More…]

• They are a constant reminder of the truth of a comment made by a previous Labor Party Treasurer not so long ago when he said that a rise in one man’s pay packet can cost another man his job. [More…]

• We cannot sacrifice the Australian people because a small group are prepared to use their power in an irresponsible manner. [More…]

• This man who sets himself up as Deputy Leader of the Opposition finds himself totally isolated on that subject. [More…]

• I question their right to speak when so many of them have not been elected by an acceptable democratic process. [More…]

• It has been made clear that under this scheme an elderly man, who is single and who prior to his retirement was engaged in a job where he was required to take lodgings and five in other people’s homes, will be eligible for a grant if he is purchasing his first home. [More…]

• Mr Leslie Bury, a former Treasurer and former Housing Minister and the man who introduced the original legislation which we are debating, reacted to that Liberal-National Country Party-caused situation on 1 May 1973. [More…]

• Many of us remember it well. [More…]

• That right honourable gentleman had a very great capacity for approaching elections in terms of picking up that extra one per cent or 2 per cent which he needed. [More…]

• He was a percentage man. [More…]

• It ill behoves a man who aspires to the leadership of his Party to call legislation regressive when the legislation gives money to people to build their own homes and encourages them to save by offering matching contributions. [More…]

• I should like the honourable member for Hughes to know that the Bill irons out many anomalies relating to the age limit, migrant problems, and the problems of single people and widows. [More…]

• I pointed out to the gentleman concerned that that was not the objective of the Government. [More…]

• I have great sympathy for young people who are unemployed but the problem of the married man with a family is even more serious. [More…]

• I would suggest seriously that some investigation be undertaken on this matter to see how many of those jobs that have been created by the Youth Employment [More…]

• The capacity of the Federal Government, and particularly of Mr Fraser, to mismanage their dealings with the Australian Broadcasting Commission apparently has no limits. [More…]

• Having brought the ABC staff to the point of open rebellion, and reduced its senior management to a state of demoralised confusion, Mr Fraser has now managed to annoy even Sir Henry Bland-the man he had appointed as a new-broom chairman to bring the national broadcasting service to order. [More…]

• Other honourable members wish to speak in this debate, including the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Jull). [More…]

• Most people in this Parliament will realise that he is a man with a great deal of experience. [More…]

• I want to compliment him, not on the contribution which he will make in his speech this afternoon, but on the many hours of work which he has contributed to the Government in relation to this matter. [More…]

• I am sure that anyone who has followed the activities of the honourable member for Bowman in this place will appreciate his great contribution. [More…]

• The Bill needs to be placed in the context of the appointment of the Government ‘s faithful hatchet man, Sir Henry Bland, as Chairman of the ABC. [More…]

• One does not wonder at the concern and apprehension of many of the staff and supporters of the ABC when one is mindful of the statements by 2 Ministers, Mr Nixon and Senator Withers, and certain National Country Party officials that the ABC is to be cleaned up, particularly in the current affairs broadcasting area. [More…]

• However, the man in the street was soon to feel the effect of the Medibank levy and the phasing down of the home interest deductibility scheme. [More…]

• If there are abuses and greater inequities in the implementation of the scheme than are now envisaged, and knowing that the vast number of farmers themselves seek equity and realise that one man’s gain is another man’s loss, the Opposition shall seek reforms. [More…]

• This, coupled with what one would expect as an average wage earned in Australia of $185 a week, should give the man on the land about $350 a week. [More…]

• That is about 3 times as much as the man on the land is getting. [More…]

• That $350 which I say the man on the land should be expecting still does not give him any margin for management or any return on other items such as water, fencing or buildings. [More…]

• The man on the land realises that a large proportion of manufacturing industries gets tariff protection which is much higher than the rate pertaining in most other countries. [More…]

• They had been in receipt of $57 a week for a man and the smaller amount for the dependants. [More…]

• Many were involved in the early exploration of this region. [More…]

• They reflect European man’s early contact with Australia. [More…]

• Many were involved in the carriage of migrants to this land. [More…]

• Many were involved in the vital cargo trade that was first Australia’s lifeline and later essential to its growth and ultimate prosperity. [More…]

• We do not want the poor man’s Hugh Hefner displaying his wisdom. [More…]

• It seems very strange to me that the Minister for the Media of the day could not find a suitable person in all of Tasmania. [More…]

• I should have thought that irrespective of whether it had to be a woman or a man he would have been able to find at least one from Tasmania. [More…]

• As I said yesterday and as I repeat today, at no stage has the Minister said that this man will be removed from office. [More…]

• People have simply supposed that because the legislation is being altered he is the man that is to go. [More…]

• In other words, the Opposition believes that its man is not sufficiently capable of being able to hold the position, so logically he will be the one to go. [More…]

• I believe that if a man or a woman is appointed to the Commission at well under 60 years of age, he or she should not automatically have to retire after serving for 10 years. [More…]

• The other 2 points on which the Minister might comment are whether he has somebody in mind to represent Tasmania, because I think this is a terribly important point, and whether the staff member of the Commission does receive 2 salaries- as a Commissioner, on the one hand, and as a staff member on the other. [More…]

• I say this because he has shown over the last few weeks under the glare of national publicity that he is a man who is prepared to talk, listen and come up with a compromise solution. [More…]

• It is a pretty notion that in this day and age man and woman should have achieved equality. [More…]

• The highest priority should be placed on the rehabilitation of expelled and homeless people who have been displaced by natural or man-made catastrophes, and especially by the act of foreign aggression. [More…]

• While planning new human settlements or restructuring existing ones, a high priority should be given to the promotion of optimal and creative conditions of human coexistence. [More…]

• This implies the creation of a well-structured urban space on a human scale, the close interconnexion of the different urban functions, the relief of urban man from intolerable psychological tensions due to overcrowding and chaos, the creation of chances of human encounters and the elimination of urban concepts leading to human isolation. [More…]

• It could be that a man is on the land and is battling hard to stay there. [More…]

• This ad hoc approach resulted in many undesirable consequences. [More…]

• In particular, most of the changes meant that the ordinary soldier, the private, the low income man, never really got the benefits. [More…]

• The Government is ensuring that this discriminatory practice will continue by replacing what was an 8-man corporation with a one-man body. [More…]

• People earning between 95 per cent and 155 per cent will find themselves in a no man’s land when they try to obtain a loan for land and housing. [More…]

• I am a modest man by nature, with a limited kind of intellect. [More…]

• It is the kind of thing that a man of my intellect can grasp. [More…]

• He says that the poverty line for a man and his wife with 2 children going to a man and his wife with 4 children with the wife not working can go from $120 to $140 a week, averaged throughout Australia. [More…]

• Many other members have spoken on it, but I believe that it is a valuable guide for discussion and debate. [More…]

• After more than 30 years of wide and varied experience in the defence forces, I know very well the immense complexity of the issues and how little any one man can know and understand unless he is engaged in this field full time. [More…]

• Yet this regime which is one of the most inhuman the world has ever seen even has some supporters in this House. [More…]

• He rejected the concept that it was an inhuman regime. [More…]

• Mr Abel- I cannot draw to mind his constituency- is the man who made the speech. [More…]

• First and foremost, the pilot was a man with some 3000 hours experience. [More…]

• The commentator did express an opinion that, by the decision, “natural justice has been offended in the matter of a man’s liberty”. [More…]

• So, contrary to the general indication of the right honourable gentleman’s question, it would seem that the change in diversification in fact has provided a direct benefit to producers. [More…]

• I think it is of interest that following devaluation and following the increasing demand in what are known as the opportunity markets, there has been a significant improvement in prices paid for Australian cattle and for Australian meat generally- not only beef but also mutton. [More…]

• I am sure that is a wish which the right honourable gentle’ man would share. [More…]

• One week ago- not 2 weeks ago as the right honourable gentleman suggested- I received advice from the Australian Meat Board that it had accepted that some modifications should be made to the presently accepted diversification plan. [More…]

• How ironic it is that the honourable gentleman, who has been responsible for much of the speculation that took place before the decision and which in fact led to the decision, ought to assume some position of probing in this House. [More…]

• Let me go on the record again as saying that the honourable gentleman more than virtually any other man in this country must accept responsibility for recent events during the period from September to when the decision was made. [More…]

• Norman Parkes’ term of 5 years has been one of extraordinary political and constitutional significanceone might think turmoil- affecting this House and the Senate, this Parliament and State parliaments, this Parliament and the Government responsible to the House and the Viceroy. [More…]

• He has been a man of experience, distinction and honour. [More…]

• Much has been said by the 3 speakers who preceded me of Norman Parkes, his career and his success within it. [More…]

• In that situation and in the service he has provided to the people of Australia, Norman Parkes has been quite outstanding. [More…]

• Whether it is on the bowling green or in the preparation of his memoirs that he seeks to spend his leisure hours, those of us who have been involved with him during his working hours and many others who have passed through this place since he first began his service here so long ago in October 1934 pay tribute to him as a man, as an officer of the Parliament and as a servant of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I join in extending to Norman Parkes and to Mrs Parkes our very best wishes for a very happy, successful and healthy retirement. [More…]

• Only last Monday night when opening the debate in the Parliament on taxation legislation I gave the example of a man with a wife and 2 children who received a taxable income of $10,000 a year, which is just over the figure for average weekly earnings. [More…]

• I pointed out that after taking into consideration the increased child endowment benefit, this man was now taking home over $5 a week less when adjustments were made for inflation and account was taken of the health taxes and the removal of rebates for dependants. [More…]

• I should note that this calculation does not take into consideration the removal of the deductibility scheme for interest paid on home mortgages which imposed further costs on many Australians. [More…]

• The man who propounded that slogan said this a couple of days ago: [More…]

• Under this Government more and more people are being forced not just below average weekly earnings but below the poverty line of $140 a week for a man and his wife and 4 children, as described by Professor Henderson. [More…]

• The hypocrisy of the Opposition in raising this matter today is shown very clearly by the fact that neither the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) the shadow Treasurer, nor the man who primes his bullets, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), are participating in the debate. [More…]

• It was not until the delegate fom Haiti-I repeat Haitirose to glorify the sanctity of the human soul and the sacredness of the human being that I felt impelled, uncharacteristically, to be provocative. [More…]

• I made the point that all the words spoken at that Conference by these nations, essentially black nations- I do not want to be misunderstood here- were criticising the so-called inhumanities of the British, the Rhodesians, the South Africans, the Israelis and the Americans. [More…]

• I said that some of the most monstrous atrocities known to man were being committed at that time in their own countries. [More…]

• I mentioned the atrocities of Papa Doc Duvalier ir Haiti, the incredible inhumanities of that maniac Idi Amin in Uganda and the atrocities in other places throughout the world that were causing somewhat of a furore. [More…]

• I hold the view that for too long the Western world has been compliant, even passive, in the international forums of the world, such as the IPU and the United Nations, and that the Western world, possibly through some feeling of guilt because of its past colonial sins, allows man’s inhumanity to man in the newly developing nations to continue without any criticism. [More…]

• I think that members of Parliament in the free nations of the world ought to remind themselves sometimes that human beings are being murdered in the so-called democracies that are members of the IPU. [More…]

• The actions of the Papa Doc Duvaliers and the Idi Amins feed those racists because they say contemptibly: ‘Look at the black man in Uganda, Haiti, Guinea and elswhere; when they get power the abuse it’. [More…]

• In British colonial history there has always been a conflict between what I might call: The white man on the spot who knows the “nigger” and the government at home’. [More…]

• I believe that the latest instalment in that was the Rhodesian affair, where the white man on the spot knew and the government at home was dismissed as very theoretical. [More…]

• What the white man on the spot knows is what he is interested in knowing, which usually concerns some economic resource. [More…]

• If you reject a man on the grounds of his politics or his religion, he may change them to please you, but if you reject him on the ground of race in any way whatsoever by discrimination in regard to his land rights, there is no way in the world he can change his race to please you. [More…]

• As the earliest wreck off the West Australian coast is the earliest known contact of European Man with Australia- 66 years before Dampier’s voyages and 148 years before James [More…]

• Yet there seems to be no evidence whatsoever of the existence of white man or of the cohabitation of white man on our western coast. [More…]

• In that article he drew attention to a crewman of a fishing boat who severely injured his hand and lost a number of fingers. [More…]

• That man received as compensation a paltry sum because he did not belong to a union that had the muscle to be able to get mm what he was entitled to. [More…]

• As D ‘Entrecasteaux sailed up the east coast of Tasmania he met Aborigines. [More…]

• He assumed, I think, being a very sensitive man, that he had indicated an intention to stay and to take possession, by lighting the fire. [More…]

• I remember one man who told me that he had worked in a store and that he had got on very well until metrication was introduced. [More…]

• Another man on that course said to me: ‘I have been waiting 20 years for this course. [More…]

• There was another man from an Italian family who had not learned to read and write and who was being restrained. [More…]

• For instance, Palmerston, in his days at Oxford University, was considered to be a man of exceptional selfrestraint because he did not take out a Master of Arts degree to which he was automatically entitled as a peer. [More…]

• Regrettably, but hardly surprisingly, this lift in demand and production has yet to be translated into a decline in unemployment. [More…]

• We all recall that dictum of a former Labor Treasurer that in conditions of high inflation, ‘one man’s wage increase is another man’s job ‘. [More…]

• It appears that the man in the street endorses such an approach. [More…]

• To return to historic levels of lower unemployment will require new manpower retraining and adjustment programs. [More…]

• In concrete terms, a man on $ 10,000 who had a 13 per cent increase would under the old system have had to pay tax at 45 per cent on his additional $1,300. [More…]

• Many people forget that in the end it is the taxpayer who meets government expenditure. [More…]

• On the contrary, many of them were desirable and necessary. [More…]

• But a great many were not. [More…]

• When the crash comes, as was inevitable under the Whitlam style of government, it is the man in the street, the pensioner, the young, the sick, the low income earner along with the higher income earner, the selfemployed, the small businessman, the worker, who suffer. [More…]

• It genuinely believes that it knows better than the man in the street what the man in the street wants. [More…]

• It genuinely believes that the man in the street is better off if he is taxed blind to enable government to pay for programs which government feels are in his interests. [More…]

• The fourth man has been permitted to remain in Australia for 6 months. [More…]

• As I said, it is appropriate that the Attorney should have given the House this opportunity to pay a tribute to a very able man, a very great servant of the Australian people and counsel to their representatives. [More…]

• It must be said that Sir Robert came closer to the heart of this issue than his present successor and admirer has managed to do in the Bill now before us. [More…]

• The main criteria of a man’s effectiveness, I believe, are his competence, his qualifications, his experience, his integrity and his character. [More…]

• Dr Wilenski ‘s appointment as permanent head of the Department of Labour and Immigration was attacked on the grounds that he is a member of the Labor Party and worked as my Principal Private Secretary. [More…]

• This is the level from which many permanent head appointments are made. [More…]

• I have a high regard for the man appointed, but there was scant reference in the media to the fact that he was a private secretary to Mr Harold Holt. [More…]

• Many of the best and most valuable heads of departments would not be in their present jobs today if Labor had not appointed them, and in some cases persuaded them to join the service from outside. [More…]

• Of the 17, no fewer than 13 were retained in their posts by the incoming Government, and 10 are still in the posts to which my Government appointed them or in similar positions, despite numerous opportunities to reshuffle the permanent heads. [More…]

• But the question raised is this: Is every man or woman appointed from outside the Public Service to be regarded as a political appointee? [More…]

• Given their experience and temperament, and given their human nature, they are far more likely to prefer one of their own circle than an unknown from outside. [More…]

• And even if they favoured an outsider or a newcomer in principle, what likelihood is there that they would choose the best man- or know the best man? [More…]

• That is, the Chairman should have no power to recommend an appointment or preside over a recommending committee. [More…]

• The Bill gives a degree of power to the Chairman which has never been envisaged by any elected government. [More…]

• One can easily see the effect of this change on the appointment of the Chairman himself. [More…]

• The role of the Chairman in choosing permanent heads will make his own office a crucial political appointment. [More…]

• At the very least, governments will want to ensure that the Chairman is a man they can trust, a man of their own political sympathies. [More…]

• And the political influence will reside not with elected politicians but with permanent heads who already have power to appoint to all positions below the First Division. [More…]

• I say with great respect that this Bill facilitates the creation of a great temptation on the part of a government to instal as permanent head a man who will implement his party’s policies. [More…]

• I can understand but do not necessarily condone the actions of the Labor Government in its appointment of the 3 men mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition- Dr Wilenski, Mr Spigelman and Mr Menadue- two of whom I know personally. [More…]

• Dr Wilenski is a very capable man. [More…]

• -I cannot see the relevance of that interjection from my friend because the man has been democratically elected to the Parliament by the people. [More…]

• I am sure that a man of your wisdom would not suggest that, so I must have misunderstood you. [More…]

• I do not believe that the whole of the Public Service should be ravaged as happens under the American system when every time there is a change of government there is a change in every permanent head. [More…]

• There are many government departments where the political persuasion of the incumbent permanent head does not matter. [More…]

• One would not imagine that the permanent head of a Department of Works need be of a certain political persuasion or, if he is, whether that would affect the carrying out of his functions, but I certainly believe that in respect of those other departments that I did mention which have a heavy political content, the position is much more important. [More…]

• I do not like doing it any more, but when the Leader of the Opposition mentioned what we were supposed to have done in respect of Mr Menadue, Dr Wilenski and Mr Spigelman I wonder what the Labor Party did with a very distinguished public servant, Dr Hal Cook. [More…]

• He is a very highly competent man. [More…]

• He is a distinguished man. [More…]

• In his speech he said that the key man in the Prime Minister’s new scheme is the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]

• Therefore he has got a man you can trust’. [More…]

• He meant, that in future the Government will be appointing a man who it knows will bend its way politically. [More…]

• Joining the two together the inference is that Mr Fraser thinks or the Liberals think that Mr Shann is a man we can trust in the sneering sense in which the Leader of the Opposition meant it. [More…]

• I go on record as having known Mick Shann for many years and I certainly say he is a man we can trust. [More…]

• It is not just the Liberals who can trust him; he is a man the Parliament can trust and he is a man Australians can trust. [More…]

• He is a man of great distinction and of enormous integrity. [More…]

• I thought that the way in which the Leader of the Opposition referred to him was an uncalled for and unwarranted slur on a man who has given his whole lifetime to the Public Service. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Public Service Board is to have the ultimate authority. [More…]

• So the Chairman could hang the phone up and go ahead and do it anyhow. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Public Service Board has only to consult. [More…]

• The effect of the legislation would be to turn over to the chief mandarin all of the functions which would allow him to build his own dynasty around him. [More…]

• He will certainly do that, and that comment is no reflection on the man who now holds the position. [More…]

• I am just simply saying that he is a man, and because of that aU of the temptations contained in the Bill Will be open to him. [More…]

• When he was referring to the committee provided for in the Bill which will make recommendations on the appointment of permanent heads he questioned the likelihood of that committee picking the best man. [More…]

• It impugns not only the impartiality but also the capacity, quite specifically, of such people as the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]

• This kind of weapon, this kind of instrument, can be fashioned by a very skilled man in secret with apparatus which perhaps would require a space no bigger than this chamber. [More…]

• -The Government certainly has looked at all the proposals which have been put forward, and in particular the proposal emanating from the Opposition that indirect taxes ought to be cut to reduce inflation at a cost of $400m for each percentage point. [More…]

• All Australians will recall the massive increases in the rates of indirect taxes in Labor’s last Budget when the man in the street was hit to leg by steep rises in taxes on cigarettes, beer, spirits and petrol. [More…]

• I remind the House of the case of a man earning $600 a week, no less, who occupied a $25 a week house to the exclusion of people who were really needy. [More…]

• I remind the House that the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) some time ago suggested that it was demeaning for an educated person to do manual work. [More…]

• I am not prepared to say that this man was lying because frankly I do not know whether he was lying or whether what he said was merely the result of crass incompetence. [More…]

• Yet this man, for reasons of his own, sees fit to invent a story that came out of his own imagination and to put a point of view that apparently he might think would be damaging to the Coalition or get for him a headline or put him in good standing with those people who allot time on the news broadcasts. [More…]

• After that time every casual vacancy until 1974 was filled by a State government and then by a State parliament by a man or a woman belonging to the same party as the former senator, however the former senator ceased to be a senator. [More…]

• Under Sir Charles Court’s amendment, the best man in the Liberal Party, as Senator Gorton undoubtedly was, could not have become Prime Minister. [More…]

• Are we to denigrate senators by saying that even if among them is the worthiest man to become Prime Minister of our country he cannot be appointed to that post? [More…]

• If the best man or woman for any of these jobs is to be found in the Senate or the Legislative Council, he or she should be eligible format appointment. [More…]

• I pay a tribute to a Labor man in Victoria, John Galbally, who had enough wisdom as Leader of the Labor Party in the Victorian Upper House to suggest that there should be another attempt by way of a Constitutional Convention to have change in Australia. [More…]

• I think it is worth while paying a tribute to those many people who did assemble in Hobart last October to discuss quite fairly the problems of the nation and how best to solve them by constitutional change. [More…]

• They are not immune from the geriatric process of mental decay and accordingly it follows that there must be some intelligent appraisal by the Australian people of whether we think sixty, sixty-five or seventy should be the age at which the man or the lady- it could well be a lady on the High Court- should retire. [More…]

• In the name of efficiency and economy the Fraser Government is simply transferring its responsibilities to the pocket of every man and woman in Australia. [More…]

• Although many millions of dollars are being spent on welfare housing, thousands and thousands of people on or below the poverty line do not receive the benefit of this money and aU the honourable members who spoke today well know it. [More…]

• In New South Wales a man who bought a Housing Commission home used the rent from it to build himself a home of what could only be described as luxurious standards. [More…]

• The man bought the Commission home at 4.5 per cent interest on long repayment terms and then let it at $55 a week. [More…]

• Either the man is a fool or he has bad advice. [More…]

• Any man who makes such a statement - [More…]

• I do not suggest that age is necessarily a bar to good performance. [More…]

• A government would be loath to move in such a way against a person of great stature who may have reached an advanced age, possibly with some lack of performance. [More…]

• Under such a system we might lose occasionally a brilliant man who has a lot to offer. [More…]

• It would not appoint the man who had run in the previous Senate election and who was nominated by the Party, but a senator from the Labor Party nominated by the Labor Party was ultimately appointed. [More…]

• I am a Party man, and my Party has decided that it is in the interests of the nation that we all support this proposed change to the Constitution. [More…]

• It has been said by many people in the country that the present Constitution, if taken literally- many want to take it literally and choose to take it literally when it suits them-is one of the most undemocratic documents possible. [More…]

• I have listened to and read with great interest the works of Mr Donald Home, a man for whom I have tremendous respect. [More…]

• I cannot remember the exact words he used, but, as an example, he indicated that under the Constitution the Governor-General is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. [More…]

• A lot of people in this country and in this House think very highly of the Governor-General, but I do not think many of us would agree that he is fitted to become the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. [More…]

• They choose a Liberal man, a Labor man, a National Country Party or an independent. [More…]

• If we get a tribunal presided over by a judge to go along with the Government with that kind of reprehensible behaviour I do not suppose we can expect a higher standard of independence from a commission headed by a man who was a civil servant. [More…]

• I ask all honourable members to have some regard for the prospects of the survival of those sturdy independent yeomanry when they come to consider this matter and particularly when they consider it again next year. [More…]

• I ask them to have regard for the smaller man, the man in the corner store, the man who is not merely a manager but who owns his business, the man who puts his capital at risk. [More…]

• This is the sort of man whom honourable members opposite talk about all the time. [More…]

• Is the Government relying on him injuring a corporation or is it saying in the Bill that it is all right for him to belt hell out of one man businesses but that he cannot get into a corporation? [More…]

• It will take the same sort of tack that a fellow named Hitler took in Germany in the mid- 1930s and it will destroy the trade union movement. [More…]

• The chain store next door to us was purchasing around $13 worth of cake from the same manufacturer. [More…]

• The small man was permitted a discount off suggested retail price of 20 per cent, the goods being charged at retail price less discount. [More…]

• I put it to the honourable member for Port Adelaide that he must have absolute contempt for the Australian people if he really believes that the great majority of them accept the view that when the President of his Party takes off his Labor Party cap and puts on his Australian Council of Trade Unions President’s cap he becomes a different man. [More…]

• As Australians we own very little of that industry; in fact, from the point of view of the manufacturing position, we own none at all. [More…]

• We note the damage coming now when we see on the Prime Minister’s advisory tribunal one man from that industry. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the automotive industry is interested also in the Philippines where it can produce in the future a major segment of its manufacturing base? [More…]

• It is from this sort of manipulation of governments that we get this erosion of fair legislation. [More…]

• Otherwise they tend to go elsewhere or there is a tendency to say: ‘We can do without that man. [More…]

• Often staff have to be devoted to the task of copying by typewriter various documents needed or a man has to be sent down the street to borrow a photostat machine. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to a report into today’s Melbourne Age that a law professor at the University of Tasmania has claimed that a former hired killer was actively recruiting in southern Tasmania for the Rhodesian army and that the man claimed that the Australian Government knew of his work? [More…]

• If the gentleman is engaged in these nefarious activities, is he an Australian citizen or an overseas visitor? [More…]

• Quite apart from the humanitarian aspects- man’s right to work and the dignity of man- the facts are that we are throwing money down the drain and getting nothing in return. [More…]

• The man who led this country in a great government, Sir Robert Menzies-then Bob Menzies- got together a team of people and said: ‘What are we going to do to ensure that this nation is not faced with the type of problem as we had during the conflict of 1939-45?’ [More…]

• That is supplied to a man who drives a train from an airconditioned cabin. [More…]

• People such as this man are claiming that in certain areas, in the protected industries, there are sweetheart agreements. [More…]

• One thing which is necessary for everybody, especially the family man, is the right to work. [More…]

• Many bans have been imposed in this country, not only this year and last year but for many years, and they have militated against people in the work force being able to go to work to earn the bread that they require for their families. [More…]

• The scab syndrome, under which a man is not supposed to go to work if his mates illegitimately refuse to deliver goods to his place of work, inhibits fair competitionthe thing that the honourable member for Port Adelaide so highly espouses. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition do not even know the meaning of the phrase ‘economic management’. [More…]

• To oppose this section of the economy is simply again to oppose the small man. [More…]

• He is a man for whom I personally have a great deal of respect. [More…]

• I listened to the comments he made and I am sure that between him and me and many other honourable members there are no arguments as to the responsibility of large sections of the trade union movement. [More…]

• There are many other important and significant provisions of this legislation which ought to be considered and which ought to be included in the debate in this chamber. [More…]

• It whips the principle of every Labor man in this nation. [More…]

• After all, what is the right to strike but the real trademark that distinguishes the free man from the slave? [More…]

• The only thing that distinguishes the free man from the slave is the right to strike. [More…]

• Take the right to strike away from a man who has only his labour to sell and we are looking at a slave, a mediaeval feudal slave. [More…]

• I hope that it will remember in the councils of its Party that this man Ellicott, not Fraser, and not the little person with glasses who is sitting at the tableHoward is the man who is more likely to lead the Government out of the swamp and the morass into which it has walked than anybody else I know. [More…]

• He may talk about the enormous power of the unions, and certainly we respect him but does he imagine that so many people on the Government benches were returned to power without the support of vast numbers of people in the trade unions? [More…]

• How stupid could an intelligent man be? [More…]

• Can we expect the man who is now paying a health tax, whether to a private fund or to Medibank, to think that that is an indication of good faith or of a conciliatory attitude on the part of the Government? [More…]

• There was a man named Bob Hawke Who then came out with a terrible squawk I - [More…]

• Look at the tragic circumstance outlined in the Canberra Times today concerning a 19-year-old man who is now a quadraplegic. [More…]

• Many of the things said by the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) have left members in this House aghast. [More…]

• Many have left the chamber because of the types of comments he made. [More…]

• I am told by one of my colleagues that the closest thing to a country affair that the honourable member has seen was a visit, as a very young man, to the Chelsea Flower Show. [More…]

• I do not think that should be beyond the imagination of man. [More…]

• Democracy is a superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being. [More…]

• The Electoral Office should be a statutory authority employing permanent public servants to draw up electoral boundaries which they present to the Parliament and which cannot be changed by the Parliament. [More…]

• Malcolm Mackerras, a man who was previously a member of the Liberal Party and is one of Australia’s most eminent political scientists said that it was an extremely fair redistribution and that it redressed the bias that had existed in past redistributions. [More…]

• They made claims that were simply outrageous that the Labor Party was putting forward electoral processes that would keep it permanently in office. [More…]

• That is with 80 per cent wage indexation and a 2 per cent increase outside indexation- while in after-tax terms (for a man with a dependent wife and two children, and including Medibank payments) the decline over this period is likely to bc 5 to 6 per cent, with the heaviest falls concentrated in the final quarter of 1976 and the first quarter of 1977. [More…]

• What he is being told is that for a man with a dependent wife and 2 dependent children household disposable income is falling markedly at present and is likely to fall heavily over the 3-year period, but particularly in the last quarter of 1976 and the first quarter of 1977. [More…]

• One man ‘s wage rise is another man ‘s job. [More…]

• There is evidence in the form of economicindicators to suggest that the recession is not perhaps as bad as many would make out. [More…]

• For example, in 1 97 1 an average family comprising a man, his wife and 2 children received a real income of $68.30 a week. [More…]

• For many people the benefit they receive is a mere pittance. [More…]

• At the same time, a married man with 5 children would receive over $6,000 including his family allowance. [More…]

• The fact is that wage claims in the last twelve months have so greatly reduced the profitability of employers that they have ceased to employ as many as they used to employ. [More…]

• The simple fact is that every excessive increase in incomes for one man takes a job from another man. [More…]

• We legislated to make tax deductions uniform instead of giving a higher deduction to a man with a higher income. [More…]

• We are very fearful that we will see, particularly in the education field, a return to the old philosophy that the man who spends more money on the education of his child, which he can do only if he earns more, should get a larger tax deduction. [More…]

• The Karmel report clearly shows the obvious discrimination that there has been in education in Australia for many years. [More…]

• As long as wage demands continue to cut profits, then there is going to be unemployment in Australia. [More…]

• Every excessive increase in income for one man takes the job of another man. [More…]

• Our technological revolution which has taken man to the moon and into space has brought with .it fundamental changes in our lifestyle. [More…]

• This does not mean that we should simply sell raw materials for others to manufacture and sell back to us at higher prices. [More…]

• Within this context every effort must be made to encourage management to be more imaginative. [More…]

• Similarly, management today, together with labour, have a responsibility to encourage job interest and to build up self respect and dignity in the work place. [More…]

• Despite the enormous achievements of our nation in the last 25 years and despite our extremely high standard of living compared with many countries, the Henderson report identified areas of major concern and deficiencies in the social welfare structure, This was despite the universal philosophy of spending money on welfare. [More…]

• In 1976-77 all levels of government spending reached $2,339 for every man woman and child in this country, out of which social welfare alone accounted for over 30 per cent. [More…]

• We are inheritors ofthe feudal concept in the very acceptance of the fact that one man can have that kind of authority. [More…]

• Secondly, I suggest that they be non-transferable, that is to say, that when someone buys them they would be his and they would be redeemable only on his death; but they would be a permanent investment, permanently anchoring the funds in the market. [More…]

• It would be a market for the little man, the person who we really want to get to subscribe to the bonds and who by subscribing would have the security of his income for life protected against the erosion of inflation, and the return of capital after death to his estate for the benefit of his children again would be protected from any inflation erosion. [More…]

• If the Department’s whole budget was simply paid to the Aborigines, each man, women and child would get $1,800. [More…]

• If one can accept the honourable member for Melbourne Ports as a man worthy of recognition, a person who knows what he is talking about, it would seem likely that we ought to recognise that these are the facts of life to which he has referred. [More…]

• The first thing I wish to mention is the disgraceful pantomime, the charade, the petty and vindictive performance ofthe Leader of the Opposition at Fairbairn Airport on Monday last on the occasion of the arrival of Her Majesty the Queen. [More…]

• This man is so absolutely obsessed and unable to control himself that he could not resist the temptation to deliberately snub Her Majesty’s Governor-General in the presence of Her Majesty. [More…]

• I believe it was petty, vindictive and unworthy of a man who is a national leader of considerable standing. [More…]

• It is offensive and ludicrous for this man, this self appointed prophet who is to lead this country into the next plan, to stand in that place in Canberra and describe Her Majesty as the symbol of division in this country. [More…]

• They will damage their cause and they will become the greatest laughing stock that this country has seen for many years. [More…]

• How many times have we seen honourable members opposite using the tactic of attacking those who cannot defend themselves? [More…]

• He is the man who proclaims himself as supporting the conversion of Australia to a republic. [More…]

• If a man in the street were to say that God was dead, it would not be reported. [More…]

• Many of the people already in Cyprus were category A immigrants, that is, mothers, fathers or dependent children of Lebanese people living in Australia. [More…]

• For many the waiting period has been three or four months and for some it has been six or seven months and more. [More…]

• In particular one man has sent more than $5,000 to a relative in Cyprus. [More…]

• The man sending the money is not a rich man, nor is his case uncommon. [More…]

• Many have paid out much more. [More…]

• In the early days of relaxed criteria and the window dressing by the Minister, many Lebanese came to Australia on the strength of quickly processed medical checkups. [More…]

• It puts certain points and no reasonable, humane man could say that the members of the Lebanese community are asking for anything excessive. [More…]

• Due to circumstances beyond their control many people are being forced to return to that country because they cannot afford to stay in Cyprus. [More…]

• The man whom the Government sent to Damascus ought to have been awarded the Victoria Cross. [More…]

• Here is a man who was sent by an association to assist people to come to Australia, yet we found that he was undertaking these activities. [More…]

• I mention as an example a man who went to Nicosia in October last year to see whether he could get his sister, her husband and their family out to Australia. [More…]

• While this man was there he paid to a travel agent the amount of fares for his sister, brother-in-law and family. [More…]

• I am not accusing the officers of the Department of taking bribes; I am accusing people like the man the Minister mentioned. [More…]

• I do not believe that any Australian could approve of this man Amin, a mass murderer, the butcher of Uganda, a pathological killer of Eichmann proportions, who has inflicted upon the people of Uganda a reign of terror, murder, kidnapping, thuggery and religious persecution unprecedented in the world since World War II. [More…]

• He went on to say that there are many people including young people who choose quite deliberately not to work. [More…]

• But then a Department of Employment and Industrial Relations spokesman, Mr Peter Kirby, a First Assistant Secretary, a very senior man, let the cat out of the bag. [More…]

• In other words, the man who moves to a new city or town, the family that voluntarily travels interstate, the breadwinner who returns to work after disability or illness, the employee who resigns because of poor wages or conditions or to seek new opportunities, the person who quits work to care for children or a relative- no such person, whatever his or her needs, would receive any help from the community if he could not get work. [More…]

• The Prime Minister prates and moralises about politicising the Public Service while the Treasurer gets his Department to spend dozens of man-hours drumming up blatant government propaganda. [More…]

• The Prime Minister brought in a Bill last year which politicises the Public Service from the very top by making the chairman of the Public Service Board a key political figure. [More…]

• Fancher- a representative, indeed the emissary, of the Queensland Premier; a man whom the Treasurer and the Deputy Prime Minister recommended as a likely source of information for Liberal Party purposes; a man who has since been declared a bankrupt. [More…]

• One of the gentlemen named is Mr Keith Gale, the former managing director of the firm. [More…]

• It is the same Mr Gale who provided the Prime Minister with a full-time adviser on industrial relations when the Prime Minister was the Opposition spokesman on industrial matters. [More…]

• This is the man to whom the Prime Minister is personally and politically indebted. [More…]

• It is very much a statement of the personal philosophy of one man- Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. [More…]

• We all know that for many years the Prime Minister has given a weekly broadcast to his electorate. [More…]

• I put it to you, Mr Deputy Speaker- I know you to be a reasonable man- what rights have people who have no advantage because of disability, station in life or a variety of other reasons, to live their lives in the way they want to live them? [More…]

• But he is undecided as to who should be the favourite, whether it should be the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) who is the most consistent speaker in the House- Mr Rent-a-Mouth himself -or the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James), the man with the brownest arms in the business. [More…]

• The Speech contained nothing new, no hope for persons who are concerned about the manner in which this country is drifting. [More…]

• I think it will be the most unfortunate development created by this Government which is led by a man who has said that he does not believe in an equal society, that people are different and that the different classes should be treated as such. [More…]

• The most disastrous thing about this Government is the divisive manner in which it operates. [More…]

• I refer to the case of a man with a physical disability, a back injury- unfortunately such injuries are prevalent in our society- who has very little chance of obtaining a labouring job, which is the only job he can do. [More…]

• Christmas- the man has a family- the unemployment benefit was summarily taken from him on the grounds that he was not trying to seek work. [More…]

• In 2Vi years the Commonwealth Employment Service had not even been able to find a suitable position to which it could refer the man. [More…]

• I do not know how many times a man is expected to line up in front of the same employer and ask him whether he has a job. [More…]

• It must be the most humiliating and demoralising experience a man can have. [More…]

• I am certain that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) knows of men like this who will not get jobs but in order to keep the statistics right this man was denied unemployment benefits and was left without funds for 6 or 8 weeks. [More…]

• Finally, the GovernorGeneral, virtually after pleading again and again with this man who was allegedly his friend, was forced to take the only course open to him, to dissolve the Parliament and hand the matter over to the Australian people. [More…]

• It was said here tonight by the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), a man for whom I have a great deal of respect, that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) displayed some sort of lack of concern for the consumer. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister made clear what is obvious to those of us who are involved in matters such as these that there would be a little less for the in-between man. [More…]

• I refer to Sir Harold Behan- a man who has devoted his entire life to local government. [More…]

• Re-reading the document 16 months later, one is struck by something which eluded us all at the time- the Prime Minister is a very funny man. [More…]

• He is the man who introduced the Regional Development scheme. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that if a man is earning $500 per week and gets a 6 per cent flow on he gets $30 per week extra and that if a man is earning $100 per week and gets a 6 per cent flow on he receives $6 per week extra. [More…]

• If they want to protect their real wages, the answer lies in sensible restraint so that one man’s job is not lost by ridiculous wage increases- sensible restraint within a reasonable system of wage fixation. [More…]

• I believe that the bitter struggles in the trade union movement between the extreme communist groups and the mainstream are more bitter than the average man in society realises. [More…]

• If we call them ‘militants’ the man on the shop floor thinks: ‘These people are only doing the right thing by me in getting me extra wage rises’. [More…]

• The man described as PSI’s project director is Dr Geoffrey Davis, now of a Sydney address. [More…]

• We appointed Professor Hughes, a man of considerable repute and the President of the Australasian Royal College of Surgeons, to report on the situation. [More…]

• There are a number of other areas- in fact, many- in the Minister’s speech to which I would like to address some remarks. [More…]

• They were very concerned to see what sort of man the honourable member for Hindmarsh was. [More…]

• When I was in Israel I was able to meet and have talks with the communist mayor of Nazareth- a man who was elected in free elections but who is opposed to many of the things Israel has done, and he says so. [More…]

• Those freedoms do not exist in many Arab countries. [More…]

• It is the Novosti Press Agency release on the arrest of a man called Yuri Orlov. [More…]

• The name of the man has been in the reports broadcast by West European and American radio and television companies and in the foreign press for almost a year. [More…]

• Where did we see the bloodshed in the streets, the wholesale slaughter, that we were told would happen if the white man left the country? [More…]

• I should think that if wholesale slaughter had occurred in Vietnam we would certainly have got evidence of it through the many journalists in this world who would have a nose for such a story. [More…]

• When I came into the House after the suspension of the sitting I enjoyed some of the remarks made by the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), a man for whom I have a certain respect as have many members on this side of the House, particularly when he expresses in sincere terms his personal concern for the suffering of the underprivileged people of the world. [More…]

• A change of wind in Liberal Party thinking has been blowing for some time, since not so many years ago the catchcries of his Party before he came into this House were ‘All the way with LBJ’ and ‘We go a-waltzing Matilda with the President of the United States’. [More…]

• I do not know how a man of his intellectual talents and the respect in which he is generally held could sincerely say ‘the sham pantomime working policies of the previous Government’. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs, with his dignityhe is a man whom I respect- comes up with the best reply he can produce, but it is the weakest reply. [More…]

• One man said to me once: ‘Yes, but they want their independence’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister was the man who went into power to cure unemployment and inflation. [More…]

• I refer to the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume), a man who would have you believe that he is a decent family man. [More…]

• He well might meet his responsibilities in that regard but as has recently been pointed out he is the man who was involved in a scandal in connection with Patrick Partners which is under a cloud of dishonesty and deceit so far as its shareholders are concerned. [More…]

• It is the insufferable impertinence of the Indonesian Government which is implicit in the demand that we silence a member of the parliamentary staff in what he considers to be his duty and in the pursuit of knowledge associated with his duty, even while he is on furlough. [More…]

• I think that our man in Jakarta betrayed his duty to this country when he accepted the protest and transmitted it to Australia. [More…]

• If the man we have just listened to, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), is to be the next Leader of the Australian Labor Party then I think Australia is in safe hands because there is no way that the Labor Party can succeed under leadership from a man of that calibre. [More…]

• If the front bench spokesman from the Opposition who led in this debate, the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), is to be the new Deputy Leader of the Opposition in this place then I think that the position of the Fraser Government in Australia is safe for generations to come. [More…]

• We reject his amendment as a fraud and a confidence trick brought into this House by a man who does not give a damn for the Tasmanian fruit growers. [More…]

• We will get our victories the right way, and the fruit growers of Tasmania know that all Tasmanian members and senators from the Liberal Party can be relied upon to fight to the utmost on their behalf, not to engage in cheap politics as we witnessed from the Australian Labor Party at 10 o’clock last night and no doubt as we will hear later in this debate when there are further murmurs on what should be done about a motion which the Opposition happened to hear would be moved on this side. [More…]

• The taxpayers have been subsidising that man to the tune of $ 12,500 to produce apples to give him an income of $4,500. [More…]

• House have been criticised for taking part in this debate but the honourable member for Wilmot did well to remind the House that when the previous legislation went through this place in 1975, at a time when all 5 Labor members for Tasmania were in Canberra, not one of them took part in the debate; not one of them got up to put a case for the Tasmanian fruit growers. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot reminded us that the honourable member for Blaxland went on to say that he thought it would be a good thing if the Government, that is, the Fraser Government, put the fruit growers of Tasmania and Western Australia out of their misery- not to string out their misery with an extension of this scheme. [More…]

• The man who last year said to this Government ‘Do not string out the scheme because you are only stringing out their misery’ has the gall to come into this chamber, the hide to come into this chamber, and say: ‘This year let us bump it up to $3’. [More…]

• I was an independent chairman at 2 large public meetings at which 2 distinguished Labor spokesmen attended and told the fruit growers what they were going to do for them. [More…]

• One was a man named Grassby. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that the man who moved the amendment, the honourable member for Blaxland, has not even been present in the chamber for this debate today. [More…]

• It was our Constitution which forced the Governor-General to take the decision he took- to allow every free man and woman of sane mind an opportunity to decide that issue by way of a democratic election. [More…]

• History will condemn those who have sought to portray Sir John Kerr as a political manipulator. [More…]

• Indirectly, they are portraying the Monarch as a political manipulator. [More…]

• Man has always sought someone or something to look up to- something above or beyond himself. [More…]

• The rights and wrongs of this are beside the point; all the evidence of history reflects it as a part of the human condition. [More…]

• Where man has deviated, he has invariably provided himself with another leader, ruler or institution to replace the one removed. [More…]

• Alternatively do Australians want a republican system like the United States, where even with congressional constraints, enormous power is in the hands of one man? [More…]

• He said that an honest and scrupulous man in the oil business is so rare as to rank as a museum piece. [More…]

• Man is very inventive. [More…]

• When I talk to manufacturing groups, as I do, they always express surprise that this burden is borne by exporters. [More…]

• The man overseas says that that is very sad but he can buy the same material from Canada and he does not think that he should buy it from the Australian producer. [More…]

• -The paucity of Labor’s depth of talent has been amply demonstrated here today, particularly so when the Opposition has to swing in the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) into a debate of this nature. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect is a man generally respected in this place for his knowledge of horse racing and medicine in that order, but not for any expertise in economic matters. [More…]

• It is interesting that the Labor Party has to resort to a man of the talents of the honourable member for Prospect in a debate which it instigated, I imagine, in a serious vein. [More…]

• Let me put the opposite view, the view that the economy must be manipulated to suit the needs of the population. [More…]

• I remind honourable members the the work of this Commission began with the charge ‘Whether man’s response to that challenge will be cause for pride or despair in the year 2000 will depend very much on what we do today’. [More…]

• A mistake in a criminal trial might mean imprisonment for one innocent man. [More…]

• The honourable member is a ‘populate or perish’ man. [More…]

• His whole mentality and the mentality of his Government has been directed towards that approach for many years. [More…]

• B. Priestley who wrote of the dangerous corner- that incident in a man’s life which can mean the difference between success and failure- matters often beyond his control. [More…]

• I also suggest that many of the things that he said at the time he could not have- if I may use the expression- ‘got away with’ not only because they were untrue as they were patently untrue but because the forms of the House would have allowed me to protect myself had I been in the chamber. [More…]

• His determined decision to made certain I was not in the House in order to get his scurrilous attack on the record is, I believe, another example of the desperate things a desperate man will do to stay in power even though the power base that he enjoys is one that I certainly do not look forward to occupying from this side of the House for many, many years, if at all. [More…]

• What interests me very much is that when the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) introduced his curious ‘reformist’ Budget he managed to do a sucker job on most of the financial commentators in Australia. [More…]

• Yet the situation now is that the man who introduced the tax on pensions, the honourable member for Oxley, is now seriously putting himself up as the likely Leader of the Labor Party. [More…]

• I know that the 14 000 pensioners in the electorate of Macarthur would be overjoyed to know that to vote for me would be voting against the man who introduced taxes on their superannuation or pensions. [More…]

• This is a man on superannuation. [More…]

• There is a whole host of people in similar situations who will certainly, determinedly vote against the honourable member for Oxley or any Party he leads or in which he is involved- the man who has destroyed the standard of living of people who endeavoured to look after themselves. [More…]

• I ask: Who was the man principally involved in the organisation appealing to the High Court? [More…]

• Every Australian is concerned about man’s inhumanity to man, whether it happens on a domestic or an international level. [More…]

• There have been on many occasions from this side of the House expressions of concern about what happened in Indo China, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. [More…]

• It is, I think, most regrettable that in the pursuit of ideological causes there has been an identification of one area, insofar as there are so many other regions in the world where, tragically, similar circumstances exist. [More…]

• As to the balance of the honourable gentleman’s question, I am not aware of any member of the Australian Labor Party, of the left wing ideology or of any of the associated parties in Australia saying anything about any other attacks on the Timorese people. [More…]

• Let not the honourable member for Oxley, who I am afraid did not have many troops behind him today to support him in his leadership struggle, say that this Government is a tax rip-off government. [More…]

• The charge for 1 lb of butter, I lb of bananas or whatever is the same for the rich man as it is for the poor man. [More…]

• A visit to a doctor costs the poor man the same as it does the rich man. [More…]

• I think it is totally distressing that a man who now has the responsibility of such matters for the Opposition- the shadow Treasurer, the honourable member for Adelaide- should believe that our aid program is tied, as perhaps may be alleged with regard to one or two European countries, to the donor country’s advantage. [More…]

• The economic affairs of the nation are in the hands of a man who suffers from economic autism. [More…]

• Too much of the working man’s wage is taken in taxation. [More…]

• He has used the financial shears to prune the self-perpetuating ideas of the bureaucrats, many of whom believe that money grows on trees and does not come from the taxpayers’ pockets. [More…]

• I believe that, with the help of his brother, the man could easily be absorbed into the Australian way of life. [More…]

• It has been shown that violence and other forms of anti-social behaviour do not occur when children are born, brought up and educated in a friendly, supportive atmosphere in which their natural needs can be satisfied in a balanced and an easy manner. [More…]

• Many years ago the Labor movement began from this way of looking at things. [More…]

• They were the values that lay in the belief that the essential thing was something within each human person, was therefore in everyone irrespective of colour, creed or sex, and was not in some nation, party, church, leader or gods. [More…]

• The very best and the very worst character can be given to man, as Robert Owen said 140 years ago, by the way he lives, by the conditions of his life. [More…]

• That is not a land council- and to have Aboriginal man full blood man. [More…]

• He is a man of tremendous knowledge and experience, but he and various other people in the central Australian area were ignored completely when the legislation was being put together. [More…]

• Let us start with the leader of the Governmentthe Prime Minister- who stole his way into power in December 1975 by clamming up and saying nothing, who hoped that by not committing himself on the specifics he would not simply get in with a blank cheque, with a mandate to do whatever came into his head, but in fact to cut and to decimate so many of the programs that the Labor Government during the preceding 3 difficult years had just got started. [More…]

• Let us look at the directions that that man has set for this nation. [More…]

• This is the same man who when in Opposition said that at a stroke the return of a conservative coalition government would see the immediate start-up of new mineral development projects. [More…]

• He is a man who connived at the grossest form of racism. [More…]

• He is a man who administers, I suppose, one of the laws which is of most concern to most members of this Parliament at the moment, and that is the law concerning the electoral system. [More…]

• I remember particularly what a colleague of the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) who is seeking to interject, Senator Ian Wood, a member of the Government parties, said about this man and his attachment to principle. [More…]

• Who is this man who, it is alleged, has brought pressure to bear on the Minister to make this decision? [More…]

• Furthermore- and this would be of great interest to the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) and the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman)- he sat on the Hills preselection committee of the Liberal Party of Australia and was its chairman after the death of the late Max Ruddock. [More…]

• -Some time ago I asked questions in this House regarding Laurence Charles Gruzman, Q.C. [More…]

• Unfortunately for Mr Gruzman I am not a man who is afraid to reveal the truth. [More…]

• Firstly, I shall lay on the table of the House a photostat copy of an agreement between Gruzman and the Bartons. [More…]

• It is in Gruzman ‘s own handwriting and signed by the Bartons and initialled by Gruzman. [More…]

• Gruzman is a prominent member of the legal profession in New South Wales, of which the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) is a distinguished member. [More…]

• I find it almost unbelievable that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam)- a man who led his Party to its most humiliating defeat in history just 1 5 months ago- now ranks about equally in popularity and respect with the Prime Minister. [More…]

• As the Government Printer is primarily the printer to the Parliament, we regret the departure of such a competent man. [More…]

• References have been given by me to the Law Reform Commission upon a number of matters which are vital to the human rights of all Australians. [More…]

• In Her Majesty’s Speech this month it was announced that the Government intended to establish a human rights commission. [More…]

• The aim of the legislation will be to give effective machinery on a national basis to protect and advance human rights in this country. [More…]

• There are other initiatives to which I could refer but it is enough to refer to those mentioned to demonstrate the concern of this Government with the individual, the ordinary man and woman in our community. [More…]

• There is no greater affront to a man’s dignity or a woman’s dignity and to their confidence and sense of purpose, quite apart from the financial strains involved, than unemployment. [More…]

• I believe that is a very important section of the report because I think that anybody who has known the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), as I have known him now for nigh on 1 5 years, would know that he is a man of great compassion and sincerity. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills being the man we know- as I say, I have known him for 15 years- and being a man of very great compassion, it is fully understood that he must have felt very frustrated. [More…]

• Paragraph 669 in the report is of very great importance because it gives in the cold pages of the report some insight into the humanity of the honourable member for Wills. [More…]

• I am glad to be associated with him as a man. [More…]

• What greater rights can there be than for that individual to go about his business to determine his life in his own manner with a minimum of interference from anyone else. [More…]

• To those who believe that this Government has not kept its electoral promises and has not put this economy on the right direction, I say this: Within the constraints of our present economic situation, we have made a significant number of moves in the right direction, in the direction that will help not only businesses, but also the average wage earner, the family man, the everyday citizen in our community. [More…]

• It told the working man that it was appeasing his economic situation in the fight against inflation by giving him wage increases; yet at the same time it was helping out its own situation by increasing the flow of money into its own coffers. [More…]

• Knowing both the then Minister, the honourable member for Wills and the then Permanent Head of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, I stand here in complete personal anguish because I know each to be a man of great sincerity. [More…]

• Honourable members will realise that Professor Myrdal has for many years been a great man in terms of the economics of undeveloped and developing countries. [More…]

• He pointed out quite some time ago that despite the fact that a great deal is being done and has been done by many of the great nations, such as the United States of America, towards the development of backward countries, we are still facing the position of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. [More…]

• If a woman is passed over for a job and appeals to a tribunal, there is usually a man who can claim longer experience and seniority. [More…]

• As a result, nearly every statutory body now has a woman at the top, on its board or in a senior position. [More…]

• In any event an application form to join the Rhodesian army was duly completed and almost immediately a telegram from the Director of the Rhodesian Information Centre at Crows Nest arrived requesting him to ring a man in Melbourne. [More…]

• He was told by this gentleman that he was an officer in the Rhodesian army and that he was in Melbourne personally to study all applicants’ military records by sighting them. [More…]

• He subsequently received his contract duly signed by the mysterious major on behalf of the lieutenant-general and commander of the Rhodesian Army. [More…]

• However, further deception became manifest. [More…]

• The job was to be with all expenses paid, good pay and top conditions for the right man. [More…]

• The man who is presently the Attorney-General, Mr Ellicott, is known to this House and to the people. [More…]

• A Press release by the Attorney-General told us so, very honestly and in a very straightforward manner. [More…]

• It is too great a power to reside in one man, even a man of the integrity of Attorney-General Ellicott. [More…]

• The motives which influence a man to enlist in an armed force which is not that of his own country may run through the whole gamut from sheer desire to private gain accompanied by indifference as to the cause which that force is supporting to a conscientious conviction that the merits of that cause are so great as to justify his sacrificing his own life if need be in order to ensure that it will trill mph . [More…]

• I supplied the then Minister for the Army, the honourable member for Kooyong, with a copy of a leading article in the Cessnock Eagle- an insignificant newspaper but not written by an insignificant man. [More…]

• Our top man is Colonel Peters. [More…]

• We all reckon he is a great man. [More…]

• Colonel Peters was alleged by one of the mercenaries to be a man of high ideals about the world. [More…]

• The man who gave most of this information was an Australian soldier who had done 2 years’ Army service and who had become restless. [More…]

• I refer to Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia where the position is even worse than that of New South Wales. [More…]

• Tasmania has one elected representative for every 480 electors. [More…]

• Yet this man from Western Australia wants to deprive us even of that amount of representation, when in his State there is one elected representative for every 387 electors. [More…]

• All we are seeking is further information’, and for that, or for some other reason they may persuade a court to go on holding a man in custody when the proceedings have not been authorised by the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]

• He may then be remanded again in custody. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the Attorney-General is a man skilled in law. [More…]

• If one wants to instil fear into the hearts and souls of people in respect of legislation of the character we are considering, he need only proffer some legalistic analysis designed to show people that the legislation might strike at a man who is driving a motor vehicle up the streets of Salisbury or some other place. [More…]

• It is not designed to prevent a man from kicking a garbage tin as he walks down the Strand. [More…]

• Unless we are prepared to seek, even in Uganda and with a man like Amin, a solution to the problem by basically peaceful means, without force or violence, the principle that we are pursuing will stand for nothing at all. [More…]

• He is a busy man, I know, but there are people who are in incredible positions arising out of the Timorese situation. [More…]

• The cost per man hour of waterside labour in Australia rose by 1 98 per cent- that is, it trebled -between 1967 and 1975. [More…]

• I am appalled that somebody was appointed to conduct such an inquiry, but I am even more appalled at the fact that the person appointed has had no contact for many years with the people involved and that he is a retired professor from a university. [More…]

• He is probably a man of the highest integrity but, like the Prime Minister, perhaps did not learn from experience the meaning of the slogan that life was not meant to be easy. [More…]

• -That was the Premier of South Australia, the man who yesterday said that there would be no future mining - [More…]

• that Australia has developed yet another variant of ‘Western’ man, and that variant is socially distinctive. [More…]

• We have to solve that problem and we cannot solve it if we continue to reduce employment services and resources and the public servant numbers to man them. [More…]

• It makes him even more culpable for being the front man and allowing this to happen when so few years ago he was responsible for his Party’s supporting the setting up of this agency. [More…]

• Admittedly, he qualified his remarks so that they meant very little but they were fine words because this is the man whose Government cut aid by 25 per cent in its first Budget and whose Foreign Minister (Mr Peacock) is now supervising the submergence of the Aid Agency established by the Labor Government in 1974. [More…]

• In Australia people are petitioning the Prime Minister to raise the goal for the sake of humanity. [More…]

• The man who wrote the speech of the honourable member for Scullin which he regurgitated tonight did not recognise something about the reference he made to the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Because I regarded Mr Raymond as being a man of integrity, I agreed to appear on the program. [More…]

• In our own selfishness we are being blind to the fact that the whole human race is one, that biologically, in ecological survival terms, we are artificially and ineffectually divided into sovereign states. [More…]

• Man invented states, not nature. [More…]

• Man cannot break a basic law of nature- the immutable interdependence of nature, of which man is but a part. [More…]

• We, one of the richest countries in the world, seek to plunder the human resources of underdeveloped countries. [More…]

• I believe that the Government is wise in having chosen a man of the calibre of Professor Geoffrey Badger. [More…]

• He is a man of high repute. [More…]

• For reasons which I have no doubt the Government believes proper it has decided to keep Sir Louis Matheson as a member of ASTEC but not to have him as Chairman. [More…]

• I compliment the Prime Minister also upon the selection of Professor Sir Rutherford Robertson as the Deputy Chairman of ASTEC. [More…]

• For the life of me I cannot understand why the Government should see any merit in appointing the Chairman of the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council, except perhaps to counteract - [More…]

• I want to emphasise that there are few, if any, aspects that are not of immediate and direct concern to the common man as a consumer. [More…]

• If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates and a couple with one income and the benefits and rebates accruing to their family of, say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to the others. [More…]

• I urge the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) when he looks at this question to recognise that family reunion is based upon humanitarian grounds. [More…]

• If a young man has a fiancee back in his country of origin he should be allowed to bring her out here so that they can marry. [More…]

• The humanitarian ground is clear. [More…]

• In the case of people who wish to marry perhaps the numbers to some extent are self-regulatory because many of the people who have come here in the past have come here as family units. [More…]

• But I know that many applications are made by Australian settlers who wish to bring brothers and sisters to this country, who can provide them with employment and accommodation, yet they are not permitted to come. [More…]

• I believe that this Commissioner- a man with a highly political background- has used his position to persecute somebody of a different political persuasion. [More…]

• However, co-ordination and integration of planned urban systems and their transportation sub-systems will yield many types of new cities, large and small, with varying mixtures of transportation. [More…]

• But the city built for urban man will maximise the ability to move while minimising the need for unnecessary motion, and in the process will use the transport system to further the goals of the community. [More…]

• This revised approach to transport offers significant potential for reducing the massive level of investment and thus demands made on government. [More…]

• Unless there is a change of political direction over the next 2 decades, this young man, although a baby at the moment, will grow up in a world in which he may not have the opportunity to have the full benefit of the education system which should be available to all people in Australia. [More…]

• What were the total man hours worked by arbitration inspectors and subsidiary staff in inspecting local government authorities in Western Australia in 1 976. [More…]

• What an irony it is for a man who was Prime Minister and was responsible for the greatest taxation rip-off in Australia’s history to condemn this Government’s federalism reforms as being double taxation. [More…]

• He is a man who is desperately at the present time attempting some form of public and party resurrection as Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• They do not mention this Government or the arrogance of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer, the tail that follows behind the great man. [More…]

• Why does the Opposition not raise and discuss the need for responsible economic management and the best ways of achieving it? [More…]

• It is because it is made up of tired old men who presided over the destruction of responsibility in government economic management in 1973, 1974 and 1975, and because it is led by a man who is desperately trying to hold on to the leadership when he knows he has lost all credibility in this Parliament, in his own Party, and throughout the community. [More…]

• One man whom we all know and who has served the Bureau, the nation, this Government and other governments splendidly is Ron McCormick who is the Secretary of the Bureau. [More…]

• Mr Loxton, the Chairman, did a splendid job. [More…]

• As regards the Minister’s involvement, I must mention another man who has played a very specific part in this matter. [More…]

• Over the many years that I have been associated with him, not only as a federal member of Parliament but also in the sphere of local government, I have come to know very explicitly that no man is more respected, is more accessible and is more willing and ready to help all of us who are interested in the one objective of having a better roads system in each of our States than is Mr McCormick. [More…]

• In many ways, Macarthur has been a successful venture. [More…]

• Unlike an earlier speaker in the debate, the Minister for Transport is a strong man. [More…]

• He is a very arrogant man. [More…]

• During the course of the debate the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) was described by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honorable member for Reid (Mr Uren), as an arrogant man. [More…]

• Here is the man who has jettisoned not only Labor reforms in transport but also the long standing provisions innovated by his own Party, which have stood the test of time. [More…]

• -This is the man who has destroyed the shipbuilding industry. [More…]

• This is the man who is flying in the face of advice from all the organisations with which honourable members opposite claim to have a close association and a real affinity. [More…]

• Bruce learned his lesson, old man. [More…]

• I am not suggesting for one moment that Australia ought to return to the time when all things were done manually. [More…]

• In fact, my own philosophy leads me to believe that man was not born to work but to have work done. [More…]

• I point out that the inquiry is to be conducted by a 3-man committee comprising a chairman, who is a Commissioner of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, a businessman, and the President of the Trades and Labour Council of Queensland. [More…]

• I also point out that the Government has already established certain official inquiries which will look into many of the aspects mentioned in the Opposition’s motion. [More…]

• The Government recognises that there are many people who wish to work but cannot find acceptable employment. [More…]

• It is also undoubtedly the case that many employers regularly advertise for staff but receive Utile response or, alternatively, receive a response from people who are unsuitable for the vacancies available. [More…]

• Many employers would prefer to leave positions vacant rather than fill them with people they assess as marginally productive workers who may not enable the business to recoup the cost of employing them. [More…]

• As a former Minister for Labor in the Australian Labor Party Government said, ‘one man’s wage rise is another man’s job’. [More…]

• I think quotas should be auctioned so that this windfall gain at least goes to the taxpayer, to the general revenue, and not to the man who is fortunate enough- I use those words advisedly- to get a licence. [More…]

• This has been suggested many times. [More…]

• The subsidy from the taxpayer for every man employed in the ADP industry and in making tractors works out at $3,000. [More…]

• He is a practical man. [More…]

• It is rather interesting to hear the arguments of manufacturers when they ask for larger and larger bounties and higher and higher tariff protection. [More…]

• I see no way in which the world can handle scarcity better in the next SO years than it has handled growth in the past 60 years and it has experienced two world wars and many others in that time. [More…]

• Over 100 million people have died of man made violence in the past 60 years, and many more of starvation and disease. [More…]

• I am glad to follow in the debate the honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Cotter) who has presented what I believe is the practical man’s approach to this debate. [More…]

• This man is incompetent and incapable of representing those people. [More…]

• Here is the man who got Sir John Kerr to toss out the Labor Government because of its economic performance, politically and economically destitute. [More…]

• This is the man who claimed that he had all the economic answers. [More…]

• It is none other than the ideas man, the Prime Ministerthe Leader of a bankrupt Government. [More…]

• But one man in the person of Mr Hawke says: ‘No, we do not want good government in this country; we do not want economic recovery; that is no good for our political intentions. [More…]

• Finally, I turn to the question of technical management, particularly of general insurance companies. [More…]

• The man in the street tends to believe that general insurance premiums are ascertained after high powered analysis of all statistics available relating to the risks of being an insurer. [More…]

• The failure of the management of the industry to utilise or perhaps even to be aware of the body of expert advice available regrettably, is characteristic of the general inefficiency of the industry. [More…]

• For the last 20 years parliaments have been putting this iniquitous provision into legislation, even in the case of a man who fails to vote. [More…]

• I believe that we are dealing with the integrity of the managers of the insurance profession of this country. [More…]

• There are nearly as many arguments about certificates as there are about witnesses who come into court. [More…]

• PUt in as evidence the Government should at east give the defendant, whether it be a company or an individual, the right to give notice that he desires to cross-examine the man who made out that certificate. [More…]

• I believe that the defendant has inherently a basic right to confront the man who accuses him, not to be confronted by a printed government certificate. [More…]

• If the Australian Public Service is prepared to pay the extra taxes needed to extend its superannuation benefits to everybody else, I am all for a generous superannuation scheme for every Australian man and woman in the work force. [More…]

• This man, the shadow spokesman on transport- I suggest he is not a shadow, he is a phantom- did not say one word about the situation in Tasmania, and he has not said one word about the situation in Victoria. [More…]

• He is the Opposition spokesman on transport. [More…]

• The point I make is one of great seriousness because the honourable member knows very well that a so-called gentleman’s agreement was entered into in 1971 whereby the Australian Council of Trade Unions guaranteed that Tasmania would be exempt from the disastrous transport strikes which have blighted our island for far too long. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman seeks to ask me who was responsible. [More…]

• I do not know of any man in this House who is more responsible for the greatest recession in Australia’s history than the honourable gentleman opposite. [More…]

• If a man is earning more than that terminating funds simply are not available to him. [More…]

• At current figures, the gap between the $165 a week which attracts a terminating loan and the $200 a week which is the minimum level for market loans is an area where many people find the greatest difficulty. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) during quite a large part of his speech made a petulant personal attack- in fact, one could even say a vindictive personal attackupon the Tasmanian State Minister for Housing, a man who has a good reputation as a Minister. [More…]

• As I have said, the Minister for Housing in Tasmania, Mr Holgate, is a respected person. [More…]

• Here we have a 31 -year-old man who has been a naturalised Australian for some 8 years and who through sentiment, I suppose, visits his country of origin and suddently finds himself about to be inducted into the army of the country of his origin, with all of the things that flow from that which affect his future. [More…]

• They were junior Barrister, Mr Timothy Murphy, a young man in his first Sydney practice who enthusiastically told me of the big case he had attended at the Court of Petty Sessions at Queanbeyan that day. [More…]

• As to the documents being produced by the Crown, surely, I said, the Attorney-General being a legal man would resist this proposal, especially as it is unprecedented. [More…]

• A claim for compensation was made in March 1972 in relation to a man with severe cardiac problems. [More…]

• It was stated that until that was done nothing could be done in relation to the man’s compensation claim, despite the fact that the man’s treating doctors would not support any claim against the Repatriation Department in relation to the man’s war service being connected with his cardiac complaint and despite the fact that all treating doctors related his condition directly to his employment. [More…]

• Thus, because of the provisions of the Commonwealth Act and the way in which it was administered, a war veteran of some 64 yean of age, who had worked for the Australian Post Office for 22 years and who had then been unemployed for in excess of 4 years, being a man with a bad heart and with very limited life expectancy, finally received his compensation 4!4 years after initiating his claim. [More…]

• The man concerned should not have had to rely on my representations to receive equitable and reasonable treatment. [More…]

• Clearly the sort of scandalous situation that developed in relation to this man could not develop if there were some provision in the Act which was to the effect that if the Commissioner failed to make a determination within, say, 6 months the worker could automatically refer the matter to the Commonwealth Compensation Tribunal or take the matter to a prescribed court. [More…]

• If the Commission’s office simply sits on a man’s application for compensation and does nothing, under the legislation, the worker’s hands are tied and there is nothing he can do apart from making the sorts of threats to which I have referred. [More…]

• I would like to quote from one of the numerous Press statements issued by the man who above all others was responsible at the time- the Prime Minister of the day, Mr McMahon. [More…]

• But if a proud man, our Prime Minister, will not arrange a national conference to prepare the necessary ground work, nothing will happen. [More…]

• Any senior mining man in this country will say that it is not the investment allowances- those hand outs- which have closed other options and which have meant that these new ventures, which we all applaud, get going. [More…]

• I believe that is why the Opposition regards many of these concessions, these allowances, as being too extravagant. [More…]

• There has been no reduction in the payment of salaries to officers; people are just being pushed out of the Public Service by the man leading this Government who suffers from some sort of paranoia in this respect; he thinks he is running his farm instead of the nation. [More…]

• It is strange that in this community whenever an employer organisation makes demands on the Government- when for instance the Premier of Victoria suggests tax cuts- whilst they are not acceptable to the Government they are at least considered to be responsible suggestions. [More…]

• He is a double standard man from way back. [More…]

• Defence man briefed Kerr. [More…]

• Following the Minister’s answer in the House yesterday I was delighted to see the intervention in this matter of the Deputy Premier of Tasmania, the Hon. [More…]

• Doug Lowe who although a Labor man- he and I are politically opposed- is a man of whom I as a Tasmanian am proud. [More…]

• D. A. Lowe, Deputy Premier of Tasmania, also approached the air traffic controllers. [More…]

• I say to the honourable member for Melbourne that he was supported by unanimous resolution of the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council. [More…]

• The exTreasury man who is to follow me in this debate should echo those words. [More…]

• If a man and a woman choose to live together and to experience a normal sexual relationship that does not seem to me, as it seems to the honourable member for Swan, to have the connotation that an endless chain of children should be produced by that relationship. [More…]

• This is the man who is responsible for the extravagances that occurred in Albury-Wodonga. [More…]

• This is the smooth as silk man- the man who, with his silver tongue and soft hand, likes to be nice to all people. [More…]

• Many Australians have remained suspicious of the real policies of the Foreign Minister. [More…]

• We know how vain the man is. [More…]

• There were 2 pointed questions to you at last by the man you had deposed- the former - [More…]

• … the man the present Leader of the Opposition had deposed, namely Dr Cairns. [More…]

• But this desperate man needed to go on. [More…]

• I find it intriguing, bearing in mind the evidence put to this Parliament by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) today, about the records taken out of this building by the man who is now Leader of the Opposition, that the one member of this Parliament who received the cable, now shown to be incorrect, from Mr Woolcott, the one man to whom it was addressed, was Mr Whitlam. [More…]

• This is the man who accuses me of misconduct. [More…]

• I get a little disgusted with the media sometimes when it headlines a story of a man resigning or retiring from his party, who then sticks out his chest and acts as an independent. [More…]

• That warning is that the man or woman is not obliged to answer any questions asked of him or her and that he or she may at any time consult a lawyer or communicate with an appropriate relative or friend if he or she wishes to do so. [More…]

• It is easy for a police officer to simply sit in the witness box and say: ‘I decided to charge the man at 5 minutes past 2 and I did not in fact decide to charge him at 5 minutes to 2.’ [More…]

• Clearly they acknowledged that Boyce was a man in the know, a man with inside knowledge and personal experience of espionage activities. [More…]

• Mr Cowles said a man who gave his name as McLean and who claimed he was attached to the U.S. Navy had suggested the TWU ban on Mr Ermolenko ‘s travel should be maintained as an ‘embarrassment to the Russians’. [More…]

• The man had admitted he was a CIA agent and had shown him an identity card, Mr Cowles said. [More…]

• Then at a Melbourne Christmas party in 1965, a young man was overheard to lament- and I quote: [More…]

• That someone was not the man who had fumbled the ball in the court proceedings. [More…]

• The genisis of that prognosis goes back to 1952 when a secret move was made by a man named Krygier- the first non-American CIA agent ever appointed to Australia. [More…]

• Later on he became Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Armed Forces. [More…]

• He is the man who dismissed the Whitlam Government one day after the CIA cabled its concern about the then Prime Minister’s exposing the CIA’s activities in Australia. [More…]

• I ask whether the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and the House would do me the courtesy of allowing me to incorporate in Hansard a letter to me from the man who was the initiator of the action which has brought about this section of the legislation- Lieutenant Commander Fred Goodfellow. [More…]

• It could give man the dignity to work for his living and enable him to provide something useful to the community rather than merely paying him the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• If the Government were to provide finance of $ 100m to $200m, thereby providing employment for those masses of people who are losing all the dignity of life- the ability to work and the right to work which are fundamental human principles in this country- instead of allowing industry to benefit to the extent of $360m, it would be doing something for the community at large. [More…]

• He is not somebody who writes normally for the average man in the street but, frankly, for a lot of the people who are taking advantage of the type of loophole to which I refer. [More…]

• The man in business, particularly those without a great deal of ethics or with very little ethics- that is the correct word to use - [More…]

• In particular, technical rules of law can develop which shut a man out from a remedy. [More…]

• There have been many cases in the recent past of apparent injustice caused because the law was insufficient for the particular case. [More…]

• In many cases poultry farmers found that their activities had to be completely restructured. [More…]

• In one case that came before the courts in the recent past a farmer, a young man and his wife, had taken over a farm from his parents on the outskirts of the Sydney area. [More…]

• It happened that for one year only the young man ‘s father had taken a break from egg production and transferred to meat production. [More…]

• When the young man was running his own poultry farm two or three years later- his quota being assessed on the situation of his father in one year of the 20 years of his operation, that year being one or two years before- the young man found that he was given a drastically reduced quota. [More…]

• Thereafter the courts in New South Wales received a challenge to this man ‘s quota and the courts held that there were serious doubts whether the law had been applied in the assessment of the original base quotas and in the review procedures that were conducted. [More…]

• There are far too many trade unions in Australia today. [More…]

• I can recall as a young man joining the Boilermakers Union before the War. [More…]

• Many of them have worked inside the organisation and become disenchanted with some of its methods. [More…]

• He is a free man. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that a man of that record and that experience should be in such a confidential position. [More…]

• Not only did our Minister for Foreign Affairs accurately predict the outcome of the presidential election but also he had the acute good sense to invite to the Australian Ambassador’s residence for an official dinner the man he predicted would become the Secretary of State to the new President. [More…]

• It is not possible for the staff of the CES to man the programs with which they are charged or to do jobs which are required, if they are required also to process applications for employment and deal fairly with persons against whom there are charges of receiving the unemployment benefit improperly or of not complying with the worktest. [More…]

• It concerns a matter upon which he made statements last week and the week before in Brisbane and Townsville, namely, the responsibility for two telephone accounts for $17,000 for overseas calls made and accepted by subscribers, a man and his wife, at Atherton late in 1975 and early in 1976. [More…]

• He will remember that the woman, who has been made bankrupt because she cannot pay the Telecom Australia account, and her husband have sworn under examination at bankruptcy hearings in Townsville that the calls were made and accepted on behalf of the Federal Government and that one of the services- an unlisted service- was installed for that very purpose. [More…]

• Many of these difficulties were highlighted by the last budget of the AUS passed at its conference in January last year. [More…]

• Any man or woman who cares to listen to or read this speech should consider carefully whether they believe that the views expressed by the AUS in fact represent, as they allege, the majority view of students in Australia which has not been tested. [More…]

• Many honourable members will have received a spate of books, stickers and arguments with regard to this matter. [More…]

• Man knows very little about this animal which we have ravaged so much during the last century. [More…]

• I refer to things like bank accounts, hire purchase agreements and all those little measures that a family man or an individual must be able to complete successfully to have a satisfying existence in our complicated modern community. [More…]

• Many of the forms and documents that an individual is required to fill out in our society are far too complicated. [More…]

• The fact is that a great many of our stoppages are due to demarcation disputes- far too many. [More…]

• Suppose we had an employer who was seeking to man a port with members of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]

• In many cases the wages paid to members of the AWU who do stevedoring work are nowhere near as high as the wages which would apply if the same work were carried out by another union. [More…]

• How would a working man find that sort of money? [More…]

• Why do these workers have the right to take away the dollar that another man was expecting to earn? [More…]

• It wants to protect the public, the man in the street, the consumer. [More…]

• Only recently in Melbourne we had the case of a man working at a tramway depot saying that he had been prevented from working because he would not pay his union dues. [More…]

• The truth is that the man refused to join the union. [More…]

• But the important thing is that this man did not want to pay the union dues. [More…]

• There is no way under the Constitution or law of contract that a government is required to keep on a man after the position to which he was appointed has been abolished. [More…]

• Then, on the same day, another senior Government Minister, a man well known to share the Prime Minister’s rigid and despotic anti-union sentiments- the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair- was reported to have stated that legislation to be brought before Parliament in the next week- that is today- would extend the protection available against trade union excesses and that the trade unions had accepted these new procedures and constraints. [More…]

• Look at the history of mankind and the history of the human race. [More…]

• Read that great book of history, The Martyrdom of Man, and see how the tyranny of the ruling classes was thrown off. [More…]

• That statement amounts to this: The official policy of the Liberal Party on industrial relations was prepared with the help of a man who is reported to have misappropriated over $900,000 of his company’s funds. [More…]

• The Prime Minister either cannot reply or is too ashamed to come clean on his relations with a certain person many years ago. [More…]

• It was not ‘many years ago’; it was less than 3 years ago. [More…]

• Mr Speaker saved the present Prime Minister and his Party from a longer and deeper involvement with this man. [More…]

• This man, who claimed direct contact with the present Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) during the term of office of the first Fraser Government, has now been disowned by his former principals. [More…]

• He is the man whom the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) described in this place last week as a screwball. [More…]

• This is from the man who has had the most experience in the Australian capital market of any man alive. [More…]

• In support of my views I have quoted those of the man in Australia who should be the most listened to of all people because he has the widest experience in this field. [More…]

• The Land of 24 February this year reported the general manager of the Australian Wool Corporation, Mr Malcolm Vawser, when presiding at a meeting of producers in the country, of accusing the Minister and his Government of frustrating delay in introducing the 1973 wool marketing recommendations. [More…]

• This follows remarks made at the national Agricultural Outlook Conference in February of this year by Mr A. C. B. Maiden, the chairman of the Australian Wool Corporation and previously secretary of the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]

• It is an extraordinary state of affairs that a man of Mr Maiden’s standing and calibre should be drawn to the point of attacking his own Minister. [More…]

• Let us take the case of a man who is an average income earner and is supporting a wife and 2 children. [More…]

• Let us consider the benefits of family allowances of which we have heard so much and as a result of which it is alleged by Government spokesman the average income earner in the community will be much better off. [More…]

• Family allowances for a man supporting a wife and 2 children are approximately $442 a year. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Wakefield outlined, this Government’s contribution to farmers does not nearly measure up to the contribution which governments are giving to people engaged in the ship building industry at $19,000 per man per year, to waterside workers at $13,000 per man per year or to people engaged in the car manufacturing industry at $5,000 per man per year. [More…]

• We also seek a statement about the minimum qualifications for an elector and whether voting will be on the basis, one man, one vote or a multiple voting system. [More…]

• I say ‘potential’, not because I doubt the Minister’s wisdom in the appointments he will make, but because there is still the need for producer organisations to put forward on their panels for ministerial consideration, the absolute top calibre of man available to sit as their representatives on the Corporation. [More…]

• There is no doubt that, with increasing world demand reflecting an increased price and with reduced inflation and with some industrial peace, there will be an improvement of prices to the producer. [More…]

• If he proposes direct election, would voting be on a one man, one vote basis or on a multiple voting basis? [More…]

• To obtain such information would require considerable effort and man hours, which I am not prepared to authorise. [More…]

• Will he make these reports available to further the debate, inform the public and demonstrate that his Government is prepared to stimulate the uranium debate in accordance with the spirit of the First Ranger Report which stated that the final decisions on uranium rest with the ordinary man. [More…]

• He is a very modest man but, I think, not very practical in this area. [More…]

• In Australia 40 per cent of our manufactured goods are made in this country while 60 per cent of our manufactured goods are imported. [More…]

• Let us take the example of a man’s shirt produced in Australia. [More…]

• If we look at the amount of money provided to a man with 2 children- the figures have been frequently quoted by various people in this place- and at the amount of money which it is claimed by various people in this place is the cost of protection, we find that it is far more expensive to pay a person unemployment benefit, service his family with the $7.50 allowance per child, and supply the free services which are provided under the social welfare program than it is to have a protected industry. [More…]

• I am sure that this man does not bear any malice because I have known him for many years. [More…]

• I also congratulate the members of the working party and in particular, publicly from this place, to thank Dr Sugarman on a personal basis. [More…]

• The professionalism of this man and ho doubt of others on the working party who presented this working paper is enough to give us non-professionals confidence. [More…]

• Consider a man earning $ 1 5,000 a year. [More…]

• If he is faced with an action which involves losing his home or a fight over his home, in order to have that fight that man may well have to find legal funds totalling, say $8,000 or $10,000. [More…]

• He might be a man with four or five children, perhaps only two. [More…]

• Can he not give a man praise when he brought a 43 per cent increase in expenditure for legal aid over what the Whitlam Labor Government was able to find in its 1975-76 Budget. [More…]

• He is often referred to in this place as ‘the undertaker’, the man who is involved with the dismantling of Labor policies. [More…]

• His Honour, Mr Justice Toose, prepared a large report of 3 volumes, containing many recommendations. [More…]

• I am sure that the ex-servicemen of this country look forward to the implementation of many of these recommendations in the Budget session. [More…]

• I cannot help but feel that as important as this particular range of recommendations is, they represent a sop in many respects compared with the great weight of recommendations that have been made. [More…]

• Many of the ex-servicemen who come into our offices are unable to document their claims because the years have passed by and the witnesses have passed by. [More…]

• I remember George Jones, a former honourable member for Capricornia, saying to a colonel: ‘Where is the statement and the file about the condition of the man who busted his knee in this simulated exercise? [More…]

• In a few years that man will turn up with a claim for osteoarthritis of the knee or something like that and the evidence will not be available. [More…]

• I have never known a man to speak for so long about so little. [More…]

• That is, an unemployed man, as soon as he became employed, would generate government revenue in excess of 90 per cent of his earnings. [More…]

• Other EEC countries reported increases in government revenue greater than the employed man’s earnings. [More…]

• The Australian Government must shift resources away from income maintenance for the unemployed to the generation of new employment opportunities and manpower policies if the tragic costs of unemployment are to be relieved. [More…]

• It was moved by a man who, as the Sydney Morning Herald has made clear in its editorial this morning, can lay no claim to a vote of confidence. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman talks about confidence in the House and outside it, but it would be fair to say that the confidence of the Opposition in him was shown by only one vote, his own vote. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who yesterday won by one or two votes is a man discredited in the history of this country as the Prime Minister who broke more promises than did any other man who held that office. [More…]

• What an irony it is for the honourable gentleman to make in this motion some reference to the High Court. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman knows that in a secret cabal a few Ministers set out to destroy and show contempt for law and order in this country. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman knows that very well indeed. [More…]

• Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition, re-established in his position, confirmed himself as yesterday’s man by going back to precisely the policy that he pursued in such disastrous terms between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• Ultimately, when the matters of fact are resolved, many of the questions which arise are social and ethical ones. [More…]

• We agree strongly with the view, repeatedly put to us by opponents of nuclear development, that, given a sufficient understanding of the science and technology involved, the final decision should rest with the ordinary man and not be regarded as the preserve of any group of scientists or experts, however distinguished. [More…]

• There is a possibility that during this period technological advances will reduce hazards to man and the environment, especially with regard to the treatment and disposal of highlevel radio active wastes. [More…]

• If we are going to discuss safeguards, I think it is well to bear in mind that the honourable gentlemen on the Government side who are advocating open slather on uranium might be pure, might be altruistic and might be trusting in this particular area; but, having been a student of international relations for some time, I say that some of those countries do not merit my trust to have the most dangerous weapon in the hands of man ever since man came to this planet. [More…]

• But we know what human nature is. [More…]

• Man is a lazy creature, an expedient creature, but if he is put to the test his ingenuity is such that he will find another answer. [More…]

• I suppose that the same gentlemen who take that approach would indicate to any young man that if he were in a situation of pack rape he should not worry about his moral and legal obligations but should just go along with it. [More…]

• In other words, the Prime Minister has allied himself with a man who has surprised the world by being so completely conscious of the necessity to supply safeguards. [More…]

• My goodness, the man could not have gone into greater detail. [More…]

• I believe that they show true affection for their fellow man and the human race. [More…]

• Man has at his disposal the facilities to make this world the best in the history of mankind or he has the means of its total destruction. [More…]

• She said that the people of the world are not as interested in the welfare of their fellow-man as they should be. [More…]

• Environment includes all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groups. [More…]

• For example, on the question of waste, a committee of my Party in this Parliament recently had before it Dr Hardy of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was said to be a pro-uranium man very strongly in favour of nuclear energy as a source of power, and I believe he is. [More…]

• He submitted that although plutonium was active for 250 000 years it was dangerous to man for only 1000 years and therefore it was necessary to guard it for only 1000 years. [More…]

• So the situation was that this young man who flew all the way from Malaysia on 19 March, arrived on 20 March, and was held for some 2 hours at the airport on the basis that there was something wrong with his visa. [More…]

• Honourable members can imagine the young man’s concern. [More…]

• So the unfortunate gentleman has been put to the trouble and expense of flying to Sydney and returning to Kuala Lumpur from Melbourne being required to return on the basis that there must have been something wrong with his visa. [More…]

• The circumstances were that this young man had a passport, had a visa endorsed in it, made a flight, was detained for 2 hours and was treated, as he said, very badly. [More…]

• All the solicitor was to do was to get an application form from my constituent to forward to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for the purpose of trying to get him permanent residency in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Commissioner of Taxation to investigate his activities and I also ask the Law Council to do so because a man like this should not be allowed to practice. [More…]

• I want to bring to the attention of the House some of the human heartbreak and difficulty that has been experienced by families of employees who were previously employed at the Newcastle State Dockyard. [More…]

• The first concerns a family man who has to travel to Sydney each week where he pays $40 a week rent. [More…]

• The family is in desperate difficulty because this man who is well qualified has had to take a much lower paid job. [More…]

• The Australian nation subsidises the shipbuilding industry to the extent of $ 1 9,000 per man per year. [More…]

• The nation subsidises waterside workers to the extent of $13,000 per man per year. [More…]

• The manufacturing industry costs the nation $5,000 per man per year. [More…]

• To obtain it would require considerable effort and man hours, which I am not prepared to authorise. [More…]

• ) The cost of an S2G progressive aircraft re-work (PAR) is expected to be substantially the same as for the S2E, that is about 6000 man hours (or SA85.800 at the current rate, not including spares used ). [More…]

• It is now intended to undertake similar work on 7 in number S2G aircraft instead; thus the additional cost in 1977/78 over and above that already estimated is 1 2 000 man hours or $ 1 7 1 ,000. [More…]

• However, the matter of privacy, as the honourable member will be aware, has been referred as a specific reference by the Attorney-General to the Australian Law Reform Commission under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Kirby. [More…]

• In the circumstances, I am not prepared to authorise the considerable effort and man hours involved in answering the honourable member’s question. [More…]

• It said much about this remarkable man and much about the Commonwealth itself. [More…]

• Through strength of will and courage he attained and maintained his eminence in the Commonwealth and in the ranks of world statesmanship; and, not for the only time in the history of the Commonwealth, exile or imprisonment confirmed its victim’s claims to the leadership of an independent nation. [More…]

• The ranks of world statesmanship are diminished by his early death; so are the ranks of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• But the greatest loss, seemingly irreparable, is the loss to the people of Cyprus of the man who founded and preserved their state and symbolised the church, the nation and the state of Cyprus throughout the world. [More…]

• Cyprus, to many of us, is a far away country but we must remember that it has played a part in English history and, more importantly, it has given a strand to the Australian character. [More…]

• They, like me, regret the passing of such a great man. [More…]

• Credit for that goes to the man we mourn today. [More…]

• He was a man of the people; a broadminded, modern man whose experience of life was varied. [More…]

• Commanding officers must guard their assets as thoroughly as they have been trained to use them. [More…]

• But it is the personal and continual watchfulness of every officer and man that is our foremost defence for the security of our assets. [More…]

• While the conclusions indicated that there was much that could be done to improve security by way of modern protection devices, firefighting equipment and provision of security personnel, all these must be weighed against competing demands for limited defence resources of money and manpower. [More…]

• The Minister is a man who makes a profession so often of being a stern patriot in defence of the security of this country. [More…]

• The fact that the ex-Federal Director of the National Country Party is disenchanted with the Government regarding its rural policy and regards it as being too concerned with the mining industry at the expense of its traditional supporters gives some idea of the extent of dissatisfaction that exists in the rural community with the Government and in particular with the Minister who is responsible for policy in that areathe Minister for Primary Industry, the man who has been so vocal lately. [More…]

• The man who just over a week ago was the Federal Director of the National Country Party- . [More…]

• It affects a few employees and a few in management. [More…]

• The former Labor Treasurer, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), shortly after his appointment as Treasurer remarked that one man’s pay increase can well be another man’s job, and how pertinent that is. [More…]

• Is it a fact that a married man supporting a wife and two children and earning $10,000 per annum throughout this financial year will complete the year with income in real terms- after tax and the Medibank levy and allowing for family allowances and tax rebates- which will be more than $ 1 8 a week less than his income at the commencement of the year? [More…]

• The House will remember those comments in which he outlined the development of statesman-like qualities and the growth in his own stature since becoming a member of the Government. [More…]

• Visitors to the gallery, being strangers, may remark to themselves that this seemed to be strange behaviour, for a man to be speaking so well of himself, but those of us of a kinder bent of mind and who know him well would merely comment that if these things have to be said, who better to say them? [More…]

• In between the time this man spent on these projects in Kenya he also assisted the Food and Agriculture Organisation in advising adjoining nations. [More…]

• I have no doubt that in the annals of human endeavour the achievements of Israel will be seen as a demonstration of the power of man to overcome insurmountable problems, to achieve the right to exist and to establish a state which, in the Middle Eastern context, remains to this day one of the most unified and one of the most prosperous, despite the fact that Isreal is facing a rate of inflation of some 30 per cent, that over 40 per cent of her gross national product is directed at defence and over recent years she has had to absorb nearly 2 000 000 immigrants. [More…]

• I do not think, as a man who has been in the Australian Labor Party long enough to know that Evatt was one of the major architects of the existence of Israel, and we recognise it, that we can go on pretending that something did not happen. [More…]

• What happened was there was an entity of Palestine- a British mandate. [More…]

• The other matter I wish to raise relates to the opening of the Tasman Bridge and the petty and disgraceful attitude, of the State Government in cutting up rough because the Prime Minister of Australia had occasion to suggest that the man who ought to open it, the logical person, was the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck). [More…]

• The Premier of Tasmania could not take it, he could not cop it. [More…]

• The honourable member for Franklin has done more for the people on the eastern shore since the Tasman Bridge collapsed than anybody in Tasmania, but the Premier has used the device of saying that the bridge ought to be opened by a minister of religion in an ecumenical service. [More…]

• The honourable member for Franklin is a gentleman and he has said that he will go along with it. [More…]

• But people will never forget what that man did at the time that the bridge collapsed and subsequently. [More…]

• It is nothing short of a crying shame that the man who should have been there to open the bridge will be denied that privilege because of the petty jealousy of a Premier who was not prepared to see him carry out a function which was obviously his rightful role. [More…]

• I am always attracted to rise in this place whenever the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) gives us the benefit of his wisdom. [More…]

• That is the sort of expression he uses when it suits him, but when it suits him to attack the Government in Tasmania he can twist very quickly and very sharply and turn his coat inside out quicker than anybody I know. [More…]

• The man has got no credibility in this chamber and he has even less credibility in Denison. [More…]

• It was interesting to hear this man. [More…]

• It is typical that a question of this type should come from a man who was responsible for the greatest tax fraud in Australia’s history. [More…]

• I want to make that perfectly clear because the ‘tax changes’ for which the honourable gentleman bore a direct responsibility were nothing more than an outright hoax. [More…]

• In other words, our tax reduction will have a cost to revenue more than six times that of the so-called tax reforms of the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• He was a qualified man, but even so he was not doing some scientific research but discovered Weipa in the ordinary process of exploration. [More…]

• This Act is really only giving a piece of paper or white man’s legitimacy to what they have always regarded as their own land. [More…]

• The executive government of this country represents in the main only one man, the man who sits at the head of the Cabinet table, and the situation has never been very different since Federation. [More…]

• It is time that the Parliament started telling the executive arm of government and the man who controls the executive arm of government that this is a democracy. [More…]

• We are not living in Hitler’s Germany. [More…]

• We ought not to be treated as though we were living in Nazi Germany. [More…]

• He is an intelligent man or he would not have been a LieutenantColonel in the Army. [More…]

• Not only the employing authority but also the Minister can intrude on the basis that he will have a man sacked. [More…]

• What right does the Minister have to say that he will exercise his discretion to dismiss a man when he knows nothing about the issue involved. [More…]

• The Government is not going to settle industrial disputes by the use of force or threats, particularly when a person’s livelihood is at stake, because immediately the sympathy of fellow workers is encouraged and they act in unison to protect that man’s rights or that woman’s rights. [More…]

• It is placing the matter in the hands of a Minister and what it calls an employing authority, which could be one man. [More…]

• My friend, Mr Willis, is a most honourable man. [More…]

• Can any honourable member opposite tell me why any employer should have to keep on a man who is doing no work? [More…]

• If the Australian Public Service is prepared to pay the extra taxes needed to extend the superannuation benefits to everybody else, I am all for a generous superannuation scheme for every Australian man and woman in the work force. [More…]

• -Yes, to a man. [More…]

• Man has had to attach to his motor vehicle new gadgets which cost a lot of money to buy and are expensive to install. [More…]

• The cost of that experimentation and the cost of the manufacture of these gadgets is now being passed on to the motorist. [More…]

• He embodied what it meant to be Australian, the best kind of Australian- a man quietly and passionately devoted to the welfare and future of his country. [More…]

• He was a man with a great dream for Australia- a dream that he worked tirelessly to bring to reality. [More…]

• He believed passionately in a free and independent place for Australia in the world community; he believed in Australia as a great and growing power, a land of unlimited promise whose riches would serve mankind. [More…]

• To those who knew him least he was an implacable opponent, even something of a bogy man; but those of us who knew him best will remember only his quiet humour, his warm sense of comradeship, his inner strength. [More…]

• Above all he was a man of unshakable integrity. [More…]

• He was, as in all things, too big a man for that. [More…]

• Rex Connor was a very unusual man. [More…]

• He was what I consider the old style of Labor man. [More…]

• He was a man who had great dreams or visions among which was a national pipeline authority. [More…]

• Rex Connor was a man who will be long remembered for his contribution to this Parliament. [More…]

• He was a man of vision whose paramount aim was that Australia’s natural endowments should be developed for the benefit of Australians under the control of Australians so that Australia itself could control its destiny. [More…]

• The first point I make about him is the charm of the man in personal conversation when the subject was divorced from political consequences. [More…]

• He was in the Labor Party for what he could put into it, and for that reason I salute the man and his memory- the memory of a very great Laborite and a very great parliamentarian. [More…]

• Oddly enough, and perhaps contrary to the general view of the man, Rex Connor was a very shy person. [More…]

• He was a man of very great integrity. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child in this country would be an equal shareholder in it so that no foreign multinational corporation could exploit them as is being done in so many other industries. [More…]

• He wanted to see the Australian people- every man, woman and child in Australia- being an equal shareholder in the exploitation of Australia’s resources of gas on the North West Shelf. [More…]

• Rex Connor was a man worth talking to. [More…]

• Nonetheless, he was hurt inwardly by the fact that the Prime Minister had demanded his resignation. [More…]

• He was a very proud man and valued his good name. [More…]

• He was not a mean man. [More…]

• He was not a little man. [More…]

• They knew all along, apparently that Connor was a great man and yet in his life they went out of their way to picture him as a man who was anything but great. [More…]

• He was many years ahead of his time- at least 20 years ahead of his time- and history will record this fact. [More…]

• No Minister was more in command of his Department than was Rex Connor. [More…]

• He was greatly respected by his permanent head, Sir Lennox Hewitt, and a Minister needs to be good to command the respect of Sir Lennox Hewitt, who is known to all of us either personally or by repute. [More…]

• He also commanded the respect of those beneath Sir Lennox Hewitt. [More…]

• Whether they were retired sea captains or of some other calling, he commanded their respect because they all realised that they were dealing with a Minister who knew more about his Department than did any person in it. [More…]

• They all knew that they were dealing with a man who was more conversant with the activities of his Department than anybody else in Australia. [More…]

• There are countless manifestations of his leadership and unrelenting efforts. [More…]

• A modest man, he avoided flamboyant publicity and had an aversion to those media men whose motives he distrusted. [More…]

• In Labor Party branch meetings, which he attended assiduously, he was a no-nonsense man who succinctly gave a brilliant analysis of the political issues of the day. [More…]

• -I join with previous speakers in paying my tribute to Rex Connor, the man I knew and with whom I worked. [More…]

• Rex was described by the media as a big man. [More…]

• He was a big man physically and he had a big heart but I found him a very humble man. [More…]

• I found him to be a man with a great love for his country. [More…]

• It seemed to me that that was the crime for which he paid the penalty of being maligned and smeared as no man in my memory has been smeared by the media of this country. [More…]

• That recording was resurrected not in reverence for the man or in respect of his efforts and ideals but simply for its media value. [More…]

• Following that there was a man commenting on the past and the performance of this great Australian. [More…]

• Towards the end of his commentary that man said: ‘It seems that we will never really know what transpired in the loans affair’. [More…]

• That is something which is seldom done to a man in public life. [More…]

• I join the other speakers in extending my deepest sympathy to the children of this admirable Labor man. [More…]

• He was a great personal friend of mine, a man of compassion and a man of great admiration for Australia and all things Australian. [More…]

• It has been said to me that I was the first one to say that one man’s increase in wages would mean another person’s unemployment. [More…]

• It is a primary objective of the Government to ensure that there is efficiency and economy in the management of all government spending. [More…]

• We have seen for too long the attitude that the funds used by the Government can be taken from the people regardless of the cost to the man in the street. [More…]

• Paying world parity prices will mean that we will be paying the type of prices for petrol that are paid overseas; that is, $2.40 a gallon in Italy, $1.80 a gallon in Germany and Switzerland and $1.60 to $1.80 a gallon in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• We will have steady increases in the prices of petroleum products, which must increase inflation and must create a greater demand for wage increases. [More…]

• A slug in petrol prices simply means that an indirect tax is being imposed, which hits the little man equally as hard as it hits the big man. [More…]

• I recall the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), during his time as Prime Minister, saying that one man’s increase in pay meant another man’s job. [More…]

• These exports have been of very great benefit and are a well deserved benefit to many people in the sheep industry. [More…]

• When one has an industry that is prospering one has an industry that is able to provide employment, which is to the benefit of the working man. [More…]

• It is an area where we can enter markets to sell our wool, beef, iron, wheat, coarse grains, dairy products and rolled steel- our capital intensive manufacturers. [More…]

• If, on the other hand, we try to defy market forces and be like a man trying to stand in front of a grass fire with a bag to beat it out, we will find ourselves in a small island with grass but with everything else burnt around us and still the imports will come in. [More…]

• Therefore equilibrim will be reached, but in a manner that will suit nobody. [More…]

• Productivity per man or woman was predicted to rise in this period by 4 per cent. [More…]

• This was completely different from the results achieved by the previous Government, which managed through its conniving and tampering with the Australian economy to achieve negative productivity for the first time for many years, if not probably for the first time ever in Australia. [More…]

• So this is a government of good management which is exactly the basis on which the people elected us. [More…]

• Industrial action such as embargoes on deliveries of material to building sites, unauthorised smokoes bans on sections of building jobs, stoppages during concrete pours and the like is not taken into consideration when the numbers of man hours lost are assessed, and there is an enormous loss of work and employment as a direct result of such action. [More…]

• If the Builders Labourers Federation would lift its bans and discontinue its guerilla action, there would be employment opportunities for very many of the men who currently are unemployed. [More…]

• The attitudes of the President of the ACTU are even more notably rubbery, to quote my honourable friend, than one might expect of a man who supports bans at political levels and who is prepared to promote tourism trade at another level. [More…]

• Secondly, if it does believe that there should be no contracts with Indonesia, I find it remarkably hard to reconcile the actions it has taken in promoting tourist connections through the travel agency, which I understand has as directors both the individuals to whom the honourable gentleman referred in his question. [More…]

• I leave it to the good judgment of the Minister to look at the matter and to see what can be done to make sure that this one man, who has been disadvantaged by the establishment of the two Commissions because of an error in drafting in the original Bill, has his position rectified. [More…]

• But Mr D has been seriously disadvantaged at a time in life when he cannot afford to suffer disadvantages- he has been in that particular service for many years. [More…]

• That applies to Japan and West Germany, which I have mentioned. [More…]

• The manufacture of those wastes under circumstances where they could not be safely disposed of and stored threatens life on this planet and would constitute a monstrous betrayal of future generations. [More…]

• This is a poison which does not occur in nature; man creates it. [More…]

• While all other major producing countries in the world have policies to this end, the Fraser Government ensures that Australia is the odd man out. [More…]

• The Fraser Government’s decision will promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and ensure that it is safely used with minimal risk of damage to man and his environment. [More…]

• The demand comes from them. [More…]

• It seems extraordinary to me that a man in charge of an industry which is in serious trouble- as is the dairying industry in Victoriashould have taken such an aggressive and unhelpful view of the problems facing the industry overall. [More…]

• Eighty-five per cent of the production of the Victorian dairying industry is directed towards milk production for manufacturing purposes. [More…]

• I rise to support the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) but before I speak about that matter I want to refer to the comments of the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James). [More…]

• It does not matter whether a man is a white collar or any other type of criminal; the same law should apply to him as applies to any other person. [More…]

• I have given this matter the most careful thought but I cannot believe that any honest man could advise the GovernorGeneral to approve of that minute if he knew that the borrowings were for 20 years and were to meet the long term energy purposes of the Government. [More…]

• I do not believe an honest man could do it. [More…]

• It has all been done to serve the vanity of a man who has now resigned. [More…]

• Funds are provided at low interest rates unlike what happened when Labor was in office and offered help to the cattle industry at a penal interest rate that was impossible for any cattle man to bear. [More…]

• Fruit growing reconstruction has been provided and extended so that trees removed under the scheme have now enabled many fruit growers who are in a financially disadvantaged position to continue. [More…]

• We have provided fruit stabilisation assistance so that fruit growers in Tasmania, for example, have been able this year to get a far better return than otherwise would have been possible. [More…]

• I wonder whether any other man or any other government could have done as much damage in such a short time as his Government did. [More…]

• Regretably Australia was to find itself with a Prime Minister with an economic pholosophy influenced by a combination of the weird political ideas of an 80-year-old Russian nut by the name of Ayn Rand, and the man who the Chilean Government called in as their economic adviser, Milton Friedman. [More…]

• The RandFriedmanFraser philosophy that there is ‘no such thing as a free lunch’ has now been expanded to incorporate breakfast and dinner. [More…]

• I remind the House that I am referring here to a man who was one of the three commissioners involved in the Fox reports on which the Government said that it based its decision. [More…]

• ‘It s merely being managed. [More…]

• Nuclear opponents claim that plutonium is the ‘most toxic substance known to man’ and that a quantity of plutonium of the size of an orange would be sufficient to give every member of the human race lung cancer. [More…]

• However, that is not the pathway by which plutonium could reach humans from buried radio-active wastes. [More…]

• I assure the Government that, as will become plain later in my speech, I am not a committed anti-nuclear energy man. [More…]

• I am absolutely horrified at what the leader of this country- a man who, as far as one can tell from the qualifications which he writes after his name as a result of the education he received here and overseas, understands the English languagehad to say about waste disposal. [More…]

• In the open cut mines in Australia every person employed produces 30 tonnes of coal per man shift. [More…]

• How many will be needed to mine the volume of uranium that we want? [More…]

• -Some 32 years ago the world was horrified to see the unleashing of the greatest force that man had ever known; that was the explosion of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]

• We have discovered, as we have in virtually every other aspect of human endeavour, that both good and evil can flow from our efforts. [More…]

• What we did not envisage in 1945 was that by 1977 the world would be facing the greatest potential energy shortages ever known by mankind. [More…]

• In fact it is estimated that by the turn of the century the increase in world demand will be some 400 per cent on current figures. [More…]

• After we had made those decisions, following upon the decisions made by the previous Liberal Government to allow the mining and export of uranium, we were activated by the growing concern expressed in many parts of the world and not just by the Australian community. [More…]

• Unlike members of the Government parties, we are prepared to display the characteristic that makes man different from animals- our intelligence and our capacity to learn. [More…]

• I see nothing dishonest in that action of the Labor Party as was implied in many of the criticisms made by honourable members on the other side of the House. [More…]

• I appeal to members of the Government to stop deluding themselves and to consider the human problems involved. [More…]

• It depends upon man and his social instruments. [More…]

• He said that the whole situation relied on control by man. [More…]

• Man uses explosives and every other way of destroying himself. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the man who talked about Cabinet solidarity and loyalty, has been the first man to ignore the Cabinet system and destroy a Minister himself. [More…]

• -Bob Ellicott was and is an honourable man. [More…]

• In particular, he was a great friend to Tasmania. [More…]

• You, Mr Speaker, when Leader of the Opposition, appointed Bob Ellicott as spokesman for Tasmania in this House when we did not have a single honourable member in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• He carried out his duties on behalf of Tasmania faithfully and well. [More…]

• It is due in no mean order to his achievements that there are now five Liberal members from Tasmania in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• We can compare that with the tinpot performance tonight on the television program This Day Tonight of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), himself a lawyer and a Queen’s Counsel at that. [More…]

• I have said in the past and I feel that many Australians believe that the Leader of the Opposition during his period in this Parliament, including his term as Prime Minister of this country, has made a contribution to the nation’s development. [More…]

• I could not believe that he was prepared on television tonight not only to denigrate and defame an honourable man but also to place himself above and beyond the law of this land. [More…]

• If his performance tonight has to be summed up it can be said that it proved that he has learnt nothing from his defeat in 1975. [More…]

• Tonight’s performance proved that he was prepared to go on national television and publicly canvass issues which are at present before a court of law, issues upon which he says- we must accept his wordthat he has a complete defence. [More…]

• It is not my function to say whether there is anything in these charges or not but I will say this: If ever there was a clear case of contempt of court, if ever a man should be brought before the bar of the Supreme [More…]

• I simply say that if anybody did that in Tasmania he would be before the court within five seconds. [More…]

• But for him to go on television tonight, on the very day that an honourable man- and I believe him to be such- tendered his resignation in sad circumstances is, I believe, less than we should have expected from the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I also wish to reflect on today’s occurrences because the honourable man about whom the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) spoke is also a person to whom I wish to direct some remarks. [More…]

• I listened to the honourable member for Denison say on 10 or 15 occasions in his speech tonight that this man was honourable and truthful. [More…]

• But even the people sitting on the other side of the House, dumb as they are, must see the way in which this man has operated. [More…]

• Not many years ago there was an incident in New South Wales which many honourable members may remember and in which a presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly was harassed by a private prosecution on information laid by a woman whose legal aid was provided gratis by the Liberal Party of New South Wales. [More…]

• The solicitor who harassed this man was subsequently struck off the roll for dishonourable conduct. [More…]

• This was a deliberately organised campaign of harassment which again directly affected the health of the man who, the magistrate held, had no charge whatsoever to answer and was never sent for trial. [More…]

• Yet honourable members on that side of the House have the gall to criticise a man who had the courage of his convictions and resigned. [More…]

• We can recall quite vividly hearing the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) say in this House, on more occasions than the former Attorney-General said he was a man of principle, how beneficial the investment allowance was to industry. [More…]

• Naturally many units in the work force, observing these practices, started to fight against the introduction of this urgently required equipment. [More…]

• Why have these statements now been made when two or three years ago the same man trumpeted about the large scale development of uranium in the Northern Territory and stated that the exploitation of Ranger, followed by the development of Nabarlek, Jabiluka and Koongarra, would be of tremendous benefit to the uranium industry. [More…]

• That man, supported by those who sit behind him on the other side of the chamber, is quite content to tear in half the fabric of the Australian community and Australian society generally to serve his own nefarious ends. [More…]

• When one considers the short time that man has been recording his existence on this planet and the enormous time that represents the halflife of this material one starts to realise the dangers involved, as we see them. [More…]

• That will not protect the people of Australia and of the world from the dangers that emanate from this material. [More…]

• But it is common knowledge to every man who has participated in this debate that the radon gas released increases the chances of those unfortunate miners digging the uranium from the ground contracting lung cancer. [More…]

• I have a document- many of my constituents have been asking for copies of it- which points out that one in six uranium miners in the United States develops lung cancer. [More…]

• I applaud those self-sacrificing peaceful demonstrators who are making great personal sacrifice in endeavouring to arouse public concern to the massive evils that will be created to mankind should the Government’s policies go on without impediment. [More…]

• What does it matter if man gains the whole world but loses his soul in that endeavour? [More…]

• He accused members of the Liberal Party, such as the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) and the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), of being communist dupes because they wanted to go to Timor to investigate the Timorese situation on the spot. [More…]

• That man, whom these honourable members had to repudiate today in their personal explanations by saying that their actions were not communist inspired, is deliberately provoking violence in Queensland by refusing people the fundamental right to demonstrate on the question of uranium. [More…]

• If that man wants to take a decisive part in government, I am sure there will be an opportunity for that. [More…]

• Those words were written by a man who was appointed originally by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) to produce a report. [More…]

• So it is clear to me that the man who was appointed by the present Opposition to do a job has done that job satisfactorily. [More…]

• There is no sensible man amongst them who is against uranium mining. [More…]

• Those views are quite simply that energy is the keystone of modern civilisation, not only for industrial use and the provision of human comforts but also for the very sustenance of life on this planet. [More…]

• Australia has to treat uranium as the most important global commodity that man has been challenged to handle and use. [More…]

• The truth is that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest method of producing electric power yet devised by man. [More…]

• No human activity is completely safe. [More…]

• That is the man who has got hold of the honourable member. [More…]

• He has been a zero growth man for years. [More…]

• Is it the man in the moon or from some other planet or is it in fact nations doing it under subterfuge? [More…]

• In fact, it is a matter of importance to every Australian for we have a Minister in this Government who is pursuing a vendetta against one man, one Italian migrant who is serving his fellow Italians. [More…]

• Get rid of this man’, they said and, for good measure, they added: ‘He is a communist’. [More…]

• But I venture to suggest that membership of the Italian Communist Party is hardly something which makes a man stand out in Italian society. [More…]

• I understand he described Byrch as a complete and utter rogue, and he expressed concern, so I believe, that money may be leaving this country and finding its way into the pockets of this man. [More…]

• I turn to the advice that the Minister has received from his Department and to the attitude of the Ombudsman to that advice. [More…]

• The Ombudsman was appointed this year. [More…]

• He is a man of known, strong partisan attachment to the coalition parties who has, at least since the time of the double dissolution in 1974 and the subsequent Joint Sitting, interested himself actively in counselling and advising the coalition parties. [More…]

• The Minister has got himself into a bind in respect of this situation because his Department has refused to give this man a resident status on the basis that Cameron gave it, on the basis that he could remain here to work. [More…]

• In this case there has been a review by the Ombudsman. [More…]

• The Ombudsman made that point after investigation. [More…]

• And what does the Minister mean by ‘permanent residence’? [More…]

• The man has been here continuously for three years. [More…]

• It is not a question of what the Ombudsman or the High Court or anybody else says. [More…]

• These restorations amount to an average of more than $700 being returned to each employed man and woman. [More…]

• If people increase their earnings by their own exertions Australia will benefit by higher levels of output and higher levels of demand. [More…]

• This will be a real demand increase, not a spurious inflationary demand increase which Labor is advocating with its spend now, earn later policies. [More…]

• It will be a demand increase spurred by improved productivity. [More…]

• My colleague the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), a man whose opinion I respect in economic matters, yesterday issued a statement based on the latest quarterly estimates of national income and expenditure. [More…]

• As the implicit price deflator has been leading the consumer price index down over the last half year the latest national accounts foreshadow the best results for price stability for many years. [More…]

• I am convinced, after hearing what the Prime Minister said in the last five minutes, that he is a very worried man. [More…]

• Although the number of man hours lost through strikes is at a 10-year low several Ministers have claimed that industrial disputation is responsible for inflation and unemployment and have threatened further industrial legislation to solve our economic problems. [More…]

• He came in unannounced, without informing the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), mentioned things that the Leader of the Opposition had said, then denigrated that man’s character. [More…]

• I hope that he will have the decency to come back into this chamber and apologise for his performance. [More…]

• Underground 20 years ago each man at the workface produced about 2.8 tons of coal per hour per man shift. [More…]

• If we consider the open-cut operation production has gone from 6.8 tonnes per man shift to nearly 30 tonnes per man shift at the maximum. [More…]

• That coal is worth about $45 per tonne, so let us say that coal worth $1,200 is produced each man shift. [More…]

• He is a literate man but even his greatest admirer could not describe him as being economically numerate. [More…]

• -If that is the opinion of the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) of the National Country Party I am quite happy to accept his remark because I am referring to the past performance and relationships of that party of which the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) is the leader. [More…]

• He benefits by $60 per week in reduced tax commitment as compared with a man on $ 1 47 per week who receives about a $1.80 a week reduction in tax. [More…]

• This man knows that the economy is not in good shape. [More…]

• We just heard the most pathetic defence of them by the honourable member for Macarthur, a man who knows better, a man who can understand and a man who, unlike the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), is able to read 100 pages in a report and get to the next sentence. [More…]

• If that is the way in which the Prime Minister cares to conduct the affairs of this country, it is a fair insight into the size of the man- physically large; spiritually and intellectually shallow. [More…]

• He was not a man of malice. [More…]

• He was a man with a light-hearted attitude who was respected on both sides of the House. [More…]

• I think it is rather sad that only a handful of people still remember individually a man who left here in 1963. [More…]

• He was a man who, both in prose and verse, was able to leave his mark on Australian literature. [More…]

• He was a very humane man with an attitude to humanity, no matter from where people came. [More…]

• He went to the First World War as a young man. [More…]

• That means that he was probably only 16V4 years of age or thereabouts when he managed to get into France to serve in the same unit as his brothers, one of whom I think was killed almost in his presence. [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman was at once collected by, I think, the Sergeant-at-Arms, who was a little chap named Pettifer. [More…]

• This little man crept up on the honourable member and asked him to remove himself from the chamber. [More…]

• -I am sure that Leslie Haylen, like Aristophanes, would like to be remembered for golden laughter beyond the grave, for he was a man of infinite jest. [More…]

• He took me aside as a young man and said: ‘If you are going to specialise, do not do it too obviously or the Minister will feel you are after his job’. [More…]

• -I am glad that the House has not been tempted to talk about Leslie Haylen in any dour or miserable way today, because he was certainly not that kind of man. [More…]

• He was certainly an animated and exciting man. [More…]

• Here was a man who loved the simple things; [More…]

• There was his poem Arthur about Arthur Calwell, a man he revered. [More…]

• When a man dies and his friends weep, [More…]

• But when a man dies and his enemies weep, [More…]

• These verses in themselves symbolise the great spirit that was Leslie Haylen- a man who stood for the great things but who stood for them in such a human way, in a way that ordinary men could understand. [More…]

• His wife, Sylvia, and his sons, Wayne and Ron, would be very touched to know today that in the Parliament those people who served with him and those who have come after him can learn from the example he gave in upholding the cause of mankind. [More…]

• There are, however, questions which must be considered by local government and in many instances answers found before the third partner is in a position to exercise its greater governmental responsibility. [More…]

• Will the council seek the best man or woman for the job of chairman of that council? [More…]

• They also contended that the Federal Government should be able to provide funds without recourse to the middle man, the States, although it was acknowledged that the States had some constitutional prerogative in this area. [More…]

• It is a rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• It does absolutely nothing for the small businessman. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kingston is seen in the South Australian media as a man concerned for the youth of Australia. [More…]

• -This afternoon honourable members rightly spoke at length in praise of a great man who served this Parliament, the late Leslie Haylen, for his outstanding work inside and outside the Parliament. [More…]

• Andrew Fisher, a great Labor man and a Prime Minister from Queensland, and Sir George Reid are the only two Prime Ministers out of the 15 deceased who are buried overseas. [More…]

• I should like to quote Professor Arndt, who is a man whom I have respected for many years. [More…]

• I challenge honourable members on the Government benches to produce one man who has worked in the uranium mines for that long, because it is not recommended that people do that. [More…]

• I know that he is an impatient man by nature. [More…]

• Apparently a man named Rossiter, 37 years of age, was convicted of a serious criminal charge. [More…]

• He was the American mafia man who came here on a visitor’s visa. [More…]

• Three judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal in Britain reversed the decision of a trial judge who had sentenced a man to three years’ imprisonment for attempted rape of a defenceless woman. [More…]

• The man appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeal and appeared before three judges. [More…]

• The man was put on a bond. [More…]

• One of the judges said that if this woman had not fought so vigorously to preserve her virginity she would not have incurred these serious injuries. [More…]

• Every time another cattle man in Eden-Monaro is forced to walk off, the honourable member for Eden-Monaro ought to take a bag of cow manure and empty it on the carpet of the Prime Minister’s office. [More…]

• Today the man who started the mystery, Mr Katter, said that he was ‘chasing the matter’. [More…]

• I do not think any honourable member would expect us at this stage to make a decision as to whether the Opposition will support the proposal, oppose it or remain neutral to it, bearing in mind that the Minister’s advisers have spent some 20,000 man hours on the technical evaluation of the two systems. [More…]

• The honourable member for Casey failed to mention on which side he came down when he spoke about the maritime unions of Australia refusing to load and man the Jeparit when it was taking munitions to that awful, dirty war in Vietnam not so many years ago and which today the whole world frowns on. [More…]

• It is an inbred management. [More…]

• Top management people are not brought in from outside BHP. [More…]

• McLennan will be succeeded by somebody else who will be just about as outdated as the man he succeeded. [More…]

• What is true of BHP is true of many other companies in Australia as well. [More…]

• Too many of our industries are trying to continue with outdated machinery, outdated technology. [More…]

• We should be spending more time seeing what kind of technology is available to industry in countries such as West Germany, the United States, even the Soviet Union, Italy and France. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite talk about strikes, but we are losing twice as many man days through accidents and diseases in industry which could be avoided. [More…]

• What would be the position if we adopted a user pays principle in respect of many other fields in which the Commonwealth has a responsibility such as railways, education, water supply, social welfare and health? [More…]

• We should think of the subsidies that are paid for shipbuilding which amounts to thousands of dollars for each man employed. [More…]

• This argument was put to the House not so many months ago. [More…]

• If the figures that have been given by so many instrumentalities are correct the people who will gain most out of this taxation adjustment are those earning $15,000 a year and more. [More…]

• Time and again Government spokesmen have stood in this Parliament and said that one man’s pay increase is another man’s job. [More…]

• The facts are, as we all know, that the people in our society who are well off pay infinitely more tax- thousands of dollars in many cases. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) has frequently complained in this Parliament that when his income was $21,000 a year the tax man was ripping off $9,500. [More…]

• The spectacle of hundreds of residents of the western New South Wales town of Griffith booing and hooting Mr Grassby during an interview on the David Frost Show was an unparalleled indication of public contempt towards the Commissioner by people who knew the man whom so many people talk about so unfavourably. [More…]

• After all, he was their member in the State Parliament and later in the Federal Parliament for many years. [More…]

• It is time action was taken to investigate fully the man so that the doubts which exist in my mind and in the minds of minions of Australians are either confirmed or dispelled. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that the Minister in charge of the Commissioner’s responsibilities will set about urgently to settle once and for all the suspicions surrounding the background and the activities of the man who holds down the very important position of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition’s speech was full of yesterday’s delusions- yesterday’s words uttered by yesterday’s man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Denison will cease interjecting, as will the honourable member for St George, if I have blamed the wrong man. [More…]

• He is a wealthy young man. [More…]

• He is a young man who thinks he is going places. [More…]

• Yet in Melbourne the whole catchment area is in such a situation that it has been polluting Port Phillip Bay for many years. [More…]

• Opposition members who do not relate to the working man in this country anymore should talk to some of the working people. [More…]

• The man who is laughing does not really care about them. [More…]

• He was the man whom the Labor Party rejected as its Treasurer. [More…]

• Everybody in this House respects his integrity and quiet manner except members of his own party. [More…]

• What does that mean to a small State like Tasmania? [More…]

• The same man comes to Canberra and cries poverty, yet he is sitting on a goldmine in Hobart. [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide is a friendly man for whom I have a personal regard, but he made one of the poorest speeches that I have heard in this House on this subject. [More…]

• The Opposition moved an amendment which is the greatest fraud and charade brought into this House for many years. [More…]

• Is there a man here who would say they would sooner put Australia into hock to the tune of $ 1,000m rather than devalue, because that was the alternative offered to us by our official advisers? [More…]

• I cannot agree with the Government’s economic policy- I am concerned with its failure to honour its promise to the private sector to give it stable and definite guidelines I believe the small private business man is more confused, more in the dark about the future, and less confident than IS months ago. [More…]

• The death of this young 30-year old man in a South African gaol took place on 13 September last. [More…]

• One of them was his father who, naturally, out of paternal piety came in to hear what the young man was saying. [More…]

• A great deal has been said about the problems and the difficulties of the country man. [More…]

• Many Government supporters and members of my Party, the National Country Party, including myself, have been highlighting these problems and difficulties in the speeches we have made and in discussions that we have had. [More…]

• I think those criticisms have been answered by many of my colleagues. [More…]

• Any man who says something is sure for 100 per cent is ridiculous. [More…]

• Another man - [More…]

• There cannot be a more inhuman case than that of His Grace Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan who is a prisoner in his own country. [More…]

• His sufferings must have surely reached a new dimension in man’s inhumanity to man. [More…]

• Thrown into prison because he was a man of integrity and a man of God, he refused to confess to fabricated charges laid by his oppressors and persecutors. [More…]

• He is paying the price of human degradation because he was a labourer for the poor and a defender of the weak. [More…]

• The United Nations, suggested by many as our sole hope for international peace, has been conspicuous by its silence and ineffectiveness in freeing this man from the dungeons of godless communism. [More…]

• Why do they not join the millions of people all over the world who are asking for the Archbishop’s release so that he can live his remaining years in a manner befitting a prince of his church? [More…]

• This man’s great crime in the eyes of the communists was that he had worked hard in alleviating the poverty and discomforts of the poor, the homeless and the sick. [More…]

• The courteous appeals by our Foreign Minister and others have been dismissed without the usual courtesies and polite manners one would expect from people receiving some aid from us. [More…]

• A man’s freedom is at stake. [More…]

• The President of that Electorate Conference, Mr Don McDonald, is a bit of a con man. [More…]

• He made a big issue of the fact that he was a Liberal candidate, that he intended contesting Liberal Party preselection for the new seat of Lawson, and that he is a very popular man. [More…]

• Last night the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Les McMahon), a very kindly man in his electorate, took great delight in acquainting the House with the wonderful result for the Labor Party in the New South Wales council elections. [More…]

• I did not say that a man was a liar, which would be utterly offensive and unparliamentary. [More…]

• That brings me to the point I want to discuss, namely, the need for greater assistance to the man on the land. [More…]

• A recent announcement by the Australian Woolgrowers’ and Graziers’ Council sets out very clearly the real problems facing the man on the land and why specific measures must be taken to help him. [More…]

• If the disadvantages faced by the beef industry at the moment, and indeed by many rural industries which have exported to Europe particularly, have emerged from oppressive governmental decisions in other nations the need for something to be done is clear and evident. [More…]

• If a man has not known adversity, if in his lifetime his country has not been subject to attack, it is harder for him to understand that there are some things for which we must always struggle. [More…]

• Here was the Prime Minister of Australia, the busiest man in the country, having accepted an invitation to visit the opera to honour the presence of Joan Sutherland, suddenly being faced with a dilemma. [More…]

• I simply ask the Minister responsible for this man to step in and say: ‘Let us bring this to an end’. [More…]

• Lord forbid that I should ever be charged before the courts of this land but if I am I would prefer that the honourable gentleman prosecute me than defend me. [More…]

• He quoted the words of Mr Paul Johnson, an Englishman frequently quoted by those who oppose the Labor Party because that same man opposes the Labor Party. [More…]

• The Minister has had the decency, because he is a decent man, to remain in the House while I am speaking. [More…]

• What an appalling, irresponsible statement from this man. [More…]

• The greatest hope the Labor Party has of whipping up fear and violence is for it to pit Australian against Australian in a referendum in which it would manipulate genuinely worried but ill-informed voters with its new found nuclear lies. [More…]

• I suppose that most of us read many years ago the famous story called Thais. [More…]

• It was about a man who could have done a job in a certain place but thought that his great task was to go and save a courtesan in another part of the world from the fate worse than death; but he inherited the fate himself. [More…]

• Australia in many respects is in a unique position to be an exemplar to the rest of the world on many of these problems; but, from what I have seen in this Parliament yesterday in particular and to some extent in the debate on this question, we do not show ourselves as being very fit to be an example to anybody. [More…]

• But they should always remember that the most important commodity on God’s earth is the human being- man and woman. [More…]

• How can a man who calls himself the President of the Australian Labor Party talk such arrant piffle? [More…]

• He should tell the people in Adelaide that the workers in Germany, the unions in Britain and the unions in America are forming up against the reactors that are now working. [More…]

• There was no man more saddened by the baboonery in Britain of the very Left Wing which shouted and yelled at him everywhere he went to make on behalf of the Labour Party a simple statement that the peaceful use of uranium was the best thing for Britian. [More…]

• I have always felt very sorry for him because, like many other good, honest Labour people he knew that the use of uranium for peaceful purposes is no problem in the world. [More…]

• A number of its members are developing countries which believe that increased safeguards, with the resulting increased costs, are a developed rich man’s plot to deny energy resources to the poorer men of this world or at least to make those resources most expensive. [More…]

• ‘Is there a man amongst us who would say that we should put this country into hock to the tune of $ 1,000m? [More…]

• What does that mean in simple layman’s terms? [More…]

• This was pointed out by a man from the Brisbane Stock Exchange, one of the few people in the Government ranks who know what they are talking about on the subject of monetary policy. [More…]

• Only one man joined him in the decision, and that was the Leader of the House. [More…]

• This man who has owned up to a quarter of a million misappropriation in companies which he manages - [More…]

• There again, we know that he takes advice from the man who presided over the biggest company crash in this country- a man who himself misappropriated $900,000. [More…]

• Within the Government ranks and within the circles of Australia’s financial institutions, people are saying quite clearly: ‘We do not want this man who is a power unto himself; we want a concensus leader. [More…]

• He is our man as the Speaker of this chamber. [More…]

• I can understand a man who wants to buy a domestic motor car having the choice of whether to buy a humble Holden or a grandiose Mercedes, but he would be foolish if, having bought his motor car, he did not set aside something year by year to buy the next one when he felt he wanted to do so. [More…]

• The only favourable comment made by honourable members opposite on my performance as Treasurer is that at some time I said that an increase in one man’s wages may be to the detriment of another man’s employment. [More…]

• Surely everyone of us here knows that we would be a pretty primitive community if we relied on man power instead of horse power? [More…]

• The industrial revolution occurred early in England and later in Germany, and it occurred in a different way in France. [More…]

• If any man in this chamber knows what that means it is the Minister at the table. [More…]

• The philosophy of the National Country Party seems to be one of crumbs from the rich man’s table- a ruthless rotten sell-out. [More…]

• Fortunately the manner and behaviour of people on this side of the House does not stoop that low. [More…]

• I believe that this attack by a man who holds himself as an alternative Prime Minister is about as low as any individual can hope to go in the House. [More…]

• I only hope that the honourable gentleman, were he to find himself in similar circumstances; would be prepared to stand up in the same way. [More…]

• I rather doubt that he would be man enough to do so. [More…]

• The honourable member has as much interest in the outback of Queensland as has the man in the moon. [More…]

• In the first six months of this year the total number of days lost through industrial disputes was very much less than in 1974 when, for example, instead of 700,000 or 800,000 days being lost, something over four million man days were lost as a direct consequence of the activities of the previous Administration. [More…]

• Where was the policy announcement, where was the mandate to give directions of this type? [More…]

• Is it just to suit the personality cult of one man? [More…]

• -My colleague the honourable member for Bowman says that he is a fine chap and that we get on marvellously well with him. [More…]

• Naturally the Prime Minister, being the fair minded and reasonable man that he is, responded in the affirmative. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith is a broad-minded and fairminded man. [More…]

• This could involve a little school in the electorate of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman). [More…]

• The suggestion that in some way the representation involved in great areas, particularly rural districts, needs to be offset by damaging the democratic principle of one man, one vote, one value relates to another responsibility of the Department of Administrative Services, and that is the facilities made available to members of parliament. [More…]

• It is beyond me that anyone could reasonably suggest that it will be possible for one man to represent what will virtually be the two existing electorates rolled into one. [More…]

• It is beyond me that anyone could reasonably suggest that it will be possible for one man to represent what will virtually be the two existing electorates rolled into one. [More…]

• One honourable member in the House will recognise these words when I recall them, because they were said by a senior Opposition spokesman when in government. [More…]

• He made reference to one man’s pay rise costing another man his job. [More…]

• Yet here is a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a man commissioned by the Australian Labor Party Government, whose commission has been continued by the Fraser Government, making that assessment as one of his key findings and as one of the assumptions upon which he goes on to make every other finding in his abridged report. [More…]

• Indeed, Mr Risstrom is an eminent man in this field. [More…]

• As you know, Mr Deputy Chairman, I had some association with the profession in the three years during which I was not in this House. [More…]

• I believe it is a vital aspect of Reserve Bank management of those credit facilities which it is constitutionally able to control. [More…]

• But I believe it must be looked at closely for it would be a brave man who forecast with any degree of confidence that our banking system deposits are going to see any large replenishment from external account during the current financial year. [More…]

• Though I do not wish to appear to be pessimistic, I believe that an intelligent and vital reassessment of the management of statutory reserve deposits should be a vital part of this Government’s monetary policy in the months ahead. [More…]

• I said that one man’s wage increase can cost another man’s employment. [More…]

• I did not say that every man’s wage increase could be responsible for all the unemployment. [More…]

• He seemed to resile from his statement that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• I think that in the months to come we shall see the Government moving to assist further people in small businesses and the man on the land. [More…]

• For many years he was editor of the Australian Law Journal. [More…]

• The small number of judges who man it have an exceptionally wide variety of matters coming before each of them. [More…]

• Australia could not be better represented at these important international meetings than by Mr Justice Fox, who, I believe, already has secured the respect, indeed the admiration, of all sections of the Australian community and of many people overseas for the way that he conducted the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• The person who educated me in this particular matter was a man named Clarrie Fallon. [More…]

• He was a man who was dedicated completely to finding out just where the communist activities began and how to deal with them. [More…]

• The raid was made in most of the major cities of the world, according to Clarrie Fallon, a man of profound knowledge who was actively engaged in projecting what was happening throughout the world. [More…]

• Perhaps the greatest failure which we have seen in recent years in terms of Australia’s international relations rests wholly and solely on the performance of the previous Prime Minister of Australia in relation to the question of Timor. [More…]

• During his visit to Jakarta in September 1974 and President Suharto’s visit to Australia in April 1975 that man and his Government sold the right of Australia to hold its head high and to say that we are people of principle, regardless of which party is in government, and that we know where the rights of individuals for self-determination lie. [More…]

• It is the business of the United Nations Organisation, of which we are a part, and of the people of the world because the life or death of a Dutch or Indonesian soldier is just as important as that of any man anywhere in the world . [More…]

• I have no doubt that many honourable members in the House noted the discussions which took place the other evening on the television program This Day Tonight between members of the trade union movement and the Minister in Victoria. [More…]

• It is incredible that a man who was supposed to be solving a situation such as that could behave in that manner in public One could see that he was totally intransigent about it. [More…]

• Mr Acting Speaker, the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Birney) has already spoken in brief, miniscule form about the absolutely deplorable circumstances affecting a man called Mr Noel Latham at Broken Hill. [More…]

• Of course, like any sensible man, I have modified my views and adapted them to the course of changing events; but, on the whole, I think I can claim a consistency and coherence better than that of the Party itself. [More…]

• A man who had been stood down because of the current power dispute in Victoria asked: ‘What am I going to do? [More…]

• That man and 500,000 others in Victoria and perhaps 600,000 or 700,000 people throughout Australia are out of work because of the excesses of union power. [More…]

• It is time that the public interest was taken into account so that people such as that man in Greensborough, that man in Diamond Valley, can get a job. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country parties in this Parliament are now bordering on a philosophy that would outlaw altogether the right to strike and take us back to the feudal or slave days when the basic rights of man were taken away from him. [More…]

• In the past it has been understood that an ex-serviceman who contracted TB would be paid a pension. [More…]

• How the devil can a man who at 18, 19 or 20 years of age, went off to war full of patriotic fervour, and in his later years contracts tuberculosis prove that his tuberculosis is war-related? [More…]

• If a man uses up all of his sick pay- he does not get his sustenance payment- comes out of hospital, falls down the back steps at home and breaks his leg, he has no sick pay entitlements. [More…]

• No wonder the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), a man who is intensely interested in many rural electorates, is really stirred up about the way the distribution commissioners have treated country people. [More…]

• Rural people, whether they be in Tasmania or in your State of New South Wales, Mr Acting Speaker- I believe your electorate has been greatly increased- have not been given a fair go. [More…]

• We were on opposite political sides, and we disagreed very strongly on many issues. [More…]

• But he was a man who, I think, would have been appalled by the remarks made publicly by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) on the television program This Day Tonight and in the Wollongong area in which he accused the former Attorney-General of being a factor in Mr Connor’s death. [More…]

• The question I am raising is that for the Leader of the Opposition in such a cavalier manner to dismiss and reject his long-standing colleague in such a way and then to endeavour to drag the name of that man who has died into a by-election campaign in a situation in which he was endeavouring to attack the honourable member for Wentworth shows not only a lack of respect but also a level of political activity which I submit is far below the standards we should expect in this House. [More…]

• Without doubt Joe Riordan is a man held m the highest personal repute, a person who when he left Parliament was unable to go back to his former position. [More…]

• No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body or a rope long enough to hang his carcase with. [More…]

• Once branded and a man is marked for life. [More…]

• It stays with a man everywhere, it shadows his every footstep. [More…]

• That statement was probably the greatest piece of economic deception that this nation has met from a man of so-called responsibility. [More…]

• It is very disturbing to see that the man who ruled over the actual decline in the number of people at work- - [More…]

• It just shows the heartlessness of the man. [More…]

• Of course many other people in this country are in dire straits, but do not take it out on the people who are working in the car production factories. [More…]

• A paltry $ 100,000 is given on the basis that it might assist the man to produce a. car. [More…]

• If the manufacturers here are not interested in it they would have a competitor. [More…]

• No matter how grandiose the plans of man are in the overall planning area little will be achieved if we have insufficient working personnel to do the actual construction work. [More…]

• I am certain he will go because he is a very sympathetic and understanding man. [More…]

• I say with great conviction that I know of no man who has sat in this Parliament and enjoyed the affection and respect of all members of this House more than has the honourable member for Melbourne Ports. [More…]

• Perhaps there have been many men over the years who equally have been so favoured but I repeat: I know of no man who has more enjoyed the respect and affection of members of this place. [More…]

• I always remember that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports was one who said with great sagacity that there was never a reason for pursuing those things that might be more deep than they should be for the average man in this place. [More…]

• I was in this building in the mid-1960s as a private secretary to a man whom I respected very much indeed- the late Harold Holt. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman left his house in the western suburbs of Sydney and moved into Kirribilli House. [More…]

• It was converted to the personal mansion of the then Prime Minister. [More…]

• This was an outstanding record for a man who was meant to be running the country from Canberra. [More…]

• I personally do not object to the Prime Minister of Australia having a high status car, but I recall that when the Labor Government came to office some publicity was given to the fact that the honourable gentleman rejected the old Prime Ministerial Rolls Royce and went to a more modest Ministerial Ford LTD. [More…]

• Surely this is the action of a vain and insensitive man. [More…]

• I was once a moderately successful small businessman. [More…]

• In my electorate I was speaking a couple of days ago to a man running a general engineering firm which employs 100 people. [More…]

• It would seem that the Commissioner for Community Relations is in the privileged position of being the only man in Australia who can go around making racist utterances. [More…]

• He is the only man who can go around the country in that privileged position of being beyond investigation. [More…]

• It is most necessary that that change be made because many people in this country hold the view that Mr Grassby is the most racist minded person in Australia and is most unsuitable to hold the position of Commissioner. [More…]

• Here comes the little man. [More…]

• All these different qualities are brought to this country by the migrants and will help us develop as a unique, democratic society based on the widest degree of understanding of our fellow man. [More…]

• There are many problems associated with providing assistance to small business. [More…]

• It can vary from a one man operation to a factory employing 100 or more people. [More…]

• I recall to mind an event that the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) saw, as I did, on the occasion of the presentation of some awards to Greek children in my electorate only recently. [More…]

• After the members present had taken the opportunity to present trophies to young children whose ages ranged from five or six years through to 13 or 14 years, a Labor candidate, a young man who stood against me at the last election, was invited by the State Labor member to come forward. [More…]

• The Minister is a big man on dignity. [More…]

• I object to this attempt by the media in Australia to sell newspapers, to sell time on television, by means of fictitious stories about alleged Mafia activities being involved in the killing of one man in Griffith. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that he is involved in organised crime, but having been a barrister in Sydney and having been a man of the world in Sydney, I think he would agree with me that the proportion of people involved in criminal activities probably does not vary much between people of different racial origins. [More…]

• I am not up to resigning, because I think that as a young man I still have much energy and that I can do more by staying where I am. [More…]

• My imagination tells me that they are the sound of a man being raped by experts. [More…]

• He writes that it has become increasingly clear to him that many Europeans apply a highly selective approach to the principles of freer trade. [More…]

• Let us set out to see what we can get from that monster in the way of further trade in the manufactured products, because we will not get that customs union to change its attitude when it comes to the votes of the farmers having their sway. [More…]

• Too many EEC nations have their own equivalent of our own National Country Party barring the way to progress. [More…]

• Those minerals were not invented by man. [More…]

• They were not created by man’s creative and developed mind. [More…]

• They were not put there for exploitation by private enterprise, whether it be Utah, Clutha or Coal and Allied or whoever to enrich the few against the many. [More…]

• I learned years ago just after I came into this Parliament, from a man now dead and gone but who was employed by the New South Wales Coal Board, that there were vast coal resources in the Hunter Valley. [More…]

• It is shocking exploitation of man by man which if allowed to continue brings down people ‘s democracy. [More…]

• He fell victim to the sword of a man who will go down in history as the most divisive and destructive leader this nation has ever known. [More…]

• The late honourable member for Cunningham was a man with a vision, a man of whom all Australians could be proud, including the Deputy Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony), who, although he strongly disagreed with all that Mr Connor stood for, nevertheless greatly admired and respected him. [More…]

• Last but not least I refer to our old friend and colleague, the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), a man who undisputedly holds the respect and genuine affection of honourable members on both sides of this House. [More…]

• Australia needs to be united, but it is led by a man who consciously strives to divide it, a man whose whole political career has been promoted by his own destructively divisive tactics. [More…]

• He was the man who plotted the rise of John Grey Gorton to the Prime Ministership and, with just as easy a conscience, plotted Gorton’s downfall. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is a desperate man and he will use desperate measures to grasp at the ends he sets himself. [More…]

• The second speaker, the honourable member for Oxley, the aspiring Leader of the Opposition, said that the key issue was the successful economic management of the country. [More…]

• It was on 7 September last year that the honourable member for Oxley, the man who now stands out, wishing to be tapped on the shoulder to become Leader of the Opposition, started the first run on the Australian currency. [More…]

• -That is a comment from a man who does not have an axe to grind in this House. [More…]

• The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) and the Cabinet have spent many hundreds of man hours seeking answers to the grave problems confronting our farmers. [More…]

• I do not think many will. [More…]

• The prospect of increased fuel costs is one which must be faced by the whole of the country, of course, but there is an inbuilt inelasticity of demand for fuel on the farm. [More…]

• There is not much that the man on the land can do to save fuel. [More…]

• If I had been a man down there today I would have voted to continue the strike. [More…]

• From Indonesia there is General Ali Murtopo, Chief of Indonesia’s security and the man who was the project officer for the acquistion of East Timor. [More…]

• This man was responsible for the invasion of East Timor where up to 100,000 Timorese have been killed. [More…]

• From Australia there is to be Rod Carnegie, of Conzinc Riotinto, John Reid of James Hardie Asbestos who is also a director of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd as well as being chairman of the Australian-Indonesian Business Co-operation Committee and who applauded the Indonesian takeover of East Timor. [More…]

• From South Korea there is to be Kyung-won Kim, the assistant to dictator President Park and the man responsible for the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners. [More…]

• Home Affairs and the man in charge of mass detentions. [More…]

• From Thailand we are to have Thanat Khoman, former minister and top Central Intelligence Agency man. [More…]

• I thought he would be interested to know that 200 years ago Adam Smith, in his book The Wealth of Nations, celebrated the liberation of the working man. [More…]

• To him the right of a man to work where, when and how he wanted was the most important freedom of all. [More…]

• That was a somewhat more sensible time-table for a measure that would affect the lifestyle of every man, woman and dependant in a case where the family breadwinner relied on wages or salary for income. [More…]

• We all witnessed the history of the unfortunate man Krutulis. [More…]

• We know that the people who work for the Tramways Board said that they would refuse to work with this man. [More…]

• The same sort of thing applies to the man Latham from Broken Hill. [More…]

• Yet he took this man around to the courts of the land and succeeded nowhere. [More…]

• The man is still without employment because he still declined, having been persuaded by those who have a hatred of unions- that man I do not believe does have a hatred of unions- to face up to his responsibility as an employee in an establishment and take out his union membership. [More…]

• Increasingly, it is the title deed to full citizenship, more important than a birth certificate or a passport- an identity card, in fact, the only document which proves a man exists and has rights. [More…]

• I hope that with these amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act we can restore some rights and protection to the individual union man in this country who, I believe, overwhelmingly supports this legislation. [More…]

• He represents a type of man universally condemned in any other sphere of human activity. [More…]

• Why then do we find that Mr Ken Stone, who we all concede is an intelligent man, has urged the workers to go back to work? [More…]

• At present the Social Services Act provides that a married woman is not entitled to sickness benefit if it is reasonably possible for her husband to maintain her. [More…]

• In future a married woman will be able to qualify for a sickness benefit on the same basis as a married man. [More…]

• The effect of this is that a married man may receive sickness benefit up to the maximum single rate of $47.10 a week, irrespective of his wife’s income. [More…]

• To illustrate, under the new system a man with a wholly dependent wife will not pay any levy unless his taxable income is $5,087 or more. [More…]

• Many children of poor parents attend even level 2 schools. [More…]

• But many children of poor parents attend level 2 schools. [More…]

• A fireman has two children attending a level 2 school. [More…]

• That man is on a very limited salary. [More…]

• This may be so, although I think that, if a man of the energy and ability of Mr Burn’s takes the opportunity to develop programs broadly in an exhaustive and industrious way and seeks to disseminate those policies in new ways in the electorate, he is entitled to coverage. [More…]

• If we can move ahead with confidence in such a way that industrial unrest and the disruption created by a few people within the work force can be overcome, the average Australian working man will benefit by the confidence and the sense of security which this Government has brought to him. [More…]

• I speak with humility that I should be here in place of the late Rex Connor, Australia ‘s first Minister for Minerals and Energy, a man who directed the attitudes of my Party and the nation to a correct appreciation of the need for public participation in and public ownership of our great national resources. [More…]

• -At 3.47 p.m. today Mr Charlie Oliver was expelled from the Australian Workers Union on the casting vote of Edgar Williams, a man who is not fit to wipe his boots, for no better reason than that Oliver moved to give the rank and file of his union the right to elect a new general secretary and a new president. [More…]

• He wants to give to AWU members in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria the same high level of awards and rights of participation in the affairs of the union as AWU members enjoy in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania. [More…]

• Mitchell’s only opponent has now been expelled from the union which he has served so faithfully for all of the working years of his life on the casting vote of the very man whose position is under challenge by Oliver’s colleague. [More…]

• The man whose casting vote was used to expel this great Australian this great Laborite and this great unionist from the position he has held for so many years of his working life was a man whose own position is under challenge by Oliver’s colleague. [More…]

• That man had the audacity to use his own - [More…]

• The members will then feel that they have no alternative but to vote for the man who used his casting vote to put one of his rivals out of office. [More…]

• Mitchell and Williams believe and hope that as a result of expelling this man there will rest upon his good name and reputation a dark cloud which will suggest that he has done one or more of the things which the Act states has to be proved before anybody can be expelled from a union. [More…]

• I endorse the remarks that the honourable member for Hindmarsh made about this man truly being one of the noble men of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]

• That afternoon his employer told him that since the indentures had now arrived he, the employer, found that he would not be able to allow the young man one day a week off for him to go to technical college, despite the fact that we all know he would have allowed that 15 months earlier. [More…]

• That young man finished on the Friday. [More…]

• To compound the problem, the Department then told the young man: ‘Do not worry too much. [More…]

• So here we have $126 a week of taxpayers’ money given to an employer when a young man 15 months into his career as he thought, wrongly, and 15 months into what he thought was an apprenticeship, is sacked. [More…]

• The way he conducted himself tonight proves that he is the most arrogant man in the House. [More…]

• I rise tonight to pay tribute to a person whose requiem mass a number of members of this House will attend tomorrow, Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy, who was a very significant figure in this country. [More…]

• I point out to the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) that it was the decision taken by this great man that perhaps has left the Australian Labor movement in the form in which it is. [More…]

• Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy would never have been as dishonest as to belong to the National Civic Council and to try to undermine the traditions of the Australian Labor movement. [More…]

• He advised those people who went to him for advice against joining what was erupting as a very reactionary right wing movement in Victoria, led by the late Archbishop Mannix and by Bob Santamaria. [More…]

• Not only was he an inspiration to the people of his own Church but also in a political sense history will show him to be a very wise man. [More…]

• Man has not yet tamed or conquered it. [More…]

• It is still a new frontier for man. [More…]

• I am not a racing man, but I understand that Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Ltd built a computerised automatic totalisator for the Sydney racecourses, it was installed in May or June last year and it has broken down innumerable times. [More…]

• I would like to spend a few minutes on what I believe to be the key weapon in war or in peace, that is, man- the serviceman or servicewoman, whether he be a Regular, a Reserve- Citizen Force- soldier or perhaps even the school cadet. [More…]

• In this regard I believe that this place has been remiss over many years in using the Services as no more than a political football. [More…]

• The serviceman has been seen as a vote rather than as the very key to the survival of this country in any future emergency. [More…]

• I believe that we have got to the point where we have denigrated the serviceman to the extent that he does not even appear on the streets of this country in uniform unless he is ordered to do so. [More…]

• It is up to this Parliament- both sides of this Parliament- to make moves to give back to the serviceman his position in society. [More…]

• I want to say something about the cowardice of the Tasmanian Government in the face of procommunist left wing victimisation of a young apprentice named Chris Symons who works for the tasmanian Railways at the Launceston railway workshops in the electorate of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• This young man is an apprentice. [More…]

• What happened to this young man? [More…]

• Dithering Doug, the Deputy Premier of Tasmania, has not been prepared to come forward and defend the right of this young apprentice not to join a union. [More…]

• Not the least important task of the Labor Party is to stop this man breaking up our nation, a man who by his obsessions and his schoolboy prejudices and obsessive psychology has divided this country class against class, section against section, region against region in a way never before attempted in Australia’s history. [More…]

• In other words, this man from Suva who sought to have the activities of Khoury properly investigated got the rubbish from the Law Society of New South Wales. [More…]

• The key factor that made the Brisbane rally different from rallies everywhere else in Australia was the so-called law that is the work of one man, the Premier of Queensland. [More…]

• Any appointment to the bench has to be a practical man. [More…]

• Because the honourable member for Grayndler is an honourable man he has decided he will run for the seat of St George. [More…]

• Indeed they come from the lips of a man without an axe to grind. [More…]

• He still has his Lilley, but he was so moved by the stories in wide circulation in Queensland- I see the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Jull) nodding his head in agreement- that he drew the attention of this place to what has happened in our State. [More…]

• I assure the House that whilst I face a new future in a new seat, what has been done to Griffith is an event that should not be allowed to be repeated anywhere in this country, whether it is done to a Labor man or a Liberal man. [More…]

• Labor will get 90 per of the vote in Sydney, but we will have a safe Liberal seat for a tired, weary old man who ought to be discredited by bis own party. [More…]

• I wish to pay my respects to a man who has, I believe, fulfilled his office with a great degree of responsibility. [More…]

• The present Governor-General is one who has understood the importance of the Australian Constitution, something that cannot be said for a great many members of the Labor Party in this country and this Parliament. [More…]

• I point out to the House the near impossibility of any one man handling those two heavy portfolios. [More…]

• I want to pay a tribute to a person I have known for a few years, Mr Gordon Albert Kelso, who is a good, solid Labor man and who would support tie Labor Party. [More…]

• Mr Kelso is an admirable man. [More…]

• I want to pay a small tribute to this gentleman who has seen a passing parade of many famous identities in Sydney. [More…]

• I intended to quote two other passages in which the Leader of the Opposition praised the honourable member for Oxley and said what a great man he was on economic matters; how he had saved the country previously; how the country owed him a debt of honour; and how the country could look forward to taking his advice for many years to come. [More…]

• Of course it came as a very great surprise to Australia and, no doubt, the rest of the world when last night the Leader of the Opposition, in answer to a direct question, which incidentally emanated from a Tasmanian, proclaimed that the doctor, ‘Dr’ Hayden, the doctor of economic recovery in this country had been deregistered and had been banished from economic matters. [More…]

• Heaven forbid, but the man whom this House convicted of economic subversion- we know what those words mean, Mr Deputy Speaker- is actually to be put in charge of the defence of this country. [More…]

• I find it inconceivable that any man condemned by this House for economic subversion could be regarded as a fit or proper person - [More…]

• I simply make the point that it seems inconceivable to me that any man who has been censured by this House in accordance with the words of that motion, which is indeed public property, could even be considered to be put in charge of the defence of this country. [More…]

• I suggest that there is a clear and demonstrable link between the Parliament’s censure of the honourable member for Oxley and his removal from the post of economic spokesman for the Labor Party. [More…]

• Today’s matter of public importance, I regret to say, is being brought before the House by a man who at every turn has tried to undermine the Australian economy. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley is a man who cannot stand the heat of the Treasury kitchen. [More…]

• Why has this matter not been brought forward by the man whom I understand to be the shadow Treasurer, the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford)? [More…]

• It is a further indication of the divided and discredited group of misfits led by yesterday’s man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley was the man who triggered speculation against the Australian dollar by his grossly irresponsible comments on 7 September last year. [More…]

• I ask the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), who will follow me, to say whether the honourable member for Oxley in this debate is saying that the Opposition would bring back the coal excise levy or whether it would abolish the investment allowance which the honourable gentleman, I recall, is on the record as saying that it would. [More…]

• These papers have now been received, but it is hypocrisy for a former Treasurer, a man who showed no interest in the subject when in government, to be critical of the present Administration. [More…]

• I do not want to go into the details regarding the Utah organisation, the Ford organisation or any other organisation, except to say that the honourable gentleman, with his socialistic aspirations, would obviously seek to re-introduce the coal export levy in relation to Utah, would withdraw the investment allowance and would put up the communist Seamen’s Union against Utah. [More…]

• There is no doubt that we are well on the way to restoring full economic health to the economy and that 1978 will be the best year of economic performance in more than five years. [More…]

• We- every man and woman on this side of the House and the Senate- deplore the constant attacks by the Opposition and its desire to pursue a destructive campaign with the intent of talking down Australia. [More…]

• The ASIA also is responsible for a variety of other payments to waterside workers in smaller, non-permanent ports- for instance, sick leave, annual leave, attendance money and so on. [More…]

• For various reasons the funds raised by the ASIA through the charge imposed on man hours worked have been nowhere near sufficient to meet the accrued obligations of the ASIA in respect of payments to waterside workers. [More…]

• The reason for this deficit seems partly to be the failure of governments to adjust the charge to keep pace with wage costs and partly the fact that the charge is based on man hours rather than tonnage. [More…]

• Many of them at that time were approaching 75 years of age. [More…]

• This pension demand led to the Woodward conference, an all inindustry conference, which by 1968 had come up with a permanency proposal which was eventually implemented. [More…]

• The inhuman casual system on the waterfront was finished forever by 1968. [More…]

• 1 think I should pay a tribute to the General Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, Mr Charles Fitzgibbon, at this time, because I know that no other man in the industry fought harder than he did for an end to the casual system. [More…]

• Permanency, as it was then known, set up a system under which men were placed in operational companies. [More…]

• Further to provide for the rise and fall of labour demands, labour pools were set up under the administration of the Stevedoring Employers of Australia Ltd, the idea being that they would form a backup labour force. [More…]

• When the maritime workers were given the opportunity to vote for its continuation or otherwise, to a man they voted to abolish it. [More…]

• Costs per man hour on the waterfront have increased from $8.90 at the end of June 197S to $14.46 at the end of June 1977. [More…]

• The justification for this change was that a bachelor earning, say, $ 1 70 a week has a much greater capacity to bear the tax burden than does a man supporting a wife and children on the same amount. [More…]

• This House, to its shame, for a long time has forgotten the real interests of the family man. [More…]

• They were formulated when the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was the Opposition’s spokesman on industrial matters in 1974 and was given a research assistant paid for by Mr Keith Compton Gale, the man who has bilked one of Australia’s oldest, best established and most respected companies to the extent of over $900,000 and who presided over the greatest company crash in Australia’s history. [More…]

• He knew that the Liberal Party secretariat did not have the assistance of the research officer- the man provided by Gale- in the preparation of its official industrial relations policy. [More…]

• I really do not know what political advantage the Leader of the Opposition thinks he is getting out of reinforcing what the Australian working man already knows if he is out of a job- that he is out of a job because of the Whitlam era. [More…]

• The Australian working man knows who got rid of his job. [More…]

• After those three years many people changed their vote; many Australian working men who had always voted Labor decided that they would not support the Labor Party any longer. [More…]

• Perhaps they will revert to voting for Labor at some time in the future if they see the true Labor personality coming out-if they see the true personality of a man who is prepared, as we are, to stand up and fight for the working men of Australia. [More…]

• I suppose I would have to admit that democracy demands a reasonable alternative, but we do not have one. [More…]

• In the words of a previous Treasurer: One man’s wage increase is another man’s job? [More…]

• The Master Builders Federation of Australia in today’s Bulletin also has commended the Federal Government The working man of Australia who knows that this country needs the old fashioned stability that we had for so many years also knows on which side his bread is buttered. [More…]

• The average working man knows that there is no stability under Labor and that is the way he will see it on 10 December. [More…]

• It cannot even provide a twelfth man. [More…]

• He is too preoccupied with whether he is economic spokesman for the Opposition, whether he is to take the portfolio of Treasurer, the portfolio of economic manager or the portfolios of Defence and Foreign Affairs combined. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Oxley has visited the central Queensland coal fields that are operated by Utah, as I understand he has, I am surprised and ashamed that this man can put forward such a story. [More…]

• In many ways it is the richest of all the States. [More…]

• It has everything ping for it yet it is the only claimant State. [More…]

• It is a case of the man who is selfishly following his own interests being able to get something at the expense of the national interest. [More…]

• Some 1 5 1 ,000 man days were lost. [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations consider a scheme whereby unemployed people could receive a day’s wages by the Government inviting them to man the polling booths for the various political parties on 10 December? [More…]

• Perhaps he is seeking to com- pete with a television program and would like to e called the Three Billion Dollar Man. [More…]

• Congratulations to the honourable member; he stood over his Minister and Reg will give him a pat on the back and say: ‘Well done my man; good man. [More…]

• He did not do as well as the honourable member for Bowman. [More…]

• Someone once said that a politician who plays with trains, boats and planes is a man of whom one should be extremely careful. [More…]

• I refer to the manipulations that were going on behind the scenes under the Labor Government; the establishment of the Department of the Media and the ferretting in which it used to engage. [More…]

• But for goodness’ sake, why send a man on an inquiry if he is not allowed to make a recommendation or report on what he has done, what he has heard and what he has seen during the inquiry. [More…]

• The Minister is a reasonable man. [More…]

• A political party in desperate trouble and possibly with a man Uke the honourable member for Gippsland as Minister in charge of the legislation, could take such action. [More…]

• The BUI ought to be cast in a manner which will permit the independence of the Special Broadcasting Service and which will not under any circumstances allow a Minister to take action which would even give any hint of being a direction on program material and content. [More…]

• The position of Prime Minister of this country is such that no man can lay down his case and purport that case to be true when in fact it is not true without the people being advised to that effect. [More…]

• There are other opportunities which I may take if I am not heard properly and in the way in which I think the man representing the people of Wills ought to be heard. [More…]

• My firm conviction is that the representative of the people of Wills ought to have as much right to speak in this House as the man who represents the people of Wannon. [More…]

• Can the man not read? [More…]

• Everybody should look at the alternative, look at the man who was there for only two years and who has already acknowledged that if he were to be elected he would be only a lame duck Prime Minister, not a man there for the full term, not a man who wants to stay but a man who wants to get out. [More…]

• They are intent on leading people into a totally false belief on the overall state of the man’s capacity in government. [More…]

• It is important that the Australian people remember that the commentary I am now giving from a Reader’s Digest analysis of what happened in the Australian economy over those years is the sort of view that the average man or woman in other countries is getting of the Australian status under a Labor government. [More…]

• (1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears- ‘ beneficiary ‘ means a person in receipt of a benefit; ‘benefit’ means a benefit under this Part, and includes an allowance by way of supplementary assistance; ‘child’ means a child under the age of 16 years; ‘supporting father’ means a man (whether married of unmarried) who- [More…]

• of whom that man is the father; or [More…]

• ii) in the case of a man who is a married man living apart from his wife or a man who has ceased to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her-who was an adopted child of, or in the custody, care and control of, that man on the relevant date; [More…]

• in the case of a married man- is living apart from his wife and has been so living apart for a period of at least 6 months, but does not include a man who is qualified to receive a pension under Pan III, or a benefit under Part VII, of this Act, a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920 or an allowance under the Tuberculosis Act 1948 or is in receipt of a benefit provided by a State that, in the opinion of the Director-General, is similar to a benefit provided by the State that is an approved benefit within the meaning of the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1968; ‘supporting mother’ means a woman (whether married or unmarried) who- [More…]

• in the case of a woman who is a married woman living apart from her husband or a woman who has ceased to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him- was an adopted child of, or in the custody, care and control of, that woman on the relevant date; [More…]

• is not living with, and for a period of at least 6 months has not been living with, a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him; and [More…]

• the date on which the woman ceased, or last ceased, to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him; and [More…]

• a woman shall be deemed not to be, or not to have been, living with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him, being a man who has been convicted of an offence, during any period during which the man is, or was, imprisoned in connexion with the offence, being a continuous period of not less than 6 months, whether or not the period commenced before the conviction. [More…]

• the relevant date, in relation to a man referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of that definition, is whichever of the following dates is applicable to the man, or if both dates are so applicable, the later date: [More…]

• the date on which the man commenced to live apart from his wife; [More…]

• the date on which the man ceased, or last ceased, to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her, and [More…]

• b) a man shall be deemed not to be, or not to have been, living with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her, being a woman who has been convicted of an offence, during any period during which the woman is, or was, imprisoned in connexion with the offence, being a continuous period of not less than 6 months, whether or not the period commenced before the conviction. [More…]

• a reference to a man who is living apart from his wife shall be read as a reference to a man who is so living apart by reason that he and his wife are estranged. [More…]

• in the case of a man who is a supporting father in relation to a child of whom he is the father- that child was born in Australia and that man was residing in Australia at the time of that birth; [More…]

• in the case of a woman who has ceased to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him- she was residing in Australia immediately before she so ceased or last so ceased; [More…]

• in the case of a man who has ceased to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her- he was residing in Australia immediately before he so ceased or last so ceased; [More…]

• a beneficiary, being a woman, commencing to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him; or [More…]

• a beneficiary, being a man commencing to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), a man of compassion and concern for the underprivileged, is on record on many occasions advancing the proposition that, in justice, lone fathers should have the same entitlement as lone mothers. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman should know that the promises made so far by Labor in relation to expenditure on the hospital development program, the sewerage program, growth centres, area improvement programs, die Australian Assistance Plan, tourist development, community assistance for leisure facilities, the program to reduce unemployment, national compensation, aged persons’ accommodation, Medibank, the reintroduction of petrol price equalisationabolished by the Labor Government- extra government funds for the beef industry, expansion of migrant education services, ethnic radio and television stations, expansion of telecommunications research, the establishment of overseas agricultural services, together with the substantial additional funds promised in relation to education, total about $3 billion. [More…]

• Really, the $3 billion man is starting pretty well. [More…]

• The Australian people have far too much sense to be seduced by bribes, and the honourable gentleman is the greatest briber in the history of Australia. [More…]

• A number of extraordinary statements were made at a seminar in the honourable gentleman’s electorate at the weekend by the man who was principally responsible for those changes as Minister for Agriculture. [More…]

• It is rather interesting that this man, having requested to be relieved of his shadow portfolio during the term that the Labor Party has been in Opposition, and having served in another area- the shadow portfolio has changed hands at least once since that senator has retired from the post; a member of this House is now the Labor spokesman on primary industry- now purports to speak on behalf of the Labor Party presumably in the field of agriculture. [More…]

• I also see again that the spokesman is setting a pattern which was so typical of the Labor Party when in government. [More…]

• The man who is the spokesman for the Labor Party on tariff matters is known from newspaper reports and his statements in this House to have a responsible attitude towards employment. [More…]

• Yet a spokesman for the Labor Party apparently decided that he would remove all tariffs and presumably - [More…]

• I sought to identify the fact that in his speech at the weekend this gentleman quite obviously took a different point of view from some others within his party. [More…]

• I think that primary producers need to recognise that this man’s concern for the genuine opportunities of primary producers - [More…]

• In 1973-74, the first full year of the Labor Government, a total of over one million man days was lost through industrial disputes. [More…]

• I am quite sure that all members of my party will join me when I express gratitude for the tremendous contribution that the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) has made in the whole realm of education. [More…]

• It is a pity that his party did not recognise as fully as it should have the outstanding quality of this man’s abilities. [More…]

• We can become a large-scale exporter of beef, but beef is still the rich man’s food. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I would not have entered this debate but for the erroneous remarks made by a man whom I respect very much-the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean). [More…]

• He is a city man; he is a financial man, I am sure. [More…]

• He is not a cattle man. [More…]

• Of course, we do export manufacturing beef to the United States; let us face it. [More…]

• This is one of the great problems of the National Country Party’s great man years ago, Mr McEwen. [More…]

• It recommended this protection for consumers and was strongly of the view that the definition of ‘consumer’ ought to be broadened to protect a number of business transactions, in particular those involving the small businessman. [More…]

• He is the man who will be most affected by this negation of liability. [More…]

• Is it not fair and reasonable that any small businessman who buys one of these appliances from IBM or the like should be entitled to recover damages, if he suffers damages, and should not have to face the issue, particularly in a monopoly field where, perhaps he needs this sort of hardware and has to buy it under a contract which says: ‘If there is a problem in the sense that that machine does not stand up to what you will think it will do, it will not be our responsibility. [More…]

• So the big man is always protected and the Utile man always suffers. [More…]

• Senior Government officials were reported as saying: ‘The principle is that if it is reasonable to protect the ordinary consumer, then is it not reasonable to protect the business man who is not expert in what he is buying for his own use- that is, not trading stock or raw materials’. [More…]

• In that time many of the beautiful buddings that were created by man were destroyed because of greed and stupidity and of course because of that bulldozer mentality. [More…]

• It was only after the Labor Government set up the Hope inquiry into the National Estate that there was any real change in the attitude to preserving some of our national heritage whether man-made or by nature. [More…]

• We do not wish to manipulate. [More…]

• Rather, we want to work with the States so that man can live with the environment and does not become a victim of his own misuse of it. [More…]

• In this year’s Budget, due to the efforts of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) $2.55m was allocated for the National Estate. [More…]

• I understand that certain grants have been announced for Tasmania. [More…]

• Many organisations and people currently are waiting to hear whether their particular enterprise has been granted some financial assistance. [More…]

• There even is employed there a man who can recreate the old transport buggies, make wheels and carry out that wonderful old trade of blacksmithing. [More…]

• We have, again in the enlarged electorate of Maranoa, a wonderful display which represents the interests of a man in gathering together native flora and fauna. [More…]

• There is there an area of land growing all the well known trees and many of the shrubs of Australia, gathered personally by him when he and other people interested in the project crossed Australia from east to west. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to bring out national policies in two ways, not only in the manner of spending money, about which I have been commenting, but also in the matter of overseeing the importation of chemicals. [More…]

• It is both distressing and displeasing to note that man has wrought great damage by the indiscriminate use of chemicals. [More…]

• We are concerned that unless something is done to overcome the clogging up of the roads and to rid us of the fumes that are being exhausted into the air by uncontrolled transport, man will reach a situation where in effect he will be suffocated by the things he has created. [More…]

• His record in standing for eight elections and coming back on each occasion effectively is, I think, a tribute to the man and his representation. [More…]

• The wheat seats have always been fairly active in their support for their own particular cause and the man who has been able to hold the support of those who sometimes are advocating differing causes, I believe deserves particular mention. [More…]

• In particular to my colleagues the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), the honourable member for Lalor, (Dr J. F. Cairns) and to two close friends I have on the Government side, the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) and the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King) and to other members, I wish them well in their retirement or in their attempts to come back to Parliament. [More…]

• It has been for me as a young man in Parliament a great privilege to have had the benefit of eight years of the company and companionship of the honourable member for Fremantle, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports and the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]

• When you come to Parliament as a young man you always seek to gather experience quickly, but that is something that comes to you over a long period of time and the only way of short-circuiting the system is to take the advice and have the camaraderie of other men. [More…]

• Some 19 years ago I stood in this place a very nervous but proud man to make my maiden speech as a representative of the well known seat of Wimmera in Victoria. [More…]

• There is only one consolation, that is, that I am handing over my seat to four very capable members-my colleague and very close friend, Peter Fisher, John Bourchier, Jim Short and no less a man than the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• I take this opportunity to thank many members of this Parliament- I include members of all three parties; but naturally I make particular reference to the members of my own party, including its leader, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony)- for their great assistance and cooperation over the years. [More…]

• I have made many friends in this place. [More…]

• I make special reference to one man who I believe stands out in particular, and that is Mr Gordon Pike. [More…]

• To use an old Australian cliche, he is a real white man. [More…]

• I am sure that when that man retires he will be missed greatly. [More…]

• He is a man who understands the needs, the problems and the aspirations of the people of the City of Prahran which we have served jointly. [More…]

• He was too much of a gentle.man I think, for the people with whom he was dealing. [More…]

• He was too much of a gentleman for that. [More…]

• I think that other members have missed something by not having heard me give what until now has been a ritualistic kind of diatribe, as he called it, to let members know what a magnificent man we have with us. [More…]

• I pay a tribute also to the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• In my view, the honourable member for Fremantle has the ability and the clearness of mind to portray the real issues which are resolved in this Parliament. [More…]

• In addition, he is a highly moral man. [More…]

• He is a man with long service in two parliaments- 9 years in the State Parliament of Victoria and 8 years in the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• He has served as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• By his service in this Parliament he has shown that he is a man who displays maturity of judgment and is not given to precipitate action. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition spent much time belittling the man whose nomination I have had the honour to second. [More…]

• I second the nomination of my friend, the honourable member for Scullin, a man of great resource and infinite capacity. [More…]

• My friend from Scullin is a man of infinite capacity and the right honourable member for Bruce is capable of anything. [More…]

• He is a man who brings to this Parliament 17 years of experience in two parliaments. [More…]

• The Honourable Sir John Armstrong Spicer was a man who, throughout his long and distinguished public life, both inside and outside the Parliament, contributed greatly to the dignity of each position he held. [More…]

• Sir John Spicer was a man of great personal integrity and humanity and he readily gained the respect and admiration of all those who came in contact with him. [More…]

• Allan Fraser was a man of principle in the true sense of the word, holding steadfast to his beliefs despite objections from some of his own party or from others and despite whatever consequences might have followed the holding of those beliefs. [More…]

• On his discharge in 1943 he returned to farming, becoming deputy chairman of the Young Pasture Protection Board. [More…]

• He possessed in his manner that rare combination of quiet dignity and friendly disposition. [More…]

• Ian Pettitt was indeed a man who not only was well-liked by those whom he represented but was also a valuable colleague to those of us in the Parliament and particularly to his fellow members of the National Country Party. [More…]

• Former Senator Mattner was a man well known to many members who still serve the Parliament. [More…]

• My enduring memories of former Senator Mattner are of an eternally cheerful and ever-helpful man who was always bustling about in what seemed to be a most industrious way. [More…]

• He was a man of great courage who achieved the respect of this institution. [More…]

• We served together for many years in Parliament before his retirement. [More…]

• In all he served this institution for more than a quarter of a century which is a record that not many of us are able to achieve, although most of us would wish that we could achieve it. [More…]

• He had a difficult electorate for a Labor man yet continually he held it over a fairly lengthy period. [More…]

• 1 remember his telling me and many others too in the coffee room on one occasion that having lost the seat, against his wishes he was determined to regain it; he did so in 1969 and having done that he was prepared to retire. [More…]

• That small vignette gives an insight into the man’s toughness, his determination, and his make-up. [More…]

• He was a diligent and respected member of Parliament, a man for whom I had a great deal of respect. [More…]

• Allan Fraser was a man I respected because of the effectiveness with which he presented his case. [More…]

• He was a man of principle. [More…]

• He was a man who gave public service even after he retired from Parliament. [More…]

• He continued to participate in many of the public organisations in Canberra. [More…]

• He was a good man through and through. [More…]

• He certainly worked as a dedicated man to try to be the best possible parliamentary representative for the electorate of Hume. [More…]

• He was a man who contributed both through the Young Pastures Protection Board and in this chamber because of his intense knowledge of agriculture and stock breeding. [More…]

• He was an extremely popular man throughout the Adelaide Hills and particularly in the Barossa Valley. [More…]

• People in the Barossa Valley were very proud of Senator Manner’s war record and achievements. [More…]

• He worked very closely with my father on manpower problems towards the end of World War II. [More…]

• I always regarded him as a man of tremendous humanity and terriffic popularity in the electorate. [More…]

• Senator Manner’s attributes were his great humour, his tremendous popularity because of his inimitable sense of humour and his deep and abiding patriotism and love for his nation. [More…]

• I know his children and many of his relatives and I appreciate the opportunity to express my regret at his death and to support the motion before the House. [More…]

• He maintained a facility for the personal touch which many politicians have not been able to achieve in the way in which he achieved it. [More…]

• He was a leader in the pastoral area; a man who brought his knowledge into the Parliament and used it well. [More…]

• Mr CHARLES JONES (Newcastle)-I have proposed the honourable member for Lyne, Philip Ernest Lucock, for the position of Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• In that time I have always found him to be a man who is prepared to argue his point as to what he thought should be the rulings of the Parliament. [More…]

• When I look through the Parliamentary Handbook and find the record of this man’s service and compare it with the record of the service of the Government’s nominee, I come to the conclusion, Mr Speaker, that you must be concerned to realise that when you are not in that chair the man who will take your place will be a man who has never occupied the position of Deputy Chairman in this place. [More…]

• We feel that when you are absent, Mr Speaker, this Parliament ought to have someone in the Chair, as well as a Chairman of Committees, who is able to give impartial judgments and rulings on points of order and on the conduct of members. [More…]

• For example, one can look at Hansard to see what was said about him when he was re-elected as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• The honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe) said that Mr Lucock, during his membership of the House of Representatives, demonstrated great ability, knowledge and capacity which qualified him for the appointment which this position of Chairman of Committees requires. [More…]

• So I have great pleasure in proposing Philip Ernest Lucock as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I note with concern the claims made concerning the antecedents of the Order of the White Cross and I should point out that it has been my understanding that this organisation was in fact simply the inoffensive creation of a man in my electorate and that it existed on a quite limited scale. [More…]

• In November 1975 the man who is now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised the people of Australia ‘to restore prosperity, defeat inflation and provide jobs for all’. [More…]

• That was the first of many promises to the Australian people which he has continually failed to keep. [More…]

• Our Prime Minister, the six billion dollar man, has provided no evidence to support his grandiose throw-away claims. [More…]

• But because the economy is operating far below capacity, the stimulus to demand from this source would take up only some of the slack productive capacity in industry without adding to employment. [More…]

• This only confirms what many people already believe- that the real purpose of the tax cuts was to pander to those special interest groups which fund the Liberal Party machine. [More…]

• Let us imagine the confidence of a middle aged or near middle aged man in employment who, on any pay-day, can receive a slip of paper in his pay packet terminating his services. [More…]

• Rather I have heard them stand regularly and at the drop of a hat give us a great diatribe about the number of man days lost through industrial disputes. [More…]

• I remind the House- these are the Minister’s own figures- that in 1971-72 the number of working days lost was 320,000 and a year later 360,000 and time lost through disability resulting from accidents rose from 840,000 man weeks in the previous year to just over one million man weeks in 1973-74. [More…]

• This is a far more serious problem in many ways than industrial disputes. [More…]

• Billy Snedden entered this Parliament some 23 years ago as a young man; he was in his twenties. [More…]

• I also congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on becoming the Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• As a Deputy Chairman of Committees I look forward to working closely with you in the coming parliamentary session. [More…]

• I am one of many honourable members on this side of the House who have criticised many of the policies which he and his Government expounded. [More…]

• But one would be less than fair if one did not say also that there were many good initiatives and innovations which he brought into effect which will be for the lasting good of Australia. [More…]

• He has been a man of considerable stature and I believe that this Parliament has been a better place for his membership of it. [More…]

• If we are to have a dictatorship by one man let us get rid of the tomfoolery of pretending that we have a democracy. [More…]

• All members opposite know that there is no future for a Liberal back bencher unless he is prepared to become a yes man to the Prime Minister of the day. [More…]

• ‘What can I do for this great man? [More…]

• ‘No, I would rather have the money’, says the man. [More…]

• He thinks he is so much greater than the rest of the Ministry that he treats them with the disdain that a man who is as great a man as he is made out to be ought to treat them. [More…]

• It does not give more relief to the big, affluent operator than it does to the small man as long as the small man has 200 head of cattle to treat. [More…]

• It is the affluent ones who in many cases have been putting 200 or more cattle in the name of each member of thenfamily so they can multiply this benefit accordingly. [More…]

• It is some months since I made a suggestion which I think is more equitable, fairer and more considerate of the man who is struggling to survive in an industry where he has been a viable and efficient producer. [More…]

• If the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs cannot persuade the Prime Minister and other Ministers to mend their ways, he should follow the honourable course which the honourable member for Wannon adopted on one occasion when he could not tolerate the actions of the man who put him into Cabinet. [More…]

• He is a sort of a factual man. [More…]

• One young man assured me that they were actually the words of the determination. [More…]

• Then amongst my records I managed to find a copy of the determination. [More…]

• I should have got on to my friend and technical and legal adviser, a man like the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr N. A. [More…]

• I received an acknowledgment from the Chairman, who said he would contact the others. [More…]

• Here we have a man who, after a miserable 3Vi years of office as GovernorGeneral, is qualified for a pension of more than $30,000 a year. [More…]

• The problem is not that the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) is an unreasonable man but rather that he is unreasoned. [More…]

• That indicated that a new bridge has been built, that members of the Opposition can accept Sir Zelman Cowen and that they themselves are not so much against the position as against a man. [More…]

• Whether their views are wrongly based is a subject which I will not canvass here today, but I believe that their actions on Tuesday underline what I said at the beginning when I referred to the heavy burden that Sir Zelman Cowen carries in restoring acceptance in our Westminster system and the system which goes back so far- right to the beginning of this nation and for many centuries in the mother country. [More…]

• A finer man, a man more gifted with humour, could hardly be found. [More…]

• This man is determined to create drama, melodrama and tension and is concerned with division and polarisation. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the day will come when the Prime Minister will endeavour to manipulate a situation so that he can call out the troops again. [More…]

• But it did a lot for the ego of Malcolm Fraser-this one man, this marshal, who can now say: ‘I will be able to overcome any problems. [More…]

• I think it is timely that we remind ourselves of the character of this man who leads us, because he is not, as is put by some honourable members opposite, a divisive character. [More…]

• His is not, as has been put by some honourable members opposite, the character of a man who has at heart the interests of only one group of the community. [More…]

• It is the character of a man who is dedicated, as all of us are, to govern in the interests of all Australia and to govern in the interests of all our constituents. [More…]

• Putting to one side the probable illegality of what he did, the situation raises a serious question about a man with authority which he assumed from a decision of the Executive Council. [More…]

• I think it is rather curious that a man in the situation of extending the authority should have assumed the authority. [More…]

• It places enormous power in the hands of a government and in the hands of one man if he is a powerful, influential and domineering man in that government. [More…]

• We discovered then that they could be shattered beyond repair at the instance of one man. [More…]

• The development of a ‘leisure society’ which may lead to a fundamental change in the relationship of man/woman and his/her work, and to a number of social problems such as boredom, alienation and anomie. [More…]

• I am glad to be able to serve in this Parliament with the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam), a man who will be remembered as one of the greatest Australians. [More…]

• If the Government is so lacking in morality, in human values, in understanding that man must have dignity, that the right to work is an inherent right of the individual, it is indeed a government which is both amoral and immoral. [More…]

• Under the RED scheme, if a man did not work, if he left the job, he did not receive his unemployment benefits. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that we say this is a government which does not understand basic human values, the dignity of work, the tremendous impact the ability to work has upon an individual. [More…]

• They readily flew an injured man a considerable distance so he could be returned, I think it was to Australia or New Zealand, for urgent medical treatment for a bleeding ulcer. [More…]

• Similarly, a few years ago they stopped trawling on one of their modern prawn trawlers in the Gulf of Carpentaria to go to the aid of a cargo boat that was wrecked in the Torres Strait and, in fact, rescued several survivors on a raft while many Craig Moyston fishing vessels, Australian owned and controlled, continued their profitmaking ventures with little regard for the safety of these wrecked seamen. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hunter tried to smear the character of an honourable man, a Minister in both the Thirtieth Parliament and the Thirty-first Parliament. [More…]

• I refer to the man who did such a magnificent job as Treasurer of this country in 1976 and 1977 and who has now taken on the responsibility for the portfolio of Industry and Commerce. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable member that this Australia of ours will be a better country with that man in the ministry than the people he reflected on at the end of his speech. [More…]

• I also wish to congratulate a fellow Queenslander, the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his appointment as Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker. [More…]

• I should also like to congratulate, through you and through Mr Speaker, the new Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen, a man I consider to be in part a Queenslander but above all an Australian. [More…]

• One man was a former member of this House for a number of years and represented the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• I have been very sad to read in a number of articles in the last few months reports that Australia does not have efficient manufacturing industries including the clothing, textile and footwear industries. [More…]

• I was recently at a factory that manufactures a very well known brand of singlets for men, women and children. [More…]

• Today, through efficient manufacturing, with the new plant and equipment which is now being utilised in this country, it takes 8V4 minutes to manufacture a dozen singlets. [More…]

• We produce a man’s shirt in this country in half the time it takes to manufacture one in Hong Kong. [More…]

• We are now in a position where with some of the plant and equipment which is being introduced into the Australian manufacturing sector- plant and equipment which has been imported from England and America which specialise in the manufacture of this machinery- we have extremely efficient textile, garment and footwear industries which need the degree of assistance in the form of quotas and tariffs which has been guaranteed to those industries by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on a number of occasions. [More…]

• Of course, had an Australian Labor Party government been elected to office those industries could have said goodbye to their futures and those many, many thousands of employees who have been actively involved in the manufacturing industry with their employers for a number of years would no longer be employed. [More…]

• I phoned the employment service in Charlotte Street and asked the manager whether there were any positions available in a smaller hospital, of which there are only a few in Brisbane. [More…]

• A staff member phoned the local Commonwealth Employment Service office which notified this man who then resigned from the Royal Brisbane Hospital and applied for the position. [More…]

• I must say that when the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) took over the portfolio I thought he was a Minister of goodwill and a man who was concerned about these tragic affairs. [More…]

• Sad to say, the man who is all things to all men, Foreign Minister Peacock, has succumbed to the pressure from his own bureaucrats and now has agreed to recognise the Indonesian takeover of East Timor. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs spoke about human relations at the United Nations only last year when he said: [More…]

• In fact, had the Bill not passed this House or had it been repealed by this House after we found that this gentleman had been appointed Prime Minister, there could have been no Supply to hold the election. [More…]

• No amount of extolling the virtues of the Governor-General will save this man from the judgment of history. [More…]

• This man was prepared to tear the fabric of Australian politics to pieces to get into office by what Steele Hall described as the sleazy road to power. [More…]

• These were the editorial headings directed at a man who does not take notice of editorials. [More…]

• This is the man who in 1975 hawked himself around every newspaper proprietor in the country and told them that he would not reject Supply unless he received their full editorial support in advance; and he got it. [More…]

• This is the man who said: ‘I will not move in the Parliament without your unqualified support’. [More…]

• Obviously, this man is now chronically and disastrously out of touch with Australian public opinion. [More…]

• There can be no national consensus with this man as Prime Minister. [More…]

• This is the man who talks consensus but who rules by division. [More…]

• It does not matter whether it is an election promise, a reply to questions asked in the Parliament or a statement of government intentions, this man will distort ad infinitum. [More…]

• He manipulated this man in 1975 and he manipulated him in 1977. [More…]

• The rest of the Cabinet, in the gutless fashion that we have become used to, of course knuckled under to the Prime Minister because they will want the odd appointment from the grand man when they decide to leave politics, as has Senator Bob Cotton and others. [More…]

• The disturbing fact which emerges from this situation is that this country is being run ruthlessly by one man. [More…]

• This man has the legislature and the Executive all wrapped up right under his foot. [More…]

• He now has the former Governor-General, who should be above poll.tical appointments, serving in a sinecure in Paris that is not worthy of the man or, for that matter, any member of this place. [More…]

• We have been listening to a rather hysterical performance by a person who obviously is obsessed with bitterness and hatred. [More…]

• The Labor Party is trying to make life impossible for a man who did what was right and proper for his country. [More…]

• But when this man saw the need to act, and to act correctly, that government turned against him. [More…]

• In fact, members of that government and its supporters have virtually exiled the man from this country. [More…]

• I believe that the performance of the Labor Party in the last few days in relation to this matter again shows that it is not prepared to change its ways. [More…]

• It needs a permanent official. [More…]

• He is a man who can admirably fill that job. [More…]

• One issue which seems to concern many people is the former Governor-General’s pension and salary he will receive in his new post. [More…]

• Would the Opposition have the Parliament pass special legislation now to allow it to pursue further this vicious vendetta so that one man cannot get his pension or cannot have the job? [More…]

• Is further service undertaken or employment accepted to provide for a man to have a salary in recognition of the further work that he is doing? [More…]

• If another man were appointed he would still have to be paid the salary. [More…]

• A great German philosopher, Goethe, once said that hatred is a heavy burden and that it sinks the heart deep into the breast like a tombstone on all joys. [More…]

• Apparently this new Parliament will be infected with the same disease by the Opposition continuing this bitterness against a very honourable Australian- a man who did what he believed was right and proper and whose service to this country should be recorded. [More…]

• Many of those issues involve questions fundamental to the direction which Australia will follow in the last quarter of this century- questions concerning our rising affluence while we continue to be surrounded by countries which suffer from immense and deep seated poverty; questions of how to employ our people whose skills are being made daily more redundant by the relentless march of technology; questions of our extravagant use of energy in an energy starved world; questions of how in an increasingly materialistic society we can be encouraged to have some concern for our fellow man; questions of how we deal with powerful international economic forces in this country so that Australians do not sacrifice further the control of our country’s destiny; questions of how best to share power and responsibility between the various tiers of government; and questions of the alienation of minority and other groups which manifests itself eventually in a repudiation by them of law and order. [More…]

• We have to offer to the world buyer a greater variety of both manufactured and primary products so that not only can buyers have a wider selection and not only can we be more effective on world markets but also so that within Australia the infrastructure of service and support for various aspects of primary, secondary and tertiary industry can be diversified. [More…]

• That will lead to new opportunities for the businessman who conducts a small or medium sized enterprise. [More…]

• It will lead to new opportunities for the man on the land to diversify his crops and his production. [More…]

• One of the real problems that faces the man on the land in that regard is the lead time involved in his making decisions. [More…]

• The Prime Minister- the man who is so concerned about all Australians- gets an additional $70 a week. [More…]

• Having by these means won their great victory, the man and the parties most responsible for the polarisation of this country now present themselves as the advocates of national unity, the creators of consensus, the new depolarisers. [More…]

• to bring out the things we agree on, not allow ourselves to be distracted by partisan interest, by sectional demand. [More…]

• I have deemed it a great honour indeed to be their representative in this House because I believe that together we have achieved much for the electorate of Bowman. [More…]

• I am reminded of the words of the late American Senator Hubert Humphrey- a person whose deeds and ambitions for his fellow man must stand as an eternal goal for all legislators. [More…]

• There are many people in our community whose life to them must seem to be only an endurance. [More…]

• They must be eradicated if we as a whole are to progress and to be an example to the rest of humanity. [More…]

• There is no greater shame to man than inhumanity and we as representatives of our community must ensure that those misfortunes which fall upon others are rectified with a sense of compassion, urgency and understanding. [More…]

• After all, a cynic is but a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [More…]

• In our society it is a bit hard to say to a man who is trying to keep a wife and three children on $160 or $ 1 70 a week that he should not have the full flow on of indexation and should make economic sacrifices when at the same time the Government is engaged in a sordid appointment for the former Governor-General involving sums and terms beyond the comprehension of the average wage and salary earner. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, the man who on Australia Day talked of unifying this nation, referred to the 42 per cent of Australian citizens who disagreed with him as rabble. [More…]

• But I will say this for the right honourable gentleman- at least he is consistent. [More…]

• The graceful way to do things is for a man who has served in high office for a long period to retire. [More…]

• Be that as it may, perhaps the young Turks in the National Country Party in Queensland saw the position of Chairman of Committees as some kind of consolation for having provided the Minister who held office I think for the shortest time in the record of this Parliament and probably the only member of the National Country Party who was able to talk himself into a Ministership and out of it in less than 24 hours. [More…]

• accelerate the studies which have been initiated by the Australian Water Resources Council to determine, on a region-by-region basis, the quantity and quality of water likely to be available for use under man’s control; [More…]

• If we talk about the honourable member’s State we have to talk about the man who is the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]

• How could one trust a man like Mr Bjelke-Petersen if one is to negotiate with him where to build a dam or to do something else. [More…]

• Do not forget that this is the same man who during the recent election campaign in Queensland was not averse to going into electorates and saying blatantly to people- he has never apologised; he is proud of it- ‘If you do not vote for my Country Party candidate in this area you can forget about any more assistance from the Queensland Government.’ [More…]

• How can the family man and the working woman, majority of Australians, live under these conditions? [More…]

• I can remember speaking many years ago to a group of leaders in one of the newly developing countries. [More…]

• One of the leaders said: ‘We have so many problems, so many things that we have to do in this country, that we need one concentrated, united effort. [More…]

• I said to this man: ‘I accept your argument, but do not forget that there is always one danger, and that is that with a oneparty system, with one man literally in authority, there is a danger that when you achieve that purpose, that fulfilment and that progress, the joys and privileges of power will become such that there will be a reluctance to hand that power over to someone else or to run the risk of that power being taken away from you ‘. [More…]

• I know that the Treasurer is a sympathetic man. [More…]

• Another matter I wish to raise concerns the citizens of Ivanhoe approaching me and asking me to use my influence to ensure that a married school teacher was sent there rather than a single man because they wanted a teacher with children in order to improve the standard of the school. [More…]

• Australia, as a nation of free people, owes as much to the courage of Sir John Kerr as to any man in our history. [More…]

• The Government took this step in the firm belief that Sir John Kerr would fill the post with honour and as ably as any man available from within or without the Public Service. [More…]

• There have been some who have sought to confuse the high purpose of this man with the remuneration he would have received in the new post. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is the guilty man in all of the arrangements which have been associated with the lowering of the prestige, the influence and the public credibility of the very important office of Governor-General. [More…]

• That is most unfortunate because the present incumbent is a man who enjoys a very high regard personally in that office. [More…]

• I am not canvassing the issue of the conventions which are so easily shattered and destroyed by a man of the Prime Minister’s character; I am just talking about a simple practical fact, namely, that the government of the time had at least seven weeks Supply lawfully available to it to conduct the affairs of this nation. [More…]

• I say very clearly and forthrightly that the Prime Minister is not the sort of man that we in the Opposition feel we can trust. [More…]

• There are so many qualities about the Prime Minister which, when taken in conjunction with his record in this House as a person who walks clumsily and destructively over conventions which are necessary to make this system function properly, not only leave us uneasy but also leave a great proportion of the Australian community uneasy and mistrustful of his presence. [More…]

• I feel that I am probably the scratch man in this event when it comes to talking about office accommodation. [More…]

• I hope that it will get ahead with the planning of a new and permanent parliament house. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that our present Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen, is Sir Isaac Isaacs’ biographer. [More…]

• It is indeed an honour to follow in the footsteps of a man who has given so much service. [More…]

• I illustrate my point by referring to a gentleman I interviewed who for two years has been trying to get himself a job. [More…]

• He is a relatively young man. [More…]

• This one man dynasty is worthy of being ranked with the Bonapartes, the Harmsworths and the Coles family. [More…]

• He is Australia ‘s most famous remittance man, our very own Flying Dutchman, condemned to eating the bitter bread of banishment, a latter day Julien Sorel. [More…]

• I believe that it was essential for the self esteem of the Prime Minister to remove the man who put him in office so that the events of 1975 could be forgotten. [More…]

• Apparently Phascolarctus refers to the Greek pouched bear, hence the misunderstanding by so many people, and Cinereus refers to the ash grey colouring of the bear. [More…]

• A young man reported on ‘an animal which the natives call a Cullawine, which much resembles the sloths of America’. [More…]

• He lorded it over the country as if it were his manor and treated everybody as his vassals. [More…]

• That is why they have this incredible paranoia about the Prime Minister, the man who brought this country out of the mire into which the Labor Government had plunged it and the man who has ensured its economic future and the welfare. [More…]

• In the name of a great man, Chifley, they often delivered lectures that were absolutely pernicious to the interests of Australia. [More…]

• They had no affinity with the average man. [More…]

• From the days of Curtin and Chifley when it was a great party and looked after the average man, about that time the Labor Party split and it fell into the hands of these ego-maniacs and all the intellectual professors and others whose numbers they had built up around them. [More…]

• Why did he reappoint the honourable member for Flinders, the man involved in the Lynch affair, as a member of the Ministry? [More…]

• It is incompetent nonsense from a man who holds himself out to be a responsible economic commentator. [More…]

• On the contrary, we say that we must surely have a strong level of consumer demand, as Labor says, but we want it without increasing the cost to the nation, without pricing people out of their jobs and, as a former Federal Labor Treasurer once said, without meaning that ‘one man’s tax rise is another man’s job’. [More…]

• The facts are that provided this Government’s policies continue, we are no longer in a situation where one man’s pay rise will be another man’s job. [More…]

• He said that high wages meant the taking of another man’s job. [More…]

• It may well be that those things are justified but if so substantial evidence has not been produced to support such a serious onslaught against that man. [More…]

• I would argue, on the basis of evidence produced to the Government and on the basis of the Government’s behaviour and statements, that there is no evidence to support such a serious implication as hangs over that man’s head. [More…]

• My dealings with him, limited as they have been, have shown him to be an honourable man. [More…]

• We say it was because Mr Laurie Oakes, a newspaper man, indicated to the Prime Minister some misgivings about that position. [More…]

• The officials of the interdepartmental committee exonerated the man. [More…]

• On the day after a question from the Leader of the Opposition about the contractual dealings of former members of the Defence Force, that man was offered employment outside the Public Service. [More…]

• That man at the moment is not under suspicion in any way but, because of his acceptance of employment outside the Public Service, and the fact that he must be seen to have had an opportunity to disclose confidential information, it is felt that the tenders should now be reopened. [More…]

• Australian primary producers have pursued at full speed the infusion of new technology which has resulted in more output per man, per acre and per unit of capital. [More…]

• To make matters worse, it was discovered that the leader of the New South Wales Opposition, a man known for many years for his arch reactionary views, was exposed as being involved in planning a newspaper which aimed to undermine the progressive forces in this country. [More…]

• He was the man who presented Budgets in previous years. [More…]

• Shakespeare said: ‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all’; but that is true only if a man turns his back on his conscience and runs away from the occasion on which he is morally called upon to express the truth as he believes it to be. [More…]

• All honourable members know that no one man can do this and survive. [More…]

• I say to honourable members on the other side of the House who give embarrassed smiles that their chances of maintaining themselves in office are becoming slimmer and slimmer with the performance of their Prime Minister but the real thing which will destroy them is the performance of the economy. [More…]

• The best thing that can happen for Australia is for the Government to get its act on and over and allow a decent party into office to manage Australia’s fortunes once again. [More…]

• To a man with, say a wife and two children, that means $ 12 1 a week. [More…]

• It is a little bit of an imposition to ask a tradesman or an engine driver or a fettler, all of whom earn above that amount, to live on that amount. [More…]

• Now this man has taken it upon himself, with a little community support, to try really to show to the Australian public what it was all about, and to bring to Australian young people in particular and migrants a very worthwhile project which will present a magnificent spectacle. [More…]

• But what is important is that the project get off the ground in a proper manner. [More…]

• Minister advise the House whether he has any knowledge of the range of fees charged by this man to those seeking his controversial treatment? [More…]

• It is interesting to note the about-face by the media which, during the election campaign, headlined the Prime Minister’s claims that a man on $200 a week with a wife and two children would gain $6 a week and which, a few weeks ago when the tax cuts came into effect, provided printed tables showing that the gains would be $3 a week. [More…]

• Any man, although obviously in appearance a white person, who is married to an African woman is a member of the African group. [More…]

• A man married or single who is ‘obviously in appearance’ or ‘by general acceptance and repute’ a white person and who attempts to have sexual intercourse with a woman who is not ‘obviously in appearance’ or ‘by general acceptance and repute’ a white person is guilty of a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment with compulsory hard labour for up to seven years, unless he can prove to the satisfaction of the court that he had reasonable cause to believe, at the time that the alleged offence was committed, that she was white. [More…]

• A white man who tells a group of Africans that the apartheid laws are unjust and should be disobeyed is guilty of an offence punishable by a fine of up to R200 or imprisonment for one year, or both. [More…]

• The saying of our time- ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’- is altogether pernicious so far as a constitutional democracy is concerned. [More…]

• I am a keen racing man and I often listen to them. [More…]

• After all, it is the working man himself who now is producing income to pay taxes to pay for, amongst other things, free grants to tertiary students who never return what they have been advanced. [More…]

• But the working man, part of whose taxes has been spent in this way, never has it refunded to him. [More…]

• The speech we have just heard from him is the speech of a man who understands the meaning of the word ‘liberal’. [More…]

• In the Economist many years ago some wise soul wrote: [More…]

• Another time a man jumped out of the gallery on to the floor of the chamber just before 8 p.m. and just as the Sergeant-at-Arms was entering. [More…]

• I told him that the man was willing to pay back the money at the rate of $4 a fortnight. [More…]

• The man is very sick. [More…]

• The man does not have any money. [More…]

• More important than that, having led with this sort of palpable political nonsense, the Speaker- a man who is supposed to be above the politics of this place- then enjoins the community to accept the argument that because of the incidents that took place at the Hilton Hotel we as a community ought to accept the fact that the security service of this nation- the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation- is entitled ‘to gather intelligence knowledge about any person who may become a threat’. [More…]

• A certificate of inexpediency is a procedure which has been resorted to by many governments in situations similar to that which I outlined in my answer to the question in August 1973. [More…]

• The effort by the honourable member for La Trobe to try to distract public attention by manufacturing something less than proper as an association with the procedures adopted here is shabby. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is increasingly looking like a guilty man to me. [More…]

• Then on 4 October, six days after that- so great was his concern that he could bear with it for six days- he contacted the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]

• Lo and behold, he is such a tough minded, determined man that he changed his mind entirely from the proposition put to him by Sir Alan Carmody with which he agreed, namely, that a new interdepartmental committee should be set up, and accepted the recommendation of the Public Service Board that a review be made of Mr Harragan ‘s association with the tendering processes. [More…]

• On 22 December he spoke with Mr Moyes and said that perhaps fresh tenders should be called, but on 17 January this strong-willed man who seems to be erratic in his attitudes on this matter apparently changed his mind again. [More…]

• I think that what is happening politically today to this man is that he is being snowed by his left wing. [More…]

• The whole purpose of this censure is to ensure that the man who today condemns the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is revealed for the person he is. [More…]

• Yet the man who today is criticising the Prime Minister for what he sees as establishing impropriety, himself established that his Department was going to produce a certificate of inexpediency. [More…]

• Yet in the Labor Party’s own dealings, so obviously, so patently and so deliberatelyand the Leader of the Opposition is the man principally responsible as the then Minister- it accepted without even going to open tender the fact that there should be an association with the particular company concerned. [More…]

• There is a guilty man in this Parliament, and we say it is the Prime Minister, because he could well have done what this motion - [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition immediately stood up, being the man of integrity that he is, and said: ‘You can have the lot. [More…]

• Yet a scurrilous attack is made on an innocent man. [More…]

• The man was completely exonerated. [More…]

• It is well recognised on our side that if you want to destroy a man you use the smear context. [More…]

• The Prime Minister then establishes a committee of departmental permanent heads. [More…]

• Surely these men considered the proprieties of this man’s actions and considered whether he could have influenced the decision. [More…]

• On what basis does this man come into the Parliament and tell us - [More…]

• The Government should not try to turn this issue against an honest man, the Leader of the Opposition, with a motion by the honourable member for La Trobe which he could barely read, much less comprehend or argue. [More…]

• the people by saying that the man earning about $ 1 90 a week would receive a $6 a week reduction in tax. [More…]

• The fact is that the man earning $185 a week has received a reduction of $2.65 a week. [More…]

• When one compares that with the fact that a man earning $400 a week has received a reduction of $16 a week and the Prime Minister has received a reduction of $60 a week one can appreciate how the people have been misled and fooled by the glib tongue of the Prime Minister and, most [More…]

• Since it came to office, this Government has done everything to confirm our distrust of its policies, its motives, its alleged compassion and its professed concern for all the people and the national interest while the man who leads this Government has done nothing to allay our distrust of his motives, his glib jargon, his fetish with secrecy and, perhaps most of all, his ominous use of authority. [More…]

• During the next three years it will be our duty to ensure that the people of this country come to know this man, his Government and his methods for what they really are. [More…]

• The farmer’s alleged friend, the National Country Party, has been too preoccupied in whingeing about its reduced parliamentary numbers and its diminshed significance in the coalition, while at the same time tugging the forelock to the demands of the mining companies, to pay more than fleeting attention to the serious plight of the man on the land. [More…]

• Government action is necessary to implement technical advances in plant and animal production as well as possible changes in farm structure and management practices. [More…]

• I also congratulate the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees on his election to those positions. [More…]

• Duke Bonnett is a man of strong character and good humour. [More…]

• He has a manner that enables him to mix easily with all people in all places. [More…]

• He is a man of considerable ability and he has been a ceaseless worker for his people in the electorate of Herbert. [More…]

• That support was evident in many practical ways, particularly on the domestic scene. [More…]

• However, that support also was evident during the recent election campaign, particularly the support of my father who was actively involved, virtually as a Man Friday, in the campaign. [More…]

• In fact, he drove so many miles that at one stage we were expecting the secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Jack Nyland, to knock on the door and ask him to sign up. [More…]

• Fascism was not a party of the extreme right as is sometimes asserted, but of the ‘extreme centre’, basing its appeal on the ‘little man’ who feels threatened by changes in a world that he does not fully understand. [More…]

• It is no accident that the 1920s- the high water mark of democratic forms in Europe- saw the rise of fascist parties in Italy, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Rumania and the Baltic States- all of them based on mass parties and universal suffrage. [More…]

• Both Hitler and Mussolini came to power absolutely constitutionally, and there is little reason to doubt that they both represented what a majority of the Italian and German people wanted at that time. [More…]

• The man concerned, Mr Alfred Goff, of 18 Elizabeth Street, Argenton, is a very worthy man of the highest character. [More…]

• Many years ago someone said: ‘Give a man a fish a day and you feed him forever. [More…]

• That is the sort of man who is running Queensland, the sort of man to whom the Minister for Health in this place kowtowed over the eye care program, which possibly has resulted in blindness that could have been prevented. [More…]

• And here we have a man concentrating his whole address on that topic. [More…]

• The man who said it was not a disaster. [More…]

• I think there were two or three others who were disasters but that senator was a fairly straight sort of man. [More…]

• Budgetary control and responsible management are as much a part of government as they are a part of any business organisation. [More…]

• A prosperous business is only as good as its own self-control and management. [More…]

• No more or less does living within one’s means apply equally to government, the home owner, the family man or the individual. [More…]

• Here was this man saying that they had killed Israeli soldiers and they had hit military objects. [More…]

• He is a sick man and when we have a sick man like that in charge of the State of Queensland it is imperative that this Parliament and this Government should move to override him in this matter of takeover. [More…]

• This is a dangerous man in charge of Queensland. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to reassure the House that he will live up to his obligation and ensure that legislation is produced in time to stop this takeover by Queensland, otherwise Aboriginals will be brain-washed into accepting what the mining interests want by a man who has become rich on mining speculation- the Premier of Queensland. [More…]

• I was almost inclined to see whether there was a manner in which that could be dealt with under the Standing Orders. [More…]

• Then, because of its activities, it turned the people of Queensland almost to a man against it. [More…]

• Virtually four generations’ inheritance of endeavour has been dissipated in three years, as a young man might lavish an inheritance on his mistress in jewels and furs. [More…]

• Sir, I hope that you, as a Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees, would be gracious enough to accept from me my congratulations on your elevation to your high office. [More…]

• He has been a distinguished member of the House of Representatives for many years. [More…]

• He is known to be a man of compassion and a man who has rendered great service to this country. [More…]

• Major Bonnett, who is better known in the House of Representatives and in Australia as Duke Bonnett, is a man who came to this House from the north of Queensland after a long and meritorious career in the Australian Army and who rendered in this House particular service on behalf of ex-servicemen. [More…]

• He was Chairman of the ex-servicemen’s committee of the Government parties and was well and favourably known to all members of the House for the great work he did on a number of committees, particularly the [More…]

• We will miss his presence in this Parliament for, as an honourable gentleman and a man interested in the welfare of his fellow Australians, he was certainly without peer in this place. [More…]

• He watched and heard those same people over a period of several years say in this House and elsewhere that one man’s increase in pay was another man’s job, and that it was not possible for the economy to be maintained in a viable state if the unions were to follow the policies that they were pursuing while the Labor Government was in office. [More…]

• A man was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council. [More…]

• The same man will either this year or next year be elected without challenge to the Victorian Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• How can the man who almost destroyed the system of constitutional government in 1975, the man who so divided this country, claim to govern for the benefit of the whole of the people? [More…]

• I appreciate very much that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been a very busy man since the last election. [More…]

• After finding that sinecure he then found it necessary, because of the public criticism, to apply pressures to that gentleman in order to get him not to take up his appointment. [More…]

• The Prime Minister then blamed his ‘stupid’ advisers on the Australian Government Stores Supply and Tender Board and on a specially selected permanent heads interdepartmental committee. [More…]

• But his activities as a one-man government do not release him from his responsibilities to answer promptly and courteously representations made by members of this House on behalf of respected and long established community organisations. [More…]

• while man’s capability for understanding the future effects of his actions grows, there must be a considerable doubt as to whether his capability for controlling the technologies that may generate those effects will grow at the same pace, and whether institutions will exist to deal with the problems. [More…]

• I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. [More…]

• However, it seems to me, on the performance of the Treasurer to this point, that he is a man of some integrity at least. [More…]

• I would prefer to believe he is a man of considerable integrity. [More…]

• The Chairman of that company, Mr Bathgate, one of the Melbourne establishment and normally one of the Government’s supporters, was astounded at what this Government did. [More…]

• Why is it that an innocent man named Harragan has been blackguarded every time a question on this subject is answered on the basis that he did something improper? [More…]

• The rules of democracy in this country do not allow for one-man rule, they do not allow for one-man patronage and they do not allow for one-man circumvention of Cabinet. [More…]

• This man, who is now famous for wilfully and wantonly breaking election promises, has broken an important election promise to rural Australians- a promise to equalise city and country prices within a limit of 4c a gallon. [More…]

• In addition, actual annual running costs, allowing $20,000 for each man, which would be the basic cost including overtime, additional shore leave facilities, accommodation and so forth, including stores, fuel, rations, would be approximately another $200m. [More…]

• The problem has been identified in this country and overseas in most Western countries by economists and well informed people for many, many years but it has been only in more recent times that the man in the street and the doctor, the provider of health care, have become concerned about the issue. [More…]

• Mr Bill Hartley is a man who endorses and defends a terrorist organisation bent on the destruction of Israel. [More…]

• He is a man who supports an organisation which believes that the bombing and murder of civilian men, women and children is an acceptable means of settling international disputes and solving many of the long-standing problems in the Middle East, such as the settlement of Palestinian refugees. [More…]

• If one reads the transcript further one will see that the viewer was given some indication of the twisted mind of this particular gentleman, Mr Bill Hartley, when he said: [More…]

• I trust that if he ever appears again on a program such as This Day Tonight he will be more suitably described as the twisted man that he is. [More…]

• The basic rationale behind the interpretations applied is to ensure that a man and woman, who for any reason live together in circumstances similar to that of husband and wife, are not placed in a better position than a legally married couple. [More…]

• He was there trying to save Western Australia’s iron ore mines from cutbacks, yet the same man was in Tokyo last year trying to start another new iron ore mineGoldsworthy ‘s Area ‘C. [More…]

• Just as we cannot change a man’s religion by burning him at the stake or by using thumbscrews, we cannot turn a stone-age indigenous person in any country into a typical citizen of the twentieth century if he has not had the opportunity to absorb, to select and to judge for himself what aspects of that culture he wants. [More…]

• I appeal to the Minister, as a reasonable man, to do what the people want him to do. [More…]

• Are they in its performance? [More…]

• If there is a direct ratio between performance and credibility, the Government’s credibility is slumping badly. [More…]

• He is the man who under pressure buckled to the Queensland Premier and proposed a compromise arrangement, which was totally unacceptable to either the Uniting Church in Australia or the Aboriginal people of Aurukun and Mornington Island, whereby the [More…]

• The man is the quintessence of a political practitioner. [More…]

• He is a Sydney legal man. [More…]

• It is unfortunate to note that the zeal for pastoral care has, in many instances, been replaced by a philosophy of materialism and political bias. [More…]

• The result is proof of the simple statement that ‘man does not live by bread alone’, and this is instanced by a marked decline in the moral and physical standards of some communities. [More…]

• Aboriginal councils put forward all sorts of bylaws to control the behaviour of people on reserves but under this legislation a white man- a non-Aboriginal- can just walk onto a reserve and do what he likes. [More…]

• The Budget provision for Army Reserve training was framed on the basis of an average of 36 man days per year. [More…]

• This provision includes the basic essential training and additional training permitted at the discretion of commanding officers. [More…]

• The Military District HQ was advised that planned training should be examined closely to ensure that the authorised limit of an average of 36 training man days was not exceeded. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs: Is he aware of a report in the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser of 1 5 March 1978 concerning a conviction of a young man for drug use and drug pushing? [More…]

• The newspaper reported the presiding magistrate, after he was informed that the young man was moving to live in Western Australia, as saying: [More…]

• Seriously, the point that was made by the magistrate in this case was that this man had been involved in drug trafficking- indeed, the word ‘supplying’ is the appropriate word in this case. [More…]

• The community must plan new policies for resource use, land use and recreational facilities, all of which will change the relationship between man and work. [More…]

• We need a guaranteed minimum income, a project which was put up in the United States in 1969 by so impeccable a conservative as Richard Milhous Nixon because he recognised that there was a need to have a guaranteed minimum income in the ‘post-scarcity’ society in order to keep up the level of demand. [More…]

• If the level of demand was not kept up, the effect on the economy would be catastrophic. [More…]

• I say with regret, and I hope with a fair degree of humiliation, that I cannot believe that the debate could have been led by a man who had not bothered to ascertain the facts before he came here and made an accusation against the Government. [More…]

• This was a case in which a man was convicted on the basis of an unsigned, very detailed record of interview which he disputed but which was taken into the jury room and accepted by the jury. [More…]

• I am sure that our representatives there are saying in special circumstances: ‘We are looking for a man as skilled as you in the armed forces’. [More…]

• Rhetorically he said: ‘What about the situation of a man, say, like Wilfred Burchett? [More…]

• Of course many people believe that this legislation was introduced for the express purpose of dealing with what is known colloquially as the ‘Rhodesian situation’. [More…]

• The ‘Rhodesian situation’ means many things to many people; but for the sake of the record I dare to express the opinion that legally there is nothing in this Bill to prevent any man or any woman if he or she so chooses from leaving this country today to serve in the armed forces of the present Government of Rhodesia if conscience so directs. [More…]

• I believe in fair play even if the point of view of the person whom I defend is against my own, and in fairness I should say that despite a welter of publicity in Tasmania approximately 18 months ago about an alleged Rhodesian military recruitment operation in southern Tasmania, I am not satisfiedindeed no proper evidence which would satisfy me has been produced- that any effort has been made to recruit men or women in this country to serve in Rhodesia in the present confrontation. [More…]

• But why should we give more publicity to this man who is a charlatan and who is accepted to be a charlatan. [More…]

• But surely we should not give publicity to this man so that more people will become involved in the argument. [More…]

• The whole point is that only one prominent person, the Premier of Queensland, is keen to start this man off in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister, who is a man clearly reasonable in these matters, not to proceed with the matter now but to consult his colleagues and consider the matter further. [More…]

• There are many people who do that; it does happen sometimes. [More…]

• I believe that the Parliament has a responsibility to the Australian people because many people are struggling with their decision on this issue as to whether they should either support or attend the clinic that has been set up by this man in the Cook Islands. [More…]

• Remember, I have spoken inside and outside this chamber on redistribution, so no man can cast the accusation that I am a coward using the highest form of protection that can be afforded in this land. [More…]

• I was to be assured in January this year, and I accept the assurance, that the appointment of the third Commissioner was not the whim of one man but was a Cabinet decision. [More…]

• Nevertheless, this man’s comment left the indelible impression upon me that he was a power broker as far as the redistribution was concerned. [More…]

• What is more, the Mr X is the man who claimed he was asked by ‘a Minister’- remember that Mr X was the man being promoted and presenting himself as a candidateto draw up the map which scored approximately a 76 per cent success rate, without even having knowledge of how State-wide quotas would eventuate. [More…]

• I cannot draw too many conclusions from those words but that makes many honourable members on this side of the House believe that things were far from being above board. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman ( Mr Jull) and I have never been convinced that all was well. [More…]

• We now have a statutory declaration to the effect that even two weeks before the redistribution was announced in Queensland a Minister of this Government- I feel in all fairness to Mr Adermann and Mr Killen I must name the other Minister- walked round the State toting the candidate to succeed him in the seat that he had felt was most suitable. [More…]

• If I have made a mistake and it can be proven that I have made a mistake, I will do what I said I would do in the Prime Minister’s office on 19 January, that is, come in here like a man and say that I am wrong. [More…]

• Mi HAYDEN (Oxley-Leader of the Opposition) (2.15)- The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) is an agreeable man- so agreeable, in fact, that he is able to agree at the same time to two conflicting policies on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• He sought to mislead this Parliament by pretending that he was a man of genuine compassion in these matters. [More…]

• -The support of this Government for basic human rights is second to none, whatever field of activity one might like to examine, but especially in relation to our own areas of responsibility. [More…]

• Legislation in relation to the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and the commitment to establish a Human Rights Commission as it relates to Commonwealth laws, are all matters which this Government has advanced. [More…]

• In addition, the actions that we have taken over Aurukun and Mornington Island also indicate a very basic commitment to the equality of man with man and woman with woman in Australia, which I was not aware of noticing from the Opposition when it had an opportunity to do something in this area. [More…]

• This matter will be pursued by the Government but, at the same time, if the honourable gentleman wishes to establish the circumstance in which he would have this Government responsible for matters that are properly the responsibility of other governments, he is advocating a course that this Government would not want to pursue. [More…]

• I suppose it is not surprising that a man who can make that sort of statement when there were such high levels of unemployment should make various other mistakes in respect of employment. [More…]

• But in the manufacturing sector, a most important sector of the economy, the seasonally adjusted figures show that the employment figure fell from 1,148,600 in July 1977 to 1 , 1 4 1 ,800 in December 1 977-thanks to the policies of the present Federal Government. [More…]

• As I have said, it is quite refreshing to have a man come to that high office with such a complete lack of knowledge of that subject, or the Department that he is administering. [More…]

• We know that he has great qualities and we know that he is a numbers man, or at least that is what he tells us. [More…]

• I suppose that, like most members of the Labor Party, he is a big numbers man. [More…]

• This indicated bread was now the main dietary question relevant to heart disease, the man who conducted the survey, Professor J. Morris, said. [More…]

• He was a man of unquestionable integrity, high principle, singular urbanity and personal charm, with valuable gifts as a diplomat and politician. [More…]

• There were many firsts to his credit- the first Australian overseas diplomat, liaison officer to London, Minister to Washington; the first Australian to serve as Minster in a British government; the first Australian to be a colonial governor; the first Commonwealth life peer. [More…]

• He was above all and in the best sense of the word a man of fundamental and abiding decency. [More…]

• The AIDC insisted, firstly, that the society be taken out of receivership; secondly, that Mr Smart be made managing director; and thirdly, that its rules be changed to enable the AIDC to appoint four of its seven directors. [More…]

• The idea of those conditions was thus to ensure that Mr Smart was left very much in control, as clearly the AIDC did not trust the board of directors adequately to manage the enterprise. [More…]

• Instead it effectively deprived the board of powers of control over Mr Smart who was appointed chairman of directors as well as managing director. [More…]

• By insisting on that arrangement the AIDC ensured the eventual financial relapse of the enterprise, because what it had done was to give sole control to a man who, it appears, had already embezzled almost $lm from the society’s funds and who fully intended to embezzle some more. [More…]

• To such purposes were the funds of the society being channeled by a man who, at AIDC insistence, was effectively, and unknowingly of course, in sole control of the enterprise. [More…]

• Secondly, it is surely unsatisfactory for the AIDC to insist that one man have virtual sole control, as it did in this case. [More…]

• For eight months we have had the spectacle of first Mr Howard, the present Treasurer, and then the Minister for Special Trade Representations running backwards and forwards to Europe, cap in hand- boys sent on a man’s mission- in a vain attempt to persuade the Common Market countries to treat Australia sympathetically. [More…]

• I have the highest regard for Dr Rex Patterson as a man who knew the sugar industry. [More…]

• Tasmania has had stable marketing for many years. [More…]

• They have been able to give the public of Tasmania a respectable service, something that is sometimes forgotten by cut price petrol dealers. [More…]

• They have moved all their management and key personnel out of Tasmania. [More…]

• Now they have realised that the eyes of Australia are on Tasmania. [More…]

• So to overcome that shameful situation they are trying to create a chaotic marketing condition in which they throw one man against the other. [More…]

• Here is a situation- and I invite the House to recall the sudden lapse of memory of the then Treasurer when he was asked by the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitiam) about his personal knowledge and his relationship with Mr Leake- where a man who is personally known to and is the campaign director of the then Treasurer, and who has organised an important land transaction in which large sums of money are involved, is clearly acting closely in concert with the then Treasurer. [More…]

• Let us deal with Mr Leake, because there is one other aspect of this transaction which, I believe, demands critical scrutiny by this House. [More…]

• Mr Leake not only was a prominent member of the Liberal Party in the former Treasurer’s electorate, he was appointed by the State Liberal Government to be chairman of the Westernport Regional Planning Authority. [More…]

• He was appointed when the parameters for development and initial planning guidelines were being established, and the nature of the role that he played in land development on the Mornington Peninsula in the two years in which he was chairman meant that Mr Leake was an active participant in all the relevant planning decisions in the Westernport area. [More…]

• To answer that question one has to understand the nature of existing developments and what occurred in Hastings to very many old sub-divisions. [More…]

• The man who had the public responsibility for and the public knowledge of what was occurring was, of course, Mr Leake. [More…]

• Many of them, because they were not here then, have not experienced the manner in which this Parliament was operated prior to 1972 by a conservative government. [More…]

• On that occasion the staff of the House refused to serve the House after midnight on the second day, Hansard was unable to man the House and the people who sit at the table and for whom no one has any consideration had time only to go home for a shower and then come back to continue their duties. [More…]

• I want to talk about the problems of one man, who desperately wants to work, who is mentally and physically fit and able to work, but whom the Government has failed and refused to help. [More…]

• That man’s dignity and self-respect have been assailed in the most callous way. [More…]

• They have insulted him by telling him that he will have to settle for an invalid pension; that he will have to wear for the rest of his life the tag that he is an invalid, less than a whole man. [More…]

• There are many in this community who might readily accept that that situation was a fait accompli if it happened to them. [More…]

• We can assume that there are many across this country who have been forced, bullied or bluffed into accepting such a situation. [More…]

• However, this man is not prepared to accept it. [More…]

• This man is a qualified fitter and turner with 25 years’ experience, with employment in firms such as Clyde Engineering, CSR Chemicals and the Commonwealth Government itself. [More…]

• Here we have a situation where a man exercises his rights, pursuant to the law made in this Parliament and available to him, and wins his appeal but apparently, because he has won the appeal, that again has created a further stigma or suggestion that this man is going to beat this bureaucracy which is trying to declare him to be unfit. [More…]

• This man has had to live on his life savings for the past 15 months, and they have been seriously eroded. [More…]

• The man has become a statistic, perhaps, among the unemployable, although he is not in the unemployable statistics. [More…]

• There is no evidence at all of any medical disability on the part of this man. [More…]

• There is clear evidence that two departments, the Department of Social Security and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, have agreed that in their view this man is unemployable and on that description have said that that is going to be the way they classify him. [More…]

• They have extended their view about whether a man is employable on a subjective test of their own. [More…]

• This man is without any benefit and wants work and the Government is saying: ‘You have to be an invalid pensioner to get a benefit’. [More…]

• The national estate financial program, established to look after what has been created by man and nature- that which is unique and beautiful- was undermined. [More…]

• To some extent it is the Minister himself who fights for his quarter with the Cabinet, Again, I do not always agree with him- he knows that I find points of very broad disagreement with him- but his actions are a credit to him because he is a National Country Party man. [More…]

• I have here a table which sets out kilometres per equivalent gallon of petrol for various types of transport ranging from taxi to man on the bicycle. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Braddon, he was concerned during the critical period and I think he endeared himself to the people of Queenstown as a quiet and sincere man, ready to assist them at every opportunity, ready to talk to the miners, ready to talk to the people of Queenstown and to make absolutely certain that their town will continue as a viable town and contribute to the economy of Tasmania. [More…]

• I am extremely pleased to see the Government giving this assistance to the people of Tasmania. [More…]

• I hope he will remember tonight that many Tasmanians are listening to this debate. [More…]

• Tasmania has an unemployment level of 7.2 percent. [More…]

• The level of subsidy available to the miners at Mount Lyell has amounted to approximately $7,000 a man during this period. [More…]

• That is $ 150 a week a man. [More…]

• In my view it will play to the comfortable converted and after the first week when the Gucci socialists and pipe smoking educators have been, I think word of mouth will be bad due to the preaching and in no small part to the ‘home beautiful’ device which suspends reality and will lessen the ordinary man’s ability to relate to the characters. [More…]

• O Lucky Man which some thought brilliant, but died for the reasons this film will die. [More…]

• On the completion of that visit he made a totally unjustified attack on the Fraser Government’s manufacturing industry policy, with particular reference to motor vehicle manufacturing. [More…]

• During his statement to the assembled Press conference he blithely announced that one manufacturer had his back against the wall and might well go under and that it was inconceivable that the Government should allow several thousand people directly and indirectly to suffer without further government intervention. [More…]

• Apart from anything else, such a statement outside an opposition company’s plant reveals the man’s ignorance. [More…]

• I notice that on that same P.M. program a man who seems to be very involved in these matters, a Mr Charles Connolly of the Small Business and Self-employed Association of Australia, dealt with the point about money and taxation. [More…]

• It is having a disastrous effect on many facets of lives and I believe that what we might be seeing is a situation of putting a Band-aid on a man who is bleeding to death. [More…]

• Here was a man who they thought would control them. [More…]

• All honourable members on both sides of the House have had constituents come to them and say that they have been informed by their local bank manager that the reason they have not been given a loan is because Reserve Bank restrictions have forced bank managers to reject a particular overdraft application. [More…]

• Perhaps there have been instances of bank managers making these excuses as an easy way out when in fact the application for credit has been refused either because of the inability of the business involved to meet the requirements of trading banks, which are not in a position to provide developmental finance, or because of the incapacity of the business man or woman to show proof of an ability to service a larger debt in the necessarily short term nature of trading bank overdrafts. [More…]

• How could I dare refrain from addressing my remarks through a man of your stature. [More…]

• Our moral advantage lies in realising that increasing contempt for lower forms of life may be leading us, especially in an agnostic age, to a contempt for man himself. [More…]

• Ten million years is quite a long time, probably longer than nuclear waste would remain harmful to human life, but we certainly are talking about a period of some half a million years. [More…]

• Half a million years ago man’s predecessor, Pithecanthropus, the ape man, roamed the earth. [More…]

• We are talking about the length of time it has taken man to develop. [More…]

• We are implementing what were basically many of the Opposition’s ideas. [More…]

• I thought he was a bigger man with a better understanding of what is needed and that some sort of consensus could have been gained and some sort of discussions could have taken place between the Government and the Opposition. [More…]

• It has never been possible throughout the history of man and it never will be possible. [More…]

• I noted only the other day in the newspapers that a distinguished serviceman of the United Kingdom was making statements in Peking which appeared to be acceptable to his hosts, to the effect that having regard to the threat of a nuclear war the People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom should be seen as standing side by side against a potential adversary which he went on to name as the USSR. [More…]

• It would be a brave man indeed who would not recognise that in the essential interests of the young people of today and of their children and their grandchildren, it would be a vital and absolute necessity that the capacity of the Australian nation be developed to the maximum degree. [More…]

• That is the kind of man we will have to cope with in the future, not someone armed with an atomic bomb. [More…]

• In another Parliament of which I was a member for 15 years, not once in the political cut and thrust of debate was a man’s family- his children or his wife- ever brought into a debate. [More…]

• I regard the statements of the honourable gentleman as doing him no credit and as doing this House no credit. [More…]

• It is sad that a man can spend 17 years in Parliament dealing with probably some of the best representatives of the Liberal Party of Australia and he has to come to the national Parliament in order to find this sort of attack being made not upon himself but upon a member of his family. [More…]

• One settlement had more inhabitants than another and one candidate got all the votes in the larger settlement whilst the man who would probably have done a far better job for the Aborigines- certainly the Aboriginal community considered that he would have- was not elected because he came from a settlement that did not have the same number of inhabitants. [More…]

• I think it was the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) who referred to howtovote cards being accepted as a means of identifying a man’s preference for a candidate. [More…]

• Yet this man, the present Prime Minister of Australia, spends and continues to spend more money on his own vanities and more money on himself than any other Prime Minister has spent in the history of Australia. [More…]

• Of course this man will spend any amount of public money on himself. [More…]

• This man is obsessed with toys. [More…]

• At least that man achieved something. [More…]

• What a rude little man the honourable member is. [More…]

• The ‘ man from Pru ‘ took four hours and forty-five minutes to fly non-stop from San Francisco aboard the sleek Grumman American Gulfstream II executive jet. [More…]

• -In July last year the Sydney Press carried reports of what it described as the years biggest party, which it said was thrown by a millionaire in a mansion almost as big as the Ritz. [More…]

• This lavish $25,000 function was in fact a party for the staff of a man who was said to have had a staggeringly successful year. [More…]

• The staff were reported to have been entertained on the boss’s yacht, flown around in a helicopter to admire his stud and cattle properties and dined like kings in his Gold Coast mansion. [More…]

• Since then the man involved has bought a $4m property on the Queensland Gold Coast on which to build his own mini city, has acquired expensive race horses and has set up a horse breeding establishment with one of Australia’s leading jockeys. [More…]

• I need hardly add that this man owes his success to being at the forefront of Australia’s leading growth industry, namely, the tax avoidance industry. [More…]

• The chief tax gatherer of the nation, the man who made sure that he had wrung every single penny of tax out of the ordinary person, was engaging in a tax avoidance scheme in his own financial affairs, by the use of a family trust. [More…]

• A solicitor concerned was a man named Rupert Hamer, the Premier of Victoria. [More…]

• He is a man who has to be admired for his liberal principles and his liberal attitude to life and his wish to ensure that democracy survives. [More…]

• A man cannot be punished or penalised for doing something which is lawful at the time it is done. [More…]

• is that security to which a man may confidently and calmly appeal even though every man’s hand may be against him; the law’s greatest benefits are for the minority man- the individual . [More…]

• If we want an argument even more impressive, let us turn to the opinions of probably the greatest justice ever appointed to the High Court, Chief Justice Owen Dixon, a man very well known to me. [More…]

• Every man is entitled if he can to order his affairs so that the tax attaching under the appropriate Acts is less than it otherwise would be. [More…]

• If I may use a simple illustration, it is the same as a homicidal maniac saying, ‘I did not murder the man, I only put him out of his misery’, and then seeking to justify his murderous action in that way. [More…]

• I put the same distinction between the act of a homicidal maniac and the act of a tax evader. [More…]

• Honourable members will notice that these tax avoidance schemes are not practised by the ordinary working man- the man on wages. [More…]

• I am reminded of one of the earlier and great philosophers, Thomas Aquinas who said very clearly that it is every man’s duty to minimise his tax within the law. [More…]

• If this is to be a Government of low taxation, it must be a Government that looks at the taxation loopholes and tries to plug up the inequitable ones in order to cut down on the taxation paid by the average man in this country who we believe should be allowed to make a quid for the benefit of his family. [More…]

• He is the high priest of taxation evasion, a man who was concerned not only in accumulating money in dirty land deals, ripping off young people in Victoria who wanted to buy a block of land - [More…]

• A man cannot be punished or penalised for doing something which is lawful at the time it is done. [More…]

• The argument is that a man cannot be punished or penalised for something he has done legally in the past. [More…]

• They leave this debate as members of the party which when in government, did nothing about tax avoidance while professing a concern for the way in which the tax system ground down the average man. [More…]

• The ordinary man in the street and the ordinary reasonable man in the community on reading that statement would come to the false conclusion that Mr Eric Robinson, the Minister for Finance, was up to his elbows in the till into which the supposed windfall found itself. [More…]

• That profound libel was supposedly based on questions asked in this House yesterday by the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) and the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage). [More…]

• At page 1774 of Hansard of 4 May the honourable member for Batman asked the following question: [More…]

• The rule of which I am speaking is that a man cannot be punished or penalised in any way for an act which at the time it was done was in fact lawful. [More…]

• I think he will show how the performance by the individual concerned was a poor performance and how biased we can become when we set out minds in a particular way. [More…]

• Does he think that it is right and proper that the ordinary man and woman, who just cannot afford to utilise tax avoidance schemes because they cannot afford to pay the legal and accounting fees involved and because it would not be worth their while anyway in view of the lower levels of taxation that they pay, should have to pay a higher amount of tax because people on much higher levels of income and wealth are avoiding their tax? [More…]

• It has often been said that one man’s principle is another man’s prejudice. [More…]

• In all the obiter dicta referred to by the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) the word ‘general’ was used. [More…]

• He said that a man cannot be penalised for an act he has done which was lawful at the time. [More…]

• However, what we are claiming is that many of the allegations of breaches of these principles simply do not involve breaches. [More…]

• In particular I was referring to a proposition put by the right honourable member for Lowe who said that a man cannot be punished or penalised for an act he has done which was lawful at the time he acted. [More…]

• The first is that a man cannot be punished or penalised for doing something which is lawful at the rime it is done; applied by the judgment of an impartial court; after a public hearing, and executed by public officers. [More…]

• It is exhilarating to see this man who has spent 20 or 30 years in the Parliament suddenly brought to life when a small group of people- I believe that 1,100 people are involved in tax schemes such as the Curran scheme- are suddenly threatened. [More…]

• I am anxious to know whether he has carried out a promise which he contemplated a few days ago in the national Press in connection with a man named Tait. [More…]

• The Press reported that the man Tait had about seven aliases. [More…]

• What has concerned many people in Australia particularly myself- I wish it would concern every honourable member in this House- is that the man Tait was sentenced to a mere seven years penal servitude. [More…]

• I want to know whether the Minister carried out his threat to ask the Crown Law authorities in Darwin to appeal against the inadequacy of sentence of this man Tait. [More…]

• Many people think, as I do, that some business may have been done. [More…]

• Much has been said about the freight problems of Tasmania in relation to the apple industry, petroleum and all the other problems besetting Tasmania. [More…]

• All of a sudden along comes a gentleman by the name of Gordon Barton and offers to the people of Tasmania a revolutionary way of bringing freight into and out of Tasmania. [More…]

• Actually I am sick to death of the parochial attitude of Tasmanians. [More…]

• There are 400,000 people in TasmaniaI am from the south- and they fight amongst themselves, which is not in the best interests of Tasmania. [More…]

• All of a sudden along comes Mr Gordon Barton- honourable members will recall that he is involved with IPEC Co. Pty Ltd- and he offers to the people of Tasmania a way of getting freight into and out of Tasmania on a daylight service on a three-man ship with no problems. [More…]

• The people of Tasmania have been saying to me since I was elected to this Parliament - [More…]

• They have been asking me: ‘What are you going to do about the freight into and out of Tasmania?’. [More…]

• Many people in Australia are starting to ask: ‘ What else is the Government going to do for Tasmania? [More…]

• Now a man has come along and has offered the people of Tasmania a convenient, revolutionary way of getting the freight in and out by a daylight service- in in the morning and out in the afternoon. [More…]

• I endorse George Orwell’s dictum that ‘the falsification of history is the greatest of all crimes because it debases the meaning of all human experience’. [More…]

• I agree with Lord Acton that truth is ill served when ‘the strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the sponge’. [More…]

• In many cases his interests were much wider than would normally be expected out in the public domain. [More…]

• As Minister for Customs, for example, he took one of the first and most significant steps toward greater environmental protection of Australia’s fauna and flora in banning the export of Australian fauna, and especially of the bird trade that was flourishing and threatening many species in Australia at the time. [More…]

• Senator Henty was a man well liked on all sides of this Parliament, well respected by all honourable senators and honourable members, and was one who had a particular interest in assisting and giving whatever advice and help he could to young or new members of this Parliament. [More…]

• Many of us who were members of the Parliament at the time will recall his kindliness and his ready friendship. [More…]

• I remember meeting him on many occasions socially and finding him an engaging, charming man. [More…]

• He was a kindly, generous man, who in his contribution to Australia, particularly to Tasmania, demonstrated himself to be a very worthy citizen and a quite outstanding parliamentarian. [More…]

• It was largely through his wit and wisdom and his sympathetic approach that many of the measures which the then Government had passed in this chamber were able to gain the support of the Senate. [More…]

• He will be missed in Tasmania as he will be here. [More…]

• Sir Denham was a practical man. [More…]

• His home in northern Tasmania- I cannot remember the name of the place and I could not ascertain it because I did not hear of his regrettable death until the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke- was one of the loveliest homes that one could imagine. [More…]

• I hope that it will be retained by the Tasmanian Government for posterity. [More…]

• The honourable members in this House who did not know him as well as I did would nevertheless know of his many activities. [More…]

• He was a charming man and his family was charming. [More…]

• The average man saved about $3 a week. [More…]

• The Asprey Committee might think this but this Government, which is led by a man who never tires of telling people how he is interested in their well-being, anxious to promote the wellbeing of all Australians, was anxious to pick up a few votes and so he promised to knock out this tax which the Asprey Committee, a conservative committee, believed contributed to the equity of the tax system. [More…]

• It was argued by the then Treasurer, a man with no small interest in capital gains, a man of property indeed, aspiring towards some wealth, that the restructured income tax scales would benefit all Australians. [More…]

• I have come to the conclusion that Mr Wran and, I regret to say, a man who is now the Acting Premier of Tasmania, Mr Batt, have deliberately misled the people. [More…]

• At the time the Labor Government, in accordance with its policy, initiated the action which brought about the exchange of diplomatic representation between Australia and China there was no man in Australia with such a great depth of knowledge of China. [More…]

• Unfortunately there are still a few, not many, in the community and on the Government benches who apparently do not accept the reality of that step. [More…]

• During 1976 something like 3.7 million man days were lost through industrial disputes, at a cost of $1 14m in wages. [More…]

• In terms of the man days lost in the various states it is apparently difficult to get comparable data. [More…]

• It is extremely difficult to get on a national basis data which actually tells one how many days people have lost from work in relation to industrial accidents. [More…]

• The figure for Tasmania was more than 23,000 weeks. [More…]

• The Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee) has estimated that five million man days were lost during one year due to industrial accidents. [More…]

• Even that first step is presently beyond us and I understand that a national conference which was proposed to look at just these kinds of problems has been delayed because the Government will not provide the funds with which to man it. [More…]

• Below the Technical Committee in 1971-72 was a three man Directorate of Engineering. [More…]

• I draw the line at the often accepted argument that technology is best left to the technologiststhat somewhere there is a man in a white coat who understands complexities and that we should leave decisionmaking in his hands (or claws). [More…]

• For example, CSIRO will continue to undertake basic research, such as in astronomy, atmospheric physics and oceanography, to increase man’s knowledge of the region in which we live. [More…]

• At Cheynes Beach whaling station there is a young man from America who is a member of the International Whaling Commission, although America is not a whaling nation. [More…]

• I shall quote- I am probably being selective in my quoting- from an article in the National Geographic by Victor B. Scheffer, Ph.D. in zoology, Chairman of the United States Marine Mammal Commission from 1973 to 1976, and a man who has devoted 40 years of his life to studying the whale. [More…]

• These serious doubts about whether man is hunting the whale species to extinction are sufficient cause for the commission to call a halt to whale killing throughout the world. [More…]

• It earns a small export income from the sale overseas of sperm oil, whale meal stock feed and ambergris for scent manufacture. [More…]

• A great deal of scientific research suggests that whales are of high intelligence, perhaps second only to man in creation. [More…]

• They present no threat to man or to his other ocean resources. [More…]

• We can all remember that last year a man named Puplick, who I think will be replacing Senator Sir Robert Cotton when he retires, successfully organised the so-called moderates at the last annual meeting of the New South Wales Permanent Building Society. [More…]

• When I tried to call a doctor there were several inhibiting factors: Doctors Everingham, Klugman, Cass, Jenkins and Grimes had all gone home. [More…]

• If I had rung at random, I might well have dialled a gynaecologist, a thoracic surgeon, an ear, nose and throat man, an eye specialist or a Medibank syphoner before I found a friendly or available general practitioner. [More…]

• It is scarcely surprising that a man of such formidable talent for the law and such high regard for its sanctity should be chosen to serve as Attorney-General in both the State and Federal spheres or that he should have distinguished those ministries with his commanding legal experience. [More…]

• Party and through the vision and undaunted determination of one man- Sir Robert Menziesthere arose the Liberal Party of Australia. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, such were the achievements and stature of the man that it was to be expected that some would say he was a distant political figure, but he won the respect not only of his political supporters but also of those who never voted for his Party. [More…]

• The honours showered on him over many years are a fitting tribute to Sir Robert’s stature as an Australian and Commonwealth statesman. [More…]

• He will be remembered as a leader, a statesman, a scholar, an ally, a friend, and to his family as a loving and devoted husband, brother and father. [More…]

• To this one man- Robert Gordon Menzies- Australia owes an immense debt. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, we are in the midst of mourning Robert Gordon Menzies, but we should also console ourselves that here was a great man who left a great name for himself and for this country. [More…]

• These were no small achievements, especially for a man whose sharpness of intellect gave him, according to record, an impatience with so much of the time consuming, mundane, but important basic organising and arranging which is part of the political scene. [More…]

• One’s recollection is of a big, robust man who obviously revelled in the action of the parliamentary scene. [More…]

• I thought he was consciously or naturally aristocratic and it surprised me to find out he had an ability to know what the average man felt. [More…]

• The quotation is important because it comes from a man whose political values were as different from those of the late Sir Robert Menzies as is the quality of chalk from that of cheese. [More…]

• We saw people from throughout Australia and from around the world pay a triumphant tribute to this great man. [More…]

• Many of them expressed their sorrow. [More…]

• I have had the most tremendous loyalty not only from Country Party Ministers- in particular Mr McEwen, who is a most distinguished man- but also its private members. [More…]

• To many Australians he was the government. [More…]

• To those who knew him personally there are many memories one could reiterate today. [More…]

• I remember him most as Chairman of Cabinet. [More…]

• Many stories are written about him being a very frightening man; certainly he was a taskmaster. [More…]

• I shall always think of Sir Robert Menzies as being a Queen’s man. [More…]

• Sir Robert was a remarkable man, and I must stress that no one paid greater attention to employment and unemployment than he did. [More…]

• In those respects he was a remarkable man. [More…]

• As a man, Sir Robert was a person of considerable charm. [More…]

• I must speak of Sir Robert as an unbelievably remarkable person, a very great man. [More…]

• As a statesman, a parliamentarian, a lawyer and a man, Sir Robert Menzies dominated the political scene in Australia for many years. [More…]

• Those of us who sat here with him recall the degree to which he dominated this place by his oratory and the manner of his parliamentary performance. [More…]

• I believe that, perhaps more than in his performance within the chamber, his contribution to Australia lay in the manner in which he presided over successive governments that developed this country into what it is today. [More…]

• She is a wonderful person and all honourable members admire her greatly, both in her fortitude, in her present sadness and in the way in which for so long she helped Sir Robert in the performance of his public and private duties. [More…]

• He was a man with a conservative nature. [More…]

• I would say from this side of the House- perhaps many of his friends from the other side would say it also- that the amendments to the status quo were driven on him, accepted and carried through, often as tentatively as possible. [More…]

• So this afternoon I record my regret at the passing of a gracious Australian, a man who I think held more to stability than to progress. [More…]

• But he was a man who, whenever faced with a proposition at close quarters, would decide both on the side of justice and on the side of mercy. [More…]

• Those occasions gave one a different picture of the man in his family life. [More…]

• I recognise that on occasions such as this we make evaluations which are probably clouded more with nostalgia and regret than with objectivity; but I have no doubt that, even those who hold the political views that I do, which are in vigorous opposition to those he held, will still register their regard for those achievements of which we approve and even, in many cases, some of which we disapprove. [More…]

• As I have said, the former Prime Minister was a man with a great sense of humour. [More…]

• In a short ceremony the community of today recognised a man of stature who became a great national figure and a world statesman. [More…]

• It recognised a lifetime of public service and the loyalty and personal sacrifice of this great man’s wife and family. [More…]

• Minister and statesman, but I want to talk of his belief in the role of private members in this place. [More…]

• That is the measure of the man. [More…]

• A man of his status and experience need not have taken an interest in the new local member but he did. [More…]

• There was a story in last Saturday’s Melbourne Sun by journalist Bruce Wilson who recalled getting Sir Robert’s autograph at the Windsor Hotel as a young man many years ago. [More…]

• That was the measure of the man again, that he would let this little girl take him up and down in the elevator. [More…]

• Sir Robert walked in no man’s shadow. [More…]

• He was the quintessence of an outstanding national leader, a man of whom we could be and were immensely proud. [More…]

• As I searched for words to express my feelings adequately and to make a small contribution to his verbal epitaph on this occasion, I came upon these words, which I believe adequately express the essential characteristics of Robert Menzies, the man: [More…]

• As a citizen of our nation, I give thanks that we were blessed with having in our midst a man of such ability, wisdom and dedication to improving the well being of all the citizens of Australia. [More…]

• He was a man to whom all Australians will say ‘Thank you. [More…]

• We will not easily forget you because it is unlikely we will see a man of your stature in the fullest meaning of that term pass our way again for a very longtime’. [More…]

• Australia has lost a great statesman. [More…]

• Many thousands of Australians have lost a true friend, and a number of present and former members of Parliament have lost a former colleague. [More…]

• This wonderful man gave so much to Australia. [More…]

• The growing importance of Australia in a world context was assisted and guided by the steady, firm and sure hand of a man who had the vision and belief of what our potential as a nation and a people was. [More…]

• I do this of my own volition and on behalf of the many people who reside in the federal division of Brisbane who knew and loved him. [More…]

• He was a great man in the Cabinet. [More…]

• In broad terms on average rates the commencement of some $269m in the first half of 1978 will require something in excess of 5,000 man years on-site. [More…]

• For the first time in two and a half years, when there has been a bit of Press speculation over an issue, the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume) has come in to snap at the heels of the New South Wales Premier, a man who this week has been shown to have the support of 80 per cent of the people of New South Wales. [More…]

• Of course, it cuts right into the principles of our society- the dignity of man, the right of man to work, the very question of the deterioration that occurs in a person as an individual, as a human being, in his attitude to life when he does not have work. [More…]

• An examination of what is happening in other countries reveals that the rate of inflation in this country is being reduced at a rate lower than that experienced in comparable countries such as Japan, the United States, Switzerland and Germany. [More…]

• That is a very cynical, heartless approach which has no respect whatsoever, as I said earlier, for the right of a man or a woman to work or for the dignity of men and women. [More…]

• That approach reduces demand, that very essential ingredient which I mentioned in the amendment which I moved earlier in my remarks. [More…]

• After all, if we are to have more than 400,000 people unemployed in this country- that is 400,000 subsisting on the unemployment benefit instead of receiving reasonable wages, not necessarily as high as average weekly earnings- then naturally demand will be reduced. [More…]

• If ever a thimble and pea trick were played on the Australian family man and woman it was done by his Government when it decided to cut out the tax rebate for dependent children and introduce family allowances. [More…]

• Every man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• Again he said that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• I was interested in the title, The Third Man, because if memory serves me correctly The Third Man was a story about someone running around the sewers trying to evade the police. [More…]

• Myles Wright was a highly conservative man. [More…]

• It is a potted version of Mr Don Chipp ‘s book Don Chipp, The Third Man in which Mr Chipp relevantly says of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser): [More…]

• I confessed then and I confess again that I had always hoped that the widespread suspicions and hard assertions which were made from many quarters that an arrangement had been arrived at between the present Prime Minister and the then Governor-General were wrong. [More…]

• I again remind the House that until early this year, when the Kerr affair broke out, there was no record of me condemning the man personally, except that I made an observation about the premature way in which he dismissed the Government when it still had several weeks of Supply left to it. [More…]

• But I can no longer hold that sort of restrained view, especially when an insider, a man close to the Prime Minister, Don Chipp- and whatever faults he may have in the view of the Government, it must admit he has always been a direct and candid man- says that the present Prime Minister returned constantly to shadow Cabinet meetings and reported regularly that Kerr was on side’. [More…]

• The man sold himself out, it would appear, body and soul. [More…]

• This man and this Government extols the virtue of conciliation and arbitration processes for everybody else but demonstrate an incapacity to put their own house in order. [More…]

• I say to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, who is not an insensitive man, that somewhere along the Une something is wrong with the advice he is receiving. [More…]

• The truth of the matter is that we are trying to bring better expertise into the Public Service, to provide the opportunity for the best man to get the job. [More…]

• The honourable member won pre-selection for Melbourne Ports, and he won it against a much better man; but he won it on numbers only. [More…]

• Yes, it was a very fine speech but he was reprimanded for saying something compassionate about public servants. [More…]

• I think many honourable members will have read the very fine articles published in the National Times in the last two weeks by Mr Clem Lloyd, one of our foremost scholars on government, a man of very wide experience, who pointed out, I think very rightly, the dangers inherent in the way the Executive is taking over the Parliament. [More…]

• Another incident involved two young missionaries, Miss May Hayman and Miss Mavis Parkinson. [More…]

• A man who was lying under a building saw these two missionary ladies led out from a building where he said they had been for a day and a night. [More…]

• Another Japanese who was standing near Miss Hayman drew a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her indicating at the same dme that she was to blindfold herself. [More…]

• Mr Grahamslaw points out that the villagers themselves demanded punishment of the culprits, and the widow of one of the persons hanged said: ‘Good riddance; he was a bad man and he deserved it’. [More…]

• I have met him over the years and he is a man who enjoys a good reputation’, his good friend Mr McMaster was telling the Gold Coast Bulletin: ‘I’ve met Eric Robinson at the opening of buildings. [More…]

• How many man hours have been lost in each year in the last 9 years in the course of demarcation disputes between the Transport Workers Union entities registered under Federal and New South Wales laws. [More…]

• Information on the number of man hours lost in each year in the last 9 years in the course of demarcation disputes between the Transport Workers Union entities registered under Federal and New South Wales laws is not available. [More…]

• 1307 which I placed on notice yesterday and which indicates how many vital questions remain unanswered. [More…]

• That busy man, the then Treasurer, acted with commendable promptness to approve the purchase of Bing Bong by Mount Isa Mines, but apparently some people were derelict in their duty in not presenting much earlier the Aboriginals ‘ counter claim. [More…]

• I shall quote from the man who knows most about bulk billing, the Deputy General Manager of Medibank. [More…]

• -That is a splendid response; that the man who is the Deputy General Manager of the organisation knows less about it than do the members of the Parliament. [More…]

• The Committee will recall that on a number of occasions I have criticised the Development Bank because of its lack of capacity really to assist where the need is for the man on the land and the men in country areas. [More…]

• The man who leads it cannot be trusted. [More…]

• And, this from a man who, only three years ago, was accusing the previous Government of being controlled by an inner junta. [More…]

• Is it not about time the Government faced up to the fact that it should be acting as a complete executive and not as a one-man band? [More…]

• It is because the Prime Minister again intervened personally to assist a man who thought he was not getting a fair deal because the contract was going to IBM- the company the Prime Minister wanted to get it. [More…]

• When this man, the Leader of the Opposition, was Treasurer, he sought to blackmail the banks of Australia to finance the affairs of government at a time when the Government could not get its appropriations through the Parliament. [More…]

• I wish to associate myself with the remarks made earlier by the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) when he paid the most sincere tribute to the late Alex Ramsay for his remarkable contribution to housing in Australia. [More…]

• Mr Ramsay was certainly a man with a great expertise in the area of housing. [More…]

• He was also a man of great integrity. [More…]

• I know that he will be very sadly missed by honourable members and also by many members within the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• Man, in order to protect himself and his family, has attached great importance to it. [More…]

• We have developed many techniques to make housing more comfortable, more attractive and more lasting, but there always has been the problem of finance for housing. [More…]

• But the engine behind the legislation is purring over with concern, with a relish for the preservation of ‘ human dignity and an in depth appreciation of the problems of people in need. [More…]

• Before directing attention to the Bill I pay a tribute to the man who- more than any other man probably made the greatest individual contribution to Government housing policy in Australia. [More…]

• That man had a strong influence indeed on this legislation and on the Commonwealth and State’ Housing Agreement to which the legislation gives effect. [More…]

• That nian is the late Alex Ramsay C.B.E., General Manager of the South Australian Housing Trust’ from )949 until his untimely death last Thursday, 25 -May, at the age of 63. [More…]

• He was certainly one of South Australia’s most distinguished public servants and humanitarians. [More…]

• He was Sir Thomas Playford ‘s right, hand man in planning South Australia’s post-war ind us.tralisation and providing housing for its workers. [More…]

• He certainly was a. very mee man, as the Minister for Health has said. [More…]

• Apart from his obvious ability, his most striking feature was his humanity and kindliness. [More…]

• I have never met the gentleman concerned but I do not believe that the Government was genuine in its appointment of the supervising scientist, if the Government is saying that this man sees his role as protecting the environment as against the interests of the uranium miners. [More…]

• The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN- I thank the honourable member for Melbourne Ports for his help to the Chair in this matter; but because the Supervising Scientist is a man, does not mean that we can discuss everything that men do. [More…]

• Mr Justice Hope led the inquiry into the National Estate, and I am pleased that a man of his calibre is now chairman of the Heritage Commission of New South Wales because we need sensitivity, understanding and men of foresight to protect our heritage. [More…]

• The big revenues come from the small man, the multitude of small people in the nation. [More…]

• It has been the middle management structure, the shop foreman and not the bosses or those people who sit in the executive suites. [More…]

• In the note these provisions were supported by honourable members on that side of the House to a man. [More…]

• I have been a member of a State parliament for many years and perhaps I understand a bit more about the operations of State parliaments than the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and members on the Government side. [More…]

• We have the gigolo from Batman who will not concentrate on the amendments we are debating. [More…]

• The claim was made by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding), a rookie in this House, a man who did more to devastate the position of State governments - [More…]

• A young man who contracted it and has not been able to cure himself of it attempted to commit suicide not very many days ago because of the disgrace and because he sees himself condemned for life. [More…]

• What are the details of the search operations in respect of the missing man? [More…]

• -Is the Acting Prime Minister aware of a statement that Tasmania would be better in Canada under the Canadian system of federation? [More…]

• In view of the wide-spread criticism of this statement, especially among people who are loyal Tasmanians first and loyal Australians second, will the Acting Prime Minister indicate whether there is any truth in this statement or whether it is just another attempt to knock the Government, by a man who is a long way away at the moment? [More…]

• I think it is also fair to say that the Commonwealth Government is not unaware of the problems of Tasmania. [More…]

• Certainly the honourable member for Franklin has not been backward in highlighting at all times the difficulties and problems there and the need to integrate Tasmania more and more with the mainland. [More…]

• I believe that the implementation of that 10-point plan will be of great benefit to Tasmania. [More…]

• If the Premier of Tasmania made those remarks without having properly considered them I think it would be unfortunate. [More…]

• It would display that the Premier is a man who is finding the responsibilities of office and the difficulties of office just too much for him to be able to cope. [More…]

• That was abolished by statute in 1771 but the honourable gentleman wants to persist in placing weights on me. [More…]

• The honourable gentlemen, and all who support them in this frolic, remind me that I consider a man who launches a breach of promise suit as being remarkably strange, but a man who seeks to launch a breach of promise suit before his proposal has been accepted I can describe only as being remarkably stupid. [More…]

• This man has an odious technique. [More…]

• It is well worth recalling the words of the man who is now the Prime Minister of Australia and, I sometimes suspect, the architect of the Bill. [More…]

• Moreover, it was suggested that there would be an exchange of views within the context of those courses between union members and certain people from the management of various companies. [More…]

• I think it would be unfortunate if, on many of the courses, there was a situation where people who were being given a basic grounding in trade union organisation and in industrial relations were thrown into the same tutorial room, say, as a young industrial officer who had his Bachelor of Commerce degree or his Bachelor of Law Degree and a couple of years experience in a company. [More…]

• I think it is important for people at the grass roots level of trade unions to be able to develop their confidence, to be able to develop their knowledge of trade union operations and to develop a technique in conducting basic negotiations with management on things like the allocation of overtime-simple matters like that, that arise on a regular basis in many industrial concerns. [More…]

• It is my view that one of the most neglected areas in the industrial world in Australia is the training at the foreman/supervisor level of management. [More…]

• In fact many industrial relations probelms arise, I believe, because foremen and supervisors do not have a proper knowledge of the workings of trade unions. [More…]

• They often have not even been trained properly in man management before they are promoted from the factory floor to those first level management positions. [More…]

• That is one reason why one trade union is having a great deal of success in unionising foremen in many industrial concerns at present. [More…]

• Hindmarsh and by the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), do not have the support of any significant group or any significant spokesman experienced in industrial relations. [More…]

• There is no man of any reputation in industrial affairs who could be cited by the Minister or any of the honourable gentlemen who support him who will come out or who will lend his name to these amendments. [More…]

• Does it intend to acknowledge the deeds of one of the nation’s greatest sons who did more than any other man in the history of the world to open up the present airways of the world? [More…]

• He arranged for Mr Kirkland and another gentleman from the Newcastle Quarantine Department to clear up the mess which they did five days later. [More…]

• Some months later they finally sent a man to quote for the job and that was the last that was heard of him. [More…]

• I will not deal with Mr Frank Yeend, who I consider was a first-class chairman of the Authority. [More…]

• One of the commissioners was the then Alderman Clem Jones, a former lord mayor of Brisbane. [More…]

• The other commissioner was Professor Cummings, a man who has a great interest in road safety and who is a recognised authority on this subject in Australia. [More…]

• No one has a licence to drink as much as he likes and kill his fellow man. [More…]

• For that reason it is up to the police forces of this country to be authorised and to be instructed to carry out random testing, to make sure that people who are on the road are not in a condition whereby they can kill their fellow man. [More…]

• In presenting the interim report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea, I express appreciation to the Deputy Chairman of the main Committee, Senator the Honourable Reginald Bishop, who chaired most of the final meetings of the Committee which approved the report, in the absence overseas of the Chairman, Senator the Honourable Sir Magnus Cormack. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi), an Opposition member who was a member of the sub-committee in the previous Parliament and this one, is a man with great knowledge in this area. [More…]

• The largebrimmed/small bank overdraft man protects himself from skin cancer and is doing a good job of it. [More…]

• Together, the first two types of skin cancer constitute the most frequently detected cancer in man. [More…]

• They are also the most easily and most successfully treated human cancers. [More…]

• I refer not only to the humanitarian aspects of it. [More…]

• The honourable member for Leichhardt mentioned the devastating effects that the bluetongue threat had on the beef industry in the Northern Territory because it has virtually cut off the market for live beef to many South East Asian countries. [More…]

• Of course, he did not say that this has played right into the hands of the carcass exporters because it now removes any competition they had in the market and the producers are at the mercy of the exporters, as they have been for many years. [More…]

• I have pointed out in the House on many occasions the way in which the share of the consumer’s dollar has moved towards the middle man or the exporter rather than the producer. [More…]

• The other worrying aspect is that because of this situation many properties are severely or extensively overstocked. [More…]

• He is a cattle man himself. [More…]

• But many things had to be done before he could produce what he has produced. [More…]

• He will go to the people of New South Wales and repeat the untruth that under Stage II of the federalism policy it will be mandatory for the States to impose a surcharge. [More…]

• Mr Wran’s hypocrisy must be exposed and must be nailed to the wall here and now, because this great champion of lower taxation, this man who says he wants to reduce the burden on the people of New South Wales, has to my certain knowledge never made a public statement conceding that under Stage II of the federalism policy he can in fact exercise his rights to grant a rebate. [More…]

• There is a human element and the danger of someone thinking that something should be done. [More…]

• To vest all power in one man really denies power in every way to the Northern Territory itself. [More…]

• Apart from the question raised here of financial constitutional provisions, I do not think the people of the Territory should have placed upon them the stupidity of an apparent selfgovernment which can be denied in the exercise of one man being the Administrator, with all the powers to which I have adverted. [More…]

• We think that that reservation of itself should be sufficient without having to hand over to an appointed officer, albeit a man with such an exalted post as Administrator, the sorts of powers that have traditionally resided with the Crown, with the Governor or the Queen’s representatives and which by custom and convention have not been exercised in such an absolute way as is spelled out. [More…]

• I think every aircraft flying in this country should be required to be covered by a comprehensive third party personal injury policy to ensure that those who fly on it and are injured as a result of the negligence of either the operator of the aircraft or those who administer the functions within airports are allowed to claim damages and be compensated without the risk that their claim may be against a man of straw, because very often the owner or pilot of the aircraft is a man of limited means. [More…]

• If you like lies, laugh to your hearts’ content about a man who was the devoted supporter of your own party. [More…]

• Similarly, when my private secretary was seeing him out of the office, he said to the news man from Time that if there were any other questions he would like to ask then I would be only too happy to give an answer. [More…]

• I think a note that I had from a person in this area concerning the traditional ownership of the Mount Brockman area might interest the House. [More…]

• It concerns a man called Toby Gangali, whom the Minister would know. [More…]

• The person I refer to says: ‘To my knowledge Toby had never been to Mount Brockman in his life’. [More…]

• Toby’s father was a Mung tribesman from Goulburn Island and his mother was a Jo-an tribeswoman from Jimbat [More…]

• This person goes on to say that he knows for a fact that the claim that this man Toby Gangali is the traditional owner in this area was made by an anthropologist from the University of Queensland who did a six months’ genealogical history of Aborigines in western Arnhem Land and six weeks on the mudguard of a Landrover. [More…]

• I do not believe there would be a man in this Parliament who does not know my views on the question of Rhodesia. [More…]

• The beef man today is moving into a position where again he can enjoy some of the reasonable measure of profitability which he deserves. [More…]

• That position will be exaggerated now with bluetongue cutting off the live market for many of the producers. [More…]

• The Minister has never responded to this charge, but this man was not allowed to go overseas to save the market until it was far too late. [More…]

• In this particular instance we have seen what I believe to be an unscrupulous man who will not reveal his treatments to the world. [More…]

• With respect to equity, the proposal does seem to be inequitable because the new provisions seem unlikely to deter the welltodo but will place an excessive burden on the average family man. [More…]

• -This is the first opportunity I have had to answer what I consider to be very unfair criticism of a nation that is friendly towards Australia made by a man on the Government benches for whom I have had considerable admiration since he became a member of this Parliament. [More…]

• I refer to the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), who on 30 May launched a vicious attack against the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The honourable member has earned a reputation in this House of being an independent Liberal, a man with a degree of conscience, a man who stood up and raised his voice about the barbaric treatment by the Indonesians of the little East Timorese, who are still fighting for their independence. [More…]

• It involves the total loss of the life savings of a 66-year-old man. [More…]

• It had been this man’s intention to be independent throughout his life and at least to retire reasonably well on the returns from his investments. [More…]

• How does a man feel when his hard-earned life savings and his independence suddenly disappear and there is nothing that he can do about it? [More…]

• Certainly the present laws which allow gross mismanagement of funds to occur without any redress must and ought be changed. [More…]

• -No individual should be deprived of his rights or his freedom in the terms in which they have been defined by a number of international charters and treaties and, in particular, as they were defined 30 years ago, on 10 December 1948, when the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the resolution which is now known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]

• I would like to outline generally the history of the development of human rights over the last 40 years. [More…]

• I wish to record at this stage that unfortunately many honourable members on this side and on the other side of the House will not have an opportunity to speak in this debate. [More…]

• I include the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), a very even-handed man, who has taken an approach on human rights in this chamber. [More…]

• Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, [More…]

• The judges, fearlessly rejecting the adage that no man ought to be a judge in his own cause, took the view that the trial was exemplary; that his actions proved that Bhutto was a liar, confirmed his guilt and invalidated his defence. [More…]

• The account of motive was furnished by overwhelming evidence given by the son of the murdered man and Masud Mahmood, the approver, and the same was corroborated by the documentary evidence. [More…]

• He also referred to the speech of the principal accused, made on 14.3.71, in which he had demanded separate transfer of power in West Pakistan after he had failed to secure an agreement from Sh. [More…]

• Mujibur Rehman on his plan of sharing power. [More…]

• He referred to the principal accused as Machiavelli and stated how Hitler became a dictator through a ‘terrorised Parliament’ and compared the conditions of the country to the conditions in Hitler’s Germany. [More…]

• He said that witch-hunting was going on in Pakistan similar to the witch-hunting which took place after the burning of the German Parliament. [More…]

• He further remarked that a dishonest man had become a Prime Minister in this country. [More…]

• The principal accused once again said ‘I have had enough of this man. [More…]

• I do not believe in human infallibility- my own or anybody else’s. [More…]

• Australia is in no position to take a self-righteous posture on the subject of human rights. [More…]

• Since my friend the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Simon) made some reference to the Noel Latham case, it is worth pointing out that that case began when one man was sacked by Latham without any right of redress. [More…]

• When we examine Latham’s case, we should look also at the case of the man who was sacked. [More…]

• Dr Andrei Sakharov, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a man of very great eminence and notable moderation, has caused harm to the USSR, as has the compulsory detention in psychiatric institutions of political dissidents. [More…]

• The greatest danger to human rights in our quarter of the globe is unquestionably in Indonesia. [More…]

• He said: ‘Given the history of past secretaries of the Communist Party in Poland, any man in my position would be extremely unwise not to improve the conditions in the gaols’. [More…]

• They will be very familiar words to many honourable members but they deserve to be remembered. [More…]

• They remind us of the universality of our humanity. [More…]

• We cannot destroy, hurt or damage individuals anywhere in the world without destroying the whole cause of humanity. [More…]

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea. [More…]

• Any man’s death diminishes me. [More…]

• because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee. [More…]

• Mr Justice Ward was not only a great Labor man in the Northern Territory but also a great Territorian. [More…]

• I support the remarks of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and the honourable member for Bonython (Dr Blewett) in opposing the changes in the health scheme. [More…]

• The former Chairman of the Commission, Dr Sidney Sax, has taken control of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat which is to coordinate and absorb most of the functions of the Commission and its relationship to the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• We on this side of the House think that Dr Sax is a good man who has done a good job. [More…]

• I might say, because this is a cognate debate, that for the chronically ill, the poor in our community, the family man and his wife and children, the migrants and the Aboriginals that the changes being made by the Government to the system that has operated for the last 18 months or two years represents a retrograde step and will save only approximately 1.5 per cent of total medical costs. [More…]

• Again, I congratulate the Minister for that, but I am very perturbed that he had to take these other steps because I think he is a humane man. [More…]

• I make the submission that at present our beef producers are being ripped off by the middle man, the non-producer. [More…]

• The Opposition would be in favour to a man on all the issues that are fundamental to it. [More…]

• Going back to the first principle, by all means let the committees meet as and when the Chairman determines, but the Opposition does not agree to the suspension of the sittings of the House to enable them to do so. [More…]

• In this respect, we need to realise that if the Australia fishing industry is to move into the trawl fisheries which are available in enormous quantities those people who will be serving at sea will need to man vessels of a far greater size than they have in the past and will need to be trained specifically to utilise the industry fully. [More…]

• To obtain this information would require considerable effort and man hours which I am not prepared to authorise. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, Pope Paul was a man whose great strengths and personality became clearer the longer he remained Pope. [More…]

• It is a supreme loss for his Church and a real loss for all mankind. [More…]

• Pope John was not an easy man to follow in office. [More…]

• Pope Paul, in fact had become known for his compassion towards all men long before he became head of the Roman Catholic Church. [More…]

• Among the more notable achievements during his regin was the celebration of mass by Roman Catholics in their own language, replacing the traditional all-Latin mass. [More…]

• The rift between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church- the Great Schism of 1054- was healed. [More…]

• The Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches came closer together. [More…]

• The sense of loss in the Catholic Church caused by the death of this compassionate and gentle man will be shared by all Australians. [More…]

• Pope Paul VI will long be remembered for what he did as head of the Catholic Church over a period of some 15 years and for what he sought to do in so many different areas during the whole of that period. [More…]

• He was an outstanding churchman, a great spiritual leader and a man of peace. [More…]

• He is such a devious man that I would like to make sure. [More…]

• It is our belief that the Prime Minister has established by his conduct in this matter that his behaviour is not the behaviour of an honest man. [More…]

• He seeks a tabula rasa of the guilty man wanting to make a fresh start, but he has gone too far. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fadden, the honourable member for Lilley and the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Jull) all knew that something wrong had been done, but they got the wrong man and they were going to be played for suckers by the Prime Minister who set down limited terms of reference. [More…]

• Prime Minister is a man who has consciously and properly set great store on integrity and probity in government, there can be no doubt whatever as to the course he must follow. [More…]

• Being an honourable man, Mr Pearson was convinced that he should tell the truth about his conversation with Mr Coleman as a result of which in the Queensland redistribution the name of the proposed electorate of Gold Coast was changed to McPherson. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister is a man of honour, he would be able to say: ‘I knew about this matter in January but I made a mistake; I should have taken action then but I did not’. [More…]

• Now we have the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Mr Lynch, after eight months on the sideline as the nineteenth man, coming back into the Parliament to tell us about what he will do and about the people of Australia wanting us to talk about the real issues. [More…]

• The procedures and the decency of this House demand that the Opposition be given two hours’ notice of any ministerial statement to be made by the Government. [More…]

• But when honourable members on this side of the House pressurise the Prime Minister to say something about the matter, all of a sudden the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), who recently returned from Manila after making several thousand phone calls to Senator Withers, come into the House with prepared speeches. [More…]

• I should have thought he would recall a phone call from someone as experienced as Senator Withers, a man who knows how the political machine operates and how the numbers operate. [More…]

• I venture to suggest that you, Mr Deputy Speaker, being a man of some integrity and capacity, do not believe it either. [More…]

• Having shown these to the Prime Minister, whom we are told is an honourable man who wants all the facts to emerge, we are told that the Prime Minister’s reaction was to say: ‘I don’t want to go down this track. [More…]

• Whilst he was passionate in his Australianism, he was also a man of universal interests who thought and tried to operate, to his political cost, in a larger time frame than the three years between Australian elections- or 18 months when the ALP is in office. [More…]

• Gough Whitlam was, I think, a man for all seasons, not especially for this one. [More…]

• He made many mistakes. [More…]

• He offended many rich and powerful groups. [More…]

• This from the man who has just told unemployed people without dependants that they will not receive any increase in their benefits and this from the man who has reintroduced the means test on increases in pensions for those people aged over 70 years. [More…]

• It is incredible that at a time when the people have been told that they must tighten their belts, that they must show restraint, that they must go without so that their country can get back on its feet, we have a man at the top, at the helm of the nation, who simply does not show any restraint at all. [More…]

• -He should be attacked for his lack of compassion and lack of concern for the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who are in dire straits and who will be in worse straits after this Budget has its impact. [More…]

• If there is one man in this country who should tighten his belt it is the Prime Minister. [More…]

• We are demanding a full accounting of these costs because the full story has not yet come out. [More…]

• We are demanding that this expenditure should cease because the country will no longer tolerate it and this Parliament will no longer tolerate it. [More…]

• I call upon the House to demand that the Prime Minister stops his personal indulgences and extravagances at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• Today, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) obviously is the man who, unfortunately for him, has drawn the long straw. [More…]

• We should understand that it is important that when a Prime Minister travels abroad he does it in a manner which attracts the respect of others. [More…]

• Even at this stage it seems obvious that members of the Labor Party have forgotten that they were privy to the man who travelled more extensively than anybody else and that the man who is currently Leader of the Opposition was the Treasurer who authorised all the expenditure for the glorified trips to the antiquities that Mr Whitlam cared to visit. [More…]

• I saw an example of this recently involving a man’s shirt manufactured in this country for about $8 and which retailed for $ 1 5.99. [More…]

• The item which was imported into this country for $3.50 landed was retailing in the same store for $ 1 5.50, 49 cents less than the Australian manufactured product. [More…]

• The Australian manufacturer is faced with a horrific situation when we realise the sizable difference in the amount of the mark-up on the imported item and the margin of profit on the Australian product. [More…]

• The importer is working on a profit margin of 400 or 500 per cent as against an average margin of 100 per cent in many areas in Australia at the present time. [More…]

• I had drawn to my attention only recently the instance of a man who is involved in charity work and who had budgeted for a 13 per cent inflation rate finding that because we have reduced the inflation rate he had an extra $64,000 which he had not considered would be part of his total amount at the end of the year. [More…]

• The Budget involves a number of considerations, including the matter under consideration tonight, but it is the type of good government and good management which this country has desperately needed. [More…]

• I cannot understand how a body of people led by a distinguished and eminent judicial figure such as the man who chairs the Tribunal, and does so very well, a man who has applied himself well to the problem, could make the decision it did about postage. [More…]

• A young man in Sydney who is a veterinarian did his thesis on polyarthritis, at great pains to himself. [More…]

• The man to whom I am referring is Gary Cross. [More…]

• That is an example of a man who is battling to solve a major problem in the pig industry without any support from the great amount of research funds that are available. [More…]

• The Department can tell the man that he has hydatids on his property but it does not have any power to do anything about it. [More…]

• Turning to promotion, not much happened until 1977; but in the last year the Pig Promotion Council has employed a man called John Creagh, who is an advertising expert. [More…]

• We have here a very unusual set of circumstances relating to a man who led this country to the greatest extremes of its development in the years from 1972 to 1975. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, seems to think that this is some sort of joke, but if he lives long enough, and I trust that he will, to read the views of historians who will write about this time then he will know the impact that this gentleman had on our country, a country of which I am terribly proud. [More…]

• I want to express my pride in this gentleman, the Honourable E. G. Whitlam, who took no pretence upon himself and who ignored all of the pretences taken by preceeding and succeeding Ministers in accepting foreign obligations. [More…]

• In my own humble way, and everybody in this chamber knows how humble I am when I pay homage to somebody, I want to say that I believe the honourable member for Werriwa, as he then was- Gough Whitlam; I will use no other expression than that- strode across this chamber as a man who is 10 feet tall. [More…]

• The man Whitlam came into this chamber at an earlier time, I think 1959 - [More…]

• I refuse to use the word man’, being a male chauvinist. [More…]

• I come back to the man Whitlam. [More…]

• No homage can be paid in this chamber that is too great for that man who led this country, as the historians will tell us, even though some of those who sit here now do not understand, along a road that would have led us to salvation. [More…]

• If there is a messiah, and perhaps I do not believe in that, then the man Whitlam was a messiah. [More…]

• On one stand where a small amount of wallpaper was being put on a wall a man doing the job was told: ‘The power will be cut off if you do not employ a union paperhanger’. [More…]

• Another informant today said to me: ‘Wholesale standover tactics are being used ‘. [More…]

• I have heard of one businessman who some time ago was forced to join a union at the Exhibition Buildings in these circumstances. [More…]

• I think that it shows the great respect, although it goes much deeper than that, that people have for this man. [More…]

• For that reason I am proud to be the person associated with the organisation of this very important dinner for him so that people can express their thanks to a man who did so much for this country and who was such a great Labor leader. [More…]

• Sometimes his gloriously facetious remarks were deliberately misinterpreted to make him appear vain, but I know from my association with the man how humble he could be. [More…]

• I believe, as the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) has stated, though I think in different words, that when history is written Gough Whitlam will go down as the great reformer, the man who set out to reform this country and whose ideas and ideals will be something the people of Australia will always appreciate. [More…]

• Those are the words of the man who went out into that sort of environment and made those sorts of comments. [More…]

• He was found out then and he has been found out now as being a prisoner of the Left, a man who has been put up by the steering committee of the Left. [More…]

• He will leave New South Wales with the Left under Mr Walker, the man who wants to legalise marihuana, the man who has a whole lot of other socialist aims. [More…]

• Those conditions provide that a man may borrow for the purpose of erecting a home which he will occupy as such. [More…]

• Really, how can it be equitable to compare a man who has served for only three years with those who have served for 20 years or more? [More…]

• How can we compare a man who has served for only three years with a man who has served in a place of war? [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has appointed to this portfolio an experienced Minister who has great administrative ability, the man who guided the Northern Territory into self-government in a very short period of time. [More…]

• We believe that this portfolio should be placed in the hands of an experienced Minister, a man of proven ability, because there is a specialist role to be fulfilled and statistics indicate that the maximum peak load in this area has not been reached. [More…]

• The last three years have hurt many people. [More…]

• Those who are worse off are: The weak and unorganised, the poor, the retired, the small businessman and the farmer, the school leaver, the family man who is paying more of his wages in tax than ever before in our history. [More…]

• A business man increases his turnover in order to increase his profits. [More…]

• Indeed, many of them are extremely worried about their employment situation because their turnover has been reduced to such a large extent. [More…]

• It is a magnificent vision and worthy of the man who thought of it. [More…]

• I did not have a great deal of time to explain this to the man on the phone because we more or less locked horns. [More…]

• The result is that with the surcharge introduced in the present Budget, the average man, with an income of up to about $255 a week, has lost all of the advantage of the tax cuts. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• The young man, who owned a home, had considerable savings and was well on the way to purchasing another home. [More…]

• The young man concerned is in a poor state of health as a result of the trauma he is undergoing. [More…]

• If we think back to the reason for the introduction of the original legislation we will recall that those of us who supported it believed that the cost of divorce, of regularising relationships, would be cheaper; that the heartbreak, the anguish involved in the breakdown of those relationships would be minimised and that there would be an opportunity to restore humanity and dignity to the whole institution of marriage. [More…]

• the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]

• I cite one particular marriage involving a woman from a poor background and a man who was rather well off. [More…]

• Many words have been spoken about him, some complimentary and some not quite complimentary, but it would be true to say that Gough Whitlam was one of the great orators of his time. [More…]

• He was a man who had a great command of the English language and who appreciated good English. [More…]

• This action on the part of the Government was necessary to ensure that a man has the right to seek the type of health care that he wants. [More…]

• I hope that in the next decade governments of all political persuasions will come to grips with the problem of man’s place in society. [More…]

• Our basic manpower policies have not changed since the industrial revolution. [More…]

• For too long manpower policies have been geared to the last century. [More…]

• Unfortunately, because of cost factors over which no particular person has all the control, the machine has replaced the man. [More…]

• The people of Australia will note that Labor would drop the reprehensible aspects of this rich man’s Budget. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), the man who hounded Labor Ministers on these matters, the fact that this Government is forced to borrow to protect the dollar from the consequences of its ineptitude. [More…]

• His conduct has not been that of an honest man. [More…]

• in August last year, between the Queensland Electoral Officer, Mr Coleman, and the Western Australian Electoral Officer. [More…]

• The evidence concerned an entry of the name Fadden1 in Mr Coleman’s diary on the dates of 22 August and 24 August. [More…]

• Asked what this might have represented, Mr Coleman told the Royal Commission that his Western Australian counterpart, Mr Bobbie Nicholls, had phoned him from Perth to say: [More…]

• He is the only man- with the honourable member for Lilley I should addwho comes out of this incident with a clean reputation, with his integrity intact. [More…]

• However, the motion before the House seeks to prove that he is not the only guilty man. [More…]

• That is the impropriety- that is the reason for the man’s removal from the Ministry. [More…]

• The man would have been hounded out of public life if he had signed such a letter. [More…]

• The terms of reference, of course, were aimed at Eric Robinson, aimed at the man that they felt would be able to get out because there was no evidence against him. [More…]

• A government that wanted to cover up something in relation to these matters would not refer anything to the Attorney-General and to the Solicitor-General, an independent statutory officer appointed originally by a Labor administration and a man of great honour in this community. [More…]

• The phrases expressed by the Leader of the Opposition are the rattles of an empty man leading a defeat-ridden Party- a party which is in decline and which over the last two elections has suffered the greatest defeats in its history. [More…]

• His latest outburst has probably transformed bellyache Bill’ into ‘Hayden the hypocrite’, the man who actually promotes confusion and despair in Australia because he wants some personal political gain. [More…]

• What a piece of pathetic semantics that is. [More…]

• He knows that he has been exposed in front of his Ministers, his back bench, the Parliament of the nation and the public of Australia as a man who has deceived this Parliament, who has tried to deceive a Royal Commission, and who has clearly and plainly been found out. [More…]

• The man who perpetrated the refusal of Supply, the man who facilitated this appalling, this unprincipled climb to the Prime Ministership of Australia, the principal architect, the principal lieutenant of the Prime Minister in his rise to power in 1975, is knifed in the back so as to save the great man, to enable him to continue his destiny. [More…]

• It is impossible to prick this man’s conscience, to offend him or to elicit any sense of shame for him whatsoever. [More…]

• The reply from the Prime Minister was not the reply of a man with the gumption to say: ‘I do not think you are up to it’ or ‘I do not think you are good enough’. [More…]

• What a defence for a man who claims to be an honourable man! [More…]

• No defence whatsoever has come from a man whom we on this side of the House believe is unfit to be Prime Minister, a man who lacks any integrity whatsoever and a man who should not enjoy the confidence of his own Party let alone the confidence of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• They realised that there is not a man in the Opposition who is an alternative Prime Minister. [More…]

• The Australian people have had time to examine, to analyse and to realise that he is a man of great standing. [More…]

• During the week we saw another personal attack emanating. [More…]

• I think that the fact that such a man is appointed immediately raises the question: How genuine is this inquiry? [More…]

• Thousands of old age pensioners in NSW will be forced into institutions because of Federal Government spending cuts, says the man who conducted the inquiry into poverty in Australia. [More…]

• They have pitched the 40 per cent subsidy payable to people who choose not to be insured and to all people who join private insurance funds just high enough to tempt the unwary person, the family man who may rue the day when he fell for the Minister’s blandishments. [More…]

• Many families in Australia may not insure themselves. [More…]

• This was not only because the demand for labour was growing but also because an increasing number of people were staying at school for longer and a rising proportion were going on to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Due to excessive wage rates and the availability of modern technology, the demand for labour is now falling. [More…]

• Machine and computer power is replacing man and woman power. [More…]

• In fact, at present it takes about 1.3 man hours per line per year to maintain the telephone service. [More…]

• On completion of the first stage that requirement will be reduced to 0.6 man hours. [More…]

• By the end of stage two, the figure will be 0.1 man hours. [More…]

• He knows that we understand the railways; that we have shown a commitment to the Tasmanian railway system. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that in our State the railwaymen, almost to a man, support the Liberal Party. [More…]

• They know that we are genuine in our concern for the railways, and they will not have a bar of the Labor Party which, over many years, has been killing the State railway system. [More…]

• The first man to recognise that fact and to put it in words that were much the same in content, although they might have been different in detail, was a Labor Treasurer, Mr Frank Crean. [More…]

• The stage has been reached where an increase in one man ‘s pay packet costs another man his job. [More…]

• It is quite obvious from the speech just made by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), who is sitting at the table, that the Minister does not understand that there is such a thing as a man’s and woman’s inherent right to work. [More…]

• What we are concerned with is the very important and fundamental issue of the maintenance of the dignity of man and woman. [More…]

• The Prime Minister might pride himself on being a strong man- a Samson- but he might well remember that Samson brought down the temple and he vanished with it. [More…]

• I am not going to say, as others have said and as was first said by a Labor Party Treasurer, that one man’s wage rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• The simple fact is that there needs to be a turn-around in the demand for labour. [More…]

• He would be the only man who would be prepared to break every promise and to increase every tax, either openly or covertly and then declare that no Australian would pay more tax. [More…]

• That is the idea of the man who was bom to rule and who is running this country. [More…]

• I have just received today news of the Tasmanian Budget. [More…]

• Despite the huffing and puffing of Mr Batt and others who have been knocking Canberra and saying what terrible people we are, it turns out that the Budget deficit in Tasmania was $6. [More…]

• For the sake of the record, I want to read into Hansard the treatment of Tasmania by the Fraser Government since it came to power. [More…]

• In the last year of Labor, in the 1975-76 Budget- the Hayden horror Budget- Tasmania received a miserable $156,816,000. [More…]

• Indeed, the total treatment of Tasmania comes out something like this: From Canberra this year Tasmania will be receiving $501,894,000, which on a per capita basis works out at something like $1,100 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]

• That compares with about $650 in New South Wales and $700 in Victoria, yet still Mr Batt complains and whinges and makes political statements which are contrary to the interests of Tasmania. [More…]

• Let us take the example for 1978-79 of a man on estimated average weekly earnings, with a dependant wife and two children. [More…]

• In reality this Budget serves to penalise the poor, the sick, the aged, the young and the family man. [More…]

• They include the family man who has been sacked or retrenched, the man who is the sole breadwinner of the family, and the man or the woman of the house who has to pay rent, who has to clothe the children and themselves as well. [More…]

• For example, the man on $175 a week buying his home on mortgage was getting a big help from the deduction off the top of his income of a substantial part of his interest payments. [More…]

• To a man on $300 a week or more it did not really matter as he did not get the housing concession anyway as his income was too high for him to receive this tax concession. [More…]

• It has long been the policy in the administration of the Social Services Act that a man and woman, not married, but living together and sharing the economies and advantages of a legally married couple, will not be accorded benefits greater than those granted a married couple, (see also Instruction 8.2). [More…]

• In these circumstances it should be noted that a widow’s pension cannot be granted to a claimant, while she is living with a man as hrs “de facto” wife. [More…]

• Similarly payment of widow’s pension cannot continue to a widow pensioner who commences to live with a man on this basis. [More…]

• A “dependent female” means a woman who has lived with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis, though not legally married to him ‘. [More…]

• For example, a revolving beacon on an aircraft or a man welding would set off the system and, peculiarly, FI 11 aircraft and airmen working on them do not like being overwhelmed by foam. [More…]

• To June 1978 he had accrued 205 days annual leave and 140 days for work he was forced to perform on public holidays because someone had to man the railway station. [More…]

• The cost to this man, who is just about 60 years of age, will be something like $4,000. [More…]

• Perhaps the final word of wisdom came from one of the leaders when he said: ‘Why cannot you leave us in peace and simply agree between your governments about the man who will advise us?’ [More…]

• He is not an honest man. [More…]

• I refer to the late Leo Port who was a good and close longstanding friend of mine; a man who contributed so much to the renewal of the city of Sydney, a man who, in effect, in the end, through his excessive zeal and excessive energy, contributed his life in the service of the citizens of Sydney. [More…]

• Whether one agrees with everything that Leo Port did during his time as Lord Mayor one must concede that he was a man of untold energy, vision and belief in the city of Sydney. [More…]

• However, I am certain that those people with whom he was in conflict will all agree that he was a man of the deepest integrity who was also blessed with a capacity for unbelievable hard work. [More…]

• These people are aware of the nature of their vicious and villainous attack on this man. [More…]

• All I am saying is that it is unfortunate that a man of such status, such stature and such capacity, a man who did so much for Sydney, at the end of his life should have had to tolerate the kind of viciousness that was heaped upon him by his opponents. [More…]

• I regret that such a fine and outstanding man should have been subjected to those unfair and unbelievable pressures when it was well known that he was in serious health at the time. [More…]

• I know that all honourable members on this side of the House, and I hope all honourable members opposite also, will recognise and appreciate the fine work this man did for the city of Sydney. [More…]

• I am assured by the chairman of the Flinders finance committee that any suggestion of falsified receipts or misappropriation of campaign funds is utterly without foundation. [More…]

• I have no intention of dignifying any further in this House the quite despicable and nauseating smears which that man has concocted and which apparently the Labor Party in this House is prepared to endeavour to perpetuate. [More…]

• It is significant that one of Australia’s leading primary producer representatives, a man who is not frightened to express his point of view, Sir Samuel Burston, has said that the Budget brought down last month was absolutely necessary in the present economic circumstances. [More…]

• rabies, which is one of the most serious diseases affecting all mammals, including man, in whom it is almost invariably fatal. [More…]

• Denison (Mr Hodgman), who is in the chamber, is also from Tasmania. [More…]

• I am not being critical of anybody, not even the Tasmanian Government It is just a situation that needs reversing; it is a situation that requires assistance. [More…]

• After the three difficult years we have had since that time it is now starting to be driven home that the Minister for Health is a sincere man who is understanding and appreciative of the problems of the sick and elderly people of Australia. [More…]

• In the case of shipbuilding it was said to amount to $19,000 per man per year. [More…]

• It was said to amount to $13,000 per man per year in the case of waterside workers. [More…]

• The protection to the car manufacturing industry was said to amount to $5,000 per man per year. [More…]

• But free trade across the Tasman does affect our dairying and forestry industries and quite a few others. [More…]

• At that time we were told that the Liberal and National Country parties would go full steam ahead and not only maintain the full subsidy but they would increase it for a much longer period so that the man on the land would be able to plan ahead and know what his costs would be. [More…]

• The man on the land will tell you that stimulatory assistance is more necessary today than it was ever before. [More…]

• The man on the land, who nearly faces ruin, wants to know what the Government is doing today. [More…]

• What the man on the land needs is some definite evidence that the Government is aware of his tragic situation and that the IAC is aware of the situation. [More…]

• I think that this is the wrong time to put up the fuel costs of the man on the land and that this is the wrong time to reduce the nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy. [More…]

• I ask honourable members in this House to have another look at this Bill and to give some real encouragement to the man on the land. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I maintain that the honourable member for Melbourne should get to his feet and apologise like a man and not slink into his seat. [More…]

• When I travel around Australia I gain the impression that the normal man in the street recognises that the Budget is hurting the hip pocket nerve but on balance he feels that it is probably necessary and that in the longer term he and his children will be better off under the responsible government which has been brought to this country after a very necessary change of government in 1975. [More…]

• I am proud of the Government which had the good sense to appoint a Minister who is regarded around Australia as a man of honour and integrity. [More…]

• Mr Eyers is a man of great experience not only from his background in banking but also in the housing area. [More…]

• He was the person who set up the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation and was its first chairman. [More…]

• Mr Ken Taeuber, who was the chairman or a member of the South Australian Land Commission had vast administrative background in the South Australian Public Service before being appointed to that Commission. [More…]

• That is from a man who has been actively involved in industry for a number of years and whose industry peers have elected him as President of the Queensland Confederation of Industry. [More…]

• I want to make only two brief comments in reply to remarks made, not so much by the honourable member for Parramatta because prima facie he is not an unreasonable person, but by the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) who parades himself in this Parliament as being a supporter of the Tasmanian fruit industry and a friend of the Tasmanian fruit grower. [More…]

• Of course, it was the honourable member for Blaxland, as the fruit growers of Tasmania well know, who said back in 1975 that it might be a kindness to terminate the whole stabilisation scheme which we are debating at the moment and put the growers out of their misery. [More…]

• This is the man who comes into the chamber now and who has the gall, the cynicism and the hypocrisy - [More…]

• Arising from that, there is now a special officer- I think he is called an operations manager- who looks after the administration of the House of Representatives itself. [More…]

• There is a permanent head for each department, each with his own little enclave and each with his own little empire. [More…]

• Honourable members know the story of Parkinson’s law: You start with one man and end up with a department. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Banks has pointed out, the cost of the Commonwealth Parliament last financial year was $14,218,786 or, in round figures, one dollar for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• In the year since the Council ‘s current Chairman was elected he has been thrust into negotiating an issue in a role and in a manner totally alien to his culture. [More…]

• No member of this Parliament would have the ability to negotiate in a foreign language within an unfamiliar system of government with a man as powerful as the Prime Minister on an issue as sensitive to the Aboriginal people as is land, the very symbol of their culture, their traditional social system, their sense of identity and self-dependence. [More…]

• The Government thrusts the Chairman of the Northern Land Council and an executive member of the Council into a room with the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and their hatchet man, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and insists on definitive discussions about what the Aborigines see as the apocalyptic destruction of their land. [More…]

• Are they the remarks of a man who is dissatisfied? [More…]

• Who was the man speaking on behalf of the Northern Land Council? [More…]

• Goodness me, who is the man most qualified to make competent remarks? [More…]

• Let me examine the efforts which have been made to manipulate the Land Council because I think this is where we can see most clearly the mockery which has been made of the so-called policy of self-determination. [More…]

• The Government man in the Northern Land Council is the white manager, Mr Alex Bishaw. [More…]

• Let us bear in mind that many of us, especially those from the Territory, at the time said that these large land councils- there were then two of them- were the wrong concept and that they were unkown and unappreciated by Aborigines under their traditional land law. [More…]

• Silas Roberts, that great gentleman who lives at Maningrida, was under pressure from the previous land council secretary, John Wilders, and he retired under that pressure. [More…]

• We now know that James Gallarrwuy or Galarrwuy Yunupingu as he is now known is said to be under pressure and to be just an up-front man who is being manipulated by people behind the scenes. [More…]

• In the centre, the Central Land Council was dominated by the legal aid man, Geoff Eames. [More…]

• It obviously would be an expensive proposition for a man who is required to travel overseas with his family. [More…]

• There is not a man in this chamber who, when being driven in a Commonwealth car, does not feel that he is quite free to discuss matters such as we are obliged to do or we take advantage of doing when a couple of us are being driven from the airport in the one car. [More…]

• It would be a huge complex but not necessarily as large or as ornate as the Russell defence headquarters which manages the defence of this nation. [More…]

• I understand that there are about three people at Russell for every man in the defence forces. [More…]

• We start off with one man and next thing we know we have a department. [More…]

• -The man’s name is E. G. Whitlam, Q.C., M.P. [More…]

• I raise it simply because I think it is unfortunate that so many people have decided to have a crack at the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) about the cost of overseas trips. [More…]

• That means that a man with a wife and two children receives $121 a week. [More…]

• We believe it is important that the Chairman should be required at least to be qualified in the environmental sciences, and we intend to move an amendment to that effect in the Committee stage. [More…]

• This will get rid of the problem of rigidity that now applies but at the same time it will ensure that the Chairman of the Authority is a man who has shown an interest in the environment and has studied and qualified in that area. [More…]

• The greatest threat comes not from the elements or organisms of nature but from man and specifically from the misguided maladministration of that strange man from Kingaroy, the Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]

• I do not propose to catalogue the manifold sins and the environmental wickedness of the Bjelke-Peterson Government. [More…]

• It has been brought to my attention that the Government in fact has decided on who is to be permanent chairman of the Authority. [More…]

• If the Government has someone in mind for the chairmanship, if by legislation it is going to tailor requirements for that position to its anonymous nominee for the chairmanship- that is, setting the qualifications to suit the man rather than setting the man to suit the qualifications- let the Government show its hand. [More…]

• If it refuses to do this, conservationists are liable to suspect that the Government is fiddling the requirements of the job in order to install a permanent chairman who may or may not be acceptable to conservationists and to the Australian Conservation Foundation but who may be acceptable to this Government and to the Government of Joh Bjelke-Petersen in [More…]

• I might say, with respect, that at present we have a big man with big capabilities heading that portfolio. [More…]

• Immigration is an emotional problem to many people. [More…]

• We have seen tabled in the Victorian Parliament by one Jennings a statement which, because of the denials which have been made subsequently by all those who have been referred to in this commentary- it contains not allegations but comments- can be described only as the inane ramblings of a man who is concerned to destroy people who do not agree with his views on the development, planning or use of land in Victoria. [More…]

• They are the inane ramblings of a man who is determined to destroy and to bring down in chaos everything around him. [More…]

• -I rise in this debate more out of sorrow than in anger to see that another young man on the Government side is involved in the defence of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch). [More…]

• Perhaps the impulsive actions of this impulsive young man are easy to understand, but they are not really the actions of somebody who has a responsibility for the livelihood of” thousands of people in the North West of Western Australia. [More…]

• I am happy to rise in support of the impulsive young man from Blaxland. [More…]

• The point is that if the impulsive young man from Blaxland were the Minister for Minerals and Energy the mining industry in Australia would not be in its present parlous situation. [More…]

• The impulsive young man from Blaxland has seen, in the last three years, the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) undermine the efforts of the Labor Government. [More…]

• The history of the American Indian is one of a white man government in Washington making a succession of treaties and wars with the Indians. [More…]

• Before we allow to pass out of the control of this Parliament the determination of the rights and privileges of Aborigines, including the right of Aborigines to live their own lives, I think proper and carefully set out legislation which deals with the tribal Aborigines and their rights to live in the manner in which they wish to live in the Northern Territory should be established. [More…]

• President Carter described that great non-aligned, Third World leader, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, as ‘a man who on his own initiative combined with other great leaders, Nehru, Nasser, to form an organisation of the non-aligned peoples of the world’. [More…]

• Mr Moynihan summed up many things when, in response, he said: [More…]

• You know that I have a finely tuned sense of humour and that I am a very patient man, Mr Deputy Speaker. [More…]

• The Bill will ratify these sorts of arrangements and will acknowledge that the de facto relationship between a man and a woman is as solid and as strong as the normally accepted relationship of marriage. [More…]

• He said that it was a Bill so that a man could borrow for the purpose of erecting a home which he would occupy as such. [More…]

• I understand from the Chairman of the Committee that it would save the Government money. [More…]

• It would seem that many persons might welcome the proposition because it would help them to bridge the deposit gap. [More…]

• If such a scheme were introduced, no doubt that money could be put towards the elimination of the deposit gap and would achieve the purpose that Senator Miller referred to in 1918 when he emphasised that the conditions were to enable a man to erect a home which he can occupy. [More…]

• by inserting after sub-section (3) the following subsections: (3a) A reference in this Act to the wife of a man shall, in relation to any time when a woman is living with him as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, although not legally married to him, be read as including a reference to that woman if she has so lived with him for not less than 3 years immediately before that time. [More…]

• (3b) A reference in this Act to the husband of a woman shall, in relation to any time when a man is living with her as her husband on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, although not legally married to her, be read as including a reference to that man if he has so lived with her for not less than 3 years immediately before that time. [More…]

• (3c) Where the Corporation is of the opinion that a person would, but for a temporary absence or an absence resulting from illness or infirmity, have been living with another person at any time on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, the first mentioned person shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been living with the other person on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis at that time. [More…]

• I take the opportunity of welcoming the Minister for Veterans ‘ Affairs ( Mr Adermann) to his portfolio. [More…]

• Clearly he is a man of some capacity and intelligence. [More…]

• I cannot understand why the honourable member should be undermining a man who has just got the job. [More…]

• It just seemed to me that once a man established his eligibility by enlisting and serving in an overseas theatre his rights should not be taken away from him because of something that may have eventuated thereafter. [More…]

• Often a man has been discharged from the Services for offences which if committed by people in civilian life would not scar people permanently in their careers in the Public Service or in industry or commerce. [More…]

• Why should a man who lands at Gallipoli or Balikpapan and serves his country voluntarily in an outstanding way and who, perhaps in a mood of celebration comes back and jobs his major, be ineligible for a defence service loan? [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that this week the parliamentary committee inquiring into the question of human rights behind the Iron Curtain will be taking evidence from a man who until six months ago was a prisoner behind the Iron Curtain. [More…]

• You hear on the television or see it as well: Wran’s your man. [More…]

• And the many things that are emphasised about the good things that he and his Government have been doing. [More…]

• But I want to say that there is a man who went about doing good, and the Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and his Government is the most important thing for your life and my life, and in relation to that man we must also cast a vote. [More…]

• I want to say at this time of the problem of election and voting, Christ ‘s your man. [More…]

• So, Neville’s the man; but there was no mention of the gospel of John. [More…]

• It is a signal honour to represent the people of Werriwa in this place, and I am especially pleased because many of those people are people I represented before. [More…]

• Gough Whitlam is the most remarkable man that I have ever met. [More…]

• Gough Whitlam was a man not without faults but always a man far greater than any of his detractors, and I name those people in this place as well. [More…]

• He rewrote many of its policies. [More…]

• He was a man who always stood for social reform and who will always stand for that. [More…]

• He was a man who was proud and made one proud to be an Australian. [More…]

• Mr Coleman also dignified himself by putting forward the rather shaky rationalisation that the burden of Gough Whitlam had been lifted and that that is why the people had swung back. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam has always been a very popular man in his own electorate, and the part that Mr Whitlam represented swung least. [More…]

• The men are sick of going on simulated exercises with outdated equipment and two bullets per man if they are lucky. [More…]

• -First of all, I welcome back the new honourable member for Werriwa (Mr Kerin), one time honourable member for Macarthur, a man for whom on a personal basis I have considerable respect. [More…]

• Before developing this argument, I say that in both countries farmers as exporters suffer by comparison with their counterparts in other countries; that is, they generally receive less government assistance and they suffer greater cost disabilities because of the higher level of protection accorded to manufacturing and tertiary industries than do their counterparts in other countries. [More…]

• The situation which existed in New South Wales after some 2 1 years of Labor Government in the 1940s and 1950s will be created once again if the people on 7 October make the fundamental mistake of believing in the mirage of a man who has no substance to his policies and who has brought in a State Budget which to this day has not been passed by Parliament. [More…]

• The ordinary man in the street, the ordinary married man with children who has had to face the problems of inflation under the Labor Government and who now is at least seeing over the hill, thanks to the Federal grants policies, has to pay a higher rate of indirect taxation than people in any other State. [More…]

• In common with many other honourable members, I welcome back the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr Kerin), a man whom I have had the pleasure of defeating at two previous elections. [More…]

• Mr Peter Reynolds, who is a very able and competent young family man, will be standing against an invalid pensioner representing the Labor Party. [More…]

• He is a conservative man and a pious politician. [More…]

• Yet the same man never seems to express any concern about the illegal tax evasion- the legal crookedness- that exists within our community. [More…]

• This pious young gentleman shows no real feeling or compassion at all. [More…]

• One person is an Aboriginal; the other person is a white man who is involved with Aboriginals; and the organisation is an Aboriginal organisation. [More…]

• He was a man I had known for I do not know how many years. [More…]

• He was one of the people who, when I was a young man, gave me a tremendous amount of help. [More…]

• He was probably the man who helped me and taught me more than anybody else did. [More…]

• In that lies a very human tragedy- that of a man chosen for his church’s highest office but who almost in the same hour was taken from it. [More…]

• He was a man of decision tempered by goodhumoured tolerance, a man of austerity but with considerable personal charm, a literate man but one able to communicate simply and directly to all peoples. [More…]

• His untimely death will be a loss both to his church and to mankind. [More…]

• He was a pastoral pope who brought a spark of joy and happiness to a world which in many respects is unsure and gloomy. [More…]

• He was a man from a poor background, elevated by dint of hard work and intellectual ability; but he remained a man of humility, simplicity and friendliness. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that we say that this is a government for the big man, that this is a government which is setting out deliberately to assist the people in the high income bracket? [More…]

• Dealing firstly with the unfairness of the proposals, they penalise wage and salary earners, and in a severe way in many cases, but they allow privileged opportunities like capital gains, excess profits generated by mineral development companies in this country, windfall gains as additions to the profits of oil companies derived because of arrangements instituted by this Government, and family trusts to go scot free. [More…]

• For instance, if we take the situation of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) we find that he, a man on $ 1 ,500 a week, will have a 5 per cent increase in the tax he has to pay. [More…]

• Eight months later he sets about dismantling what he describes- I do not describe them in these terms- as the largest and fairest reforms ever made to Australia’s tax system. [More…]

• It reminds me of a saying that I have heard from time to time, namely, that a diplomat is a man who is sent abroad to lie for the good of his country. [More…]

• For example, in the latest Budget excise duty and sales tax, which are indirect taxes which affect the working man and all consumers, have increased by 26 per cent. [More…]

• Is it not curious that in the 1975 Budget, which was brought in by the man who is now Leader of the Opposition, excise duty and sales tax taken together increased by 35 per cent? [More…]

• Here is a man who introduced a Budget to increase these indirect taxes by 35 per cent complaining about a government which has increased them by 26 per cent. [More…]

• One can cite without very much difficulty cases in which employees either were asked specifically not to take annual leave or, as is the case in certain State Government departments in Tasmania of which I am aware, where the man concerned was not permitted to take his annual leave. [More…]

• My colleague the honourable member for Diamond Valley reminds me of the matter raised by a colleague from Victoria, the honourable member for Deakin (Mr Jarman), involving an employee of the Victorian Government Railways Department. [More…]

• I am aware of one case concerning an employee of the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania in which the amount involved is $8,000. [More…]

• It makes an enormous difference to that man as he approaches retirement whether he is to be taxed on that lump sum payment at the rate of 5 per cent or as if it were normal income. [More…]

• There was a very marked swing in the Werriwa by-election which resulted in the entry into this Parliament of an extremely good man who was previously a member of this Parliament. [More…]

• Even though Wran was the man in New South Wales, I feel that the result of the New South Wales State election was a demonstration by the people of New South Wales that they were dissatisfied with the performance of this Government, in particular with the Budget it brought down and more particularly with the matters which we are discussing at the present time. [More…]

• Having travelled through many Aboriginal communities, he must surely realise that we cannot put tribal Aborigines straight into white man’s houses. [More…]

• We saw the outstations at Yirrkala which they recently built themselves, after moving from white man’s houses. [More…]

• The Christian Brother was referring to the man’s generosity to his fellow man. [More…]

• He was not by any stretch a wealthy man but he willingly gave to those in need even if such giving added a burden to his own shoulders. [More…]

• The people who have dipped their lids to this man show that he made the grade and proved that that in which he believed was truly possible. [More…]

• That is a very interesting interjection from a man who would not be a member of this place if we achieved in a Federal election the same result as was recorded in the New South Wales elections. [More…]

• It may well be that the people unwittingly have been conned by this smooth, suave-talking armchair socialist, this man who puts himself forward as one of them when in fact not only is he not one of them but also is, as my colleague the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) has said repeatedly, a prisoner of the Left. [More…]

• How will they feel when the boundaries are redrawn so that Labor stays in power through the greatest gerrymander that this country has seen. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to an article in the National Times for the week ending 1 July 1978, concerning a Mr Brian Maher described in the article as a scourge of the tax man; if so, in view of this taxpayer’s alleged activities and the effect of those activities on Government revenue, has he or the Commissioner for Taxation given consideration to prosecuting Mr Maher under section 5 of the Commonwealth Crimes Act for aiding and abetting offences against the Income Tax Assessment Act or under section 86 of the Crimes Act for conspiracy to commit an offence or to prevent or defeat the execution or enforcement of the tax legislation. [More…]

• It has long been practiced by this man. [More…]

• Total government borrowings overseas has now reached the level where the Government owes foreign financiers $280 for each man, woman and child in this country, compared with only $90 a head when the Fraser Government took over in November 1 975. [More…]

• If we take them into consideration, for each man, woman and child in this country, we are going to be owing $320 as against the $90 at the time the Fraser Government came to office. [More…]

• Is there a man here who would say they would sooner put Australia into hock to the tune of $ 1,000m rather than devalue? [More…]

• This was said by the man who proposes to put us into hock to the tune of $3,000m before this year is out. [More…]

• Those words were said by the man who so cynically made such a thing of the ‘loans affair’. [More…]

• All the Prime Minister is doing is shoring up the reserves, which have been plummeting downwards because of his Government’s inept performance, its gross economic mismanagement. [More…]

• With his frequent references to ‘flushing out’, he reminded me a little of the man who one morning by mistake took Harpic instead of Eno ‘s salts and went clean round the bend. [More…]

• I put it to the Minister that an honourable man, Mr Barnard, made an inquiry from his own Department and he was misled. [More…]

• -There is no man in this Parliament to whom I can honestly pay greater personal respect than I pay to the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr [More…]

• All of this and much more of the same ilk comes from the same man, Fraser, the man who made a determined bid to rob pensioners of their funeral benefits- can one imagine anybody carrying out a meaner tactic- to take back some of the established benefits of handicapped people and of war veterans and to tax paper boys. [More…]

• All of this ‘grand design of social welfare reform’- that is placed in inverted commas to indicate the clear sarcasm- comes from the same man, Fraser, the man who promised tax cuts at an election eight months ago and this week introduced substantial tax increases in their place. [More…]

• This is the same man who in 1975 promised to preserve Medibank, to adhere to wage indexation and to bring about economic recovery in three years. [More…]

• He is the same man who last year promised a 2 per cent reduction in interest rates by this month and falling unemployment from February on. [More…]

• He is the same man who claimed in Sydney a fortnight ago that his Government had boosted spending for pensioner housing but who in doing so blatantly ignored the way in which aged persons’ homes housing programs have been set back by the policies of his Government. [More…]

• He is the same man who said a fortnight ago in Sydney again that his Government had given greater emphasis to child care oblivious of the simple fact that in 1975-76 in our last Budget we allocated $64m for this purpose. [More…]

• I pointed out in the House a little while ago in the course of this session that it is possible for a man who is supporting a wife and two children and who earns $33,000 a year from sources other than wages and salaries effectively to avoid $4,950 of his tax liability by exploiting one of his tax avoidance devices- a family trust. [More…]

• The shabby and somewhat rambling diatribe by the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) was, to say the least, disappointing for a man who is reputed to be one of the most intelligent members of the Parliament. [More…]

• In my respectful submission, his performance tonight was nothing short of disgraceful. [More…]

• The Government has stated consistently that whatever it might do for the average man it will really look after the person who is in trouble. [More…]

• It is good to see that the Government has been very humane in its treatment of these very special people. [More…]

• Only a few weeks ago, due to the initiative of the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) who is a man of great compassion, a deputation of interested people led by the honourable member was able to see some of the things which are done in spastic centres and in homes for subnormal people. [More…]

• If you are in real trouble- I don’t mean just like the drinking charge I read about a few months back, but something that your own people can’t help with- something which might be helped by a white man interested in hearing blackfeller secrets if they want to tell him and willing to tell whitefeller secrets if people want to hear them-then I would like you to think of me as a former family doctor who had a large following of Aboriginal patients years ago, who took time to explain things to them and who would like to be thought of as your friend whether our politics is the same or not. [More…]

• This desperate little man from St George, the arrogant ant of Australian politics, is in here doing his best to drag shibboleths across our path. [More…]

• Once again the honourable member for St George has shown what a distinguished contribution he can make in this Parliament and will make for many years to come. [More…]

• On the other side of the coin, what a disappointing performance from the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), a man who has been referred to as the white hope of the right wing of the Labor Party. [More…]

• My word, his few supporters would be bitterly disappointed with him today, particularly the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), who is not even in the chamber to support what must be one of the weakest performances ever. [More…]

• The honourable member for Blaxland cannot go to Tasmania, South Australia or anywhere else in Australia now and pretend that he is the friend of private enterprise. [More…]

• He has exposed himself today as a man who is now an unashamed prisoner of the Left. [More…]

• Mr Chairman, the way I put my argument on this matter is simply this: Clause 8 is part of a whole series of clauses, a number of which have been dealt with and some of which have yet to be dealt with and which, taken together, form part of a total philosphy, a total approach on the part of this Government, which assertion has not been contradicted by honourable members on the other side of the chamber. [More…]

• It is a pretty silly exercise when the Opposition, almost to a man, has been gagged. [More…]

• Let me commend to some of the philosophers or economists on the other side of the chamber the views of a man whom I would not say is a prominent economist but whose views would commend themselves to those who sit opposite. [More…]

• The abolition of the levy of 2.5 per cent will mean a minimum saving of some $150 for a single person or $300 for the family man. [More…]

• The man who is shadow Minister for Health in this Parliament is encouraging and inciting people to beat the system. [More…]

• He makes no reference to low income or disadvantaged people in relation to whom bulk billing was specifically introduced, as has been stated so many times by the Minister for Health in this debate. [More…]

• When one looks at the number of times that the Labor Party has incited anarchy and lawlessness in our community- I am sure it has incited people to exploit our unemployment benefit scheme- and when one hears a shadow Minister for Health, a man who aspires to be Minister for Health in this country, telling people to look for doctors who are prepared to bulk bill, one wonders what the motives of the honourable member for Prospect are, especially when he stoops to those levels to urge people to seek handouts to which they are not entitled. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it is a scandalous state of affairs when a man who aspires to be the Minister for Health in this country urges people not to take out insurance. [More…]

• No, but what I say to the Minister is this: In the view of the Government why should that medical practitioner, if he wants to make the legislation work, be placed in the situation of asking questions of patients A and B to determine whether they should be bulk billed but making a casual observation about patient C and saying: ‘Obviously the poor man is so destitute that I do not have to ask this question’? [More…]

• I share the view expressed by the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe). [More…]

• It concerns two points: The management of our nation’s affairs and the credibility of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The man who leads it is an incompetent Prime Minister. [More…]

• Its incompetence can be detailed on many grounds but I would need much more time than is available to me tonight to do so. [More…]

• The latest borrowing of another $600m from Japan puts every man, woman and child in the country into hock for $324. [More…]

• Yet that man, the Prime Minister of our country, is now responsible for putting Australia into hock for another $2, 800m since he made that statement. [More…]

• Not only did the Prime Minister knock 17 1/2 per cent off the value of the dollar two years ago, but he has managed to knock another 4 per cent off it since then. [More…]

• Party yields to the demands of unions of this country concerning an illegal action that the unions or their spokesmen wish to carry out; otherwise there will be trouble. [More…]

• I do not think that Bob Hawke is a poor man’s Freddy Laker. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman would be an extraordinary man if he could go back into the 1950s and find all the records, all the cheques and all the statements in the records of these private companies, which I reiterate are none of the business of this Parliament or indeed of the people of Australia but are only the private business of the three parties concerned. [More…]

• Indeed, it is necessary from my point of view that I establish completely that justice is done to the other parties, that there is no evidence of any tax liability, and that all documents and papers and everything else are completed in the manner in which they should be completed. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was speaking to some points made in this debate by the honourable member for Reid concerning Mr Alex Bishaw, the Manager of the Northern Land Council. [More…]

• I was pointing out that the statement made by the honourable member for Reid that Mr Bishaw is a public servant from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is wrong and that he had resigned from the Department some time ago when he was chosen by the NLC from a field of applicants to take on the position of Manager of the Council. [More…]

• I can only condemn the honourable member for Reid when he attacks the integrity of a man such as Mr Bishaw, who has been prepared to serve the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• There is other evidence on tape that the Minister, if he were a Minister worthy of his responsibility, would investigate and then take action against this man. [More…]

• He again said that the meaning of my letter was what he read out from an article by a man called Datta-Ray in the Canberra Times. [More…]

• -Today, the Church has a new Pope and the world has a new leader of peace and goodwill for all mankind. [More…]

• He became the first non-Italian Pope for 455 years- a remarkable achievement for a man who on 18 May 1920 was born in Wadowice, the son of a factory worker. [More…]

• Of sturdy build, round faced, firm jawed and with silver-grey hair, this newly created Prince of the Church, fluent in French, Italian, English and German and powerful in his native tongue, attained joint leadership of his Church in Poland with the heroic Cardinal Wyszynski. [More…]

• A profound man with strong pastoral leanings, he delighted Australians with his warmth and humour when he visited this country in 1973. [More…]

• Further attacks were made on the man’s character. [More…]

• I think that sort of comment deserves an unconditional apology to a man of the character of Mr Hawke. [More…]

• The problem that I had raised concerned a man who had applied for unemployment benefit eight weeks ago. [More…]

• That man had a wife and two children who had not received the benefit because they were living on several acres- unfilled acreage- so that his case had to be investigated. [More…]

• I rise to support my friend, the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), in wishing the new Pope a happy reign. [More…]

• The sincere hope of all Christians is that he will be able to work for the betterment of mankind, for the poor and underprivileged. [More…]

• With his humble beginnings, I believe that he is the right man. [More…]

• I am certain that tonight the 35 million Polish Catholics will be extremely proud of this man. [More…]

• The honourable member for Griffith (Mr Humphreys), a man with a similar background to mine, must realise that everybody in the world today is human and is apt to make mistakes. [More…]

• I support the statement made by the New South Wales Minister for Health, Mr Kevin Stewart who, although a Labor man, is adopting a far more responsible position in this issue than are members of the Opposition. [More…]

• This is a bad day for the man in the street because the balance has been tilted further in favour of big business and against his interests. [More…]

• Here we have another case of the pocket of the man in the street being hurt by increased oil prices in favour of big business, of the man in the street not getting the backing that he should get from his Government, or from the Government that occupies the Treasury bench at the present time. [More…]

• Who in this House or in the community believes that there will be many hearings after all those sorts of pressures have been put on the Minister? [More…]

• The Tribunal will make its inquiries in an atmosphere in which the prices have already been increased so there will be extra pressure against the interests of the man in the street and pressures in favour of business to see that the particular price increases are allowed by the Tribunal. [More…]

• All the factors which I have outlined to the House add up, as I have suggested, to this being a black day for the man in the street. [More…]

• Competition should ensure the lowest possible prices in many sectors. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party does not intend that there should be expensive inquiries or surveillance where there is proper competition, but we have to face the fact that competition does not exist in many sectors of our economy. [More…]

• This is a bad day for the man in the street and a good day for business. [More…]

• They have a philosophy similar to that which I hold, and that is that man was not born to work but was born to have the work done for him. [More…]

• What the man on the land is concerned about is that the general policy matters covered by this appropriation make his farm more productive and viable. [More…]

• I ask the Government to have a good look at these matters and to take every precaution to see that the situation is not made worse for the man on the land. [More…]

• The trade union movement will accept the manning of Australian ships by Australian crews on conditions comparable to those on ships of other developed countries. [More…]

• There will not be overmanning as there has been in the past. [More…]

• The manning will be similar to that on the ships of other developed countries. [More…]

• I believe the ship owners have been told that if they buy ships the Australian unions will man those ships under conditions applicable on the ships of other countries. [More…]

• Australian ships will have reasonable manning. [More…]

• Ms Lois O’Donoghue, Chairman of the National Aboriginal Conference, states that the NAC wanted the most suitable person for all the secretariat’s positions. [More…]

• The appointment of a man of Mr McE wen’s calibre to the Secretary-General’s position was evidence of the importance placed on the secretariat by the NAC executive. [More…]

• It concerns a man of Polish extraction who was bom in 1916. [More…]

• At the outbreak of World War II he was imprisoned by the Germans but escaped and joined the Free Polish forces in 1940 when he landed in Britain. [More…]

• Those forces were under British command and eventually, in 1944, he landed back in France with the invasion forces. [More…]

• He is, of course, able to claim an age pension but apparently a man who has served under British command, who was with the invasion forces, who received recognition through a particular award, who came back and immediately took out British citizenship, who was married to a British citizen and then migrated to Australia in 1962, is not entitled, under this particular section of the Repatriation Act, to any benefits whatsoever. [More…]

• i charge that it is this Government, and its Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), that has intimidated and interfered with the Northern Land Council, both directly and indirectly, through its man in the Northern Land Council, its white manager, Mr Alex Bishaw. [More…]

• We can only ask Mr Bishaw how many of his other statements he would stand by if he were challenged. [More…]

• One has to listen only to the tapes to know that the man is a liar of the worst order. [More…]

• -No, they did not have a twelfth man. [More…]

• But the real issue for many sincere ALP members in Queensland is the present structure and organisation of the party. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has been involved in the worst sort of short term politicking and grandstanding that we have seen for many a year. [More…]

• He has attempted to play out the role of a progressive, a reformer and a strongman when, in fact, there has been no reform and he has done what he has been told to do by the faceless left wing power brokers who dominate the Labor Party in Queensland. [More…]

• I suggest to honourable members and the Australian electorate that such a man would be incapable of keeping left wing policies out of a Labor government. [More…]

• With the shortage of money that we have I wonder about the merit of the Commonwealth financing curricula development exercises such as the Social Education Materials Project, abbreviated to SEMP; Man; A Course of Study, abbreviated to MACOS; and another called Messageways. [More…]

• At present it is normal for a young man or young lady who wants to go into the technical field, preferably through an apprenticeship, to do the school certificate at 16 years of age. [More…]

• People do want responsible environmental management which is not incompatible with responsible development, of which wood chipping and bauxite mining are prime examples. [More…]

• He defines conservation as: ‘The planned management and wise use of nature’s resources- as a whole as well as separately’. [More…]

• He is well aware of the disastrous effects that environmental extremists can have on the economy and on the average man’s standard of living. [More…]

• The ‘ Charter of German Sport ‘ aims at a uniform conception of the encouragement of sport, of its educational value and its educational aim. [More…]

• It outlines a common task which is achieved only in close partnership with the State, the schools, the parents, the churches, the political parties and all other social organisations serving man and the common welfare. [More…]

• I was delighted to see a 71 -year old man, Mr Tom Mahony, who rode that long distance from midnight on Friday night till 3 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. [More…]

• The important thing that appeared in the Press report on Thursday morning- this morning- is that the person who to all intents and purposes is above party politics, the Speaker of this House, a man I hold in very high reverence, made the only sensible suggestion that was made in the Liberal Party room yesterday. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Burke has any doubt at all about this, I would refer him to the views not of a spokesman for the Government benches but of one of the Labor Party’s own economic advisers during the three years of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Indeed, he was even an adviser to the great man himself. [More…]

• This shows how much concern that man has for his own Department. [More…]

• That little man has to implement the policies dictated by none other than the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser. [More…]

• For example, the Department of Productivity, using census and compensation figures, states that in an average year there are 300 deaths from accidents at work, 350,000 temporary disabilities and over one million man weeks lost each year. [More…]

• He came into the House- he is a man who is incapable of constructive thoughtand raised an issue knowing full well that he could upset the delicate balance of these negotiations. [More…]

• A married man receiving $152 a week after tax may pay about $7.70 for the much vaunted health insurance changes, leaving him about $144 a week. [More…]

• The extreme right wing Ku Klux Klan is alive and flourishing in Australia, according to a man claiming to be the Australian leader of the Klan. [More…]

• These were finally confirmed here in Darwin yesterday when an Australian man dressed in the traditional white robes and mask of the Klan walked into the ABC television studio under tight security. [More…]

• He then mentioned the Ku Klux Klan man- is none other than the same Territory policeman currently facing police disciplinary charges over a similar hoax at Katherine some months ago. [More…]

• I think an appropriate example is that of Congressman Diggs in America. [More…]

• He was a black congressman, recently convicted of fraud. [More…]

• The foreman of the jury was a black man. [More…]

• That is a clear case of a man applying his conscience and doing what was necessary regardless of any prejudice one way or the other to a person on the ground of his race. [More…]

• What a long way to go before these people will receive anything resembling justice from the white man. [More…]

• He seems to have deserted completely this young man who is carrying on, with the church apparently his only hope or assurance of getting any income, and indeed, of employing any Aboriginals at all. [More…]

• This means that the matter put forward by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition not merely falls to the ground but also is rendered irrelevant by any examination of the record and performance of this Government- and even more so when compared with the present Opposition’s own record and with the disputes between its members. [More…]

• They have no record and they have no performance. [More…]

• I am sorry to say these things to a man whom I generally respect as a man who wishes to put forward plausible material. [More…]

• It seems to me absurd that anyone in this country would listen to lessons from either this man or his party on foreign policy, because for a generation they have been wrong on every great international issue or at least belated in their recognition of its significance. [More…]

• Last night he made mention of the fact that one of the existing destroyers would be taken out of service late in 1979 in order to ensure that strains were not placed on the capacity of crews to man these particular ships. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, as you are aware, it is not in keeping with my style to pay too many tributes. [More…]

• That, of course, is to the man who I believe breathed life into this entire subject. [More…]

• I remember the previous member for Wakefield used to say: ‘You can always tell the size of a man’s expense account by the enthusiasm with which he summons the waiter’. [More…]

• Mr Anderson is a very active man within his own community- that is, the deaf community in Victoria- and he brought to my attention the fact that there are devices available, not yet in Australia but overseas, whereby people who are completely deaf and those who are deaf and mute can communicate with one another via a telephone using a teletype system. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that every Australian man, woman and child now owes overseas financiers over $280? [More…]

• On taking office in 1975, the Prime Minister showed his total lack of concern for the environment by placing the portfolio in the hands of a man who was a raw novice in politics, the present Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• His performance was pathetic enough as he watched his Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development being dismantled before his very eyes. [More…]

• The Minister’s concern for the environment during the previous two years was rewarded by his being appointed Minister for National Development- in other words, the spokesman for the mining companies. [More…]

• In his place the man least likely to stand up to the bullying tactics of the Prime Minister was appointed to oversee the protection of the environment. [More…]

• Another Tasmanian had to be appointed to the Ministry and, faced with the unpalatable option of Senator Rae, who has a lot of ability but is disliked by the Prime Minister, and the ratbag rump of dissidents who make up the rest of Tasmania’s representatives, the Prime Minister chose the affable but ineffectual member for Braddon (Mr Groom) as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My honourable friend the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) is a man of some sympathy in these matters. [More…]

• Let it be administered humanely. [More…]

• I remind the House that if a man does not have $20 it is not to be levied. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) who has just resumed his seat has, in the short time he has been here, gained a reputation for being a two bob each way merchant. [More…]

• I am not a betting man but I would put my money right on the nose of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports. [More…]

• He is a man of the law and a person knowledgeable in the use of the English language; yet he continues to shout down people in this chamber who express a view contrary to his own. [More…]

• As a simple layman in this area and probably the best truck driver in Australia, I explain to him that my knowledge of the English language happens to be greater than his. [More…]

• A man cannot be adjudged guilty or innocent because he has no funds available to him with which to obtain advice or representation. [More…]

• However, last Saturday a young man from the Australian Independence Movement stall was arrested after being questioned as to whether he had a hawkers licence. [More…]

• If anybody has to figurehead this undesirable trend, the Prime Minister has to be the man to accept responsibility for this policy. [More…]

• It is not the policy that is being pursued by the Government of West Germany whose President has been in Canberra recently and which is put up as a kind of example to the mixed economies of the world of how to run things efficiently. [More…]

• The employment of many people in the public and private sectors is threatened. [More…]

• This morning a young man came to him with a prescription for 50 methadone and 30 Mandrax tablets. [More…]

• On inquiry he found that the young person had presented the following prescriptions in Canberra over the last couple of weeks: on 15 October, 50 methadone tablets; on 22 October, 25 methadone tablets; on 23 October, 25 methadone tablets; on 24 October, 30 methadone tablets; on 26 October, 50 methadone tablets; on 1 8 October, 25 Mandrax tablets; on 19 October, 25 Mandrax tablets; on 22 October, 12 Mandrax tablets; on 23 October, 13 Mandrax tablets; on 24 October, 20 Mandrax tablets; and on 26 October, 30 Mandrax tablets. [More…]

• Geoff Duncan: Wasn’t it fair enough for the ABC though to record the comments of somebody overseas in America and run that as a story, a man who made claims? [More…]

• I get fed up to the teeth with reading so many of the city-based media which persist in attacking this Government and those of us who are members of it for failure to care for those on the land in Australia. [More…]

• We have intentionally produced policies designed to help the little man, the family farmer who, over the years, has contributed to making this nation what it is. [More…]

• Of all the relationships traditional Aboriginal man has with anybody or anything the most important is that which binds him to a particular tract of land which he refers to as his country’. [More…]

• He said: ‘One man’s pay rise is another man’s job. “ [More…]

• It is not surprising, since he was a responsible and compassionate man, that at that time he pointed it out to the nation. [More…]

• Hence we have the reason for Labor Treasurer Crean ‘s statement that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• The obvious case that comes to mind is where a man consumes a lot of alcohol one night and cannot carry out his duties in the Public Service the following morning. [More…]

• I make it quite clear, as I made it clear in the Committee, that I do not believe for one moment that the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister (Mr Viner), who is at the table, would abuse that power; but I suggest that we are seeking to put on to the statute book a power which is to be given to a Minister, who is a political animal, to take action against a public servant without trial, and the effect of that will be that that man will be suspended without pay. [More…]

• What would the situation be if a Minister considered that it brought the Public Service into disrepute if a man who was a First Division public servant lived with somebody who was not his lawful wife? [More…]

• Let me tell him that the treatment Tasmania has received from this Government is the best treatment it has ever received in the history of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member that in its last year the Government of which he was a supporter, in the Hayden horror Budget, doled out to Tasmania a mere $156m. [More…]

• For the benefit of the honourable member for Gellibrand, this financial year Tasmania will be receiving from Canberra a record $50 1.894m which, on a per capita basis, works out at about $1,100 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]

• If the honourable member believes that he can stand in this Parliament and tell the people of Tasmania that they have not had a good deal from the present Government, I suggest he should obtain some of the free psychiatric advice which is readily available from Medibank. [More…]

• He is spending more time in Queensland than in Tasmania. [More…]

• It shows how absolutely incompetent this man is. [More…]

• As a Tasmanian, I place on record in this Parliament at this time my regret that it has behaved in such an amateurish, bungling and economically incompetent way. [More…]

• I draw to his attention again the increase of 12.2 per cent in loan funds to Tasmania. [More…]

• I ask the honourable member for Gellibrand whether he thinks that Tasmania has done well when the national increase of Loan Council funding was 7.9 per cent and Tasmania received an increase of 12.2 per cent. [More…]

• I ask the honourable member for Gellibrand, Mr Deputy Speaker through you, to tell me whether he thinks Tasmania has done well or badly when, as a percentage of the sixState total, Tasmania received 7.1 per cent of the Loan Council program for a population of 3.5 per cent. [More…]

• I would be amazed if the honourable member could persuade me that Tasmania has had a raw deal or if he could persuade the people of Tasmania that they have been short changed. [More…]

• The short answer to his argument is this: If Tasmania is getting a raw deal why does the Labor Party not take Tasmania’s case back to the Grants Commission which was set up to look after the smaller States? [More…]

• The Grants Commission was designed by a Tasmanian economist, Professor Lyndhurst Giblin. [More…]

• It was set up for States like Tasmania. [More…]

• Tasmania has had budget surpluses for three years out of four and has cut taxes. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to convey to the Government the congratulation of Tasmania for the treatment given to our State not only under the loan fund program but also at the Loan Council meeting last Monday. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned Tasmania has never had it so good and as long as this Government is prepared to pay $1,100 per annum for every man, woman and child in Tasmania it will have my full and continuing support. [More…]

• He is going to be supported in a few moments by a man well known on the Flemington race track, the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr John Brown), who is from New South Wales. [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) is a fair-minded man from time to time and I know that these facts will overwhelm him. [More…]

• That does not exactly sound like the cry of a happy man. [More…]

• Of course with a back injury the man was in extreme pain and discomfort. [More…]

• This man came to see me. [More…]

• Is Mr Haylen the man the Minister has identified to the Parliament as the independent professional investigator he has authorised to sort out those business operations which are now the subject of official inquiry in New South Wales? [More…]

• If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates, and a couple with one income and the benefits of rebates accruing to their family of say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to others. [More…]

• It now exists on the salaries of two of the staff (a Catholic priest and a working man) who are assisted by a nun (unsalaried). [More…]

• Because cannabis is less available than other drugs many young people are resorting to sniffing glue or drinking heavily. [More…]

• I am sure that many honourable members on both sides of the House can appreciate the anguish of a young man or young woman out of school, out of a job and down in the dumps. [More…]

• When one sees an action of that type, one so dishonourable, one so politically dishonest, so typically devious- the Prime Minister is a very devious individual- is it any wonder that the people feel they can no longer trust a man who plays such dirty tricks, simply to make it appear that he is influencing a situation with which he has had nothing whatsoever to do? [More…]

• There is a man who has contributed five or six weeks paternity leave. [More…]

• Probably all of us, who are of another generation, were brought up with the well-known attitude about a woman’s place: A man got married expecting his wife to look after the home, have children and look after him when he got home. [More…]

• That man is now a director of this Primary Industry Bank. [More…]

• Sir Samuel is now a sadder but hopefully wiser man. [More…]

• Can the honourable member come into this House as a decent, responsible and honest man and tell us that he loves the banks, and that he loves any sort of bank? [More…]

• The man who gave me the inspiration was Dr Strong of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. [More…]

• One of the reasons why the Minister for Primary Industry was able to achieve agreement was that the trading banks would handle not only the refinancing of development but also the normal day to day operations of the man on the land and his family. [More…]

• I can remind the House of the activities of another Labor man, a Premier this time- Jack Lang- in relation to mortgages. [More…]

• I had to draw the securities and advise on legislation to provide for demand mortgages so that the banks would once again be able to re-enter the business of lending. [More…]

• It may be argued by some, as I have heard, that this is surely trying an innocent man before he is found guilty. [More…]

• It is not trying a man at all; it is not trying anyone. [More…]

• It is a asserting a principle, the principle that the Prime Minister has declared so firmly so often, namely, that the standards expected of us in public life are much more demanding and much harsher than those standards that are generally expected in the community. [More…]

• How would one feel if one discovered that one’s friendly bank manager was responsible, allegedly, for the misappropriation of $250,000, perhaps blowing out to more than $700,000, from the local bank, from one’s own deposits? [More…]

• One would expect even though the gentleman had not been found guilty, that if the matter was the subject of official investigation at least he ought to stand to one side and not handle one’s money any longer- at least until one had a clearer view of the findings of the inquiry. [More…]

• How would one feel if a surgeon was suspected of a serious loss of competence in the performance of his professional work? [More…]

• However, the significant thing is that the flurry occurred after the terms of reference for the inquiry were extended and the man speaking was Mr Finnane, who was carrying out the special investigation into the affairs of the Walsh group of companies. [More…]

• The Government is opposing wage indexation and the Prices Justification Tribunal and it is doing everything to belittle every chance that the working man has to get a fair go in this country. [More…]

• Why can he not stand up and tell the truth and admit that the real issue in this case is that because a very small number of people originally tried to stop an ordinary working man collecting fuel with his own transport- a member who belongs to the [More…]

• Just look at the reduction in the number of man days lost through industrial action. [More…]

• They are prepared to use a dispute involving, as I said, a working man who decides that he wants to collect his petrol in a certain fashion, as a trigger to set off an operation that will put many Australians out of work. [More…]

• I am for every working man, every citizen in this community, having the same right as the honourable gentleman opposite to defend his working conditions. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman were paid for results, he would be the biggest dole bludger in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• That situation is such a contrast to that pertaining to the man on the land who, as those of us who have been brought up in the countryside know, will turn his hand to anything. [More…]

• I am not attacking the former Minister for what he said because I am certain, he being a very sincere man- I have said that before in this placethat he was given misinformation. [More…]

• The Managing Director of Watkins Ltd, when referring to the statement made in the House of Representatives on 21 September about Watkins Ltd, a major construction firmthat is the statement I read- said: [More…]

• My whole philosophy has always been that man was not born to work; rather was he born to have the work done. [More…]

• The first amendment will enable a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, appointed to office under the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975, to receive remuneration and allowances in the performance of the duties of that position with the Authority and at the same time retain office as a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• Honourable members will know that Mr Commissioner M. E. Heagney, a man with long trade union experience, who has contributed much to the work of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission over the past six years, was appointed National Director from 1 August this year. [More…]

• Is there a man here who would say that he would sooner put Australia into hock to the tune of $ 1,000m rather than devalue? [More…]

• That is the way in which the great Australian Labor Party helped the cattle man when prices went down. [More…]

• I am appalled that a man who is the director of the council secretariat of the Australian Council for Local Government Associations obviously knows absolutely nothing of the RED scheme. [More…]

• I am in the dilemma that I do not know what the man is referring to. [More…]

• The motion of dissent moved by the Leader of the Opposition demonstrates that the man increasingly has little respect for this institution. [More…]

• He happens to be the man who last night said to Mr Deputy Speaker in this chamber ‘We will do you tomorrow. [More…]

• Therefore, I believe that the honourable member for Port Adelaide has moved this motion to embarrass his own Leader because his Leader, a friend of mine for many years and a man whom I respect, has been trying to steer a sensible and responsible path for his own party especially in terms of economic affairs. [More…]

• The evidence is that during the first eight months of operation of the Federal Electorate Commission over 17,000 man hours were spent merely on the public financing of the law. [More…]

• I merely say that the honourable member for Port Adelaide is a sincere man, and I know he would be subject to some reflection. [More…]

• The report was written by Alan Gill, who was the first foreign news man to enter Remexio, which had previously been one of the main headquarters of the East Timor independence movement. [More…]

• A man wearing a new T-shirt walked away from the Red Cross truck holding an Indonesian flag and a pair of brilliant red shorts. [More…]

• Let me just put a few things right before I deal with the matter of public importance, which refers to basic human rights. [More…]

• The man who will go to Aurukun as shire clerk has had vast experience with Aborigines. [More…]

• He was with the Uniting Church in Australia and was previously at Croker Island for many years. [More…]

• Let us not shed too many crocodile tears about it. [More…]

• At times I have defended him as being a fair and reasonable man but from the way in which he spoke today it is quite obvious that he is neither fair nor reasonable. [More…]

• It is well known there amongst Europeans and Aborigines that the ALP has done nothing at all for the Aborigines other than to try to manipulate them to its own political ends. [More…]

• I know that the good people of these two cities certainly would not plant marihuana but I use that as an example to indicate how far we have come in harnessing the use of science for the benefit of man. [More…]

• -That is a question that probably a man with the honourable member’s Irish background might be able to solve for me. [More…]

• Why has this statement been made by this Minister when similar statements have not been made, for instance, by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) when an enormous amount of work needs to be done in the field of man power planning and training which is very much related to this subject? [More…]

• He obviously condones the action of this man- who incidentally was a Liberal Party candidate in an election, a man named Gorman from Seymour- in taking out an action under section 45D. [More…]

• In May 1977, after a great deal of industrial confrontation that was caused by this Government, that same man watered down some of his vicious original proposals but nevertheless retained the substance of the BUI. [More…]

• Are not the Australian seamen entitled to man Australian ships carrying Australian coal to Japan? [More…]

• The point about Bert Kelly’s style is that he was a man who was prepared to follow an argument to its logical conclusion. [More…]

• There was a man who was prepared to give leadership, both to this Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• There was man who saw worth in logical and sensible policy over and above popularity. [More…]

• There was a man who thought that he had the obligation to provide reasoned argument to the Australian people and to this Parliament. [More…]

• I suggest that as a result there was a man who will be remembered long after many have been forgotten- and many pass through this place with barely a ripple. [More…]

• There was someone who in fact has managed to influence the course of Australian history. [More…]

• The rise of the boilermaker’s son from Balmain to chief lackey and hatchet man of the Australian establishment is not one I find a very edifying example of Australian life; nor do I find particularly interesting the description of the various parts of France and Britain where he happened to write his memoirs. [More…]

• If Sir John Kerr is to retain any shred of respectability there are at least three questions we should demand that his memoirs answer. [More…]

• Honest judgment of this man will depend on the answer he provides to these questions. [More…]

• I do not propose to authorise the considerable effort of man hours which would be required to detail the particular arrangements operating within each Government department and agency. [More…]

• Under this Government, the balance of payments has been pushed into a most precarious state, aggravated by the continuing investment allowance which pushes up demand for imports of capital equipment. [More…]

• This Government’s foreign borrowings have pushed our debt obligations up to a record level of $325 per head of population- $325 for every man, woman and child in the nation. [More…]

• Mr Treasurer, you must be very worried about the situation because you are deemed to be an honourable man. [More…]

• You are a man who at least adheres to your promises, but you have had to break nearly every one of them because apparently somebody else is dictating your economic policy. [More…]

• He is sitting there a dead man, unable to appear in debate. [More…]

• He is completely impotent; he is wounded; he is besmirched; and he is incapable of commanding respect in his Party and Cabinet. [More…]

• I turn now to the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party, the man with a roomful of gold teeth. [More…]

• This is the man who is sitting on a probated will with a bundle of money involved in a company structure where debts are outstanding. [More…]

• We on this side of the House are still waiting to see just how this man clears himself and how the two deputy leaders of the parties in the coalition Government can survive as Ministers in this country with a so-called free and open Press and parliamentary scrutiny without defending the charges against them whenever they are put. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bennelong prides himself on being the man chosen to overfeed an overfed sector of Austraiian corporate life. [More…]

• For the Treasurer to move in with this kind of cynical amendment trying to turn the attack on the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) does him no credit at all because he is a young man and history will judge him over a long period of time. [More…]

• This man is paranoid. [More…]

• What can one say of a man who describes himself as politically numerate? [More…]

• That shows what this man believes about the major issues in Australia. [More…]

• This is the man who has knocked the Australian currency for12 months, knocked the Australian economy for 12 months, travelled around South East Asia knocking Australia for 12 months. [More…]

• To hear at first hand that coloured white men and coloured brown men are working in the bowels of the earth in diamond mines and gold mines in South Africa depending on each other to save ones life from hour to hour, with the coloured white man receiving $300 a month and the coloured brown man receiving $100 a month doing the same work makes your stomach turn and makes you wonder how long people will put up with this sort of thing. [More…]

• When you hear little children ask their fathers, ‘Why does the white man treat us so awful? [More…]

• Yet successive Treasurers are advised not to relent in any way on the demand that those who wholesale spirits must pass over the collection of excise within seven days. [More…]

• Not only do we increase the excise but indirectly and unannounced in the Budget is the demand that those who supply the product to the retailers must pay the extra amount of money still within seven days. [More…]

• I do make a plea to the Minister at the table, whilst I readily concede that a government, the tax collector or the customs collector never loses, that for a change they adorn themselves with the cloak of humanity and understanding and realise that for the small business man and for the not so small business man life is not so assured as the business world is a struggle. [More…]

• Dr Coombs, a Treasury man and a responsible person in previous governments, has pointed to the situation in a glut in 1951, which was similar to the situation today, when after two years of increasing excise- this is my point, and members of neither Government party seem to appreciate- the then Government was forced to take action. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) will take cognisance of this fact when the Government is framing next year’s Budget and ensure that the ordinary working man, the beer drinker in Australia, is not discriminated against. [More…]

• He is a simple man with simple tastes. [More…]

• For far too long he has had to pay far too much tax to the Government in comparison to the other drinkers who, in many instances, may be sophisticated drinkers. [More…]

• I would like to see the Government take some very positive and strong action to eliminate discounting because all it means is that the middle man is making huge profits out of being able to exploit one airline against another. [More…]

• The next case was that of a man who became sick. [More…]

• To me and, I am sure, to the average man in the street this $40m program and the hunt around the world to buy these aircraft is a gross indecency and a gross abuse of taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats- any kind of threat, whether of jail or retribution after death- then the highest emblem of man would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. [More…]

• But don’t you see, this is just the point- what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music; the irresistible power of warmest truth, the powerful attraction of its example. [More…]

• A reasonable man thinking calmly might well conclude that the death penalty ought to be a unique deterrent because it horrifies him. [More…]

• The figures indicate that substantial economies can be obtained by channelling claims through one administrative force and by eliminating the middle man. [More…]

• To think that this man moulded and guided the basic education of a great Australian. [More…]

• a man who has done a tremendous amount in developing honesty of purpose and sincerity in the Australian population. [More…]

• I am reminded that this man is an honest man. [More…]

• He has seen the college grow from a purely agricultural college to a college of advanced education, a college which now has courses not only in rural matters but also in hospitality, valuations, food technology, food processing, food service management. [More…]

• Neil Briton has developed a college from a time when a graduate was looked upon as being a man devoid of practicality- a theorist- to a time when now he is considered a partner. [More…]

• We have the inquiring personality of the researcher and scientist, coupled with the dedication of the field worker and the trained mind of the business man all being developed at the college of advanced education, which is funded by this Government. [More…]

• In the personal scene, we owe him a debt of gratitude for the heritage he has given us; a man who preserved for the future of Australia in the mechanical era the clydesdale horse, which represents the strength and toughness that made Australia great. [More…]

• Like Neil Briton of the Queensland Agricultural College, the Darling Downs Institute has a Dr Lindsay Barker, a good man with good lieutenants. [More…]

• Many of these people have never seen a television test pattern in their lives. [More…]

• God damn it, take for example this man sitting here, the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating). [More…]

• By God, man, we could do with him over here. ‘ [More…]

• Anyone who knows me and who knows my background will know that I totally disagree with the Premier on many matters but he is the greatest Premier in Australia. [More…]

• We see these lightweights, these Johnny-come-latelys who are attempting to make some sort of impact with their few scattered numbers on this side of the House, making themselves look ridiculous by getting up and trying to denigrate a man who has made a great impact on this nation and beyond it. [More…]

• This man will not stand down his Minister. [More…]

• The statements that have been made all imply that the man who has been appointed by the New South Wales Attorney-General either is grossly incompetent or, in some way, is not properly going about the charge that has been imposed on him by the New South Wales Attorney-General. [More…]

• If we make the assumption that the transcript was in fact a bona fide one, how do we know that the whole character of the man whose evidence it purports to be was not destroyed by the 20-odd witnesses? [More…]

• When we seek to put a man on trial, when we seek to take away his liberty, when we seek to diminish his status as a simple citizen, we do not look at one piece of evidence; we look at the whole body of evidence. [More…]

• How do we know how this man Creighton Walsh appeared to the Corporate Affairs Commissioner at the end of the day if 20 witnesses came in and all of them condemned him? [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) laughs. [More…]

• I say this to the honourable gentleman who laughs: How would he like to be the subject of a proceeding before a man- we do not know what procedure he follows; he is hearing evidence in camera- when day after day after day there is public debate on the subject of the proceedings before that man? [More…]

• It would take a super effort indeed by any human being to ignore the inflammatory remarks that have been made. [More…]

• Since when is a man to be put on trial by newspapers or by Parliament? [More…]

• Mr Ingram is a man of great personal charm, a man of great personal integrity, a person I have known and liked very greatly over the years I have spent in this Parliament. [More…]

• It is a matter of regret to me that Mr Ingram is leaving because he has always been a person diligent and capable in his task but, more importantly, as you observed, an extremely genial, friendly man who has been helpful at the personal level. [More…]

• All honourable members know Mr Ingram’s successor, Mr Kerr, know him too as a man in the mould that we have come to recognise as part of the staffing qualities of the Hansard service, and those qualities are of a very high order. [More…]

• Whilst recent concern has been concentrated on the possible effects of 2,4,5-T and to a lesser extent 2,4-D, both of which have been extensively researched, there has been little comment on the other environmental factors- some occurring naturally, some generated by man’s inventiveness- which could result in foetal abnormalities. [More…]

• This information is currently collected in only two StatesWestern Australia and Tasmania. [More…]

• Mr Hillyer is such a modest man that he told me he was retiring next year. [More…]

• There have been many of them to the poor Secretary of the Joint House Department. [More…]

• I found him to be a man of immense integrity. [More…]

• That has regard to the fact that he is an ever helpful, ever honest man of immense integrity. [More…]

• I thank the Manager of Opposition Business for the cooperation I have received from him at all times. [More…]

• I am fortunate to have a personal staff the personal quality and efficiency of whom are impossible to describe, but I know many members of this House have personal contact with them. [More…]

• There is no discrimination between a woman and a man receiving a supporting parents benefit The concessions available to all Supporting Parents are the same as those provided by the Labor Government to female Supporting Parents. [More…]

• I am aware that two men employed to man a transmission station on the Monte Bello Islands were interviewed by the ABC and the interview broadcast on Four Corners on 14 October 1978. [More…]

• How many man hours of labour were put into ascertaining that the answer to question No. [More…]

• What do people say about a man who will make statements such as those at elections and then do absolutely nothing about them in administering the economy of this country? [More…]

• I think everyone will agree that he is a reasonable man. [More…]

• He said that one man’s wage increase costs another man his job and that the people who received thenpay increases at Christmas time ought to be ashamed. [More…]

• When Mr Jackson looked at manufacturing industry and saw the crisis that occurred in it, he did not single out wages as being the basis of the whole crisis. [More…]

• When one looks at the kind of management that has been associated with recent company crashes in this country and the identification of that management with the Liberal Party of Australia, one wonders very much how that party can bring people in to talk about running the nation’s economy. [More…]

• In 1968 that Minister ridiculed the proposal to build a freeway between Perth and Fremantle on the railway reserve. [More…]

• As well we have the opinion of Professor Gordon Stephenson, a man who has had more influence on the planning of Perth than probably any other individual. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister- a man of great personal sympathy for a just proposition- Wil be able to ensure that some of that $75m is made available as a special grant to Queensland to provide funds for the completion of transport facilities to the Commonwealth Games. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, is this man able to control himself at all? [More…]

• However, those levels of wage rates result in them getting proportionately a much larger amount than they would receive per man or per woman from the co-operative. [More…]

• Has the West Australian Consumer Affairs Bureau complained to the Commonwealth Ombudsman about the Department of Transport’s refusal to allow a man to travel on a cheap air fare from Australia to Amsterdam, as reported in the Australian of 1 8 October 1 978. [More…]

• Let me move on to some other aspects of government economic management. [More…]

• The latest bogyman is now of course the United States and its economy. [More…]

• But the man speaks with a forked tongue. [More…]

• Can we believe the man when he says one thing here and another thing overseas? [More…]

• Can we believe a man who is constantly responsible for breaking promises to the community? [More…]

• This man has a shocking record when it comes to the matter of credibility. [More…]

• Yet he is the very same man who, having lamented those interest rate rises, redeclares his commitment to an alternative economic strategy which would not lead to marginal interest rate rises but would guarantee substantial interest rate increases, not only in official rates, but right across the board because the reality of the alternative economic strategy of the Leader of the Opposition, which was repeated and reaffirmed a moment before he sat down, was a very major increase in the size of the Commonwealth Budget deficit. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has in recent months become known throughout Australia as a master of double think; the man who has done more to talk this nation down and screw its neck than any other person; the man who has become known as the Jeremiah of Australian politics; the man who, for his own political ends, has been prepared to abdicate any respect for his economic expertise or even his economic comprehension; the man who, in recent days, appears to have done an about face on his views about the economy simply because his image makers have advised him that his carping, negative approach to anything designed to improve the Australian economy is losing him credibility in the electorate. [More…]

• It was not the honourable member for Franklin, the man who was going to introduce his own legislation. [More…]

• The Minister is the man who presided over pensioners receiving 18 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• That is right, the body snatcher, the man with the room full of gold teeth. [More…]

• The people of his State- I go there frequently- have been misled often by this man. [More…]

• They have had the wool pulled over their eyes believing the things that he says in Tasmania. [More…]

• He is then cajoled by the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman), the man who now sits next to him, trying to pressure him once again. [More…]

• In the current financial year, 1978-79, expenditure on health and welfare is expected to rise to $10.9 billion- almost $800 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• In 1977, the Social Services Act was amended to remove provisions which prevented a married woman from qualifying for sickness benefit on the same basis as a married man. [More…]

• Today the average family- a man, wife and two children- on average weekly earnings is $9 a week worse off, before tax, than in 1975. [More…]

• The man cannot be believed. [More…]

• Can this man not handle prosperity? [More…]

• This is a man, I remind the House, who said that Australia did not want a tourist for a Prime Minister. [More…]

• That is what Treasurer Crean was talking about when he said that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• Submissions to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission tend to be based on the sort of popular Keynesian model in which the economy can be stimulated, demand increased and employment increased without increased costs. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) always makes a reasonable speech and I think he can be described fairly as a reasonable man. [More…]

• Mr Ota, who is the President of the Livestock Purchasing Corporation in that country and the man responsible for the purchase of Australian meat, indicated to me that the Japanese would be purchasing increased quantities of Australian beef. [More…]

• I would be very surprised if he is the sort of man Australia wants to lead it because the one thing that Australia needs today is a bit of enthusiasm and encouragement, and that is what this statement was all about. [More…]

• It took 10 years- between 1950 and 1960- for man to double his knowledge. [More…]

• We should grasp the technological advancements that man is making in these areas and utilise that to the benefit of all Australians. [More…]

• The business community of this country has been saying for some time that an increase in one man’s wages is another man’s job. [More…]

• The former Minister for Administrative Services, a man who I much admire but I am bound to say because time is limited, was sacked for his part in manipulating electorates. [More…]

• No longer can he be regarded in any manner at all as a man of principle. [More…]

• Three days later he is back in tandem with the man he described as a bastard. [More…]

• They show what a fine man of principle he was then, and how he believed it to be absolutely essential that the Parliament and the people should know. [More…]

• Why would the Minister for Finance not turn around now and say: ‘This is the man who attempted to destroy me. [More…]

• No wonder members of the Opposition call so many divisions- it is the only time they will ever get to sit on the treasury bench again. [More…]

• The best evidence of the Opposition’s weakness is that it is reduced to the point where it believes that the only person, the best person, to lead it is the honourable member for Oxley, a man who is repeatedly losing the support of his own party, a man who is rejected by that party in his own State. [More…]

• Let me state clearly that there is on this side of the House unity of purpose and loyalty to the man who is the Prime Minister of Australia, the Rt Hon. [More…]

• I want to put to rest once and for all this myth of the so-called one man band government. [More…]

• So much for the one man band; so much for one man domination. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition already has a serious disagreement with his spokesman on minerals and energy who opposes this Government’s far-sighted and responsible policy on oil pricing. [More…]

• What status does that gentleman have in this Parliament to stand up and accuse this Government of a lack of unity? [More…]

• I would say that the Leader of the Opposition, a man with so much glass around him, is a very reckless stone thrower. [More…]

• This man was not interested in having elections to decide the presidency of South Vietnam. [More…]

• Hence the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) might be a better man than the Foreign Minister to send to Thailand were it not for the Deputy Prime Minister’s inability to comprehend anything beyond tonnages of exports. [More…]

• Turning more broadly to events in the ASEAN countries, we have not been impressed by the Foreign Minister’s performance on the issue of air fare negotiations. [More…]

• Negotiations were commenced by us, but Chou En lai was a pretty wily man. [More…]

• We want Kampuchea to be free, not under something like the Pol Pot Government, not under the insurgents that are in control now, but under a man like Prince Sihanouk who would be capable of pulling the nation together and giving it the opportunity of freedom and enjoyment of life. [More…]

• Its ships are manned, its equipment is on board, the supplies are there. [More…]

• A decision was taken recently by the Government to put one of the Daring class destroyers into mothballs because there are not enough trained men to man it. [More…]

• The manpower and the money must be found for that ship. [More…]

• The honourable member usually is a forceful man who puts forward vigorous, rational arguments in debates in this place. [More…]

• I do not really understand what this man is all about. [More…]

• Does the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) or his man who is sitting opposite believe that people will make efficient substitution decisions when oil is priced below what the rest of the world pays? [More…]

• I am glad to see that a man for whom I have a great respect, especially for his knowledge and what he has to say about energy, the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) agrees. [More…]

• In fact, every honourable member knows that many more people will lose their jobs than will be placed in the new jobs at the General Motors engine plant. [More…]

• If the automated engine plants of Datsun through which I walked at Yokohama are anything like the engine plant that will be built here in Australia, it will be a highly automated plant and will not employ very many people at all. [More…]

• We are talking about six per cent of all the people who work in the manufacturing industry in Australia. [More…]

• We are talking about 14 per cent of all the people who work in the manufacturing industry in my own State of South Australia. [More…]

• The three years that have been described as the lead up to the new car plan in my opinion belong in an industrial no man’s land. [More…]

• Let us for a moment compare ‘Clean Carter’, the peanut farmer, with Richard Nixon, the used car salesman, whom no one would trust. [More…]

• If it was not for Watergate, Nixon would be remembered today as the man who pulled the United States out of a disastrous Asian war, and who made the first overtures by the United States to the People ‘s Republic of China, after nearly 30 years of non-existent communication. [More…]

• Let us hope that the people of the United States elect as their next President, a man who has a better grasp of international realities than the present incumbent. [More…]

• I refer to him because, due to the machinery and the process of government, I have had the opportunity of seeing His Honour in company with colleagues on the Government benches over the last two weeks in a situation which has given me an ideal opportunity to make an assessment of this man. [More…]

• 1 am more convinced than ever before, after observing the man at close quarters following two intensive meetings involving a deliberation in excess of six hours, that in that office he combines a judicial appreciation of the rule of law under a parliamentary democracy, together with an understanding of the rights of the individual Australian and of the necessity to ensure the national security of Australia. [More…]

• But above all his patriotic determination to ensure and protect the national security of the Commonwealth sets an example which I believe many who wish to emulate him could follow to great advantage. [More…]

• Whatever might come before the Parliament in the weeks ahead, I believe I would be failing in my duty if I did not place on record, before the debate on ASIO starts, the admiration, in which I hold this man. [More…]

• I believe that many members on both sides of this Parliament in both Houses feel similarly. [More…]

• I hope that His Honour Mr Justice Woodward will be available for many years to serve this nation as Director-General of Security. [More…]

• I met the man only as recently as two weeks ago but having had the opportunity to cross-examine him and to hear him answer a wide range of questions directed to the national security of Australia, he is in my judgment a fine Australian and a most worthy trustee of the nation ‘s security. [More…]

• He receives $2 1 a week for his wife and $10 a week for each child, which means that a man with a wife and two children receives $ 12 1 a week. [More…]

• These indicators are matters of substance and you, Mr Deputy Speaker, being a man of the land, will know the truth of what I say. [More…]

• The Australian people ought to know and ought to be delighted by the fact that investment in mining and manufacturing has increased by 33 per cent in the calendar year of 1978. [More…]

• Every man is entitled if he can to order his affairs so that the tax attaching under the appropriate Acts is less than it otherwise would be. [More…]

• I must say that I have sympathy for the argument, which I hear repeatedly in the community, that whilst some people are able to evade their tax obligations involving large amounts- which is of course illegal- the ordinary working man in the majority of cases is not in a position to avoid or evade. [More…]

• The ordinary man in the street will probably wonder what the devil we have been talking about this afternoon. [More…]

• The fact is that this legislation is not going to apply to the ordinary man in the street. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hawker makes the point, with which I completely agree, that the ordinary man in the street does not get into a situation of being able to engage in either tax avoidance, which is legal, because he does not get the necessary advice; or tax evasion, which is illegal. [More…]

• Every man is entitled if he car. [More…]

• To my mind it is the same as a homicidal maniac saying: ‘I did not murder that man, I only put him out of his misery’, and then seeking to justify his murderous action in that way. [More…]

• I put the same distinction between the act of a homicidal maniac and the act of a tax evader or tax avoider, whatever we like to call him. [More…]

• Honourable members will notice that these tax avoidance schemes are not practised by the ordinary working man- the man on wages. [More…]

• I would not denigrate the Treasurer’s integrity in any shape or form because he is a good Christian man and I admire him. [More…]

• In the period 1974-75, during the Labor Party regime, 23.8 per cent of income tax investigators’ time was spent on the investigation of companies and 76.2 per cent of their time was spent on the investigation of the little man. [More…]

• In 1975-76 the percentage of time spent on companies decreased to 23.2 per cent and the percentage of time spent on the little man increased to 76.8 per cent. [More…]

• In 1976-77 the percentage of time spent on companies was 23.2 per cent and the percentage spent on the little man was again 76.8 per cent. [More…]

• They concentrate on the little man. [More…]

• In other words, the taxation officers concerned- I do not know whether this is policy but I think it must be- have a clear direction from this Government to concentrate on the little man and let the big man go, whether it is referring to a company or what have you This Government must stand condemned for its attitudes on this matter. [More…]

• It is not a case, as the honourable member for Banks suggested, of concentrating on the little man. [More…]

• It is an affront not only to people on low incomes who have no capacity and less incentive to avoid taxation but also to many hundreds of thousands of citizens in Australia on large incomes who have the incentive, the opportunity and the facilities to engage in these types of schemes but quite deliberately choose not to engage in them. [More…]

• In hearing an application for review of a decision, the Tribunal shall consist of the President or a deputy president, a Services member and one other man. [More…]

• However, I must say that the business people of Canberra will support it in the way that a poor man would accept crumbs from a rich man’s table because that is about the effect it will have on the business people of Canberra. [More…]

• I anticipate that this legislation will apply to many businesses which employ relatively small numbers of people- in the five to eight people bracket. [More…]

• One man worked 21 days straight. [More…]

• We hear talk about inflation taking another man’s job. [More…]

• In Canberra, staff ceilings take another man’s job. [More…]

• Many shops are empty. [More…]

• Only a couple of days ago one man had to move the stock from his two shops into one shop. [More…]

• I am pleased that this evening the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott), who is widely respected I think in both the Government and the Opposition as a man of principle and integrity, is here to hear my few words. [More…]

• I have spoken with him on many occasions late at night about what we can do. [More…]

• Malcolm Fraser is the greatest lurk man that this Parliament has ever seen. [More…]

• Certainly when I look at the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), quite clearly I see that he is a much more physical man now than he was a few years ago. [More…]

• That is a man with experience who the honourable member for Robertson put forward as a spokesman on the subject. [More…]

• I also refer to the remarks of another leading sportsman, Ron Clarke. [More…]

• There is no doubt that Norm is a man who should get off his backside, as he has done in these television commercials to the sound of enormous refrains from a massive orchestra. [More…]

• Sir Arthur George went on to criticise quite violently, for a man of his standing, the lack of funds that had been provided by the Australian Government- this present Australian Government- since its election at the end of 1975. [More…]

• On 23 January 1979 this young man received notice from the CES to terminate his work. [More…]

• How many other Ken Suttons are there throughout Australia wasting their time on our money who were formerly employed under the NEAT scheme but have now been withdrawn. [More…]

• However, as honourable members will know, in November 1978 the Chairman of the Iranian Atomic Energy Authority was removed from office to face charges of mismanagement and embezzlement. [More…]

• As he would see it, he is the Minister with the export control authority, the uranium king of Australia, the man who has not yet sold one tonne of Australian uranium. [More…]

• The role of the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs is to try to put fine clothes on these commercial objectives. [More…]

• As I understand it, the honourable gentleman has also attacked the probity of three very senior and highly respected public servants, the people who run the Rural Finance and Settlement Commission in Victoria. [More…]

• Lest anyone be under any misapprehension I repeat that they are: Mr I. K. Morton, Chairman of the Victorian Rural Finance and Settlement Commission, Mr C. O. Harry, the Deputy Chairman, and Mr T. A. Kerr. [More…]

• I shall quote again to the House a statement by the Chairman on behalf of his colleagues. [More…]

• This gentleman, who was formerly a member of the Victorian Parliament, this gentleman who aspired to political responsibility over them, now comes into this place and says: ‘I have no confidence in those who would have been my public servants’. [More…]

• The man who is the Chairman of the Rural Finance Commission had a statement tabled in this House in which he said: [More…]

• So far as I am concerned there can be no more demeaning an exercise of political power than to seek to abuse a man who is retired or people who have been affected by a natural disaster and who have been validly assisted under legislation that has been laid down not just by this Parliament but by the State Parliament as well. [More…]

• I am interested, in particular, in clause S, which enshrines, or ought to, some of the principles we are to use in the treatment of young people who go into retirement or are injured in such a way that they have some sort of permanent invalidity. [More…]

• Of course, there are not that many of them, but the same principle applies, I think, to a young person who is, say 20, 2 1 or 22 years of age and is just at the beginning of his career. [More…]

• In the exercise of their discretion of judgement, the people who are assessing that man’s invalidity and the effect that it will have upon his life are bound to consider the situation which applies at the time. [More…]

• In ordinary circumstances he will probably be a young man- on occasion it may be a young womanwho has left school at an earlier age that most others and has gone into the Services, where he has had some kind of apprenticeship training, or even had no special training that would allow him to claim that, in 10 or IS years, his income could be x, y, 2x or something such as that. [More…]

• They enter upon permanent invalidity early in life and stay at the stage that one might call frustrated income development. [More…]

• It has prevented tribunals from becoming the right of the rich man only. [More…]

• I also want to raise the question of unemployment, but with reference to unemployment benefits, the unfortunate term ‘dole bludgers’, and the accusation levelled at so many young people, particularly young men, that they will not work. [More…]

• This is the story of a young man from Rosebud in Victoria. [More…]

• Apparently there is a great deal of mismanagement of the system. [More…]

• This young man is about 20 years of age and he has been around a bit. [More…]

• I am not laughing at the man. [More…]

• We simply do not know what is happening in many areas. [More…]

• He is a man of substance and his criticisms were constructive. [More…]

• He said that the Soviet Union ‘is the odd man out among the great powers’. [More…]

• In the triangular balance of power between China, the United States and the Soviet Unionone could also include Western Europe- the odd man out at the moment is the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The diplomatic position of the United States is stronger today in many ways than it has been for a long time. [More…]

• Doubtless that is an exaggeration, but by the same token it was said by a man who operates in that area fairly consistently. [More…]

• The general purport of what the Opposition has been saying is that the Soviet Union could be made to feel the odd man out if we do not take an even-handed posture in this international situation; the Soviet Union could feel bad about things and this would make the situation very difficult. [More…]

• There are any number of ways to stop a man from raising an illegal army, whether it be Mr Bjelke-Petersen, somebody in the southern states of the United States, Mr Hider or anybody else. [More…]

• I simply wanted to(Quorum formed) I simply rose because the honourable member for Lalor had spoken about a very distinguished man, Albert Einstein, the anniversary of whose birth we will celebrate next week. [More…]

• How often did members on both sides of the House hear the complaint that a man on average weekly earnings who was able to work some overtime was disinclined to do so because of the higher tax bracket into which he would be pushed when he earned only a modest additional amount through overtime? [More…]

• -A very wise man, educated in parliamentary matters, once told me that one could always tell how weak and feeble a Bill was going to be by the number of times the Bill’s clauses began with the words ‘The Minister may’. [More…]

• It is a tribute to the very hard work that has been put into this complicated matter by the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, who brings a practical view to these matters, who is able to consider the views of the average man in the street against those of. [More…]

• Once again, he has demonstrated a capacity to address himself to a very significant Bill, the Jurisdiction of Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, in a fair and impartial manner. [More…]

• I pay tribute to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, as I have on previous occasions, for the manner in which he has approached legislation of this nature. [More…]

• The matters raised in this Bill are matters of great concern to every citizen of this nation because they affect the basic legal rights of every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• I want to make the point- and I know the Minister, because of his practical experience in his lengthy and distinguished career at the bar in Western Australia would recognise and, indeed, accept what I am saying- that the High Court must never become inaccessible to the ordinary man whether he lives in one of the major population centres or whether he is sensible enough to live in one of the more beautiful and less populated States of Australia. [More…]

• It is certainly far more expensive than a one-man centralist dictatorship, which is a very cheap form of government, but for the preservation of basic rights and for a country as widely diverse as Australia the Federal system in my judgment is the only system. [More…]

• Whilst I am on that subject, might I say that it still does not seem to me to be right that for 79 years a man from Western Australia, South Australia or Tasmania has not been considered appropriate for appointment to the High Court of Australia or has not been prepared to accept such an appointment. [More…]

• I find it incredible that in 79 years of this Commonwealth no Western Australian, Tasmanian or South Australian has ever been appointed to the High Court of Australia. [More…]

• Access to the High Court of Australia by every man, every woman and indeed every child, where an action is brought on behalf of a child, should be unrestricted. [More…]

• The same should apply to Western Australians, Tasmanians and South Australians. [More…]

• I do not want it to become a court to which the ordinary man and woman will not have access. [More…]

• To that extent, in giving my support to this Bill, I urge that governments, regardless of party affiliation watch carefully to ensure that there has not been created a situation in which the highest court of the land has become a court which is inaccessible to the ordinary man, woman and child. [More…]

• It is simply a reflection of my belief that State governments are able to appoint men and women to sit on State Benches who are closer to the people in those States, and it is right that people in South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia should be tried literally by their peers within the States. [More…]

• This Bill was basically the product of the former Attorney-General, the distinguished and most honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott), a man for whom I and all members of this Parliament have the highest regard. [More…]

• It has passed through the government members’ law and government committee, of which I have the honour to be chairman. [More…]

• This man is becoming famous, and strange to relate his court is the most popular one in New South Wales. [More…]

• -The honourable member is alluding to the fact that I speak as a single man. [More…]

• I cite the case of a woman who had just finished paying off a freezer worth $800. [More…]

• Yesterday I had the case of a gentleman who had a tip truck with a new value of some $60,000. [More…]

• The man, unfortunately, also had a mortgage on his home and the home was sold to satisfy the debt. [More…]

• ABC news as a ‘Catholic Labor man’. [More…]

• It cannot be done by an organisation dominated by a single man. [More…]

• I believe that this House as a House of Parliament has to demand far greater information from the Government than it is receiving or has received in the past. [More…]

• As its property, real or personal, is protected so should its physical substance be similarly protected by deeming it to be a person in being and imposing a duty of care on any other person not to commit any act of carelessness which as a reasonable man he would anticipate would injury the physical substance of the unborn child. [More…]

• The person who suffers in the abortion is the woman and only the woman. [More…]

• As a comment on the chauvinism of this House there is not a man here who will suffer from the passage of this motion. [More…]

• Von Stauffenbergs attempt to murder Hitler was, in my view, a noble act against an evil man and the circumstances might reasonably be regarded as exceptional. [More…]

• It is true that acceptance of the right to kill in all these cases also must in some part cheapen human life, but the cases are reasonably quarantinable from a general right to live. [More…]

• Many have abortions. [More…]

• Many more would if they felt that it was not wrong. [More…]

• It is impossible to sustain the argument that the foetus, though living, because it does not reason is not human. [More…]

• An unconscious man or, even for the most part, a sleeping man does not reason. [More…]

• I believe that the conception and life of a child in a mother’s womb and its birth concern not only co-operation between man and woman to bring new life into the world but are also the very basis of Christian belief in the creator and in the sacredness of human life. [More…]

• Many people say that the poor will be discriminated against if the motion is carried. [More…]

• Many of these women feel that society is saying to them: ‘If you cannot alford the confinement or if you do not think you can keep the child after birth, we have given you a way out. [More…]

• It is not a man’s function to determine what a woman should do with her body. [More…]

• Not one member of the House of Representatives knows what it feels like to be a single girl who is pregnant to a man who cannot and more often than not will not undertake the responsibility of providing food and shelter for the child she is carrying for him. [More…]

• Not one honourable member knows what it is like to be the tired and overworked mother of a poor man’s clutch of children and to be pregnant with another that will place further and unbearable burdens on her shoulders. [More…]

• No honourable members know what it feels like to be in the position of a woman. [More…]

• No woman can get pregnant without the help of a man and most of the honourable members in this House tonight have been responsible for helping some woman get pregnant. [More…]

• The burden of guilt varies little between one woman and another. [More…]

• The anguish and worry could vary considerably between a rich woman and a poor working woman or a wife of a poor working man but a rich woman can at least face her abortion without medical risk and without financial embarrassment. [More…]

• Let us take the case of a girl of 18 years of age who is living in a flat, having to pay rent, certainly involved with some man and obviously not married. [More…]

• The next thing that happens is that she falls pregnant and the man leaves, as usually happens. [More…]

• Perhaps the main reason lies in the statement of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Sir James Freeman. [More…]

• Cardinal Freeman’s remarks were widely reported yesterday. [More…]

• The Age quoted Cardinal Freeman as saying: ‘The Australian Government has a heavy responsibility before God and man to reinforce and positively promote right morality in the community and to undertake the protection of the unborn’. [More…]

• Cardinal Freeman is then reported to have added that he and his bishops wished again to raise their voices in protest against ‘the ready availability of abortions in this country and the steady growth in the abortion mentality among its citizens’. [More…]

• I believe that the honourable member for Hume could be described in Australia as the poor man’s Ayatollah Khomeini in the sense that he wants to introduce a religious form of law rather than a secular law to which we have become used. [More…]

• There are honourable members in the debate who have stated that just because Catholics and others believe that a foetus at the moment of conception becomes a human being, it does not mean that they should be able to impose that view on other people in the community. [More…]

• If the life of a human being is ended by the termination of pregnancy one is entitled not only to stop the termination of pregnancy amongst his own supporters but also amongst non-believers. [More…]

• Many of the people who are associated with the moving of this motion were associated with Congressman Hyde. [More…]

• I do not mean the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) but the man who came to Australia last year or the year before. [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister, being the responsible man that he is, will take this notion on board and respond to it. [More…]

• For how much longer is this Government going to protect and shield this man? [More…]

• The man who pulls the strings of the puppet Frank Wilkes is here today- the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding). [More…]

• For those of us who are concerned with human rights around the world it is a matter of grave concern. [More…]

• I had read of people being killed, but it did not really drive home to me just what sort of a vicious thug and gangster this man is. [More…]

• The evidence, at least in relation to one substantial clinic, is that the main reasons persons have gone to have abortions are as follows: Firstly, in 32 per cent of the cases it was felt that future plans might be impaired by a child being born to the mother; secondly, in 35 per cent of the cases it was felt that there would be additional financial strain on the rest of the family; thirdly, in 1 7 per cent of the cases it was felt that the girl concerned was too young or too immature to deal with a child; and, fourthly, that in 5 per cent of the cases the woman was pregnant to a man other than her husband. [More…]

• I believe, however, that he is a man of real morality. [More…]

• I want to draw an analogy between the situation of a man on trial for his life and that of a foetus. [More…]

• I have lived in a State where in my lifetime, under a Labor government, a man has been hanged for murder. [More…]

• What sort of defence did that man have? [More…]

• Many were acquitted. [More…]

• Some were convicted and some were hanged but nobody could say that any man was hanged without a fair trial. [More…]

• But the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) would draw the line at protection of life, rape, incest and disease expected to result in the deformity of the child. [More…]

• I hope that everyone who in effect holds views about where to draw the line is a man or woman of conscience. [More…]

• Would that doctrine be held seriously by any fair minded man? [More…]

• I do not believe that any woman would allow herself to be aborted without seriously contemplating not only what would happen to her but also how she would feel for the rest of her life. [More…]

• That is one thing that no man in this Parliament, including me, can really understand. [More…]

• How does a woman feel about tomorrow as she places herself on that table? [More…]

• The joy that will occur in a few months time when that woman brings the little babe in and says: ‘Here he is’ equals any trauma commented on by the honourable member for Scullin. [More…]

• I submit that abortion must never ever be granted the mantle of legality, of respectability and of acceptance because, in the final analysis, I hold very dearly the consensus and the point of view that man can only protect his own rights by conceding the same rights to everyone else, particularly to those unable to defend themselves. [More…]

• The mother does not have the right to destroy a life just as no man has the right. [More…]

• This debate has brought the Parliament face to face with the age-old problem of the place of law in administering the affairs of man. [More…]

• Abortion in all its manifestations faces us with the problem of the absolute view. [More…]

• For this reason, those who do not wish to support the Lusher motion but have some sympathy with the amendment moved by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) should also not run away from the fact that, if they wish to apply an absolute rule, they must find some problems with that amendment for it also suggests that a pregnancy may be terminated in cases involving incest, rape or disease of the mother. [More…]

• The most vigorous opponent of abortion in this House I ever had the great privilege of knowing was a former honourable member for Hume, a man named Ian Pettitt, who was a very devout Presbyterian. [More…]

• A woman can decide not to have an abortion. [More…]

• That is her right, as it is the right of every other woman to make her own decision. [More…]

• No parliament and no man has the right to impose on that woman’s right. [More…]

• The Right to Life movement talks a great deal about the right to life but it fails to consider the right of a woman to her own life. [More…]

• Until a woman can raise her child in an acceptable environment and fully accept the responsibility parenthood entails, society has no right to condemn a child to the horror and misery of abuse. [More…]

• What about the woman’s right to obtain benefits as a full legal member of a health fund? [More…]

• I pay tribute to President Sadat and to Prime Minister Begin for their courageous statesmanship, for the very real courage of a kind which is not always apparent, in bringing this about. [More…]

• This is a great day for all of those who believe in the capacity of man to resolve differences by rational discussion, by reason and goodwill rather than by fighting. [More…]

• He would be the personnel officer for more people working fewer than 40 hours than any other man in this country. [More…]

• Employees and management came together at all levels of the industry to examine work methods and practices with a view to increasing productivity.. [More…]

• That extreme view of the Federal Government led by this man, Malcolm Fraser, was rejected by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• If it is to be utilised for the benefit of the economy we certainly must withstand the pressure for it to be dragged down by the granting of concessions which will cost money, which will cost the community dearly and which will rob us of those benefits that could quite fairly flow, if given an opportunity to do so, to the benefit of the small man. [More…]

• Has this man, who thinks he can run a federation on the basis of keeping tax money, completely forgotten his law? [More…]

• I have never heard such a speech from a man who I thought was far better fitted to be the Leader of the Opposition than the man who presently holds that position. [More…]

• The honourable member for Dundas is a very young man; a capable man, some people have been heard to say. [More…]

• The same gentleman, were he alive many years ago, centuries before his time, would bewail legislation that was passed by progressive people to stop children going into the mines. [More…]

• This man in my view has blatantly misled Parliament, and any fair assessment by any other honourable member will lead him precisely to the same conclusion. [More…]

• He will try to go all the way, but we have found that this man, the Minister for National Development, has been marked negotiable by the oil companies of this country; that he is a dog-eared cheque for Australian business. [More…]

• -For many months now the Government has tried to conceal, to trivialise and to cover up, what almost every Australian- including, as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) well knows, a good number of those sitting behind him in this House today- knows is, at this dme, a national scandal. [More…]

• They are for the use of the man who promised Australia he would not be a tourist Prime Minister. [More…]

• No man occupying the high office that Mr Fraser occupies today - [More…]

• No man occupying the high office that the Prime Minister occupies today has given Australians a more generous measure of both than the man who occupies that position. [More…]

• Deceit with this man is the name of the game, particularly where his own comfort is concerned. [More…]

• None of his predecessors have felt it, but likewise none of his predecessors have shared the privileged background of this man who tells us that life was not meant to be easy. [More…]

• If this is argued, why the deficit, why the cover-up and why not, to use the words of a man who is looking distinctly muddy now, even to the Prime Minister, come clean? [More…]

• If ever there was a man of straw on the Prime Minister’s team, it is the Minister for Finance. [More…]

• What about the cost of retraining staff to man these aeroplanes? [More…]

• Man’s control over ecosystems and thus over evolution is increasingly taking the place of natural selection. [More…]

• Domesticated plants and animals have virtually lost their capacity for existence- let alone continuing evolution- without human assistance; and environments have been so drastically modified that large numbers of species, plant and animal, have been exterminated through loss of habitats . [More…]

• I have some sympathy for the man in South Australia who went around ringbarking them in the Adelaide Hills a little while ago. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, in case you rule me out of order I seek leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard a table showing the repayments made by the Commonwealth in relation to the Tasmanian freight equalisation scheme. [More…]

• It comes from my having been an axe man and a market economist. [More…]

• In the process of determining who will design the new and permanent Parliament House, the Committee has not asked for a design. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, as a man of great experience in this area- you have served on the Public Works Committee- you well know that the roof of the Opera House is a series of parabolic curves. [More…]

• The Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House, aware of that fact, decided that it was not going to ask for a postcard or watercolour sketches of a new and permanent Parliament House. [More…]

• The Chairman he announced as Sir Bernard Callinan, who was described as an engineer. [More…]

• The third person was Mr R. Ling, Chairman of Hill Industries Ltd. [More…]

• I do not know the man. [More…]

• The next person was Mr N. Macphillamy, a lawyer and businessman. [More…]

• In support of the honourable member for McMillan, he has pointed out the rather unhappy history of human endeavour when it comes to doing such things as building parliament houses. [More…]

• I recall for the information of honourable members in this place the story of John Thomas Bigge who came out to have a look at Sydney in the early part of last century to examine the plans and programs of Governor Macquarie, and of course he was a man of his time. [More…]

• He managed to put the stopper on that. [More…]

• I do not know many of the members but I notice that none, apart from our friends in the assessment panelthe two members of this Parliament- seems to have parliamentary experience. [More…]

• Mr Tony Powell, the present Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission, is a man of understanding too, but are bridge builders, lawyers and so on who have had no association with Parliament itself likely to bring that kind of critical scrutiny to bear. [More…]

• Mr Ling who has also been mentioned is the Chairman of Hill Industries Ltd. [More…]

• I speak of him by repute but he is a man of considerable capacity. [More…]

• He is a self-made man who has built his own company. [More…]

• He is a practical man, a man who will be found to have the capacity that is needed. [More…]

• Mr Macphillamy is a local lawyer and a man of business experience. [More…]

• I should have thought that a man who was used to putting projects together was the sort of man we wanted and that his capacity of being one of our leading stockbrokers would have been of considerable help to a body such as this as it undertakes the financial task of getting on with the job. [More…]

• Sir John Overall is the Chairman. [More…]

• He is a man of great renown in the field of architecture and I am very glad to be able to tell the House of his appointment. [More…]

• This in turn caused the man behind the discount club to make his own public response. [More…]

• Late last week officers of the Consumer Affairs Department received a call from Mr Green’s solicitors advising them that Mr Green was seriously ill in Tasmania and therefore could not keep his most recent appointment with them. [More…]

• From what I have outlined tonight I believe that honourable members will clearly see, as I do, that it is my duty to alert and hopefully protect the public from this man and his most disreputable operations in my electorate. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition went closer to a doctrinaire socialist position on taxation policy than any spokesman for the Opposition whom I have heard so far this year. [More…]

• They claim that they are the defenders of the average man and that they are determined to stop the rip-offs occurring. [More…]

• He did not tell us how he can reconcile his statement to the ethnic communities in this country that a man who buys a house for $250,000 and sells it for $300,000 will pay a capital gains tax on the profit of $50,000 with the statement he made to the National Press Club that there would be an inflation adjustment. [More…]

• That is what the honourable member for Gellibrand, the spokesman on Treasury matters, said. [More…]

• In all cases the Labor Party admits that it wants to soak the little man and the rich man of Australia to pay for extravagant programs. [More…]

• Something has been done to help the little man, the man whom we represent, to ameliorate his taxation problems. [More…]

• I regret that we have not received very many pats on the back in the Australian community for this. [More…]

• Every working man in Australia knows that that is the truth. [More…]

• Many women with families were paying almost no taxation after the normal concessions. [More…]

• The ordinary little man of Australia, the ordinary Aussie who wants to get out and have a go, does not want to ride on the back of some other person who also wants to get out and have a go. [More…]

• The Opposition kicks the little man when he is down. [More…]

• It kicks the little man with high taxation and in speeches, such as the one in 1972 where it said that all the extravagant programs would be funded out of the little man’s pay packet. [More…]

• The Opposition kicks the little man with statements such as the one made by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) who said that he will convince the electorate that it should pay a higher level of taxation. [More…]

• The Opposition kicks the little man by making sure that investment in this country does not get carried forward, with the result that jobs disappear. [More…]

• It kicks the little man by cutting out opportunities for industry, such as the mining industry, which virtually closed down its expansion operations during the Labor Government ‘s period of office. [More…]

• It kicks the little man, but at the same time Opposition members stand up in this House day by day saying that they represent him. [More…]

• The little man of Australia knows that Opposition members do not represent him. [More…]

• It does not represent the little man at all. [More…]

• We suspect that that is the position, and that is what the little man also suspects. [More…]

• When one hears the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) accusing us of running high deficits, one wonders. [More…]

• The honourable member for Batman should not talk about deficits is he does not understand what the word means. [More…]

• They have been doing a lot of shouting but that will not take away the fact that they no longer represent the little man in Australia. [More…]

• I think it is time that we had a look at the British system of having one official permanently in attendance. [More…]

• So we cannot exactly insist that the same man be there as adviser. [More…]

• I say this with no disrespect to the new man coming in. [More…]

• I may have overestimated the willingness of the media to discriminate between the compulsive critic and the informed and balanced critic; or to discern the man who has a valuable, intellectual contribution to make, from the lobbyist seeking to advance a material interest of his own, or of his sponsors. [More…]

• This is the opinion of a man who has served this country in peace and war for 40 years. [More…]

• In 1952 there was genuinely held concern by many people in this country that Australia should participate in the ANZUS agreement without the United Kingdom as a member of that agreement. [More…]

• Time and tide wait for no man. [More…]

• Defence has always been an area in which there will be people who seriously and conscientiously believe that every man between the age of 18 or 19 and 90 should at least serve in the military forces for at least a large part of his life. [More…]

• That young man arrived in this country to escape the winter in New Zealand and to live on the dole on Queensland’s Gold Coast. [More…]

• Let us not have this arrant nonsense about protecting the little man. [More…]

• Mr Justice Gillard said he had been tempted to impose a non-custodial sentence upon Cornelius until he had learned that Cornelius and another man had plotted to steal about 400 exhibits . [More…]

• By the use of the grossly excessive and uncalled for verbiage to which I have referred the ordinary reasonable man in the street reading it could easily come to the conclusion that the Chief Justice was severely castigating the honourable member for an alleged attempt to pervert the course of justice which is inherent in the words he used. [More…]

• I am quite certain that the responsible citizens of the St George area who might be expected to work in that exchange would have a far greater regard for their fellow man than have some of the persons who are on strike at present. [More…]

• The Paramount Ruler of Malaysia was a man who fulfilled his function in a unifying manner. [More…]

• The honourable member for Isaacs is a man of some sensitivity and even he does not like the brief that he has to carry on this occasion. [More…]

• He is the same man who was mixed up in the failure of Associated Securities Ltd. That is what a good business manager he is. [More…]

• There should be more for the working man. [More…]

• After the aircraft had been sprayed for quarantine purposes, a man grabbed a woman, forced her back into the aircraft and closed the door from the inside. [More…]

• It was at that time believed that the man and woman were unknown to each other. [More…]

• Later the man reopened the door and asked for a plane to take him to Russia. [More…]

• The man has been identified as Domico Speranza. [More…]

• A Commonwealth Police officer, Inspector Burrows, was in the cabin of the aircraft with the man and the girl at a later point. [More…]

• The position at 1.45 p.m. was that the man was in the cabin with two New South Wales police, still with his knife and having produced a beer can with a wick that looked like a bomb with which he was threatening to blow up those present. [More…]

• He is a man of some substance. [More…]

• The particular project at Acacia Ridge and the general upgrading of the main line, which ought to go hand in hand, have instead been gathering dust, as my colleague put it, mainly because of one man’s ratbaggery and skulduggery. [More…]

• The National Times, in an article of 19 August 1978, pointed out that, on an income of $40,000 a year a man with a wife and three children would pay tax amounting to $16,000.80 if his business were owned by him. [More…]

• I say to the Minister and to the Government that it is time the Government set up such a commission and that the best man to be chairman of such a commission would be the former right honourable member for Werriwa, the honourable Gough Whitlam. [More…]

• I could not think of a better man, a man who is more transport oriented or a man who has more capacity and ability to preside over a commission such as that than Gough Whitlam. [More…]

• I believe that, with careful management leading to increasing stocks, the harvesting of whales for man’s use is a legitimate endeavour. [More…]

• The marlin is a beautiful wild creature of the deep ocean hunted by man for sport. [More…]

• I believe that whales served a great purpose in man’s endeavours and were of use to all men. [More…]

• If we really believe that whaling is a cruel and unnecessary means of feeding man, we should stand our ground and bargain at the International Whaling Commission on the basis that we will give it away as long as the others also give it away. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) is shaking his head. [More…]

• Are Australian waters simply the breeding and feeding ground for whales which ultimately will be killed and used to manufacture products for the rest of the world. [More…]

• I know that you, Mr Deputy Speaker, are a man from the land. [More…]

• It is an unique area settled by people with a history going right back to the beginning of the white man’s interest in the South Pacific. [More…]

• The people when one meets them have a quite different characteristic in the way that they look at life from that of many of us in Australia. [More…]

• They are people who in many ways have found such an ideal life that it is very hard for others to get permission to live on Norfolk Island. [More…]

• But at the same time members of the Opposition say those things in this House they want to go across to Norfolk Island and impose on the residents what is the equivalent of the white man ‘s rule. [More…]

• The Bills that are before the House tonight are the result of an enormous amount of work by bureaucrats in Canberra and on the island, by the current Minister, who is a very sensitive man, by the councillors of the island and by the people of the island who have let their views be known right across Australia. [More…]

• In fact, the massive changes which have been made emanate from the Opposition itself. [More…]

• The controversy over Mr Bhutto’s guilt or innocence, the impartiality or otherwise of the proceedings at his trial and subsequent appeal hearings, and the treatment of the man during his 20-month incarceration which ended so abruptly yesterday are matters which only history will resolve. [More…]

• The rapid passage of the man through the terminal was facilitated with the idea of isolating him and the hostage. [More…]

• It has a very expensive kitchen, something like $250,000 worth, which the Government has no intention of providing staff to man. [More…]

• It is a case of complete lack of financial management. [More…]

• I want to emphasise to this House, to the people of Australia and particularly to the people of Victoria that these successes do not emanate from one man alone; it takes a team effort. [More…]

• He is a very powerful man in the trade union movement and in the ALP. [More…]

• The reason that the honourable gentleman, who came into this House with a reputation as an economist, was not prepared to join issue with my colleague the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) to analyse the economic record of the Hamer Administration was that the honourable member knows that on any such analysis the Hamer Government has to stand condemned. [More…]

• So the honourable gentleman chose to endeavour to resurrect the old red bogy and the old fears of 1955. [More…]

• One might well ask why a man with his academic accomplishments chose to develop that line in defence of the Hamer government. [More…]

• This has resulted in such things as a manager appointed by bureaucrats in Brisbane having the right to keep people off their traditional homeland, the land on which they were born and the land which traditionally belongs to their tribal ancestors. [More…]

• All these rights can be vetoed by a white manager who has nothing in common with the Aboriginal people, who is not chosen or employed by them, and cannot be sacked by them. [More…]

• He is a civil servant in the service of Mr Killoran, the Director of the Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement in Queensland, a man whose name is not one that Aboriginals respect, and that is putting it mildly. [More…]

• The Minister’s statement is just a motherhood statement in many places. [More…]

• We get a tired apologia for an inactive Minister, a man who just does not know what he is doing. [More…]

• Whilst real knowledge of the extent to which the bourgeoisie are avoiding taxes on their estates is not forthcoming, it is felt that there is little doubt that many of them are doing exactly that. [More…]

• If one were to use the words of the founder of Little Cuba, one would say that it is an island that could become ‘the paradise of man’. [More…]

• It does not reflect the attitude of this man. [More…]

• That ought not be beyond the wit of man. [More…]

• Of course, the British have had some odd solutions to these problems in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. [More…]

• His untimely death takes from the Parliament a man who had given the country much and who had so much more to give. [More…]

• As Minister for Tourism and Recreation in the Labor Government he demonstrated his ability as a capable and hard working administrator and as a man with a sharp sense of his responsibility to this Parliament. [More…]

• Frank Stewart was a man widely respected for his integrity and resolution and for holding to his own convictions. [More…]

• He was also a highly principled and deeply religious person, a Roman Catholic who actively pursued moral causes. [More…]

• Although many members of this chamber may have disagreed with him at times they would all, I believe, have deeply respected the views that Frank Stewart expressed and especially the conviction with which he expressed them. [More…]

• He was for many years a competent and conscientious public servant. [More…]

• He was a most devoted family man. [More…]

• Like many of us, he spent much of his working life as a parliamentarian and professional politician. [More…]

• I always considered him a manly man, a person dedicated to his party and devoted to his family. [More…]

• Frank Stewart was the kind of man who won respect from people from both sides of politics. [More…]

• They can take great pride in the fact that Frank Stewart was a man who served his country and his fellow man with humility yet with a determination based on the strong convictions and principles that guided all his actions. [More…]

• Frank Stewart has left a mark on this nation because of his integrity and because of positive and physical accomplishments which it is not always given to many of us to achieve. [More…]

• I place on record my deep sorrow at his passing and at the loss of a man at his age. [More…]

• He was years younger than I am and he was a man of great activity who was always able to give what was needed to his opponents, to give support to his friends, and to take it as it was given out to him, that is like a gentleman and a proper soldier as he always was. [More…]

• I got to know Frank Stewart fairly well only during recent years, but I think it is worth placing on record that when the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure was established he was chosen by his colleagues to be Deputy Chairman. [More…]

• Frank Stewart was often described as he has been described in the House today- as an old style Labor man. [More…]

• As honourable members can see from his involvement in Old Sydney Town, he was in many ways a visionary and a forward thinking man. [More…]

• He was a man of great empathy with the Australian sporting community. [More…]

• He was the Federal Minister responsible for the first general allocation of Federal Government funds to sport but moreover, he was at all times a gentleman and accessible to sports people. [More…]

• As has already been said, Frank Stewart was a man of honesty, integrity and determination and a man who gave a clear indication of where he was going. [More…]

• But I am very pleased to have the opportunity of joining other speakers in paying a tribute to a man whose character, I believe, has lifted the standard of integrity and honesty in this Parliament. [More…]

• It is appropriate that all the speeches that have been made today have centred around the character and courage of a man moving as he thought fit. [More…]

• He made a great contribution to the Labor Party, as many people on this side of the House have said. [More…]

• Perhaps on many occasions his family did not understand the tests of strength which were put on him, not often in great public speeches but in the corridors and in the Caucus- in those little ways in which a man can have a big influence on the way in which the Parliament works and upon the nation. [More…]

• He was a very rare man and I am very much in his debt personally. [More…]

• The House lost an elderly gentleman who was respected and revered, a man for whom a great majority of members had great affection. [More…]

• Into the Parliament came a much younger man who brought with him a robust integrity and a very deep conviction. [More…]

• As chairman of the exservicemen’s committee of the Government parties I will not reiterate the fine expressions that have been made but I will point out to the House of Representatives this afternoon that in 1941, during a war that had commenced in September 1939, when casualty lists were long, when the great campaigns that were fought in the Middle East, in Greece and in Crete were finished, almost immediately after Frank Stewart turned 1 8 years of age he became a member of the fighting service, the Second Australian Imperial Force. [More…]

• It is a tribute that in 1979 might be regarded as rather late, but it is worthy of recognition that in 1941, when the full consciousness of war was upon the people living in this country, a man who was just barely qualified legally to wear the uniform of the Monarch did so. [More…]

• We have lost a friend and a man who represented, in terms of integrity and service, a dedication to duty and a devotion to principle, as he saw it, that I know will be respected by all who knew him. [More…]

• Having had many discussions with Frank, having been a political competitor, having been a man who respected him over a long period and having known of his education and training at St Mary’s Cathedral College, as mentioned by the Prime Minister, I leave honourable members with this thought: When the time came for Frank to arrive at perhaps the most significant entry gate and he was invited to identify himself, in my judgment he would have said in the Latin which I know he learnt: ‘ Adsum semper fidelis’. [More…]

• He came to Parliament as a young man of 3 1 years of age. [More…]

• I must convey to his wife Maureen and his family the thought that many times when he should have been at home he was in the Parliament looking after Australians. [More…]

• Although there were only a few years difference in our ages, Frank used to treat me like a son, sometimes by abusing me for saying many things which I should not have said. [More…]

• My father used to say that the three main things a man had to do in life were to go to mass, be a member of the trade union movement and be a member of the Labor Party. [More…]

• It is a philosophy that has been adopted by many members of the Labor Party. [More…]

• Mr Frank Stewart, besides being a loving husband and father, was a man who through all the vicissitudes of public life was clear in his principles and courageous in upholding them. [More…]

• Deep down Frank Stewart was a very human man. [More…]

• But when one got below the surface one found that Frank was very human. [More…]

• As has been said by previous speakers, he was a man of absolute integrity. [More…]

• I suppose it could be considered almost presumptuous for one who has served in this House for only Vh years to speak on a motion such as this concerning a man who has served this Parliament for so long and so well. [More…]

• He was the Deputy Chairman of that Committee. [More…]

• Last year I was Chairman. [More…]

• Frank Stewart was a man who thought that all decisions should be made in the best interests of Australia. [More…]

• As a result of the many hundreds of hours that members of that Committee spent together, we realised that that was the case. [More…]

• Many honourable members have said that he was a man of great moral courage. [More…]

• He was also a man of great political courage. [More…]

• I think that those are important facets of any man’s beliefs and of any man’s makeup. [More…]

• The honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) pointed out that Frank Stewart had many friends. [More…]

• I found him to be a man of extraordinary integrity. [More…]

• It is my honour to have known this man. [More…]

• He was a kindly man, but also a strong fighter for his causes. [More…]

• The loss of a man of such integrity is a grievous loss to the Parliament. [More…]

• The Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals SubCommittee of the NH & MRC has evaluated available scientific data on each of the above compounds and has determined a daily intake for man which, during an entire lifetime, appears to be without appreciable risk. [More…]

• The Minister made some reference to the marked increase in lost man hours. [More…]

• The number of man hours lost in this dispute was 100,042. [More…]

• It states that in that case 147,826 man hours were lost. [More…]

• The man hours lost as a result of this stoppage amounted to 191,824. [More…]

• So in spite of the Minister’s reference to the fact that there has been a marked increase in man hours lost, the Working Party gave some explanation for it. [More…]

• It is important to point out that the three disputes referred to in paragraph 4 account for a total of some 440,000 man hours or 78 per cent of all man hours lost by dispute during the period under review. [More…]

• As such, if one leaves aside the two major disputes, apart from the general award negotiations, one could not say that there has been a marked increase in the man hours lost in the stevedoring industry. [More…]

• I will say this for the Minister He put on the guidelines at the request of many companies in the iron ore area and those companies have since laid doggo when attacks have been made upon him. [More…]

• That is an example of the kind of loyalty which is displayed by the unprincipled man who is the Prime Minister of Australia to a person who is a senior Minister in his Cabinet and his deputy in the coalition. [More…]

• It is no doubt a rogue’s gallery but at least they deserved the loyalty of the man who is the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Modern capital facilities (electricity, gas, oil, chemicals, man-made fibres, food processing, telephone, et cetera ) are able to supply most of the goods or services needed without great use of labour. [More…]

• Reverting to the example of the early civilisations and the use of slaves, the modern slave is the machine (some regard it as the reverse) and man could progressively be the master. [More…]

• Whereas all the other technologies have advanced dramatically they have only given more impetus to things that man was already able to do with the use of machines- travel, shape materials, provide horse-power, construct buildings, etc. [More…]

• The impact of the microelectronics revolution manifests itself in very different ways, i.e. [More…]

• By its ability to extend or even displace man’s capacity for thinking, his intuition or his judgment. [More…]

• The basic 50-year to 35-year reduction would not occur immediately but could and should be phased in pari passu to coincide with the reduced demand for labour which may accompany the increased use of labour displacing technology. [More…]

• This would enable technology to realise the hope, promised but never fulfilled by the Industrial Revolution, to liberate man from boring and life-denying labour. [More…]

• A man with a wife and four children is $9.20 a week below the austere poverty level line. [More…]

• It destroyed any semblance of credibility it might have had by its abject failure in economic management, by the shambles it has created, by the inordinate level of suffering it has unnecessarily imposed on the community. [More…]

• I sit on a man ‘s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means- except by getting off his back. [More…]

• Yet they are in need too when we compare their situation with a single man, a single woman or a married couple with no dependent children. [More…]

• It is as though horizontal equity is a luxury for the poor; that the government should regard a poor man’s dependent wife and children as its responsibility, but a rich man’s as his indulgence. [More…]

• Mr Coates is the Chief Manager, Investments, of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, which represents the greatest collection of little investors in Australia. [More…]

• Certainly the interests and attitudes of the small investor would be well covered by a man such as Mr Coates. [More…]

• First of all, the power to bug citizens, the power to wire tap citizens, is a power abhorrent to anyone who believes in the ordinary man’s basic rights, his right to privacy and his liberty to say what he wishes in the privacy of his own home. [More…]

• He is a reasonable man. [More…]

• A man who has destroyed a thousand lives might be asked to give only eight or nine years of his life in return. [More…]

• I wonder whether in seeking an evaluation in this way we are not sending a boy on a man’s errand. [More…]

• It was certainly clear in this very knowledgable man’s mind that this was not a scheme that had been introduced for one year only. [More…]

• I think that there was every justification for such remarks because it was a Labor government which, after many years of dissension and debate, gave the industry some kind of security. [More…]

• The man behind its success, Jack Massey, can claim the dubious credit of creating the modern fast food industry with the $500m Kentucky Fried Chicken empire. [More…]

• I want to read into the record the contribution made by this man. [More…]

• Sir David Brand was a greatly admired man in my State. [More…]

• He did not have to command respect because of his position; he simply received it naturally because of the kind of person he was. [More…]

• He was a decent man, a man with whom everybody could identify and a person who lived by very high codes of personal integrity. [More…]

• But, in my opinion, the reason he was unique in modern political times was that there was no difference between his personal codes of behaviour, his sincerity, warmth and humanity and the way he governed and lived as Premier of Western Australia. [More…]

• Because of this there was no falseness about the man, no compromising of his principles and no false charisma. [More…]

• So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessently and so painfully as to find someone to worship . [More…]

• This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity since the beginning of time. [More…]

• Man has no more pressing need than the one to find somebody to whom he can surrender, as quickly as possible, that gift of freedom which he, unfortunate creature, was born with . [More…]

• The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for . [More…]

• Man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil. [More…]

• Mr Walker was exposed for what he is- a man of complete and utter duplicity. [More…]

• I have not met the man attacked and I do not know what he is like. [More…]

• How any parliament can ask for the respect of the community when it defames decent citizens in this manner is completely and absolutely beyond my comprehension. [More…]

• Just because a man or a woman walks through the gate of his or her work place, it does not mean that democracy should stop. [More…]

• In September 1977 the Government received loans from the United States and Germany involving amounts up to $5 18m. [More…]

• In August it borrowed $192m from Switzerland and $ 120m from West Germany. [More…]

• In September it borrowed $127m from West Germany. [More…]

• In December it borrowed $2 14m from Japan; in January, $155m from West Germany; in February, $261m from Switzerland; and in April, $127m from Switzerland. [More…]

• Almost every month the Government has borrowed substantial amounts from Switzerland, Germany and Japan. [More…]

• In June 1973 the cost of overseas borrowings was $96 for each man, woman and child in the country. [More…]

• They ran into many thousands of dollars. [More…]

• We make the point, as was made then by no less a person than former Senator Sir Reginald Wright, a man who was noted during his parliamentary career for worrying greatly about the salaries and benefits of others whilst he had an income from other sources - [More…]

• It was a case in which he was not only a man for all seasons, but also a man who was seeking to please all with his remarks. [More…]

• I make that point, and I hope that many people hear it. [More…]

• Some people may argue that just because a man is a barrister he is not necessarily equipped to take an appointment on the bench. [More…]

• I have only taken New South Wales and I have used the New South Wales Government produced 1979 almanac which contains a list of all barristers in Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle. [More…]

• In making these comments my boot is directed at the ball and not at any man. [More…]

• If a man has acquired position and standing in our community, does it mean that Treasury is his oyster upon the legality of some action of his being challenged and the matter moving to a court situation? [More…]

• It is a fact that, generally speaking, a Queen’s Counsel is a most competent and able man in his field. [More…]

• Indeed, many of the judges who will be affected by this Bill will have come from that exalted rank. [More…]

• The Government should say that the people will not foot the bill for a man who in one day earns an amount similar to that which an age pensioner is given in six or more months. [More…]

• The average man’s mind boggles at these figures alone. [More…]

• I realise that the man in private practice can have his earning capacity eliminated overnight by a loss of health and his capacity to command high fees can diminish by virtue of partial or total eclipse of his popularity. [More…]

• In 1979, is one man worth $1,000 or more of the public purse a day when so many other competent lawyers, including Queen’s Counsel, would do the job equally well for much less remuneration? [More…]

• So often it is hard to get people to accept appointments to the Bench because as barristers and Queen’s Counsel they command fees which are really beyond the comprehension of the ordinary man. [More…]

• Queues at airline offices in Melbourne have become so long because of the incredible increase in passengers travelling on cheap fares that one man had to wait a week before he could pay for his ticket. [More…]

• However, the greatest threat comes not from the elements or organisms of nature but from man- and, in particular, from one man, the Premier of Queensland. [More…]

• That man’s potential for ruining the reef makes the havoc wrought on the reef by the Crown of Thorns starfish look like a blessing. [More…]

• I wish to quote from a letter dated 22 February 1979 to the Australian Conservation Foundation by well-known author and television commentator, Mr Gerald Durrell, who is associated with many wildlife preservation trusts round the world. [More…]

• The Sequoia, as honourable members know, is one of the oldest trees known to man and is also one of the tallest trees. [More…]

• Hence the reason that he has been tabbed in his electorate, as I have said previously, as jockstrap Neil, the man that is sensitive to the slightest swing. [More…]

• I know that commanding officer approval is not required but I always thought that marriage was a matter of personal choice- that is, one makes a decision to get married and live out. [More…]

• A single man as a matter of personal choice may make a decision, for whatever reason, to live outside the base. [More…]

• Sir Charles Adermann was born on 3 August 1896 at Vernon Siding in Queensland. [More…]

• At the young age of 28 he entered the service of his State as Chairman of the Queensland Peanut Marketing Board, a position he retired from in 1952. [More…]

• He served as Chairman of the Kingaroy Shire Council from 1939 to 1946. [More…]

• He was a man well known in his district and in his industry. [More…]

• Charlie Adermann was a deceptively gentle man. [More…]

• He was a man of enormous courage and strength. [More…]

• He was a man of great tenacity. [More…]

• Sir Charles Adermann was a man with a deep religious faith and conviction. [More…]

• I think it is an indication of Sir Charles Adermann ‘s devotion that for 40 years, despite the very heavy demands on his time as a result of his public life, he conducted a Sunday morning radio broadcast for children- the only Sunday school many children in remote areas ever had. [More…]

• There are many thousands of people in Queensland who remember that program, and the voice of ‘Uncle John’, as Charles Adermann called himself for the purposes of the program, which he broadcast for the last time only five or six months ago. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I believe that all honourable members will join me in extending sympathy to Lady Adermann, to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Mr Adermann), and to the other members of Sir Charles’s family. [More…]

• We feel a great sense of loss for a man who distinguished himself as a parliamentarian, a Minister and a dedicated member of my party. [More…]

• It provides an insight into the evolution of the Menzies Government to recall that Charlie Adermann succeeded the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon) as Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]

• He was a selfeducated man, who gained most of his learning by correspondence. [More…]

• He was a successful farmer and for many years was acknowledged as Queensland’s most prominent peanut grower, a title which he shared in later years with another Country Party politician from Kingaroy. [More…]

• Adermann was a typical farmer, slow-spoken, soberly, almost shabbily dressed, with a rolling gait that looked as though he had spent years wrestling with a plough in difficult country. [More…]

• Cautious with a pale, sad face and lank, black hair, he was a friendly decent man, a teetotaller, and a nonsmoker, prominent in the Church of Christ. [More…]

• Charles Adermann was a long-time colleague of us all in this place. [More…]

• He was a man of great depth and of considerable sincerity who honestly set about his tasks both as representative of his electorate and as a Minister. [More…]

• Charlie Adermann was known to all of us who have served in the Parliament for 20 years or more as a very honourable, very decent, truthful man, who did not have even a streak of meanness in his makeup. [More…]

• I mention those things because there is a wrong impression about Sir Charles Adermann, namely, that he was a humourless, dour person who did not have a sense of humour. [More…]

• He was a very human person, a good person. [More…]

• No man ever earned greater respect in this Parliament than did Sir Charles Adermann. [More…]

• On behalf of the Liberal Party I join with the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and other speakers in paying tribute to the late Sir Charles Adermann. [More…]

• As would be appreciated by honourable members on both sides of the House, Charlie Adermann was a great rural leader, an outstanding parliamentarian over a period of some 30 years and a notable churchman. [More…]

• Beyond these things he was a man without enemies. [More…]

• Charlie Adermann was a gentle man who was respected by men and women of all political persuasions, not simply because of his ability but because of his integrity, his fairmindedness, his decency and the principles for which at all times he stood and for which he was prepared to fight in this House and in the country at large. [More…]

• On behalf of the Liberal Party I join with the Acting Prime Minister and other speakers in conveying to Lady Adermann, to our colleague Evan and to members of the Adermann family our deepest sympathy. [More…]

• -It was only a few minutes before I came into the House that I heard of the death of Sir Charles Adermann. [More…]

• In my opinion he was man of common sense, a man capable of reasoned and sensible judgments no matter whether they concerned the interests of rural people or sections of manufacturing industry. [More…]

• I spent a couple of days with the Adermanns and the producers seemed to be satisfied. [More…]

• Later his role was taken over by Dr Westerman. [More…]

• When there were moments of anguish- for example at the final meetings at Parliament House, Sydney, and when, regrettably, my Permanent Head became very ill- I had to make the decisions myself. [More…]

• In the negotiations I was helped by telephone advice given to me by Sir Charles Adermann. [More…]

• He was a loyal, charming person and a good man to work with. [More…]

• It is we who will be the losers because Sir Charles Adermann is no longer with us. [More…]

• It has been said that he was a man of high principle. [More…]

• These are the things that reveal him as a man of purpose, a man of courage, a man of integrity and a man of tremendous value not only to his party and to the Parliament but also to the country. [More…]

• Referring to ability to undertake research and prepare material, the applicant said that he was just the right man for the job. [More…]

• A man named Shirley is butchering the language, a kid from ‘Eight is Enough’ is demanding to see an R-rated movie. [More…]

• Then the hatchet man. [More…]

• I think that the man believes what he says. [More…]

• It is about time that an intelligent man such as the honourable member for Bonython (Dr Blewett)- [More…]

• I believe that he certainly is an intelligent man, but I think it about time that he determined what role he might play in this place in his time here. [More…]

• He exhorted us and came back to his normal pessimism, gloom and almost manic depression in trying to predict the imminent death knell of the provincial television stations and the private broadcasting sector. [More…]

• There he earned for himself amongst his employees and citizens of the district an enviable reputation as a man of honesty and integrity. [More…]

• Many of his older employees are now reaching retirement age but it is interesting to note that almost without exception they have been with the company for the whole of their working lives, such was the treatment that they received from Mr Howard and the high regard with which they held that company. [More…]

• -If I might take first the last question posed by the honourable gentleman, the position of Chief of Army Materiel will be held by Major-General Engel. [More…]

• In brief, the answer is that the judgment is that the position of Chief of Army Materiel is justifiable on the grounds that it is a very heavy burden for one man to carry and, at the same time, to discharge responsibilities in the logistics area. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman, and the House may get some perception of that assessment if I say that there are some 500 regular and reserve units located at more than 200 places throughout Australia. [More…]

• It would be my expectation that for the post that has not yet been filled I will receive a recommendation in the course of the next week or so and I will so inform the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• For example, the man working under a private contractor is protected by the safety legislation in all of the States of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The other individuals are covered by workers compensation if they are working for an employer who happens to be a small businessman. [More…]

• Those attitudes frustrated the man in the middle who was attempting to find a responsible solution. [More…]

• He continued to provide a normal relationship with the District Manager’s office; he was asked for information relating to a whole range of matters affecting his Post Office; he received a normal amount of correspondence from the Divisional Manager’s office; and he remained responsible for the 72 staff performing their duties. [More…]

• A postal clerk at Pingelly, Western Australia, is another example of a man who performed 99 per cent of his duties without pay. [More…]

• Time does not permit me to give many examples. [More…]

• Motor vehicles are man made, but I am afraid that at the moment they are running wild. [More…]

• ‘It was a block of flats’, the old man said. [More…]

• It was the greatest aerial onslaught unleashed in man’s history. [More…]

• A former Governor-General, a man of great distinction in this country, was the responsible Minister at the time. [More…]

• However, I thought that my better nature demanded that I stay on it. [More…]

• But, as I have said, it has been a long battle which has involved many people on both sides of the chamber. [More…]

• Every working man in Australia who picks up his pay packet every week or month has known every year since 1 July 1 976 that he has more money to take home because of tax indexation. [More…]

• Under the Hayden tax scales a man with a spouse receiving a wage of $ 1 80 a week would have paid $42.23 a week in tax. [More…]

• Opposition members can talk about all those other things they would like to do for the ordinary working man by way of his pay-as-you-earn taxation, but they have not done anything about them. [More…]

• Another topic that the Prime Minister has raised from time to time as an issue of some compassionate concern to him is that of human rights in countries within our region. [More…]

• He made no mention about this fundamental principle of the freedom of man. [More…]

• Not one reference was made to this principle which is implicit in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]

• There is not one country in the South East Asian region where serious and extensive breaches of fundamental human rights do not take place. [More…]

• I recognise the limitations on a country such as Australia seeking to lecture developing countries on the issue of human rights. [More…]

• My own very strong impression, formed as a result of an extensive visit through most of South East Asia in the middle of last year, is that the Government really does not care to take up this issue but, to the extent that it may, it does it in a very off-handed manner. [More…]

• A man cannot adopt one suit in Australia and change in to another on a different platform as the whim takes him, although this often happens here. [More…]

• In Manila he proclaimed his commitment to free trade and in Australia declared that he is an unrepentent protectionist. [More…]

• It was a speech correctly described yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in this House as the speech of a man who had entered a highly dangerous field. [More…]

• Thank goodness Senator Wriedt is a man of broader vision and is prepared to discuss any matter with those who have an opposing view. [More…]

• The Department of Defence has a mania for secrecy. [More…]

• What rights have they to be any more secure than, perhaps, people in private industry or the self-employed person, the small business man or the small farmer? [More…]

• How many people employed in private industry do we find, in the terminology of the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), have ‘flexed off’ at various hours of the day? [More…]

• Those soothing platitudes came from a man who immediately set about ‘monstering’ industrial relations once he headed the Government of this country. [More…]

• In the last Budget, the Prime Minister, who poses as a man of law and order in the community, threatened sackings within the Commonwealth Public Service if the arbitration system awarded pay increases to members of the Public Service. [More…]

• Normally during short periods of low demand and hence high unemployment, productivity had fallen, reflecting employers’ reluctance to pay off their labour force at the same rate as their order books emptied. [More…]

• Productivity could have risen either because increased wealth had provided more machinery for each man to work, or on the other hand, labour productivity could have risen because there was now less labour for each machine. [More…]

• There is an old saying, for a little man as against a big man: ‘I can run as fast as I can for me as you can run for you’. [More…]

• What is disturbing to me is that when one looks at the levels of income for households and for people in the States over the last 30 years, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania have consistently fared worse. [More…]

• Tasmania shared the position with those two States. [More…]

• Sir Maurice Yonge, a fellow of Edinburgh University, a former professor of Zoology at Bristol and Glasgow universities, and a man who is reputed to know the reef better than anyone else, had this to say: [More…]

• In refuting some of the absurdities put forward by the Oil Drillers Association, Dr Frank Talbot, the Director of Environmental Studies at Macquarie University, a former director of the Australian Museum and a man who has studied the reef for over 15 years was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday 15 May as follows- [More…]

• Senator Rae of another place attracted notoriety as the proposer of the idea, when in fact the man who first revealed that the sale was under consideration and who has maintained a stoney silence since is the Minister for Finance who is absent from the chamber. [More…]

• Senator Townley, the one man on the Government side of the chamber in the other place with some rationality and sense of responsibility, who is not concerned about expanding unemployment but is concerned about saving money and responsible expenditure, was pilloried and accused of disloyalty by those who sit opposite. [More…]

• It has been brought to my attention that the Government in fact has decided on who is to be permanent chairman of the Authority. [More…]

• If the Government has someone in mind for the Chairmanship, if by legislation it is going to tailor requirements for that position to its anonymous nominee for the chairmanship- that is, setting the qualifications to suit the man rather than setting the man to suit the qualifications- let the Government show its hand. [More…]

• If it refuses to do this, conservationists are liable to suspect that the Government is fiddling the requirements of the job in order to instal a permanent chairman who may or may not be acceptable to the conservationists and to the Australian Conservation Foundation but who may be acceptable to this Government and the Government of . [More…]

• Such a man has now been installed as Chairman of the Marine Park Authority. [More…]

• May I point out that Mr Henry Higgs, while acting Chairman of the Authority for 12 months, was also Director of the Department of the Environment. [More…]

• I suggest he is a man with as much knowledge of marine biology as the present Prime Minister has of poverty. [More…]

• The other part time member is Dr J. Baker, a man eminently qualified for his position on the Authority. [More…]

• Remaining member of the Authority, the permanent Chairman who casts the deciding vote, is now Mr Henry Higgs, a munitions expert, not a marine biologist, and former principal of the Woomera Rocket Range, an engineer who, in the past, has not exhibited much support for the conservationists. [More…]

• In October-November 1975 the Government shadow spokesman promised that the funding to the Macarthur growth centre would not cease. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam was trotted out as the bogy-man once more. [More…]

• I do not think the Government can blame for ever one man for all our ills. [More…]

• It is unfortunate- I almost find it unbelievable- that many Government back benchers believe that to attack the unemployed for unemployment is somehow a sensible and positive policy. [More…]

• The benefit for a married man is something like $51.45 a week. [More…]

• Yet he says that $51.45 is too high for a married man. [More…]

• One man who came to my office the other day had left school with the Higher School Certificate in December 1977 and had a job for two weeks. [More…]

• I can give many other instances of that. [More…]

• -The Picture Show Man would be much more interesting to the honourable member. [More…]

• Let us take the example of inflation of Germany in the 1920s. [More…]

• A direct line can be drawn between the inflation of Germany and the establishment of the Third Reich. [More…]

• I invoke the words of a man who is not held out as a political partisan. [More…]

• People rang the number and were told that under this Government’s scheme, a man with a wife and two children would save $6 or $7 a week. [More…]

• This Prime Minister has been overseas once every 10 weeks at a cost to the Australian taxpayer of $3.1 m. So this man who three years ago told the people that Australia did not need a tourist as Prime Minister has made 17 trips overseas since becoming Prime Minister. [More…]

• At last that recovery has come and the man on the land is not in continual danger of going broke. [More…]

• It has ensured that the man on the land will get a fair deal at last. [More…]

• But because the man on the land is doing well do we all have to go broke and go into the poor-house? [More…]

• Honourable members on the Government side need not come in here and bleat about the Government’s troubles being due to the fact that the rural man is doing well and that there is a sudden oil crisis. [More…]

• Whether we win this fight depends not just on governments but on every man and woman in this country recognising that certain restraints are necessary. [More…]

• He was the shrewdest political man in New South Wales before Neville Wran. [More…]

• This man was to be the miracle worker. [More…]

• People around Australia who are listening to this parliamentary broadcast tonight are not particularly interested in the ancient history in which so many Government speakers have indulged. [More…]

• People are not particularly interested in how many runs the Australian Labor Party may have scored between 1972 and 1975, but they are very interested in the runs that this Government has been putting on the board in terms of increasing unemployment and rising inflation. [More…]

• He went on: ‘They were not part of the problems of world economic crisis during 1973 and 1974, but they were problems peculiar to Australia, of short run economic management.’ [More…]

• He is a very changeable man. [More…]

• It will make no difference whatsoever to the man in the street. [More…]

• It was the case of a man who, when he belonged to a union, agreed to take part in a strike. [More…]

• We can well understand some of the concern of the unions when they look at the broken promises of this man on, for example, wage indexation. [More…]

• It is quite ridiculous, for example, to suggest that, as in the Kane case, an employer should be fined because a man is stood down, when under the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Bill the Government has the ability to stand down an employee. [More…]

• It would satisfy me in relation to proposed section 5a if the Minister could say that a judge or a justice is there who is a judicial man belonging to a supreme or federal court. [More…]

• Having put myself in the position of disagreeing with both the Minister and the honourable member for Hawker let me point out that I agree basically with the proposition of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and with the proposition that is accepted in the United States of America that information obtained as the result of the issuing of a warrant can be given in evidence in a court of law only if it relates to the specific matter. [More…]

• It may be that the narcotics officer and the judge issuing the warrant act in good faith, but one man at the start of the chain sets everything in motion. [More…]

• Instead of bugging and telecommunications interception being restricted to narcotics it could be applied to any offence in this country for which a man could get three years imprisonment and that includes a third conviction on the breathalyzer. [More…]

• It is a government of shame and perfidy; a government destined to be judged by historians as a government of gross dishonesty and total deceit, led by a man unfit to follow in the footsteps of most of his illustrious predecessors. [More…]

• Turning to legal aid- it is interesting to see the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott) sitting at the table because he is a legal man- the statement reads: [More…]

• I recall to mind the election of 1977 and the way in which the Government appealed to the basest of all human failingsgreed. [More…]

• It was a matter of making a call and saying: ‘I am a married man with four children. [More…]

• He is a mendacious man who is cynically pursuing a dishonest course. [More…]

• Let us hope that his successor is a much more honest and decent man, as I am sure he is. [More…]

• I would like the public to know that now, for the first time in many years, our overseas borrowings exceed our national reserves. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child in Australia is now in hoek to overseas bankers to the extent of $325 per head. [More…]

• All this came from the man who promised integrity in government and who publicly stated his belief that how things are done is just as important as what is done. [More…]

• A man has a right, no matter what sort of sinner he is, to go into the confessional to seek whatever advice or absolution is available. [More…]

• We are now being told that there is no more privacy in the confessional, that there is no more privacy for a man seeking the advise of his solicitor and saying: ‘In order for you to advise me, I admit that I did this. [More…]

• I do not believe it matters how gross a sin a man may have committed. [More…]

• If a man believes he has to make his peace with his god he is entitled to go into the confessional and not be harassed. [More…]

• It is not a question of who can take a technical point as to which people will not be called to give evidence but what is done to every man and woman in this country when the fear of God is put into them by the prospect of their conversations being taped when they go into a solicitor’s office and are engaged in a conversation which they believe is confidential. [More…]

• I regret that I cannot agree with the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) or my respected colleague, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding). [More…]

• I am a practical man. [More…]

• I see it through the eyes of a layman, as a practical investigator of some of the most serious crimes to have hit the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• I am a practical man and I say that those honourable members whose views have been the opposite of my own are not acting as though we were in the latter part of the twentieth century, at a time when perhaps four mysterious murders have been carried out by an international drug ring that is supposed to be based in New Zealand. [More…]

• When the unfortunate man who has these proceedings brought against him goes into court, he is not charged with a criminal offence where his guilt would have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]

• The golden thread of the English law is that a man is presumed to be innocent until his guilt is proven beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]

• What is the difference between locking up a man for six months and taking $50,000 worth of property from him? [More…]

• The onus of proof is put here on a man who is trying to protect his property. [More…]

• Secondly, the burden of proof is taken away from the man whose property will undoubtedly be seized if this application is upheld. [More…]

• I have in the past, and I will in the future, fight any man who wants the law of this country changed so that people have to prove their innocence. [More…]

• The principle of innocence and proof beyond reasonable doubt is crystal clear and here we are proposing to take away a man’s property, which may very well bankrupt him and disgrace him, because the onus of proof is put on to him. [More…]

• As I tried to say when I spoke earlier, I believe there has to be a presumption that a man is not guilty until he is conclusively or beyond reasonable doubt proved to be guilty. [More…]

• But it is a matter of profound regret to me that a government of Liberal persuasion and Liberal philosophy brings in a provision which puts the judges of the courts of Australia into a straightjacket by saying: ‘You shall do it’- not that they may, but they shalland puts the onus of proof onto the man whose property is to be assessed. [More…]

• To a man and, I strongly suspect, to a woman they will say that the purchase of these aircraft is thoroughly j justified [More…]

• These tax proposals and the other proposals announced in the mini-Budget the other night, including the final burying of Medibank, will cost the average family man at least another $10 a week. [More…]

• The present weekly tax of a single man earning $220 a week, that is, around the average weekly earnings, is $50.17. [More…]

• So taking into account the health care costs, one can understand why I say that the average family man will be worse off by $10 a week. [More…]

• At the High Court hell be just his own man- he has no political alignment. [More…]

• -I thank the honourable gentleman for his question because he has enabled the attention of the House to be focused on the employment record of this Government. [More…]

• Nevertheless, there is an increasing demand for employment from industry and commerce. [More…]

• It is for that reason that the man or woman in the street continually asks the Government and me: ‘What about the registered unemployed if there are these jobs available in the factories and the shops of Australia?’ [More…]

• -He is a very capable man. [More…]

• I hope that he will look at the disgraceful performance in respect of areas represented by Liberals for a very long time, where there are no dental facilities. [More…]

• On the evidence available it seems to me that the Minister for Science and the Environment is the man who is wrong and who is misleading this Parliament. [More…]

• How does the family man earning $212 a week and paying $40 a week in tax react when he sees moving in next door four single people who, by pooling their welfare payments, live as well as he does and who do not pay any tax at all? [More…]

• We will have the skilled hands of Rod Hauser at halfback, the classical ballet poise of Paul McLean, the first man to be chosen in any rugby team in the world at five-eighth, the jinking sidestepping feet of the centres Tony Melrose and Bill McKid, with the fast swerving runs of Laurie Monaghan and Brendan Moon on the wings, and the very strong unflappable Bruce Cooke at full back. [More…]

• -We have in the side Mark Loane, the world’s best lock forward and Paul McLean, who, as I said, would be the first man to be chosen in any rugby side in the world. [More…]

• The Minister, out of his own mouth, hangs himself as a man of mendacity, a man without a shred of integrity left in the Parliament. [More…]

• As I said before, this was an incredible performance by the Minister. [More…]

• Let us not forget that the Minister was until a few years ago a serving officer in the Army; he is not a doddering old man of 85 or 90 years of age. [More…]

• With very great respect, the Government does not accept the motion and will oppose it to the last man. [More…]

• It is not the sort of statement one would expect from a man who has a firm conviction on the issue of the conservation and preservation of a unique ecosystem such as the Barrier Reef. [More…]

• Secondly, there has been since then a strike by specialists at hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory and in many New South Wales hospitals. [More…]

• In other words, they have refused to man outpatient departments in many cases and have refused to do work for which they were appointed and which was part of their contract with the hospitals. [More…]

• In a professional sense it is essential for many medical practitioners, and certainly all specialists, to be somehow associated with a hospital to see what is going on and to have contact with patients and with fellow specialists. [More…]

• The man on an average wage pays the same amount for the same cover as does the Prime Minister. [More…]

• With the increases involved in these Bills, plus the foreshadowed increase in doctors’ fees by the end of this year, the family rate for hospital and medical cover for a man on the average wage will be $ 10 a week. [More…]

• Many of the people in the poorer groups who do not or will not measure up to the category of socially disadvantaged will be paying much higher proportions of their income. [More…]

• The incentives for the healthy, particularly those without dependants and the wealthy with tax rebates simply to drop out narrow the pool of the insured, thereby inevitably pushing up the rates and increasing the costs to the sick and to the average family man who tend to be pushed into private insurance provision. [More…]

• I will not take up much of the time of the House but I will make a couple of points, especially in relation to the royal commission to which the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) has just referred. [More…]

• Last financial year’s health expenditure represented about $504 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• I did that because I believed the man was under great stress at the time. [More…]

• I emphasised to him in my office in front of the permanent head of my Department that there was no way in which the Government would change its decision in relation to the investigation. [More…]

• However, we are entitled to ask why a man would feel on Friday that his integrity made him honour bound to resign, yet he could withdraw that resignation the following Monday. [More…]

• If he means by that that it was in the past and decided in the sense that the man had been convicted, I agree. [More…]

• The Minister is a very careful man, as I am aware from knowing him as a State Minister for many years and since his taking up a portfolio in this House. [More…]

• In case some honourable members opposite might consider my views on this subject as being somewhat radical, coming from someone on this side, I would point out that the information which I am seeking- the man who is to follow me in this debate will be very much aware of it- in this debate has been traditionally supplied to this House. [More…]

• How much does it cost to support Justice Fox, his supporting staff and, I believe, his spouse, as he moves around the world as Ambassador-at-large- the man, as some have said, with the gold-plated airline ticket? [More…]

• My point of order is that to refer to a judge as the man with the gold-plated airline pass’ is offensive language and is clearly in breach of Standing Order 75. [More…]

• First let me restate that we have a great deal of respect for the man’s professional integrity and ability. [More…]

• What are the costs of supporting this man with the gold-plated airline ticket? [More…]

• Finally, is it correct, as we and a great many people in the community believe, that the Government has unfairly set up Justice Fox as a sort of jet-setting front man to reassure a trusting public while the Government ignores the fundamental propositions he brings forward? [More…]

• -The schizophrenic paranoia of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) was well revealed in that speech, and I might say in passing that he must be the only man in the Parliament who can look over both shoulders at once. [More…]

• Despite the fact that he started by praising His Honour Mr Justice Fox, who was appointed to the bench by the Government of which the Leader of the Opposition was a member and a senior Minister, he then referred to Mr Justice Fox as the man with the gold-plated airline ticket, the jet-setting front man. [More…]

• When Hansard is read by people in other parts of the world, as no doubt it will be, I hope they will put out of their minds the ravings tonight of the Leader of the Opposition and the fact that he saw fit to describe a man who was appointed to the bench by the Government of which he was a senior Minister as having a gold-plated airline ticket. [More…]

• I repeat that he is the only man in the Parliament who is able to look over both shoulders at once, looking over one shoulder for Bob Hawke and over the other shoulder for Ken Wriedt. [More…]

• The man with the windmill arm over there- we never know whether he is Tom Thumb or Tom Uren- is swinging his arm around and is obviously out for a night on the punch. [More…]

• He made this attack when the man was out of the country and could not defend himself. [More…]

• Shooting of Man at Sydney International Airport (Question No. [More…]

• At one point at any rate that was the bipartisan view of this House because a former Labor Treasurer, Mr Frank Crean, had made it perfectly plain that, in his view, one man’s wage rise was another man’s job. [More…]

• It is time that we told the people of Bendigo what sort of man represents them. [More…]

• Every chief of police in Britain is a very proud, very independent man. [More…]

• He has smeared a man who has been appointed to be the initial Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Force. [More…]

• To come back to the example which I gave before, one would not put a man from the vice squad in charge of the traffic section or a man who has been spending many years guarding an airport in charge of an inquiry into a proposed act of terrorism at one of the naval bases or at some other place. [More…]

• This case involved a very dedicated police officer, a man who would have been an attribute to any police force in the world. [More…]

• The policeman’s superior officer said to him, ‘You have to resign or you will be dismissed and lose your superannuation’. [More…]

• What sort of reaction do honourable members think will arise in the community when- the average man and woman read that sort of headline showing that a senior Minister of the Government of Australia is part of a family company organisation about which a respected conservative newspaper writes as its main headline on page 1: ‘Sinclair firm got “milked” funds’? [More…]

• He is the man who took the initiative on this matter. [More…]

• It is a serious allegation and an indication of the thrust of evidence coming before the man carrying out the inquiry. [More…]

• I quote again from the transcript of evidence of the inquiry of the man carrying out the investigation. [More…]

• I make no judgment on that except that I am alarmed at the attitude of the man carrying out the investigation. [More…]

• The tax man will subsidise some of it anyhow. ‘ [More…]

• The man is a humbug.’ [More…]

• Sir, unfortunately I did not hear the expression the man is a humbug’ because at that stage the Deputy Speaker had called the honourable member to order. [More…]

• I believe that the evidence that I will place before this Parliament will prove that the manner in which the agreement was signed makes that day one of the darkest days of our history. [More…]

• Anyone who reads the transcripts of the discussions at that time between the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the present Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner)- and many people now refer to him as the ‘Minister for Unemployment’- and the Northern Land Council will see who was the guilty man. [More…]

• Many people will call this Government a racist government because of the attitude that it took at that time. [More…]

• He is a courageous young man who is totally opposed to uranium mining as are the [More…]

• Some people might say that the way in which he manipulated the Aboriginal people into sharing his concern that the whole Ranger matter be settled immediately was very clever. [More…]

• But, Mr Deputy Speaker, you can probably read my mind and you will know what I think of the man. [More…]

• Old Peter was probably the only man they dealt with. [More…]

• No doubt the honourable member and many others have been there, but the open cut site at the Ranger mine is a mere pinpoint on the map when compared with the National Park. [More…]

• The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia offers warm congratulations to the Lieutenant-Governor, the Legislature and the people of the Isle of Man on the occasion of the Millennium of Tynwald and extends best wishes for the future prosperity of the Isle of Man. [More…]

• He is a man who looks at problems and endeavours to understand them. [More…]

• He introduced another Minister and I am not implying in any way that he is dishonest, but the man does have a reputation for confrontation as he had in his previous portfolio and as he has demonstrated to us quite clearly in his handling of his present portfolio. [More…]

• 1 million man days per year were lost through industrial disruption. [More…]

• During the full three completed years of this Government, the average figure was 1.8 million man days lost if the one day aberration of the Medibank strike is excluded and just over 2 million man days lost if the Medibank strike is included. [More…]

• But, in either case, the number of man days lost per year under this Government is less than half the number lost under the Labor Government. [More…]

• ) In the period since 1 945, has there been an increase or decrease in the average time between retirement and death (for example does a man or woman who retires at 55 or 60 enjoy a longer period of retirement than a man or woman who retires at 65). [More…]

• Will he have a walking trail constructed along the length of the Murray River as suggested by another expert on the Murray, Dr P. S. Davis in his recent book Man and the Murray. [More…]

• In this regard I refer him to a speech of the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd), who in my view is the only man on the Government side who talks about health insurance reasonably and with some sense of humanity. [More…]

• I say that because I believe that what man has done with the paddocks of Yarralumla since 1913 is probably Australia’s greatest work of art. [More…]

• Vere Evatt, a many whose greatness has never been fully and adequately recognised by this country. [More…]

• He was a great man, if for no other reason than the fact that he was the first President of the world, being the first President of the United Nations General Assembly. [More…]

• I would go so far as to say that the memory of that man is still so strong in the minds of all Australians that such a foundation would be the richest and wealthiest foundation in Australia because people would subscribe freely. [More…]

• This is the very man who is allowing his Party, through its economic spokesman the honourable member for Gellibrand, to be associated with a campaign which has criticised this Government for making a choice between dropping the surcharge and restoring full tax indexation. [More…]

• I am interested in this amendment because it was my sorry experience quite recently to inquire into a case of compensation involving Seaman Reginald Saverpson. [More…]

• I take this opportunity while the Minister for Transport is at the table to ask him whether under the present or amended Act this man might receive some compensation for his injury. [More…]

• Let me go on just to pin down what lack of integrity this man has. [More…]

• I doubt that any man has given greater service to the United Kingdom, to the modern Commonwealth and to the wider cause of mankind during this century. [More…]

• To have an old man and his grandson murdered in the circumstances that took place yesterday, I believe, is beyond the comprehension of all members of this House. [More…]

• -That somebody who has done so much for peace and for the well-being of mankind should, towards the end of this long and constructive life, have his life taken from him in this way emphasises, above all else, the futility and barbarity of violence and of man’s inhumanity. [More…]

• Lord Mountbatten was a man of outstanding accomplishment and high ambition which he always held in tight control. [More…]

• He was the last of the great Allied generals of World War II, among whom Douglas MacArthur and William Slim also command a special place in Australian regard. [More…]

• It was as Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia that Lord Mountbatten, Lord Louis Mountbatten as he was generally known, first became a familiar figure to most Australians. [More…]

• Yet there is something especially tragic, especially repugnant, when a man of such distinction and honour is murdered by people simply because the loss of such a man’s life would give them the publicity they sought. [More…]

• The tragedy is compounded when so many others, including family members, die or suffer as a result of such a shocking attack. [More…]

• On behalf of my party colleagues and, I believe, of many people throughout the community, I join in this expression of sorrow at the death of Lord Louis Mountbatten. [More…]

• He was a striking man, a man who captured the imagination. [More…]

• Yet he was essentially a practical man, a soldier and a statesman. [More…]

• By his closeness to it he helped the Royal Family in many ways, not least by his bearing, his demeanour and his devotion to public service. [More…]

• Many Australians had respect and even affection for Lord Mountbatten and I know that their reaction to the tragedy in Ireland yesterday will be one not only of shock but also of very deep regret and loss. [More…]

• -I join with the leaders of this House in expressing my condolences at the tragic death of this great man. [More…]

• Many of my close mates were there and Lord and Lady Mountbatten ‘s presence at that time was greatly appreciated by the troops. [More…]

• Lord Mountbatten was a man whose leadership and personality inspired millions and in 1976 he endeared himself especially to the people of the Hawkesbury. [More…]

• He was a man of the people. [More…]

• His quiet and direct manner encouraged warm response and confidence. [More…]

• Lord Louis Mountbatten was a man who made everyone he met feel that to serve him would be a fulfilling privilege. [More…]

• Many fond memories will be shared of this famous upright man, but none more sincerely than by his Australian friends. [More…]

• We condemn this sordid, cruel act which has taken a friend away; but we draw inspiration from his example, his valour and his humanity. [More…]

• Lord Louis Mountbatten attended the last parade of the Australian forces in Balikpapan in, I think it was, early September 1945.I support the remarks of my colleague the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) about the enormous charisma of the man and also the feeling that flowed from him that, no matter how high his estate, he was a man’s man and a soldier’s, sailor’s and airman’s man and regarded them all as equal members of the team. [More…]

• So, on behalf of the soldiers who stood on parade before that great serviceman in 1945,I say him a sad farewell and express my horror and shock. [More…]

• I will conclude by saying that I thought it was a basic tenet of British justice that a man was presumed innocent until proved guilty. [More…]

• This Parliament should have the opportunity to investigate that statistic and not be fobbed off by a public relations man who is sent in to this House by the Prime Minister because he did not like the advice of the previous Minister. [More…]

• He does not want an inquiry because he is a public relations man, he is an advertising man. [More…]

• Almost four years ago, the man who is now Prime Minister of this country, the right honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), made 91 specific promises in 30 minutes. [More…]

• The person who said that, and so many of the other remarks I have quoted tonight, is the same man whose futile leadership, by his own lofty admission, clearly does not have either the real stature or the capacity honestly to confront the challenges before this country, let alone to overcome them. [More…]

• At this moment we are discussing the financial arrangements for one of the world’s most wealthy countries, man for man and woman for woman, a country in which the citizens have behind them, I would think, a greater economic potential than in any other, and that does not exclude America, Canada or anywhere else. [More…]

• Our manufacturing industry is under constant attack. [More…]

• You and I, Mr Deputy Speaker, and my friend from Lalor and my friend the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) represent major manufacturing areas of Australia. [More…]

• Most of the things that are said about our manufacturing industry being inefficient, featherbedded and unproductive are sheer nonsense. [More…]

• But on the basis of man hours and woman hours our productivity is a match for anybody. [More…]

• At present between 50 and 70 per cent of our manufacturing capacity is employed. [More…]

• I wish to raise a matter which is of very great concern to many supporters of democracy throughout Australia. [More…]

• I refer to the infiltration of the Liberal Party of Australia by a man claimed by many to be a pro-Nazi, anti- Jewish propagandist and labelled by reputable authorities in Europe as a war criminal. [More…]

• It will be known to most members of the House that after about two years of vacillation, argument and investigation, Liberal Party authorities in New South Wales finally suspended the membership of this man last week pending further investigation. [More…]

• Could there be more serious charges against a person who has been purporting to represent ethnic interests in one of the major political parties of this country and who has managed to install himself as head of one of only three autonomous units within the Liberal Party? [More…]

• This man, at the end of the war, was one of the leading collaborators with the Nazis in Slovenia. [More…]

• This followed documentation produced in the New South Wales Parliament last week that alleged that Mr Urbanchich, a man of Slovenian origin, had committed war crimes during World War II. [More…]

• I am not prepared to sit in this House and have the forms of the House misused to condemn a man without trial. [More…]

• I hold no brief for the man, other than that he be given the same rights as anybody else. [More…]

• They were participating for the good of their fellow man, for charity. [More…]

• I do not quibble about the need to make export industries more competitive, but there are other ways of going about it, such as using economic planning to ensure that efficiency of the manufacturing industry is brought about in circumstances which are understood and supported by the public. [More…]

• One must allow for tax, rent, hire purchase for furniture and for paying off a car which is absolutely essential for a young man with a wife and a couple of children; the running costs of the car in pursuit of, or in the engagement of, employment. [More…]

• Its living standards have been eroded to the extent of $17 as the result of this man’s monomaniacal obsessions. [More…]

• This is the man who is part of the Government which, a few years ago, held out great promise, which turned out to be fatuous, for the average Australian family. [More…]

• We can see so many of the attacks which have been made against the Australian family. [More…]

• Just be patient, little man. [More…]

• Let us stick to the facts, little man. [More…]

• The Government’s moves on income tax will secretly occasion an increase in taxes for the average family man. [More…]

• For all the Government’s much heralded tax reforms, it is accurate and objective to say that the average family man and middle income earners are marginally worse off than they were when this Government first, unscrupulously, came to power. [More…]

• When the chips are down the Australian people will not have a bar of this man or the petty pessimistic nonsense which has become his stock in trade. [More…]

• That hit the hip pockets of every man and woman who works in this country. [More…]

• I hope that donkey lovers around Australia will take note that the man who parades himself as an alternative Prime Minister is a self-confessed donkey walloper. [More…]

• It is any man or woman in this country who earns more than $26,000 a year. [More…]

• It was surely one of his many errors of judgment that in his entire speech last evening on the Budget the word ‘inflation’, to my knowledge, appeared but once and at no stage in his alternative strategy has he explained how it would reduce what still remains the most dangerous predator on the wages and the living standards of the Austraiian people. [More…]

• How can a man who as Treasurer of a Labor government which reached the dizzy heights of plus 17 per cent inflation come into this House and put to the Australian Parliament and through it to the Australian people a so-called strategy which offers nothing but more of what we had before. [More…]

• That Government was defeated by the Australian people in a historic manner. [More…]

• What it meant, in effect, was that Avis now had 18 concessions and had managed to tie up all the major airports in Australia containing 90 per cent of the prime business, the prime operating airports. [More…]

• And better than that, Avis did not have to operate all the little, nonprofitable airports like Thargomindah and Cunnamulla and all those places where a man and a dog appear. [More…]

• But the man who let the cat out of the bag, the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson), who told the Federal Liberal Council in Perth on 23 April that the sale of TAA was being considered as part of a government expenditure program, has refused to answer a question which has been on the Notice Paper since 18 May which asks him to confirm the kind of statement which the Minister for Transport has written to me. [More…]

• This discussion initiated by the honourable member for Shortland was not backed up with any substance or facts at all that could even stir the heart and minds of the man on the street, let alone the hearts and minds of the members of this Parliament. [More…]

• It was Labor’s Treasurer Crean who said that one man’s wage rise cost another man his job. [More…]

• The man told a Liberal Party meeting in June that Canberra’s young jobless would have to leave the Australian Capital Territory to have a hope of getting work. [More…]

• This man would break up families, destroy stable lifestyles and send young people out on the road looking for work, which the Government will do nothing to provide in their home city- a company town run by this Government. [More…]

• I ask: Would he be a fit man to lead the Opposition into government? [More…]

• In order to stimulate demand, the Budget provides that from 1 December the effective standard personal tax will be reduced from 34.57 per cent to 32 per cent. [More…]

• A man on average weekly earnings of” $245 a week will have his tax reduced by $4.45 a week. [More…]

• But with regard to inflation and our ability to live- I will not say magnificently but certainly well- very few countries other than the United States and West Germany can keep up with the pattern and standard of living that this Government has established. [More…]

• That was an unbelievable change even for a man like Whitlam, supported by the kinds of Treasurers he had in those days, including the person whom you, Mr Deputy Speaker, wanted me to call - [More…]

• There is one man only who can kill the speculation and that is the Prime Minister. [More…]

• A man with a wife and two children is about $1,300 a year worse off, if he is lucky enough to have a job. [More…]

• Many of us recall what a former Labor Treasurer had to say about this matter. [More…]

• He was a man with a great deal more honesty and integrity and a great deal more humanity than the members of the Opposition seem to have today. [More…]

• One man’s pay rise is another man ‘s job. [More…]

• I finally employed a fine man with a bachelors degree and masters degree. [More…]

• We advertised for a man between 20 and 30 years of age. [More…]

• It appoints a hatchet man to do a job on the unemployed- Viner the Vampire. [More…]

• Frank Stewart increased the funds available to the Australian Tourist Commission, injected some millions of dollars into man-made tourist attractions such as Old Sydney Town, Sovereign Hill, Lachlan Village and so on, and introduced domestic promotion of Australia to Australians. [More…]

• In other words, this man is following a totally unreal economic course. [More…]

• He has only to look at the man whom he helped to elect Prime Minister of this country to see how ingenuine promises will catch up with him. [More…]

• For some reason best known to themselves, the media have set about trying to establish an image of this man. [More…]

• I find this very hard to understand, because no man who appears on television has a greater contempt for the interviewers and for the media than he has. [More…]

• Despite all of that, the media have set about to establish an image of this man which keeps him fairly well up in the polls. [More…]

• Many people in Australia who talk about Mr Hawke as being the most suitable man for the position of Prime Minister forget one important thing: The members of the Labor Caucus are the people who choose their leader. [More…]

• What happened of course is that in a most cruel and contemptuous manner and with absolute indecent haste this crowd on the other side of the House got into office and stripped off one provision after another- but, more particularly, the equalisation subsidy. [More…]

• Mr Barnard was a Deputy Prime Minister in name only because this nation was run by one steel-booted man. [More…]

• All of these difficulties would not exist if we were in a position to develop an alternative resource, and we have so many. [More…]

• The man saying this is not a fool; he is an eminent consulting engineer. [More…]

• The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) was sufficiently courageous- I say that in view of his overbearing Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- to stand up in the House and ask the question: When are we going to see a working man’s Budget? [More…]

• The Government makes no apology for the fact that the Budget is a businessman’s Budget. [More…]

• I wish to say a few words about how this Budget does affect the working man. [More…]

• Well publicised and proven tables show the plight of the family man on average weekly earnings, which according to the Bureau of Statistics are $240 a week. [More…]

• I return to what I was saying about the plight of the family man who earns these mythical average weekly earnings. [More…]

• The family man earning $12,000 in 1978- 79 will suffer a 5.7 per cent tax increase in 1 979- 80, but the single taxpayer will suffer only a 2.6 per cent rise- that is, less than half that which the family man will pay. [More…]

• Some of the results are startling, but the family man with dependents earning $6,000 will suffer a massive 135 per cent effective tax increase compared with the single taxpayer’s increase of 13.8 per cent. [More…]

• So the increase will be 10 times as much for the family man on minimal wages. [More…]

• At $7,000 the tax rise for the family may is 32 per cent compared with 9 per cent for the single man. [More…]

• At $8,000 the tax rise for the family man is 18 per cent compared with 6 per cent for the single man. [More…]

• So every working man with a family is now up for an extra $3.50 a week. [More…]

• For a man on the average wage of about $230 a week ($12,000 a year) with a dependent wife, income tax has increased by 24 per cent. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is a man obsessed with his own self-importance and with the delusion that he is a statesman of international stature. [More…]

• There was the protection offered to the twelfth man in Patrick Partners. [More…]

• Come down and see the cave man, the slave man, the brave man [More…]

• The honourable member for Chifley named Federal Liberal council members, members of Parliament and prominent local Liberals who were fawning at the feet of this man and giving him a warm welcome. [More…]

• They considered it absolutely and totally disgraceful to allow this man on television to make such comments after an incident concerning such a wellknown and respected figure as, and particularly a man of the age of, Lord Mountbatten. [More…]

• A 79-year-old man on holidays was there for that purpose! [More…]

• A 79 year old man taking the annual holiday he’s taken for some 30, 40 years straight? [More…]

• A 79 year old man could be instrumental in gathering more information from the people of that particular part of Ireland on the activities of the Irish Liberation Forces than will say a much younger man. [More…]

• Things must be desperate if they have to have as a target a 79 year old man. [More…]

• Well, my opinion is that if this man who has been in Australia since 1950 is allowed to stay here there is something wrong with the laws of our country. [More…]

• Whether a man is on $100,000 a year or $5,000 a year he still pays 29.5c per litre for petrol in the capital cities without any attempt by the Government to distinguish his capacity to pay. [More…]

• Whatever the semantic arguments might be about whether or not people should pay more tax when they have a higher income, the fact remains that on every dollar earned from 1 December taxes will be lower. [More…]

• Under the Hayden scales a man on $20,000 a year was paying 60c in the dollar tax. [More…]

• This insensitivity to fairness and equity is perhaps due to the fact that many of their supporters are able to minimise their tax liability under the present system. [More…]

• The aim of these policies should be to ensure that the standard of living of a family with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly with a family with no dependent children or with that of a single income man or woman. [More…]

• However, in the Treasurer’s statement we did see the other proposition not completely abandoned by this Government; that is, that wage increases and union demands are the cause of unemployment, or, to put it simply, one man’s wage increase is another man’s job. [More…]

• For the first couple of years, all the crew could do was to man the bilge pumps and work like crazy to save the vessel. [More…]

• There is no way in the world that a majority of the Australian people will fall for believing that, because the Australian Labor Party has changed captains, the crew will behave any differently than the reckless, destructive way in which it manned the vessel between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• He is now captain but neither he nor his crew has shown that they have learned anything about seamanship. [More…]

• Without trying to cover too many more subjects, I conclude with the observation that here we have well over 38 per cent of the nation ‘s Budget spent on social welfare and health. [More…]

• If a Labor Government were ever returned I am positive we would see such a policy implemented because the only way it would ever finance some of the hairbrained schemes it proposes in this Parliament would be to hit the working man in the pocket by taking more taxation from him. [More…]

• I advise the Opposition to get its feet on the ground and recognise the fact that the working man wants to take home as much of what he earns as possible while at the same time recognising he does have to make a contribution to the welfare of the nation. [More…]

• This was said by a Labor man. [More…]

• Shortly thereafter West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned the International Socialist Conference that they were all sinking economically because they were stimulating their economies by printing fake money. [More…]

• This nation has just too many natural resources in demand by a world, possibly facing food and mineral shortages. [More…]

• I have pointed out how our Liberal philosophy has had its effect on this Budget and how the socialist dogma of the Opposition would reduce each man’s individual freedom. [More…]

• The little fellow who pays his taxation as he earns- the PA YE tax contributor- is not the one who can avoid tax; only the big man who receives his income from property or other sources can do that. [More…]

• In the case of a man who earns $40,000 a year and who has a family trust consisting of himself and his wife, the tax liability is reduced by almost 30 per cent or $4,600 per annum. [More…]

• Alternatively, a young man’s sexual achievements will be greater if a cigarette is offered to his beautiful young companion. [More…]

• I just wonder why a man like the honourable member for Banks who comes from an area which produces such fine footballers and who would hope that his team plays with all its strength next Saturday has to go on like that. [More…]

• He is an astute man and it was only common sense for him not to turn up. [More…]

• The House is very concerned that the Prime Minister, who has no respect for his own office, is going to repeat his performance of the other day of attacking a man while he was attending his mother’s funeral. [More…]

• I refer to the first report of the Uranium Advisory Council, a report which is sent to the Minister under the name of Sir Laurence McIntyre, a former distinguished public servant and chairman of this body, a man not given to this kind of expression unless there is good cause. [More…]

• The special privileges and arrangements that this man and his companies in transport, tourism and television licensing have been able to gain over the years from various Liberal Party Prime Ministers and Premiers are part of Australia’s more sordid commercial and political history. [More…]

• It is indeed unfortunate to be elected to the Parliament at a by-election caused by the death of a good man. [More…]

• He was a principled and forthright man. [More…]

• I intend to carry on the tradition of being very much a constituency man in my electorate. [More…]

• The experience that I have had as an alderman of the Marrickville Municipal Council and in community activities in the south-west Sydney region have given me a great deal of knowledge and understanding of the social impact of government decisions on the lives of the people of my electorate. [More…]

• He does follow, as he himself has recognised, a very great man in that electorate. [More…]

• Frank Stewart was a man who was held in great respect on both sides of this house and in both Houses of this Parliament. [More…]

• During the time of the Labor Government, an average of 4.1 million man days were lost per year. [More…]

• The former Labor Treasurer, Mr Crean, recognised this when he said that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• What we have to recognise is that the man who runs the affairs of this country is a very mean-minded, unscrupulous man. [More…]

• That is the sort of man who leads the Government and inspires members like the honourable member for Diamond Valley. [More…]

• Even when a man is in mourning for his mother he becomes the subject of vehement attacks by the Prime Minister and his Minister for Industrial Relations. [More…]

• I think that it was a disgraceful performance on the pan of both of them. [More…]

• He is as guilty a man as anybody who sits on that side of the House. [More…]

• This man continues his behaviour unchecked. [More…]

• I was aware of the situation of a young man who had professional training, who was not normally politically active, who was a member of the Victorian Public Service and who applied for permanency in the Public Service. [More…]

• He had the backing and the support of his permanent head but was refused that appointment on the basis of an adverse security report. [More…]

• All the inquiries that I made- I accept the young man as being truthful- indicated that basically all that he had ever been involved in were one or two moratorium demonstrations. [More…]

• But because he involved himself in those demonstrations, the whole future of that young man was put in jeopardy. [More…]

• I am not a legal man. [More…]

• As I have said, I am not a legal man and I cannot express an opinion as to the fine points of legal interpretation of such words, but if there is concern in the community, then we have an obligation to allow the people who are concerned about that interpretation to put forward their views and have those views properly taken into account by this House. [More…]

• Certainly, I believe the judge to be a man of great intelligence and integrity. [More…]

• We are also told that we should accept that the present DirectorGeneral of ASIO, Mr Justice Woodward, is a man of integrity and that we can trust him not to carry out any of the excesses of his predecessors in office. [More…]

• A friend of mine left the Communist Party after many years of membership. [More…]

• Soon after he was approached by an ASIO man. [More…]

• He made an arrangement to meet the ASIO man in an out of the way suburban pub in Melbourne. [More…]

• After the ASIO man had established his identity he dropped his voice conspiratorially and asked my friend: ‘Who’s this Leon Trotsky we’ve been hearing so much about?’ [More…]

• There can be no doubt about that, and I can personally affirm that from my own long acquaintance with the man. [More…]

• No man in public life in Australia has done more within the bureaucratic area to encourage the development of services for migrants in this country. [More…]

• He is not even being appointed to a permanent position within the Public Service. [More…]

• It is a temporary appointment which meets with the full satisfaction of the Chairman of the Ethnic Television Review Panel, Mr Frank Galbally, and it is one which the Australian Greek Welfare Society has greeted. [More…]

• I conclude by quoting the words of Mr Myles Wright, the former Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and a man not known for his radical leanings, who described the setting up of the Special Broadcasting Service as ‘the most sinister development in the Australian media’. [More…]

• With the numbers that the Opposition has at the moment, if the House plus six committees were to sit at the one time the Opposition would be hard pressed to man those committees. [More…]

• If we are to consider a series of committees sitting one after another we will consider only a semantic difference because the membership of the proposed committees can be changed. [More…]

• I and many other members of this House certainly support reform and moves to improve the way in which we conduct the business of this House. [More…]

• I think the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) would be the happiest man in Australia if we were able to work out a way in which to get the business through more quickly than we have done in the past so that such pressures would not be put on him at different times. [More…]

• It appears to me not to be valid to suggest that the House of Representatives is incapable of manning more than two committees but the Senate is. [More…]

• Because of the limited numbers who are required to man one of these committees it should be possible for them to meet on days when the House does not normally sit. [More…]

• I speak of the small man. [More…]

• When I was Prime Minister I had actually to parade the senior man at ASIO because he was not making any reports. [More…]

• One man 34 years of age and another 28 years of age had been examined by doctors. [More…]

• and one man said: ‘Yes I know but if I don’t go back to work my wife and children will have nothing to eat’. [More…]

• Remember the many attempts on the life of Fidel Castro, the man who led his people out of the clutches of capitalism and American imperialism. [More…]

• The Senate Committee of Inquiry under Senator Frank Church- even the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) would concede in private that this is true- within the last two years established beyond doubt the many attempts by the CIA to take the life of Fidel Castro. [More…]

• The people of Cuba have Castro to thank- the man the CIA wanted to exterminate. [More…]

• I know that the honourable gentleman is gifted. [More…]

• I know he will know of the gentleman known as the ‘Publicist’ and the man named P. R. Stephensen. [More…]

• If one were to have a DirectorGeneral who was a man of small ‘1’ liberal approaches, and he looked at this section on what falls within the definition of subversionand subversion is what we are talking aboutbecause the act has to involve or lead to an unlawful act- he could rule that the act of marching was an unlawful act. [More…]

• Much of the criticism of the use of the word ‘ultimately ‘ turned on the fact that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation might mismanage or misuse the authority that is given to it. [More…]

• We know that no man or woman in this world is perfect and therefore it is understandable that Mr Justice Hope said that: [More…]

• One of the sources was a medical man who happened to be my partner at that time. [More…]

• I had a courteous visit from a courteous man in plain clothes from the Commonwealth Police. [More…]

• That does not mean that the small man who was referred to last night by the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon) would have that kind of immunity from that kind of surveillance. [More…]

• The small man is threatened by this legislation. [More…]

• Throughout history man has abhorred the activities of the biased pimp, the lying informer, the intolerant fanatic who allows himself to be used as a weapon of the police state. [More…]

• It is a question of looking at the words that the honourable member has just used in his speech because what the honourable member has suggested is that the words in paragraph (c), which is under discussion and which the Opposition seeks to amend- and these are the words of the honourable member- are ‘legislating to control human emotions in political terms’. [More…]

• No reasonable man looking at the words in this paragraph could say that the legislation is designed to control human emotions in political terms. [More…]

• What we have heard is that that man is a most outstanding individual. [More…]

• He is a man in whom we have a great deal of faith. [More…]

• In terms of what the Opposition has accepted without offering further amendments, he is a man in whom we have already put a great deal of trust. [More…]

• I always thought that it was the conservative parties that had the rather pessimistic view of the nature of man. [More…]

• In fact, George Peponis is one of the great representatives of that club and a man who has been nurtured by the club and has gone on to do well as a doctor. [More…]

• In fact, he is a man who is an excellent representative of the area, very much a man of Canterbury-Bankstown and very much a man of Grayndler. [More…]

• That was the advice given in this House on 19 March 1974 by the gentleman who introduced this matter into the House today. [More…]

• He said to the head man: ‘I am told that you still follow that disgusting habit of cannibalism. [More…]

• ‘Oh, no,’ said the chief, ‘We consumed our last man yesterday.’ [More…]

• There is not one Labor man in the House. [More…]

• The former Labor Party Premier in that State, Mr Corcoran, is a fine man. [More…]

• He is a good family man. [More…]

• It is quite clear to me that the honourable member for Adelaide, who preceded me in this debate, is simply going to ignore all the advice which came from the Labor Government in London and all of the advice that came from his own senior people several years ago when the then Prime Minister, the former member for Werriwa, and the former member for Melbourne Ports were making comments such as: ‘Every time there is an increase in pay it is another man ‘s job ‘. [More…]

• In a wellorchestrated federal conference in Adelaide the Leader of the Opposition did his best to deceive the Australian people into believing that the Labor Party had learnt its lesson now that Gough Whitlam had been deposed, that the new leader, the present Leader of” the Opposition, is now a chastened man and has learnt his lesson. [More…]

• I ask you: How can one judge a man who one moment says he has insufficient funds for welfare housing and the next has to struggle to hide a Budget surplus of $100m? [More…]

• The Curtins and the Chifleys were men of great vision and leadership who commanded the respect of all the Australian community- not just those who supported them in the electoral sense but the total Australian community that supported them in their efforts to pull Australia through the war. [More…]

• Even R. G. Menzies of recent memory, whilst he was a patrician, commanding man, also had the respect of the Australian people, whether they supported him or not. [More…]

• There were times when his electoral support was fairly low, but he was always a man who commanded respect. [More…]

• Whitlam was the man who raised the vision of Australia. [More…]

• Fraser) a couple of weeks back as the man of the feudal kingdom of Nareen and as a demeaning mean man. [More…]

• But, then again, I suppose that the old adage holds true, namely, that in the valley of the blind the one-eyed man is king. [More…]

• When the Labor Government left office in 1975 the national debt stood at approximately $75 per head for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• At the end of four years rule by the people who claim to be the great economic managers this country is in hock. [More…]

• The only argument that can be put up against those performances is that later on the money supply grew. [More…]

• I was sent a table by somebody from the Labor side, a very kind man, which shows that in the second quarter of 1972 the money supply had a growth rate of 9.5 per cent. [More…]

• If we look at the 1972 Budget we will see that it was a miracle performance. [More…]

• I did not interrupt the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) when he was speaking because in the 10 years I have been a member of this place I have learned that it is very rude to interrupt while a member is making his maiden speech. [More…]

• The judgment of a man who is so respected throughout Australia cannot be ignored. [More…]

• I am very surprised that such a well-meaning and thoughtful man as the honourable member for Port Adelaide would sanction the actions of these purposeful agitators who would seek to destroy our society. [More…]

• In fact, a former Treasurer in this place, the Honourable Frank Crean, recognised the fact, when he held that high office, that one man’s pay rise was another man’s job. [More…]

• I congratulate Treasurer Crean for having the foresight to acknowledge and to publicly state that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]

• Yet right at this moment we have in the Ministry of this Government a man whom it is doubtful that we can say- in fact it is very doubtful indeed- has observed the highest standards of propriety. [More…]

• Most honourable members on this side of the House respect the honourable member for Swan as a man but we do not always agree with his political statements. [More…]

• He is a man, in other words, whose politics must, I think, make him suspect in terms of the conclusions that he reaches. [More…]

• I mention this list of matters to suggest to you that conclusions reached by this man need to be treated, therefore, with some cynicism. [More…]

• I might add that among those independent advisers were a number of senior counsel, and the man making this report is of course a junior. [More…]

• In other words he is implying, presumably, that the shareholders and directors of a company have a lesser right than somebody who is appointed outside the membership of the company, a man who is appointed under the Companies Act but who has in no way acted in response to a complaint from an aggrieved creditor, an aggrieved shareholder or an aggrieved member of the companies. [More…]

• The investigation suggests that in some way I might have known as far as the Sinclair Pastoral Company was concerned that moneys that came from my father were in some way misappropriated because they were large sums and, he says, my father was a man of moderate means. [More…]

• He is a man of considerable eminence. [More…]

• I believe that those references are not only repugnant but also inaccurate; they totally belie the real circumstances of a man whom I regard as being highly honourable and one who certainly does not in any way justify the criticism that the special investigator has made of him. [More…]

• There is some comment about the state of health of Mr Allan Walsh who unfortunately is a very sick man, having had a stroke some years ago. [More…]

• The other man about whom comments are made is the one who came to the conclusion on behalf of the Corporate Affairs Commission that there was no evidence of wrong-doing and that it was proper for Mr Haylen to complete his investigation before there was an inquiry by the Corporate Affairs Commission. [More…]

• Yet there is no criticism or comment whatsoever in this report about any of the actions of this man. [More…]

• The Prime Minister today appears as a man of shreds and patches. [More…]

• Minister is in a position where he should notone would not expect a man with his experience to do so- accept a superficial reassurance on such a crucial matter. [More…]

• No reasonable man, no honest man occupying the most important public office in this country- that of Prime Minister- would be satisfied with a mere superficial reassurance on this matter. [More…]

• That is why he is a dead man but will not lie down in the Fraser Cabinet. [More…]

• He has protected a man with a serious cloud hanging over him concerning alleged serious financial misappropriations. [More…]

• The only special procedure has been the howling of the Opposition over months and the attempted vilification of a man whose service to the nation and Parliament rises high above the behaviour of his political opponents here and in other places. [More…]

• On Nationwide last night, somebody said: - But this evening Mr Hayden himself has shown some of the characteristics of a straw man. [More…]

• Every day that the New South Wales Government and Premier Wran leave these charges- they are charges based on a collection of facts by one man- hanging over the right honourable member’s head, where they cannot be checked and cannot be rebutted, and leaves them in that forum without going to the courts, it is an indictment of Mr Wran and an indictment of the processes of the New South Wales Government. [More…]

• They always say to beware of a man with hair on his face. [More…]

• All of this is happening because of the actions of one man- the Prime Minister, not the right honourable member for New England. [More…]

• There would not be a man in this country who has a sense of decency or compassion who has not got a deep feeling for the right honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) because of the circumstances in which he has found himself. [More…]

• The Opposition took the opportunity of the privileges of the Parliament to criticise, abuse and cast aspersions against a man who could not defend himself. [More…]

• It was not demanded of him. [More…]

• So the New South Wales Attorney-General appointed as an investigator none other than a well-known Labor man, a man who has been associated with the Labor Party organisation. [More…]

• I would have thought that the situation demanded the appointment of a person of the highest credentials to cany out this sort of investigation because of the national publicity it was being given. [More…]

• As Richard Carleton summed it up, he is a man of straw. [More…]

• The time has arrived for great indignation in this nation at the sorts of tactics that have been followed by the Labor Party in trying to destroy a man by smearing him. [More…]

• To me, that is proof of an innocent man wanting to see justice. [More…]

• It will be a complete indictment of Mr Wran’s Government if action is not taken promptly to clear the man named by these accusations. [More…]

• The Labor Party has lacked principles and is prepared to act in what I believe is the most despicable way in which one can act, and that is, to keep attacking a man who cannot defend himself or have his case properly heard. [More…]

• Firstly, we have already had drawn to our attention the Garland affairthe allegations of bribery which were not proved- and the man is now back in the Ministry. [More…]

• Any man in an independent position, concerned with the standards of this Parliament, and looking at that adjournment debate speech by the former Leader of the Opposition, must come to the conclusion that there were grave charges against the Minister for Primary Industry- still unproven, still having to go before the courts of law, but those charges should have demanded the suspension of that Minister until, in one way or another, they were proved or disproved. [More…]

• I have asked to speak in this debate because I believe that a grave injustice is being done, not only to a man, but to this Parliament and, I will add, to the office of AttorneyGeneral in New South Wales. [More…]

• The issue in this case is whether a man shall have a fair trial. [More…]

• On trial here today is not this gentleman, the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair), but the gentlemen opposite. [More…]

• From the very beginning the Opposition has attempted to deprive a man of a fair trial. [More…]

• But when a man’s future is involved, when possible criminal conduct is involved, then that is the moment for a democracy to understand a basic principle; that is, a fair trial. [More…]

• Let me say quite simply that today Opposition supporters, who through their Leader said last night on radio that all they want is for these matters to be brought out and that they hoped that the right honourable member would be acquitted, have used the same process they have been using for the last two years to deprive this man of a fair trial. [More…]

• The main issue before us in this motion is whether a man is to have a fair trial. [More…]

• Honourable members on the Opposition side know from their experience on parliamentary committees that the worst place to consider detailed information on a man’s character is in a parliamentary committee. [More…]

• I inform all honourable members that if the right honourable member for New England is accused, he cannot get a fair trial because already those above us have convicted this man through the Press. [More…]

• The very purpose of putting that report on the table was to destroy this man. [More…]

• If you will only listen, the simple point is that the action of the AttorneyGeneral of New South Wales in tabling that document in the State Parliament has deprived a man in high office, a man who has served his country, of a fair trial. [More…]

• A man who has discharged the obligations cast upon him, a man whose probity in his professional business has never been challenged at any stage, is suddenly the vehicle for the most slanderous attacks by Ministers opposite. [More…]

• This proceeding which the honourable gentleman for Melbourne Ports described to us this afternoon as a forum, a body which has determined the facts, has determined nothing of the sort. [More…]

• Has this country lost its capacity to get indignant about a proceeding in camera when a man’s rights and his reputation can be put at risk? [More…]

• Yet the honourable gentleman who just sat down, what did he say to us? [More…]

• Some rough words have been said about the assessment made by the man who presided over the proceedings. [More…]

• I ask my honourable friend, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, who has appeared in the courts, whether a man is biased by dint of association or stated attitude, can sit in judgment and can pose as one who is impartial. [More…]

• This is a principle that has been known to mankind since mankind appeared. [More…]

• It is embodied in the Germanicus in Seneca’s Medea and it was unknown to Mr Finnane. [More…]

• Ah, yes, Rhadamanthus the cruel judge of Hell, never observed the hear the other side rule, the audi alterem partem rule; neither did Mr Finnane. [More…]

• I would have thought that an Attorney-General, conscious of those two points, not mere limitations but substantial defects in the manner in which Mr Finnane had proceeded, would have said of that report: ‘No, I will not allow that report to sully the table, the Parliament of New South Wales’. [More…]

• The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) in a forthright parliamentary speech before lunch said that the man will find it impossible to get a fair trial. [More…]

• My complaint is that for two years that proceeding has gone on in that tawdry, miserable and contemptible way and now a man’s position and his reputation have been put in jeopardy. [More…]

• Opposition members have shown the severe limitations of their capacity for economic analysis by claiming that the Budget is on the one hand pro-business and on the other against the average family man. [More…]

• At every petrol pump and gas cooker in rural Australia a tax man is taking money from people and sending it back to Canberra. [More…]

• The worst thing about that is that the man on a low income has to pay 29.5c per litre for his petrol which is the same price as a man earning $200,000 a year pays. [More…]

• Australia cannot further the brotherhood of man and national unity if people preach class hatred. [More…]

• Australia can never build character and courage if the Government takes away man’s initiative. [More…]

• It is the party of liberty and humanity. [More…]

• I commend the Government, and ask it please to make sure that all its Budgets are humane. [More…]

• As the late Lord Russell said: ‘Man, since Adam and Eve ate the apple, has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable’. [More…]

• I want to refer specifically to the treatment that has been meted out by this conservative Government to a very fine, prominent, well-respected Australian of Italian descent, a man who has been a resident of this country for 30 years, who is well regarded and a successful businessman. [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne, if I recall, is a very experienced gentleman in terms of his time in the trade union movement, including his period as vice-president of the ACTU. [More…]

• He again simply criticised the Minister and the Government and, like other speakers, quoted as his guide and philosopher a previous man from the Bench in the person of Mr Justice Kirby. [More…]

• Well we know that for a long time that retired gentleman has taken a contrary view to the present Government and to his colleagues on the Bench. [More…]

• How would honourable members opposite feel if in the area of corporate law a prominent company director was charged with breaches of the Companies Act and the Attorney-General of New South Wales said that he would give the court the power to determine whether that man was guilty but said that the sentence would be fixed by him? [More…]

• Bob Hawke, the man who has more experience in industrial relations that anybody on the Opposition side, said: ‘It is a sellout; you have ;old me down the river.’ [More…]

• It is one that has been espoused by the Minister who is a man of moderation and fairness. [More…]

• The decisions of the House of Commons were based upon the belief that each human being is the owner of his own body and his own mind and that he cannot be required to deliver those possessions to another human being except on terms and conditions that are acceptable to him. [More…]

• That is a basic human right. [More…]

• It is the right to withhold one’s labour and brain power that distinguishes the free man from the slave, and that is something that cannot be gainsaid. [More…]

• -The world has been for too long a near silent spectator of the genocide of a people whose only crime was to live in Cambodia at a time when it fell victim to the spread of the Vietnam war and ultimately to the effects of Vietnamese aggression unleashed upon them following nearly four years of the most brutal system of government yet devised by modern man. [More…]

• A tragic further loss of human life will result. [More…]

• Many people have been slaughtered. [More…]

• As a result many have died and many more will die. [More…]

• Why should we recognise such a treacherous man who has committed genocide against a people? [More…]

• Yet today- I am not pinpointing the Australian Government- we still give recognition to this man Pol Pot. [More…]

• Do not let us forget that there have been many guilty people on what we call the Western democracy side. [More…]

• This man went off to London to retire, with 16 tonnes of gold. [More…]

• Bob, I want the North Vietnamese to think there is a mad man in the White House and I want them to realise that this mad man has his finger on the nuclear button. [More…]

• Whether one likes it or not there are some people who can make wage demands in a situation in which their jobs will never be in jeopardy. [More…]

• I refer to those who have particular skills or who work in areas in which there is a local industry or where there are particular demands for the product and it cannot be imported and the work cannot be done by a little man in Japan. [More…]

• Then that skill is in demand in Australia. [More…]

• There will then be the absurd situation in which either the presidential member is overturning a conclusion that has been reached on examining the evidence by the man charged with that responsibility or the presidential member will simply be a rubber stamp. [More…]

• For many years I personally was involved in situations in which it was necessary for me as a lawyer to visit an industrial site at which there had been a fatal accident. [More…]

• Perhaps, if some honourable members opposite had had that experience of going on to a site where a man had been killed they would not be quite so flippant in their attitude to this particular clause. [More…]

• It is sad to see the performance we have just seen from a former Prime Minister of this country, a member of the Privy Council, a man who has distinguished himself for having a very fine memory. [More…]

• The man has certain duties to perform so we cannot altogether blame him for this position because he has to work under an outrageous, bad and vague law that Sir Charles Court and his ilk have put on the statute books in Western Australia. [More…]

• -Oh, yes, he is a great man. [More…]

• There was a visit by the Minister and other parties but unfortunately they could not land at Coober Pedy because it was wet- although I personally know a man who landed a Piper Navaho at Coober Pedy after the Minister said he could not land. [More…]

• But if it can be done in five years under the present Liberal Government in South Australia, why is it that for so many years the Federal Government rejected applications for further funds to enable the work to commence? [More…]

• I will never forget that when I was a Minister a man wrote to me to say that helping to build the gardens in West Auburn was the most rewarding employment he had ever had. [More…]

• It is surely more sensible and humane to provide people with decent incomes in return for on-going, useful and creative work. [More…]

• Similarly, a married man aged 69 with a wife aged 66 receiving reduced pensions, say, at $30 a week each, because of the income test will, when the husband reaches 70 years of age, have his pension increased to $42.90 a week, but his wife will continue to receive a pension subject to the usual income test provisions until she reaches 70 years, whereupon her pension will also be increased to the basic free of income test pension rate. [More…]

• It was estimated that only a few years ago this protection meant $19,000 per man per year in the shipbuilding industry, $13,000 per man per year on the waterfront and $5,000 per man per year in the motor car industry. [More…]

• If it were true, I think it would be only small compensation for what they have to bear in order to protect other Australian manufacturers, inefficient as they are. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you have been a man of the land and you would know that plants get their food requirement from the soil. [More…]

• South Africans, ultimately cannot hold out against what must occur; that is, rule by the majority of the people; one man, one vote; a democratic society as much as we have. [More…]

• At the forefront of that demonstration was an endorsed Labor candidate in the recent State election, a man who has been elected to the Parliament but who has not yet taken his seat because of a court challenge. [More…]

• It involved alleged discrimination against British migrants by the same man and the same union. [More…]

• This clause certainly does not have the authority of the man whom the Government has relied on very much in this whole debate about definitions. [More…]

• Do not let us get into the pedantic nonsense of saying it is only one man. [More…]

• Do we say that the Director-General is a man of such unblemished character that his judgment ultimately ought to prevail as against the rights of the Attorney-General on these very serious issues? [More…]

• But now, particularly with the kindly aid of information about Hoover that has been fed out by the CIA, which for many years was the deadly enemy or rival of the FBI, I think it can be charitably said of Hoover that he appears to have been a mad man, absolutely psychotic in many ways. [More…]

• The present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who was then Minister for the Army, told the House on 28 September 1966 that he had information about a certain young man who did not want to join a school cadet corps. [More…]

• He also had information about the young man’s mother. [More…]

• He indicated the name of the young man, the name of his mother and their address. [More…]

• He gave the name of the young man and the address of his mother. [More…]

• He is a man in respect of whom all Australians, I believe, would have confidence and trust. [More…]

• I just cannot follow the logic of the proposed amendment but I do say one thing: If there were any substance in the amendment we would have seen it between 1972 and 1975 when the man moving it was in a position to make it the law of this country. [More…]

• What I find objectionable is the increasing power that one man is gaining over this country, the Prime Minister. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) says: ‘We have got nothing to hide so you can keep all the files on us that you like’. [More…]

• If you are a married man, do not step off the footpath because we will get a nice juicy photograph of you ‘. [More…]

• The great fallacy- a fallacy as big as the George Washington monument- is that the prosecution goes along and says: ‘Look, in this manila folder we have such devastating information that if ever it got out the whole of society would collapse’. [More…]

• There were conversations with this man and, worst of all, this man was an embassy employee of a foreign power- to wit, Russia. [More…]

• As they said, they knew that he was a man who had been associated with some very dangerous causes, to wit after the war he organised a nationwide collection of old clothing to relieve the hardship of refugees in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. [More…]

• Certainly, the DirectorGeneral we have at the moment is a man of considerable capacity and integrity. [More…]

• A former FBI man, who was with the Bureau at the time, had no other justification to offer for this barbarity than to say that getting involved in radical politics could get you involved in national security, that the kid with the picket sign might turn into the kid with the bomb. [More…]

• The Russians got their man, but the spy-catchers of the SIS were empty-handed, even with the help of the Soviets. [More…]

• I enter this debate to deal with some of the points raised by the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman). [More…]

• A young man or woman returning to Australia carrying enough of what is fashionably termed pot, or marihuana, to fill his or her personal use, could be caught within the provisions of this legislation. [More…]

• By stripping a man of his civil rights, he becomes to that extent an outlaw. [More…]

• A man at any point of time is either within or without the law. [More…]

• This proposal seeks power to put a man outside the law and to do it withal by executive act. [More…]

• I wonder whether this is written by a man of the law or a politician? [More…]

• I would have thought that this man, thoroughly disgraced over the St George Permanent Building Society rumour, may well have disappeared forever but he has come back and I daresay he will be using his stop button to destroy the arguments of innocent people who ring into his talk-back session with vituperation, denigration and ridicule. [More…]

• The urban and recreational interests of man have a huge impact on the most precious physical assets of this country. [More…]

• I express my sincere appreciation for the tremendous co-operation received from the Canadian members of the satellite task force and in particular an extraordinary man, Dr John Chapman, who unfortunately is no longer with us as he died quite recently. [More…]

• I pay due credit to Dr Chapman and his colleagues because it was the Canadians who saw fit to assist us with some experimental transmissions and in developing the final format and framework of this proposal. [More…]

• A married man with two children would have received, including family allowance, some 50.5 per cent of average weekly earnings while unemployed compared with 48.4 per cent at the end of the term of the Labor Government. [More…]

• I would like to quote a statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), a man of great concern, tolerance and compassion. [More…]

• They were most upset that the Prime Minister was blatantly misquoted by this man called Mr [More…]

• It was A. J. Balfour, a conservative politician in Britain, the man who later led the defeat of the British General Strike in 1 926, who said: [More…]

• A young man, who could not stomach cruelty to animals and was intimidated by his employer, left the job voluntarily. [More…]

• There are many examples like this. [More…]

• Unlike many of the honourable members opposite, every day in Werriwa I witness some of the have-nots, the unemployed, the pensioners, and the workers, struggling to meet escalating retail costs. [More…]

• Man cannot subsist on the pursuit of education and vain hope for something better. [More…]

• That man will find that he is being penalised and his family and children are being penalised for a decision that he had absolutely nothing to do with. [More…]

• In that case, this man made a claim for compensation in December 1975. [More…]

• It took from December 1975 until August 1 978 - and I am glad that the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) is in the House because he will understand what is involved in this- for a determination to be made and for this unfortunate man to be told: ‘Well, we are going to deny liability’. [More…]

• In this case that man made an appeal. [More…]

• This situation was occurring at a time when an eminent Melbourne orthopaedic surgeon who had always supported this man’s claims gave certificates to that effect. [More…]

• This man was an employee of the Australian Telecommunications Commission. [More…]

• This man’s claim was a comparatively small one; nevertheless, he was entitled to make it in respect of five weeks incapacity resulting from a back injury on 19 March 1976. [More…]

• But the problem that one is dealing with here is that one is dealing largely with a group of people, many of whom are unaware of their rights. [More…]

• In the first case that I mentioned, the man has been on the age pension. [More…]

• In New South Wales a single employee receives $96.30 a week, a spouse $22 a week and each child $ 1 1 a week, which are about the same as the rates paid by the Commonwealth for a family man. [More…]

• Given what happened to the London Times, this might be an appropriate maxim: Never speak of rope in the house of a man who has been hanged. [More…]

• Many of them were bom with a silver spoon in their mouths. [More…]

• The man who leads this Government is a multi-millionaire. [More…]

• In effect, that meant that a key man, which was the description at that time, or a small group of key men in an industry could not be pulled out in order to pursue an industrial dispute while the remainder of the people in that industry were paid the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• Let me take the case of a 45- year-old middle aged man, living alone, who is subject to all the cost pressures of this inflationary society. [More…]

• Yet if a young man who joins the CMF is unemployed at the time of his camp he is penalised a week’s unemployment benefit because he went into camp. [More…]

• I do not disagree with the key man theory involving small numbers of persons being pulled out of an industry and stopping the whole industry. [More…]

• The man beside him who is a member of the union and who may have no beneficial expectations as a result of that strike will be punished by not being paid the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• He may have been on the job for two days after being two years out of work but he would still be fined his unemployment benefit because he did what every working man needs to do to protect his own position, and that is he joined his union. [More…]

• We know that service in action does affect a man. [More…]

• The action of wind, water, plants and animals, including man, touching or rubbing the surface of both paintings and engraving sites means that in many instances we can expect only a photographic record of a large number of sites within twenty years, simply by natural forces. [More…]

• Any person who took the time as an observer to sit and watch the procedures and look at the documentation would recognise that there is hardly a Minister in this chamber who is really capable and able- I do not use the word capacity in relation to his ability because it is beyond the ability of almost any man- but there is hardly a man alive who could amply fulfil the requirement of supplying information on every aspect of his department. [More…]

• This evening many honourable members have said that the Public Service is running Australia. [More…]

• Indeed, that is a complaint or a statement that applies in many parts of the world. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who was sitting here a moment ago is a man of great capacity. [More…]

• In 13 years seven general managers have been shot out of the revolving door. [More…]

• In particular, we need to know much more about the reasons for the elimination of the most recent general manager, Mr Peter Hemmings, a man who was regarded as an aspirant to the directorships of Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera. [More…]

• He is a man very well known to the honourable member for Mackellar and the Treasurer. [More…]

• They include Sir David Griffin who is another well known non-political person; Professor Hogan, a man well known to the Treasurer; Sir John Pagan, a man well known to both the honourable member for Mackellar and the Treasurer as he was instrumental in them coming to this House; Mr Valder and Mr Simpson, who is the well known non-political director of the Civic Reform Association, which is the local Government front of the Liberal Party in New South Wales. [More…]

• He has just created a new presidential style position of Chief of Staff, which has gone to a very learned and distinguished Australian who occupies a status just below that of a permanent head of a department. [More…]

• I have no objection to the man but every objection to the sort of office creation that is going on to assist the Prime Minister. [More…]

• That is not a bad brains trust for a man who accused the last Labor Administration of having too many ministerial staff. [More…]

• He has a predeliction for a personal indulgence, yet we have austerity demanded from others. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the man was a crook. [More…]

• This is the man who provided services for the Prime Minister of this country because there were no staff available. [More…]

• He was the man who . [More…]

• I would not be surprised if some of that money had not been fraudulently obtained from Gollin and Co. Ltd: I am sure that the shareholders who lost many millions of dollars in Gollin and Co. Ltd were not aware that the Prime Minister received his staff from that company. [More…]

• In my view a Minister who is prepared to vote for a salary that places him below his First Division officer is not a man who understands the proper relationship that ought to exist between a Minister of State and the Public Service. [More…]

• The ‘Feed the Man Meat’ and Samson O’Brien, Your Friendly Local Butcher’ advertisements are some of the best on television. [More…]

• Then along come the good times and up goes the price of beef in accordance with world demands. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you are a man from the land and I can see that you understand better than some others in this chamber the remarks I am making. [More…]

• The point I would like to make is that the honourable member for Gellibrand is a man of honesty and integrity. [More…]

• He is not, I believe, a man who was responsible for the indolence of the previous Government, the Whitlam Labor Government, which introduced no anti-tax evasion measures whatsoever. [More…]

• I am reminded that the honourable member for Gellibrand as the economic spokesman for the Labor Party in this House is the person who only last year said that one of the major problems facing a prospective Labor government would be to restore the size of the public sector and to increase taxes necessary to pay for it. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition was quoting from a report by Mr Masterton, an inspector appointed under the New South Wales Securities Industries Act from 1 July 1974 to 6 August 1975, to look into the activities relating to the management of Patrick Partners, of which the honourable member for Macarthur was a director. [More…]

• He is known as the elusive twelfth man. [More…]

• It is to a man of integrity. [More…]

• Turning now to health care, a 29-year-old man, who lived on the reserve Septimus Livingstone, died in the casualty ward at Cairns Hospital on 15 October 1979. [More…]

• I do not believe that Mr Besley was totally ignorant of this very serious shortcoming on the part of the Narcotics Bureau; that, because of the Bureau’s obsessive preoccupation with its own role and the strange personality of Mr Harvey Bates, the man at the head of it, and his concern to create an elite force that would exclude any support or co-operation from State authorities, there was a failure to establish proper co-operation. [More…]

• There are vast amounts of evidence to show that crime syndicates are more highly organised, more professional and equipped with far greater resources to promote trade in human misery than the Bureau is to stop it. [More…]

• There is no evidence which could sustain that view, for any reasonable and honest man. [More…]

• Mr Bates has been a consummate media performer for very many years. [More…]

• I make no criticism of him as a man or as a Customs investigator. [More…]

• I suggest also that if this vainglorious grandstanding had been recognised some years earlier for what it was, many of the problems identified by the inquiry might have been avoided. [More…]

• Let me tell honourable members about the brilliant contribution of this Government towards support for our sole drug enforcement officer- one man- who was operating there then. [More…]

• That man there, the [More…]

• He is the man who is responsible. [More…]

• Did the letter say that there was a narrow career structure in the Narcotics Bureau, that Bureau officers were insufficiently experienced, that there was too little regional autonomy, that there were avoidable man management problems, that Sydney Harbour was wide open to drug importation and that problems posed by containers had not been faced up to? [More…]

• It is not the response of an honest man. [More…]

• It will fill any reasonable, concerned parent in this country with fear- fear to know that this irresponsible man has been administering one of the most significant, one of the most important, law enforcement authorities in the country. [More…]

• Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the censure motion that has been moved by the Opposition today is that the Opposition is inviting this House to censure a man whose very actions promoted the inquiry which exposed the deficiencies in a section of his administration. [More…]

• Quite apart from any highfalutin explanations of ministerial responsibility, it would seem to me to be an outrageous breach of common justice if this House were to censure a man who on three separate occasions initiated inquiries and investigations which led to the decision announced yesterday by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) to begin the disbandment of the Federal Narcotics Bureau and its transfer in the first instance to the Commonwealth Police. [More…]

• Is this the action of a man who is having the wool pulled over his eyes by a section of his administration? [More…]

• Is this the action of a man who is asking his colleagues to bury the matter or to push it under the carpet? [More…]

• It invites the House to come to the incredibly unfair conclusion that a man who invites an investigation into his administration must then be condemned and censured out of hand because of the findings of a royal commission into that administration. [More…]

• I believe that that is a manifestly unfair proposition. [More…]

• In the particular institution to which I referred, providing the linen service for one man for one night costs 40c. [More…]

• With the meals, accommodation and overhead expenses it is little wonder that a subsidy rate of 75c per day for one man leaves many of these institutions in a difficult financial position. [More…]

• A lot of man hours are involved and much of their most urgent work is done during the late hours of the night. [More…]

• This requires the employment of many people. [More…]

• But if it thinks it is going to win more votes by requiring people to exercise less conscience about their fellow man, if it wants them to be their brother’s keepers to a diminishing degree in the future than has been the case in the past, it is operating in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it can do this on the cheap to the advantage of the taxpayer. [More…]

• The Government has to tackle these fundamental problems and start looking at the whole man, not just his accommodation. [More…]

• So it is extraordinary to hear a man with the capacity of the honourable member for Adelaide to see issues as clearly as he usually does to make this basic simple error. [More…]

• He has been Chairman of Qantas since 1975 and his term is due to expire next year. [More…]

• This man has been a senior public servant since 1955. [More…]

• He has been deputy secretary of many departments. [More…]

• To mention some salient positions, he was chairman of the Australian Universities Commission, Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department, Secretary to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council, and Secretary to the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• I think all Australians are proud of this institution and are very concerned that there are Liberal members in this Parliament, apparently in a committee of a conspiratorial nature, seeking to undermine a man doing a great service. [More…]

• I refer to two of my constitutents who are Chinese, a Mr Sui Kei Samson Man and his wife Yuen Ling Rositta Chan. [More…]

• Mr Man was born in Canton, China on 29 August 1956. [More…]

• In Hong Kong, Mr Man was courting his wife. [More…]

• She and Mr Man were married in an Anglican Church in the electorate of Hunter. [More…]

• I hope that the Australian Taxation Office will look into the affairs of this man. [More…]

• My constituents tell me that before they entered the office of the Chinese solicitor another Chinaman was going in with $7,000 in cash to pay the solicitor for some litigation. [More…]

• I therefore suspect that that Chinaman was being exploited also. [More…]

• In conclusion, it is also unfortunate that these things have to be disclosed in Parliament as many of the criminals in gaol, whom society is endeavouring to rehabilitate, are listening to these debates. [More…]

• That brings me to the point where Chairman of the Sub-Committee, Senator John Wheeldon- I pay tribute to the brilliance of-that man as Chairman of this Sub-Committee- gives three reasons in justification for the conduct of the inquiry by the Joint Committee. [More…]

• The Chairman would also say that the Soviet Union is an ‘evangelising super power’ seeking to persuade people outside the Soviet Union that the USSR model is one which should be followed in other nations. [More…]

• If this report goes some way to demonstrate the hypocrisy and deceit of that regime in its application of human rights and therefore of the regime itself, then we have succeeded. [More…]

• Senator Baume, a knowledgeable man, when speaking for the Liberal Party in the Senate said: [More…]

• If people in this country wish to spend their money at the TAB and in the hotels- it is nothing for the average man today to spend $10, $15 or $20 a week at the TAB and a similar amount in the hotels- and not bother about their health, are we going to stand by and pick up the tab? [More…]

• They are the people who are ripping off the average income earner of this country, the man who is faced by higher taxes due to this Government. [More…]

• He is the man who also has to live with the very regressive taxation scales and the inflation and higher taxes due to the Government’s broken promises. [More…]

• Labor members are supposed to be the champions of the little man. [More…]

• I think it should be quite clearly noted in the books that under the Labor Party administration its first Treasurer, a man of great wisdom whom the Labor Party quickly sacked because he was a man of great wisdom, announced that something had to be done in regard to tax avoidance. [More…]

• Can he inform the House whether this Government is taking any steps to ensure that the man in the street and Australia’s important and labourintensive retailing industry have a good Christmas? [More…]

• This is due to the effects and results of wise government management in bringing about economic recovery and greater enthusiasm for this country. [More…]

• The working man, the taxpayer on average weekly earnings, can also look forward to a tax cut of $4.45 a week on 1 December. [More…]

• He is a man who has given much of his life to this country but I suggest that at times he gets a little carried away and is inclined to do as, regrettably, some members of the Labor Party are inclined to do; that is, to expose the miseries of people and to exploit them to their own advantage. [More…]

• For Christ’s sake, it is about time the man grew up and really understood what our struggle in this country is all about. [More…]

• That a man is able to do that demonstrates the breadth of his knowledge and of his perspective. [More…]

• Honourable members who followed the legal proceedings in that matter will know that that man had access to two United States Supreme Court justices who were designated to deal with any urgent matters coming from that part of the United States in which Nevada is situated. [More…]

• Can the Minister explain why the pardon was granted and, further, why, in addition to the granting of a pardon, the Crown discussed the payment of sums of money of up to $200,000 to this man? [More…]

• That has not occurred, but of course the Deputy Prime Minister is the man who in August 1 973 asserted that ‘demand for meat will rise so fast we’ll be flat out trying to keep up with it’. [More…]

• I stress here that, when the Labor Government went to the people of Australia suggesting that prices and incomes ought somehow to be managed, administered and controlled on a national basis and not just on a State basis, every member of the present Government parties was opposed to that proposition. [More…]

• How can it accept the pricing of petrol which is doing much to prop up its policy of eliminating the deficit and yet cannot accept it for bread, for meat or for the ordinary commodities that the man in the street is concerned about? [More…]

• -1 hear an interjection from the honourable member for Parramatta, who is otherwise a most sensible man. [More…]

• That State vies with Tasmania for making the meanest allocation of resources in the country. [More…]

• In the ranks of this Ministry the school tie says as much about a man as his ministerial record. [More…]

• Greater respect hath no man than a fag has for his head prefect. [More…]

• How many of the old boys do we have in this Ministry? [More…]

• The man who has presided over education has never presented a single educational ideal to this country. [More…]

• The man that holds his own is good enough. [More…]

• Banjo Paterson ‘s Man from Snowy River rode a bush horse and chased brumbies. [More…]

• No members of the Cabinet have been prepared to go outside to speak with that man, to listen to him and to try to understand his problems. [More…]

• In other words, he was seeking to persuade his audience at this Australian Industries Development Association annual meeting- probably Liberals to a man with an odd national Country Party member thrown in- to put a pitchfork into the backside of this Government. [More…]

• One of the points I have made in this debate so far is that many of the new manufacturing industry jobs have to be based on resource development, but from the announcements that we have had from the Minister for Industry and Commerce and from the sorts of things that the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner) has said, we can only come to the conclusion that there is extraordinary complacency on the part of government at present and that it believes that the necessary number of jobs will be created by Australians continuing to be merely the quarry for the rest of the world. [More…]

• Do we believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the Opposition spokesman on industry, or the shadow Treasurer? [More…]

• Obviously, the Opposition interprets this expression a little differently and supplies a different man according to the particular season. [More…]

• Another explanation for poor productivity performance is that inputs of two factors of production- labour and capital- increased too rapidly for a small and growing economy to raise productivity measures, such as output per man, other than slowly. [More…]

• Furthermore, in 1971-72 industrial research and development expenditure in Australia was estimated at slightly less than two per cent of the manufacturing sector’s contribution to the gross domestic product. [More…]

• He was always a percentage man. [More…]

• It is disappointing that there is a nine-month delay, but through the good efforts of the Minister, a man of sound practical commonsense, he was able, when the problem was brought to his attention, to arrange for the various lending institutions to receive advice that a grant would be paid in eight or nine months’ time. [More…]

• Ministers, even the Minister at the table, the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) who is a man of extraordinary candour at times, particularly when he is talking about the Liberal Party in Victoria, have to recognise that the Parliament cannot work unless there is a full and candid disclosure. [More…]

• President Truman had a plaque on his desk which read ‘The buck stops here ‘. [More…]

• One wonders whether her answer would have made any difference because the lady had married a man who has Australian residence. [More…]

• I hope there will be an opportunity for him to put the case personally to the Minister, who is not an unreasonable man. [More…]

• There are many extenuating and extraneous circumstances which justify urgent and sympathetic consideration. [More…]

• These are the standards embraced by this Government and determined by the behaviour for four years of the man who is now Prime Minister. [More…]

• But it is clear, on the other hand, that there are responsibilities that any ordinary man of average common sense would recognise as resting with the Minister. [More…]

• So, we have a law and order government headed by the Prime Minister who is easily the most obsessive of any man I have seen in this Parliament where the matters of security and law and order are concerned. [More…]

• Unfortunately, many people today have lost sight of the dangers that exist. [More…]

• There are those within our law enforcement agencies, and indeed the publicity on this of late should give us concern, who I do not believe would stop at retaping something if it meant that they could get their man. [More…]

• The fact of life is that manipulation does go on. [More…]

• Although the present Commissioner may be an outstanding man, he will not hold that position forever. [More…]

• What feasibility studies were undertaken to show that there will be the demand for such electricity and also that the States have the capacity to expend such money? [More…]

• Is he aware that some States are concerned that they do not have the skilled manpower either to construct the generating capacity or to man the industries that are expected to use the capacity? [More…]

• Accordingly, I ask: What complementary manpower programs will the Government initiate to ensure the availability of sufficient skilled workers? [More…]

• It was not very many years after that that some of the more sensible people in the Labor Party had to renege on those statements and admit that one man’s pay rise may be another man’s job. [More…]

• The Labor Party bled the working man dry with taxes. [More…]

• That is a matter of Labor Party policy that has been well known and well documented for many years. [More…]

• I have in my hand a letter written by a man 1 have known for 13 years or 14 years and for whom I have great respect, David Burramarra, M.B.E., Chairman of the Mala Leaders Council, Galiwin’ku, Elcho Island. [More…]

• I speak as a fellow who has lived in Aboriginal areas for 40 years, as someone who has lived with the people and as someone who knows people such as this man. [More…]

• In this article entitled ‘A Mirror to the Man’, Burramarra said: . [More…]

• That is the message of a learned man. [More…]

• During that period I learnt to have tremendous respect for him as a man who could smell trouble and as an individual who had tremendous loyalty to the Party. [More…]

• He was a man of very great sincerity and loyalty to the Labor movement. [More…]

• The ‘Colbourne family has many members. [More…]

• I convey sympathy- I feel I am joined by many people in the Parliament- to the whole Colbourne family, particularly the two sons. [More…]

• He will not be an honourable man if he continues to associate himself with a Minister who has lied to the Parliament, and who is not able to verify a document, portion of which could only be obtained by a criminal act. [More…]

• What concerns me is that a man who is supposed to represent the law - [More…]

• You are the man who said that more than $70m was an absolute waste. [More…]

• There are those of us here who have fought for many years- well over a decade- for this event to take place. [More…]

• Every person who gets a job in constructing this airport- there will be 6,000 man years involved in its constructionought to remember that were this Government not in office, the project would not be going ahead. [More…]

• He knew that the evidence that the Department of Transport would give to the Committee would make it reach the conclusion that it did and then he could come into the House and claim to be a great man by saying: ‘We are not going to listen to the Committee. [More…]

• I also thank the Chairman of Committees, my deputy, the honourable member for Wide Bay, Mr Clarrie Millar, who is a most reliable deputy and who is well respected by the House. [More…]

• I thank his Deputy Chairmen-Mr Armitage, Mr Dobie, Mr Drummond, Mr Giles, Mr Jarman, Dr Jenkins, Mr Martin and Mr Ian Robinson. [More…]

• There is the story about the man who said: ‘I want to be reported as I am ‘. [More…]

• 1 ) In very broad terms, an Italian age pension is payable to a person in respect of whom appropriate contributions have been made for a period of not less than IS years and who, in the case of a man, has reached 60 years of age or, in the case of a woman, has reached 55 years of age. [More…]

• ) A person is qualified to receive an Australian age pension if that person has, at any time, resided in Australia for a continuous period of not less than 10 yean, is residing in, and is physically present in, Australia on the date on which the claim for an age pension is made and, in the case of a man, has reached 65 years of age or, in the case of a woman, has reached 60 years of age. [More…]

• The 10 years’ continuous residence requirement is reduced if a claimant has resided in Australia for periods aggregating more than 10 years, at least one of which is or not less than 5 years’ duration. [More…]

• In addition, an Australian age pension may be granted to a claimant who is living outside Australia if: he lived for 30 years in Australia; he has not resided in Australia at any time since 7 May 1973; in the case of a man, he was 60 years of age before he left Australia (the relevant age for a woman is 55 years); and he is in special need of financial assistance. [More…]

• I do not like talking about a man when he is not present. [More…]

• I intend to get hold of a copy of that speech and take it to my bank manager because he is not aware of that and I am certain that most of the people who know me are not aware of it- Frankly, it is not a joke. [More…]

• Every excessive increase in income for one man takes the job of another. [More…]

• If the Overseas Trade Department and Mr Anthony have not fallen down on their job (and Mr Fraser certainly does not suggest this) the kindest interpretation that can be placed on yesterday’s aberration from Canberra is that Mr Fraser has chosen to reward the man regarded as the golden-haired boy of his ministry. [More…]

• A simpler solution would have been to have found a man who was capable of doing the whole operation. [More…]

• Always in Australia ‘s history we have had such a man. [More…]

• I have identified the man and that is what the honourable member wanted me to do. [More…]